Dawcade Downloads & RevenueDawcade · App Store
Dawcade is #11 in Music Paid in France and charting in 5 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperNihatcan Dogu
CategoryMusic
Price9.99 USD
Released
Rating★ 3.7 (10)
Version1.0.10
Age rating4+
First seen by us
25 Sep 2026
25 Sep 2026Installs (est.)1k+ worldwide
💰Price rise✏️New screenshots📈New best rank in the overall chart: #109📈Entered the top 100💰Price rise✏️New screenshots📦Updated to version 1.0.10🆕Its developer released another app: Dawcade Instruments📦Updated to version 1.0.9🆕First spotted by AppInsider
Full timeline · 30 events
- 💰Dawcade: price rise6.99 EUR → 9.99 EUR · DE
- ✏️Dawcade: new screenshots6 screenshots (was 6) · DE
- 📈Dawcade new best rank in the overall chart: #109Top Paid · All Apps · AU
- 📈Dawcade entered the top 100Top Paid · Music · FR
- 📈Dawcade charting in a new countryFrance
- 📈Dawcade charting in a new country in 2 chartsSpain · Japan
- 📈Dawcade entered the top 100Top Paid · Music · JP
- 💰Dawcade: price rise9.99 AUD → 14.99 AUD · AU
- ✏️Dawcade: new screenshots6 screenshots (was 6) · AU
- ✏️Dawcade: new iPad screenshots· IT
- ✏️Dawcade: new screenshots6 screenshots (was 4) · IT
- ✏️Dawcade: app got bigger2559 MB → 3015 MB (+18%)
- 📦Dawcade updated to version 1.0.10Band, assistant and guided missions update.
• Band: a band on the master channel writes full takes in your song's key and tempo, can follow what you play (JAM) and sends takes to the arrangement.
• Assistant: write chords, parts and variations, or Make a song into new or existing channels. Tap an empty lane to pick bars and set the LENGTH. The optional on-device ASK assistant answers questions and edits your song; it asks before downloading and shows progress.
• On-device AI tools: Separate Stems, Clean Up Voice, Remove Reverb, Detect Tempo and Tap to drums. Drums get Make a variation.
• Guide: new missions (Start from a song, Make your own, Just explore) and first-run tips. Highlight rings never hide behind windows, tap outside to close a card, and cards ignore taps while you are playing.
• Sound presets now save the instrument, macros and channel effects, with a SOUNDS / PRESETS tab.
• Arrangement: automation lane on every channel; double-tap channel headers to select several and move, duplicate or delete them together; drag clips between channels; pinch vertically to resize channels.
• Piano roll: edits keep every MIDI detail (channels, release velocity, pedal, pitch bend, pressure); the zoom strip lines up with the grid.
• Library: drop a sample on empty space to create a new audio channel; Places can be dragged too.
• Performance: faster launch with less memory, no freezes while exporting, piano sounds load in the background.
• Audio Units: all 35 Dawcade instruments (with their sampled pianos, strings, brass, drums and guitar, plus Modular Synth) and all 37 audio effects now open in other AUv3 hosts; effects report their latency to the host.
• Fixes: changing or clearing an instrument can be undone; removing a card closes its screen; a call during recording stops cleanly and keeps the take; audio recovers after interruptions or a wired device disconnect; Amp and Spectral controls respond where you touch; Sampler samples are no longer lost after an app update.
• Acoustic Piano: fast passages and pedalled chords play cleanly — no more cut-off notes or clicks.
• Drum pads: SWAP → Browse device opens the file picker again.… more - 📈Dawcade entered the top 100Top Paid · Music · US
- 📈Dawcade new best rank in the overall chart: #116Top Paid · All Apps · IT
- 📈Dawcade charting in a new country in 2 chartsItaly · United States
- 📈Dawcade entered the top 100Top Paid · Music · IT
- 📈Dawcade charting in a new countryUnited Kingdom
- 🆕Dawcade: its developer released another app: Dawcade Instruments
- 📈Dawcade entered the top 100Top Paid · Music · CA
- 📈Dawcade charting in a new countryCanada
- 📦Dawcade updated to version 1.0.9iPhone Duo and automation update.
• iPhone Duo: the play dock now follows the hinge — half-folded (laptop) posture keeps the chain on the upper half and the dock on the lower half.
• Export: finished renders, stems and MIDI files now open the system Save/Share sheet (Files, iCloud Drive, AirDrop, Mail).
• Automation: mixer faders move with volume automation during playback; tempo automation glides between points instead of stepping.
• Metronome: long-press the metronome button to set the click level.
• Preset library: presets show their tags and can be filtered by tag.
• Fixes: dragging an automation point near a clip edge no longer trims the clip; audio could stop after an internal signal — fixed; faster, smoother app start; clearer feedback after Groove and clip tempo edits.… more - ✏️Dawcade: app got bigger325 MB → 2559 MB (+687%)
- 📦Dawcade updated to version 1.0.7Choir Pad, Anything Kit and a smarter Suggest.
• Choir Pad: a new sung-voice instrument with Aah, Ooh and Mmm voice sets and an animated singing ensemble in a new plum finish.
• Anything Kit: a new drum MIDI FX — teach it any sound through the microphone (a knock, a clap, your voice) and play your drum channel with it.
• Suggest rebuilt: eight chord ideas by character, More for fresh ideas, + Chord, and suggestions that follow the chords on your other channels. Its new control panel sets genre, direction, follow tracks or your own walk, hold, octave, voicing, inversion, chord length and where Write puts the progression — chord track, MIDI clip or both. Suggest presets save your setup.
• Sampled instruments added with + (Acoustic Piano, Strings, Brass, Woodwinds, Bass, Choir Pad) now play right away.
• MultiZone: Browse Folder maps a whole folder of samples to zones, and World sounds no longer appear in MultiZone preset lists.
• New jazz-fusion demo song with numbered scenes and clips in their channel colours.
• Arrangement: clips move in select mode, audio stays in place when trimming or moving, MIDI edge preview no longer stretches notes, paste is reliable, and double-tapping empty space leaves select mode.
• Recording and editing: tap the take button to open the take lanes, a clearer audio editor toolbar, and long-press to drag samples from the sample drawer.
• Session Player: the XY seed cloud is back.
• Tutorial: every step can be passed with Next, and the control it points to always comes into view.
• Play surface strip: same dark finish as the top bar, with your channel colour behind the channel name and instrument; the play mode button is square. Loop shows faded white when off.
• Loading another project from Settings closes Settings.
• Drum Kit, the samplers and the 3D effects open on a ready screen.
• Fixed a crash when scanning for Bluetooth MIDI devices on Mac.
• Fixed audio stalls that could silence the app when playing many notes on Bass Engine and other sampled instruments with Preserve Pitch and a long release.
• Audio engine hardening: invalid values are now refused instead of being able to silence a track or stall audio until restart.
• The floating play surface comes to the front when you touch it, even over plugin windows — its handle and top strip work there too.
• Scrolling: session channels scroll sideways in the dock and the main view, and the arrangement scrolls from track headers, faders and the timeline.
• Long-press menus open where you pressed — clips, notes, automation points and session columns.
• Settings: tap anywhere on Audio Output to choose where sound goes.
• All interface and error messages are now in English, including Audio Unit messages and the chord compass.
• Recovered projects keep their names, effect windows open more smoothly, and stability fixes.… more - 📈Dawcade charting in a new countryTurkey
- 📈Dawcade entered the top 100Top Paid · Music · DE
- 📈Dawcade charting in a new countryGermany
- 🆕Dawcade first spotted by AppInsider#63 in Top Paid · All Apps · Netherlands
- 📦Dawcade version 1.0.4Big parity update — every synth, play surface and game now matches the flagship design.
• Flipper is back: the Orbit Riot pinball table — bumpers tuned to the chord, drop-target bank, ramp, rotor, four rollover chimes, multiball.
• Fruit Machine gets its sculpted cabinet: marquee bulbs, reel glass, lever and button deck.
• Radar and Orbits share one rhythm language: preset banks (33 drum grooves, 18 polyrhythms), four switchable scenes, patterns that persist with the channel.
• Bloom is deep space now — stars, moon, a colour-spraying sweep line and planets for every tap.
• Every synth detail screen redrawn with its live glass animations: pad, chip, noise, bell, physical, spectral, supersaw, granular cloud, wavetable frame browser.
• Pinch-zoom in detail windows fixed; drum kit and bass no longer hiss on an idle channel.
• Stability fixes from crash reports.… more - 🆕Dawcade released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
3.7 ★
10 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#11
Music PaidMeasured
Dawcade on the App Store
App details
App ID
6800839231
Publisher
Nihatcan Dogu
On the store since
Aug 2026
Under a year
Minimum OS
iOS 17.0+
iPhone XS and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
1
EN
Size
3015 MB
Also listed in
Utilities
Dawcade downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where Dawcade's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| France | MusicPaid | #11 |
 Germany | MusicPaid | #42 |
 Japan | MusicPaid | #141 |
 Italy | MusicPaid | #54 |
 Australia | MusicPaid | #95 |
Apps near Dawcade on the chart
Music Paid, around #11.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
3.7 ★
10 ratings
Measured
Ratings
10
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
under 1
4-week average
Written reviews a week
under 1
US App Store
Lifetime rating
5.0★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
46/100
faster than 43% of Music apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Dawcade
From the 5 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Mixed (40% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). Recent reviews are more negative than earlier ones.
About Dawcade
Dawcade is a complete music studio that fits in your pocket. Record, sequence, mix and arrange anywhere — everything runs on your device alone. No account, no subscription, no cloud, nothing to unlock. Buy it once and everything is there.
TWO WAYS TO BUILD A TRACK
Session view lets you launch clips and scenes freely while you find the arrangement by playing it. Arrangement view puts the same material on a timeline when you are ready to commit. Clips move between the two, so nothing has to be decided up front.
INSTRUMENTS
More than fifty instruments and effects ship with the app. Wavetable, virtual analog, FM, phase distortion, vector, spectral, supersaw, granular, physical modelling and chip synthesis all have purpose-built editors rather than a generic parameter list. Sampled acoustic instruments cover piano, electric piano, organ, guitar, bass, strings, brass and woodwinds.
DRUMS AND SAMPLING
A library of factory drum kits, each with per-pad tuning, envelope, filter, pan and send controls. The sampler loads your own audio, and the drum surface can be played as pads or programmed as a step sequencer.
PLAY SURFACES
Sixteen selectable play surfaces sit under the mixer instead of a single fixed keyboard. Alongside the piano keyboard there is a chord pad grid, a Tonnetz lattice, a circle of fifths, a strum surface, a fretboard, a bowed-string surface, an XY pad, and generative surfaces that keep playing while you shape them. Every surface follows the project key and scale, so wrong notes are opt-in.
MIXING AND AUTOMATION
Per-channel volume, pan, mute, solo and record arm, with return channels and sends. Twenty-four audio effects including compressor, multiband compressor, limiter, transient shaper, parametric EQ, reverb, plate reverb, delay, filter delay, grain delay, chorus, flanger, phaser, distortion, amp cabinet, bitcrusher, vocoder, resonator, frequency shifter, auto filter, beat repeat, gate, spectral and step effects. Any parameter can be automated on the timeline.
MIDI AND GENERATORS
Class-compliant USB and Bluetooth MIDI controllers are supported for input, and Dawcade sends MIDI back to control surfaces that have pad or key lighting. Insert an arpeggiator with classic, Markov and Euclidean generators, or a scale-quantiser, ahead of any instrument.
RECORDING
Record audio through the microphone or an audio interface, straight into a channel. Count-in, pre-roll and post-roll are configurable, and takes land as clips you can move, trim and reuse.
PRIVACY
Dawcade does not ask for an account and does not collect personal data. Crash and error reports are the only thing that leaves the device, they are not linked to your identity, and they are processed in the European Union. Your projects, recordings and samples stay on your device.
Requires iOS 17 or later. Includes a demo project and a guided tour on first launch.
TWO WAYS TO BUILD A TRACK
Session view lets you launch clips and scenes freely while you find the arrangement by playing it. Arrangement view puts the same material on a timeline when you are ready to commit. Clips move between the two, so nothing has to be decided up front.
INSTRUMENTS
More than fifty instruments and effects ship with the app. Wavetable, virtual analog, FM, phase distortion, vector, spectral, supersaw, granular, physical modelling and chip synthesis all have purpose-built editors rather than a generic parameter list. Sampled acoustic instruments cover piano, electric piano, organ, guitar, bass, strings, brass and woodwinds.
DRUMS AND SAMPLING
A library of factory drum kits, each with per-pad tuning, envelope, filter, pan and send controls. The sampler loads your own audio, and the drum surface can be played as pads or programmed as a step sequencer.
PLAY SURFACES
Sixteen selectable play surfaces sit under the mixer instead of a single fixed keyboard. Alongside the piano keyboard there is a chord pad grid, a Tonnetz lattice, a circle of fifths, a strum surface, a fretboard, a bowed-string surface, an XY pad, and generative surfaces that keep playing while you shape them. Every surface follows the project key and scale, so wrong notes are opt-in.
MIXING AND AUTOMATION
Per-channel volume, pan, mute, solo and record arm, with return channels and sends. Twenty-four audio effects including compressor, multiband compressor, limiter, transient shaper, parametric EQ, reverb, plate reverb, delay, filter delay, grain delay, chorus, flanger, phaser, distortion, amp cabinet, bitcrusher, vocoder, resonator, frequency shifter, auto filter, beat repeat, gate, spectral and step effects. Any parameter can be automated on the timeline.
MIDI AND GENERATORS
Class-compliant USB and Bluetooth MIDI controllers are supported for input, and Dawcade sends MIDI back to control surfaces that have pad or key lighting. Insert an arpeggiator with classic, Markov and Euclidean generators, or a scale-quantiser, ahead of any instrument.
RECORDING
Record audio through the microphone or an audio interface, straight into a channel. Count-in, pre-roll and post-roll are configurable, and takes land as clips you can move, trim and reuse.
PRIVACY
Dawcade does not ask for an account and does not collect personal data. Crash and error reports are the only thing that leaves the device, they are not linked to your identity, and they are processed in the European Union. Your projects, recordings and samples stay on your device.
Requires iOS 17 or later. Includes a demo project and a guided tour on first launch.
Latest updates
1.0.10
Band, assistant and guided missions update.
• Band: a band on the master channel writes full takes in your song's key and tempo, can follow what you play (JAM) and sends takes to the arrangement.
• Assistant: write chords, parts and variations, or Make a song into new or existing channels. Tap an empty lane to pick bars and set the LENGTH. The optional on-device ASK assistant answers questions and edits your song; it asks before downloading and shows progress.
• On-device AI tools: Separate Stems, Clean Up Voice, Remove Reverb, Detect Tempo and Tap to drums. Drums get Make a variation.
• Guide: new missions (Start from a song, Make your own, Just explore) and first-run tips. Highlight rings never hide behind windows, tap outside to close a card, and cards ignore taps while you are playing.
• Sound presets now save the instrument, macros and channel effects, with a SOUNDS / PRESETS tab.
• Arrangement: automation lane on every channel; double-tap channel headers to select several and move, duplicate or delete them together; drag clips between channels; pinch vertically to resize channels.
• Piano roll: edits keep every MIDI detail (channels, release velocity, pedal, pitch bend, pressure); the zoom strip lines up with the grid.
• Library: drop a sample on empty space to create a new audio channel; Places can be dragged too.
• Performance: faster launch with less memory, no freezes while exporting, piano sounds load in the background.
• Audio Units: all 35 Dawcade instruments (with their sampled pianos, strings, brass, drums and guitar, plus Modular Synth) and all 37 audio effects now open in other AUv3 hosts; effects report their latency to the host.
• Fixes: changing or clearing an instrument can be undone; removing a card closes its screen; a call during recording stops cleanly and keeps the take; audio recovers after interruptions or a wired device disconnect; Amp and Spectral controls respond where you touch; Sampler samples are no longer lost after an app update.
• Acoustic Piano: fast passages and pedalled chords play cleanly — no more cut-off notes or clicks.
• Drum pads: SWAP → Browse device opens the file picker again.
1.0.9
iPhone Duo and automation update.
• iPhone Duo: the play dock now follows the hinge — half-folded (laptop) posture keeps the chain on the upper half and the dock on the lower half.
• Export: finished renders, stems and MIDI files now open the system Save/Share sheet (Files, iCloud Drive, AirDrop, Mail).
• Automation: mixer faders move with volume automation during playback; tempo automation glides between points instead of stepping.
• Metronome: long-press the metronome button to set the click level.
• Preset library: presets show their tags and can be filtered by tag.
• Fixes: dragging an automation point near a clip edge no longer trims the clip; audio could stop after an internal signal — fixed; faster, smoother app start; clearer feedback after Groove and clip tempo edits.
1.0.7
Choir Pad, Anything Kit and a smarter Suggest.
• Choir Pad: a new sung-voice instrument with Aah, Ooh and Mmm voice sets and an animated singing ensemble in a new plum finish.
• Anything Kit: a new drum MIDI FX — teach it any sound through the microphone (a knock, a clap, your voice) and play your drum channel with it.
• Suggest rebuilt: eight chord ideas by character, More for fresh ideas, + Chord, and suggestions that follow the chords on your other channels. Its new control panel sets genre, direction, follow tracks or your own walk, hold, octave, voicing, inversion, chord length and where Write puts the progression — chord track, MIDI clip or both. Suggest presets save your setup.
• Sampled instruments added with + (Acoustic Piano, Strings, Brass, Woodwinds, Bass, Choir Pad) now play right away.
• MultiZone: Browse Folder maps a whole folder of samples to zones, and World sounds no longer appear in MultiZone preset lists.
• New jazz-fusion demo song with numbered scenes and clips in their channel colours.
• Arrangement: clips move in select mode, audio stays in place when trimming or moving, MIDI edge preview no longer stretches notes, paste is reliable, and double-tapping empty space leaves select mode.
• Recording and editing: tap the take button to open the take lanes, a clearer audio editor toolbar, and long-press to drag samples from the sample drawer.
• Session Player: the XY seed cloud is back.
• Tutorial: every step can be passed with Next, and the control it points to always comes into view.
• Play surface strip: same dark finish as the top bar, with your channel colour behind the channel name and instrument; the play mode button is square. Loop shows faded white when off.
• Loading another project from Settings closes Settings.
• Drum Kit, the samplers and the 3D effects open on a ready screen.
• Fixed a crash when scanning for Bluetooth MIDI devices on Mac.
• Fixed audio stalls that could silence the app when playing many notes on Bass Engine and other sampled instruments with Preserve Pitch and a long release.
• Audio engine hardening: invalid values are now refused instead of being able to silence a track or stall audio until restart.
• The floating play surface comes to the front when you touch it, even over plugin windows — its handle and top strip work there too.
• Scrolling: session channels scroll sideways in the dock and the main view, and the arrangement scrolls from track headers, faders and the timeline.
• Long-press menus open where you pressed — clips, notes, automation points and session columns.
• Settings: tap anywhere on Audio Output to choose where sound goes.
• All interface and error messages are now in English, including Audio Unit messages and the chord compass.
• Recovered projects keep their names, effect windows open more smoothly, and stability fixes.
Store changes
What Dawcade changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
Price rise
6.99 EUR → 9.99 EUR
New screenshots
6 screenshots (was 6)
Price rise
9.99 AUD → 14.99 AUD
