GarageBand

Name: GarageBand
Rating: 4.1 (115037 reviews)
Author: Apple

By: Apple

Make great music anywhere

Features & Capabilities

GarageBand turns your iPad or iPhone into a full-featured mobile recording studio. Create music anywhere with Live Loops, Multi-Touch instruments, Remix FX, and up to 32 tracks. Access the Sound Library for free instruments, loops, and sound packs from top producers, and use chords, smart strings, and virtual amps to craft professional-sounding parts.

Share and collaborate by syncing songs across devices with iCloud Drive, export to social sites, and remix with virtual gear. This page highlights core features—Live Loops, Drummer, Smart Instruments, and a flexible mixer—designed for both beginners and experienced musicians on the go.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App Music & Audio Entertainment

By:

Apple

Rating:

4.10

(115,037) 188 new ratings

Version:

2.3.18 Last updated: 2025-11-03

Version code:

870572130

Creation date:

2011-03-10

Compatible devices:

Size:

1.73GB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-05

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 3,618 ▼ 4

Other rankings

#19 in song keyword 60 ▲ 2#55 in music keyword 48 ▲ 1#56 in cool keyword 9 ▼ 4#79 in app keyword 42 ▲ 5#89 in apps keyword 49 ▼ 8

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Developed by:

Apple

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/garageband/id408709785

Website:

http://www.apple.com/ios/garageband

User Reviews

Overall, GarageBand is seen as a powerful, accessible tool for making music and creating ringtones, with a large instrument library and positive reception from users. The top positives include ease of use for producing tracks and the ability to export ringtones from projects. The most mentioned downsides are stability and performance issues (crashes, lag, and latency), recording/track-management problems when layering multiple parts, and gaps in instrument options (desire for more realistic sounds like harp or brass) and certain limits (8-bar default, compatibility with older iPadOS versions).

Pros

Powerful, accessible music creation tool.
Ringtone creation/export from GarageBand projects.
Large instrument library with diverse sounds.
Easy to use and suitable for beginners, with quick results.

Cons

Stability and performance issues: crashes, lag, and latency.
Recording/track-management problems when layering multiple parts; difficulty recording all elements together.
Gaps in instrument options; desire for more realistic sounds (e.g., harp or brass) and some sounds missing or behind purchases.
Bar/length limitations and import/export constraints (default 8 bars; cannot easily expand).
Compatibility issues with older iPadOS versions and timing/latency issues after updates.

Recent reviews

I use a lot of MIDIs, especially old ones, as bases for covers of songs. A lot of the time, drums import as keyboards or the other way around. Like other midi tools, you should be able to choose exactly what instrument each track imports as, and there should be support for custom drum sets and for the sake of music, there needs to be able to be tempo changes! So many MIDIs have it and it comes across as slowness or extra speed in midi tracks, and you can only do 2x or 1/2 speed or more! I love this DAW, but these are very important problems! Please fix this! And maybe adding more track editing features using keyframes- like note slide, and tempo, and volume, and of course, panning!