SoftPads Downloads & RevenueSoftPads: Background Loop Pads · App Store
SoftPads: Background Loop Pads is #23 in Music Paid in Australia and charting in 3 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperForward Sounds, LLC
CategoryMusic
Price4.99 USD
Released
Rating★ 4.5 (41)
Version2.0.2
Age rating4+
First seen by us
25 Sep 2026
25 Sep 2026Installs (est.)1k+ worldwide
SoftPads: Background Loop Pads update history & changes
Last change · 8 events since 24 Mar 2018Full timeline ↓📈Entered the top 100📈Charting in a new country🆕First spotted by AppInsider🆕Released on the App Store
Full timeline · 7 events in the last 12 months
- 📈SoftPads: Background Loop Pads entered the top 100Top Paid · Music · CA
- 📈SoftPads: Background Loop Pads charting in a new countryCanada
- 📈SoftPads: Background Loop Pads entered the top 100Top Paid · Music · AU
- 📈SoftPads: Background Loop Pads charting in a new countryAustralia
- 📈SoftPads: Background Loop Pads entered the top 100Top Paid · Music · BR
- 🆕SoftPads: Background Loop Pads first spotted by AppInsider#68 in Top Paid · Music · United States
- 🆕SoftPads: Background Loop Pads 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
4.5 ★
41 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#23
Music PaidMeasured
SoftPads: Background Loop Pads on the App Store
App details
App ID
1362791362
Publisher
Forward Sounds, LLC
On the store since
Mar 2018
8 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 12.4+
iPhone 5s and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
1
EN
Size
226 MB
Also listed in
Entertainment
SoftPads: Background Loop Pads 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 SoftPads: Background Loop Pads'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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | MusicPaid | #23 |
 Canada | MusicPaid | #24 |
 Brazil | MusicPaid | #128 |
Apps near SoftPads: Background Loop Pads on the chart
Music Paid, around #23.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.5 ★
41 ratings
Measured
Ratings
41
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
under 1
4-week average
Lifetime rating
4.1★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
20/100
faster than 0% 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 SoftPads: Background Loop Pads
From the 29 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Mostly positive (90% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being easy to use, and being useful. The main complaints are about crashes and bugs. Recent reviews are more negative than earlier ones.
What people like
- Ease of use: “Great sounds and easy to use!”
- Useful: “Highly recommend buying this”
- Price & subscription: “Worth way more than the price”
- Speed & performance: “And cross fade / fade in/out time is too fast, let me adjust it”
Common complaints
- Crashes & bugs: “Not loving all the new glitches :(”
About SoftPads: Background Loop Pads
Soft Pads was created for musicians to eliminate any dead space behind your band by providing an ambient background loop that continuously runs in the background. If you have a band or are a solo performer this is the app you've been waiting for!
Features:
Soft Pads has over 10 different ambient loop pad sounds to choose from that can be selected in any of the 12 keys of music. All of the sounds on Soft Pads were carefully selected and designed to only be top quality sounds/pads.
Select one pad sound or layer many to create unique sound combinations. Soft Pads allows near limitless sound options. Our custom sounds like Phaser, Vox, and Breath can be stacked with other pad sounds to create amazing tones. The options are limitless on the different ambient sounds this app can achieve!
What's new is the ability to save the pad combination that you have created. Give it a name and recall it to be used in Set Lists that you can also create and save.
Soft Pads should be used as a stand alone instrument. Other programs played at the same time may interfere with the function of SoftPads.
Soft Pads allows you to customize your experience with several background colors allowing you to chose your favorite colors and background schemes. It also includes an enhanced viewing mode that performs fabulously on stage to make the fonts and contrast bolder and stand out for easier viewing.
Soft Pads allows users to turn crossfade on or off and even allows you to chose if you want to allow multiple pads or just single pads.
Soft Pads is everything you could need all in one app! No more mess of having to download mp3's or sound files or waiting for downloads for hours just to get a few pads to work. Soft Pads gives you everything you need in the palm of your hands without having to go through any hassles or extra steps.
Soft Pads offers A+ customer support to all of our customers. We strive for excellent customer service.
Recommend the following:
1. Download while connected to WiFi.
2. Make sure that your device is in standard or normal viewing mode (Not zoomed or large print). This may affect the "swipe" function. To reveal the menu/settings, swipe left to right from the main screen. To reveal the sound pad choices, swipe right to left from the main screen.
3. For best results during performance, switch on "Airplane Mode".
You can visit our website at: www.forwardsounds.com
Features:
Soft Pads has over 10 different ambient loop pad sounds to choose from that can be selected in any of the 12 keys of music. All of the sounds on Soft Pads were carefully selected and designed to only be top quality sounds/pads.
Select one pad sound or layer many to create unique sound combinations. Soft Pads allows near limitless sound options. Our custom sounds like Phaser, Vox, and Breath can be stacked with other pad sounds to create amazing tones. The options are limitless on the different ambient sounds this app can achieve!
What's new is the ability to save the pad combination that you have created. Give it a name and recall it to be used in Set Lists that you can also create and save.
Soft Pads should be used as a stand alone instrument. Other programs played at the same time may interfere with the function of SoftPads.
Soft Pads allows you to customize your experience with several background colors allowing you to chose your favorite colors and background schemes. It also includes an enhanced viewing mode that performs fabulously on stage to make the fonts and contrast bolder and stand out for easier viewing.
Soft Pads allows users to turn crossfade on or off and even allows you to chose if you want to allow multiple pads or just single pads.
Soft Pads is everything you could need all in one app! No more mess of having to download mp3's or sound files or waiting for downloads for hours just to get a few pads to work. Soft Pads gives you everything you need in the palm of your hands without having to go through any hassles or extra steps.
Soft Pads offers A+ customer support to all of our customers. We strive for excellent customer service.
Recommend the following:
1. Download while connected to WiFi.
2. Make sure that your device is in standard or normal viewing mode (Not zoomed or large print). This may affect the "swipe" function. To reveal the menu/settings, swipe left to right from the main screen. To reveal the sound pad choices, swipe right to left from the main screen.
3. For best results during performance, switch on "Airplane Mode".
You can visit our website at: www.forwardsounds.com
Latest updates
2.0.2
Fixed volume decrease when app is in background