Sapling Beats: Kids Music

Sapling Hollow Studios

About this app

Sapling Beats is a calm, ad-free drum machine and sound toy for curious kids.

Two ways to play:
- Play Drums: a grid of big, colorful pads to tap and drum on, with nine friendly sound kits — Forest, Big Drums, Penta, Major, Piano, Robot, Silly, Recordings, and Potty.
- Make Beats: a simple step sequencer where kids tap squares to build a groove and press Play. A "Surprise!" button rolls a ready-made beat to start from, and speed animals (snail, turtle, rabbit) set the tempo. Build a beat and layer it while you keep playing.

The parent-gated Recordings kit lets families make six short sounds of their own. Hold a pad to record, release to save, then use that sound in Play Drums or Make Beats. Recordings stay in private app storage and never leave the device.

Made for little hands and big imaginations:
- Picture-labeled controls for pre-readers
- Grow the grid from 4 to 8 to 16 steps, and 4 to 6 drum rows, as kids are ready
- A quiet, warm look that's easy on the eyes and ears
- Optional sound, a quick volume slider, and a parent-gated Half Volume for little ears

Made by two professors and parents who were tired of "educational" apps that are really ad machines. So we built the opposite:
- No ads, ever
- No accounts and no sign-in
- No data collected from children
- No social features and no links kids can wander out of
- Works completely offline

From Sapling Hollow Studios — calm educational apps for curious kids.

What’s new

Beat grids are now easier to tap on phones, with simple pages for longer patterns and Half Beats. Current work and Saved Beats survive closing the app. Tablet sound-kit and Settings layouts are roomier, with additional reliability and purchase-safety improvements.