VU303 Downloads & RevenueVU303 · App Store
VU303 is #30 in Music Paid in United States and charting in 8 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
Full timeline · 18 events
- 📈VU303 entered the top 10Top Paid · Music · BR
- 📈VU303 entered the top 10Top Paid · Music · RU
- ✏️VU303: new iPad screenshots· 11 countries
- ✏️VU303: new screenshots8 screenshots (was 10) · 11 countries
- 📦VU303 updated to version 1.0.2Bugfixed:
Mixer padbank channels working from up to down.
AUv3 version import video opens library. - 📈VU303 charting in a new countrySpain
- 📈VU303 entered the top 100Top Paid · Music · KR
- 📈VU303 charting in a new countrySouth Korea
- 🚀VU303: now shown next to Koala Sampler • Beat Maker, Chameleon AUv3 Sampler Plugin, Echo Beach: Sampler Beat Maker +5 morethe store's “similar apps” for it changed: who it's seen as competing with
- 📈VU303 entered the top 100 in 2 chartsTop Paid · Music · RU · Top Grossing · Music · RU
- 📈VU303 charting in a new countryRussia
- 📈VU303 entered the top 10 in 3 chartsTop Paid · Music · CA · Top Paid · Music · IT · Top Paid · Music · JP
- 📈VU303 entered the top 100 in 6 chartsTop Paid · Music · AU · Top Paid · Music · BR · Top Paid · Music · FR · Top Paid · All Apps · GB · +2 more
- 📈VU303 charting in a new country in 5 chartsBrazil · Canada · France · United Kingdom · +1 more
- 🆕VU303 first spotted by AppInsider#71 in Top Paid · Music · United States
- 📈VU303 new best rank in the overall chart: #45Top Paid · All Apps · PL
- 📦VU303 version 1.0.1Patch zero bugfixes and improvements.
- 🆕VU303 released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
VU303 at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-06. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
VU303 is a phrase sampler and pattern sequencer designed for mobile musicians who want a hardware-style, single-panel workflow for creating beats on iOS. The app has achieved notable traction in the Russian and Japanese paid music charts, ranking #5 and #12 respectively, while maintaining presence in other major markets like Canada and South Korea.
Similar apps: SP-404 MKII, Korg Electribe, BeatMaker 3
VU303 on the App Store
App details
App privacy Measured
VU303 declares it collects no data at all — the rarest and most private label on the App Store.
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
VU303 downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where VU303'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.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
Business model: Ad-led
How VU303 makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| MusicPaid | #30 | |
| MusicPaid | #13 | |
| MusicPaid | #60 | |
| MusicPaid | #18 | |
| MusicPaid | #34 | |
| MusicGrossing | #83 | |
| MusicPaid | #139 | |
| MusicPaid | #200 | |
| MusicPaid | #120 |
Apps near VU303 on the chart
Music Paid, around #30.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings by country (3)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.7 | 68% | – | |
| 1.2 | 17% | – | |
| 1 | 14% | – |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
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 VU303
From recent reviews.
About VU303
VU303 is AUv3 Effects Host but also works as AUv3 Instrument Plugin!
COMING FROM VU202
• Your VU202 projects open and sound as they did: their pads keep the VU202 engine, and you can move any pad to the new VU303 engine
• New in VU303: six views instead of one screen, a new sampling engine, patterns of up to 256 steps, a mixer with AUv3 inserts, LIVE XY effects and MIDI LEARN
SAMPLE ANYTHING
• Record from the microphone or an audio interface, resample the app's own output, or import audio files, whole folders and the sound of a video
• Nine built-in vintage drumkits with 785 samples
• Two engines per pad: the new VU303 engine (STANDARD 44.1 kHz, LONG 22.05 kHz, LO-FI 11.025 kHz) and the classic VU202 engine
32 PADS IN 4 BANKS
• Gate or one-shot, loop, reverse, and stereo / mono / left / right per pad
• Choke banks, pad copy, roll and hold
• Three CTRL knobs for volume, pan and pitch – or for the selected effect
TRIM, CHOP AND STRETCH
• Start, end, level, attack and decay; truncate, normalize, reverse and silence
• Chop a sample into 4, 8 or 16 slices across a bank
• Loop points with crossfade
• Time-stretch to the project tempo, with or without keeping the pitch
STEP SEQUENCER AND SONG
• 32 patterns of up to 256 steps (16 bars)
• Velocity, pan, key, nudge and gate for every step
• Live recording with quantize, swing from 50 to 75 %, count-in and tap tempo
• Chain patterns with repeat counts into a full song
MIXER AND EFFECTS
• Channels for banks A–D, the pads and the master, with fader, mute, solo and meters
• 26 DSP effects: filters, EQ, compressors, limiter, delay, tape delay, reverb, chorus, phaser, flanger, overdrive, distortion, lo-fi, vinyl sim, slicer, isolator, radio tuning and more
• Insert slots on every bank and the master – including your AUv3 effect plug-ins
LIVE FX
• Eight XY pads on the master output, each with one of 16 performance effects such as tape stop, filter, beat repeat, grain scatter, vinyl warp and crusher
• LATCH keeps an effect on after you lift your finger
MIDI
• Play the pads from any MIDI keyboard or pad controller
• MIDI LEARN: map knobs, keys, pads, faders, XY pads and TRIM markers to your controller, and save and share the mappings as templates
• MIDI channel filter and velocity curves
EXPORT AND PROJECTS
• Render a pattern or the whole song as a 24-bit WAV mix or as stems
• Autosave; projects are saved as .vu303 files
• Send projects to VU Studio
MADE FOR TOUCH
• Layouts for iPhone and iPad, in portrait and landscape
• Adjustable text sizes and hold-to-magnify for every label
Latest updates
Store changes
What VU303 changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
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