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Actually to be fair to the Morphulus developer, they said their plugin was not vibe coded and I believe them, but their website definitely is.
There ought to be a label stating "vibe coded - use at your own risk".
Forma looks interesting at least for that center swirly thing - I assume it responds to sounds?
So vibe coded apps are clearly going to be percolating the app store going forward. Going to be a few gems among the slop.
Good thread Gus! We should try to be confident of our accuracy, mind you, when claiming something is vibe coded.
For example, Synth Anatomy Tom also (fully justifiably) suspected that Perc8 (pictured first in this thread) is vibe coded.
https://synthanatomy.com/2026/04/terrarum-perc8-an-8-voice-drum-synthesizer-plugin-for-ios-and-macos.html
The dev's response, in the comment section at the bottom of the article, is worth a read I think:
"Hi there! Thank you for posting about Perc8 and for the kind words.
"I wanted to add a comment here and provide some additional info about Perc8:
"I used agentic AI to help make Perc8, but Perc8 wasn’t entirely prompt-created or generated by AI. I’ve programmed/developed code for over 20 years and using AI has accelerated my coding, but “blindly” using it to create apps/programs is something I wouldn’t recommend.
"User interface and graphic design has always been a weak spot for me. I’m more used to working on command lines and terminals. The Perc8 interface is certainly “functional” but I agree that it’s not going to win any awards 🙂 On the other hand, I can be quite confident that the underlying code is solid!
"The effects algorithms are my own and not Airwindows-based.
" Again, leaning on my developer background, open source attribution and “correct” use of open source code is very important to me. The “Rivet” apps that I created use Chris’s algorithms, and make note of which ones throughout. They’re free apps out of respect for Chris’s work and so others can enjoy his algorithms on different platforms.
"I’d be happy to answer any questions about Perc8 or go into more detail about it!
"Thank you again for writing about it!
"Joe"
Back to the list, I agree that Forma Synth roused my suspicion it might be vibe coded. I really don't know though. There are a lot of devs who are bad at UIs. But yeah, this whole conversation is well worth having.
I’m just commenting on the wave of apps, plugins and websites all using the same vibe coded UI and design styles. It’s now up to developers to proactively come forward with transparency as to why we should have faith in their releases and the quality of their realtime audio DSP and long term support because it’s going to be really difficult to separate the dross from the quality when they all look the same and some are buggy as hell.
There’s some great ideas being realised for sure! I’ve bought a few really creative desktop plugins recently regardless.
Totally. It's also going to be hard to know who to trust though, because online people can really invent any kind of backstory. Only one of the many negative aspects of AI, it is hugely corroding of trust.
True but there’s always their second release if they are serious about creating instruments and effects. Maybe that’s the plan for me. Always wait for second release and see how the first one went?
I also think that music developers are generally a trustworthy bunch. It’s not like crypto. I put them more in the ‘geeks and gardeners’ category of people 🙂
Yes - that's why we need people like you, Gavin: putting up honest reviews.
in close future we will see probably 2-3 releases of new DAW every year 🤣🤣🤣
Definitely!
I don't think jAmp is vibe coded.
The latest UIs are by the looks of it
Joe's response is just a reflection of how coding is done now. When it's a side gig especially, why not use tools that get you a large part of the way quickly?
I write corporate propaganda for a living and use generative AI routinely to speed up my work. Like Joe, I never use the raw output. It's a tool for rapidly exploring ideas. When the ideas involve something mundane, like how to sell more pool pumps, the goal, not the method, is the point. I think that principle applies to coding tools as well.
I don't mind folks trying to make a few dollars by selling their vibe-coded work. In general I'm skepitcal of any app by a dev with no prior history and no presence here or elsewhere. The more fake-ass their website the more skeptical I become. Charging $50 for your first-ever music app marks you. Bottom line: Is it someone who cares about music, or are they just another annoying AI bro trying to prove how much money they can make in 24 hours? I'll take warts from someone in the first category, but people in that second category are junk peddlers.
The MIDI-to-CV utility Rope that got released recently looks vibe coded to me. For $0.99 it offers a simplified tool that otherwise can be accomplished with other apps. Most folks who want MIDI-to-CV probably already have miRack or dRambo, for instance. BUT there's something to be said for a barebones module you can quickly load into AUM and be on your way. I appreciate tools like this, even if they aren't backed up by decades of coding experience. (For clarity, I've not purchased Rope and haven't seen anyone mention using it.)
I've not seen a lot of conversation about vibe coding as a form of theft. Is the consensus that it doesn't have the relationship to conventional code that other generative AI has with its reference works?
This thread isn’t a witch hunt. I’ve thought about vibe coding my own ideas. It’s just capturing the fact that so many UIs look the same right now. It’s a temporary thing no doubt and AI will soon diversify the UI templates. I just noticed the wave and thought I would screenshot a few. It’s kind of a thing right now.
My views on vibe coding don’t really matter that much. For what it’s worth I think it’s a bit like punk without the anti authoritarianism. Lower barrier of entry for the masses, lots of dross and a few gems. Oh and plenty of neon as well for some reason…
Ppl have wondered whether Vibe Looper was vibe coded. Partly because of the name haha, but probably more due to the UI:
https://apps.apple.com/app/id6758245125
Website:
https://vibelooper.com/
What's the consensus, vibe coded yay or nay?
Extemely cool app btw, with much less likelihood of clicking than loopers by established devs like Audio Damage.
UX is great. Pity about the UI, which is very usable but looks cheap, and which sure as hell doesn't match the very high IAP price tag ($30!!).
100% vibe coded UI and going by the name probably the app code is too.
Let's pls discuss how to tell the difference between a vibe coded UI and subpar but not vibe coded UIs. And is it not easy to disguise those things? Just like people often tweak AI-generated text to try to hide that it's AI.
[Edit: we don’t think this one is vibecoded. Just similar styling. Great synth by all accounts!]
Vibe coded Koass Pad
That was seriously good! Makes me want to stop wasting time on the vibe coding zeitgeist and make some damn tunes…
There is one important difference which people without coding knowledge are missing … And that is difference “vibe coding” and “agentic engineering”
1/ vibe coding
person with minimal (or completely without) coding kniwledgw basically just telling AI how it shoudl work.. iterated on UI and festurest aspect.. With zero insight how app is really buit inside, code-wise
Applicable to simple apps wherr UI look is 90% of app functionalities.
Into zhis category i ak also counting simple plugins !!
2/ agentic engineering
Developer with typicaly many years or decades of expeience with very deep insight into theory, API, coding patters manages AI to build large project with consistent well structures and well documented code base,doing audits of code, discussing very details of implementation regarding code atructure, veryfiing used patterns , etc..
First one is play, 95% of produced things this way is crap, inefficient code, bugs, unreliable apps.
Second one is completely new apradigm in codinh and it is available really just to deeply experienced senior developers and it helps hep to develov large scale solid apps with just fraction of time needed before AI era.
People often mess together thse wro thigs but they are completely different universes. With second approach, experience developer can develop large
app consisomg for many tenths of thousands lines of code while app is same reliable (or even more) like when it was completely coded kust by humans.
The subject of senior developers work is transitioning to new era when we will work this way, we will not wrotr any code by hand, we will manage AI to write it and managing the code to be rock solid, well structured, using right patterns.
@dendy yes I agree that's an important distinction to make, and it's one implicitly made in the quote I posted from the Perc8 dev above.
This thread is, I guess, (or should be anyway) more about apps coded by people with no dev background. I think we can add more important distinctions. Eg some people might know relatively little about audio in general, others might have years of experience making things in Drambo, Max, etc. Ultimately, I suppose, a plugin should be judged on its own merits, but it's normal that people will develop heuristic shortcuts to help them decide quickly which apps are likely worth taking a close look at. One important heuristic will be related to assessing how the ui looks. If it looks like a sloppy, cheap, ugly UI, likely vibecoded, many users will turn away immediately.
Yeah .. partialy true but good UI does not always guarantee the good DSP code and vice versa - some human coded apps (especislly AUv3 plugins) looks like garbage aestetically but their DSP code is escellent 🤣
Some of us hardcore coders are just bad UI designers 🤣