Riffpad
Thumb-first melody sketchpad
$5.99 · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Riffpad is a thumb-first piano roll for sketching melodies fast on iPhone and iPad. Draw notes directly on the grid, nudge them into shape, loop ideas, and send them to MIDI gear or AUv3 instruments without opening a full desktop-style DAW.
Built for quick musical capture:
- Place, move, resize, copy, paste, and delete notes with touch-first gestures
- Keep melodies in key with scale highlighting, snap, and quantize controls
- Loop short ideas, adjust tempo, and record simple live input
- Use Core MIDI input/output with USB or Bluetooth MIDI devices
- Host AUv3 instruments for on-device sound design
- Export MIDI files and audio previews through the iOS share sheet
- Import MIDI sketches when you want to keep developing an idea
Riffpad keeps your patterns local. There are no accounts, feeds, ads, tracking SDKs, or cloud sync in this version.
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Information
- Seller
- PAUL GLENN VERNON
- Size
- 3.4 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Paul Vernon
