The Beat Maker Pro story
Twelve pads.
Millions of first beats.
It started with a simple idea: drum pads that teach you how to play them. Since 2018, Beat Maker Pro has grown from an iPhone app into a music game with 200M+ downloads.
- Downloads worldwide
- 200M+
- Average rating
- 4.6 / 5
- Ratings worldwide
- 1.7M+
The idea
Learning a beat
should feel like a game.
Beat making software can feel complicated. MWM’s team wanted the opposite: a grid of glowing pads, sounds that work together, and lessons that show you what to play and tell you how close you were.
Lessons were part of the app from its first weeks of development, in March 2018. Career mode, custom packs and new sound packs followed over the years.
See what the app does todaySince 2018
One tap at a time.
Eight years of beats.
From the first App Store release to 200 million downloads, a few moments that made Beat Maker Pro.
March 2018
Pads that teach
MWM’s studio starts building Beat Maker Pro: drum pads you can learn to play, with lessons part of the app from the very first weeks.
2 April 2018
On the App Store
May 2018
iPad and 24 pads
Version 1.4 brings the app to iPad and adds a second grid: 24 pads to play with.
August 2018
Android, and a first million
Beat Maker Pro arrives on Google Play. The same month, it passes one million downloads across iOS and Android.
August 2019
10 million downloads
Less than a year and a half after launch, Beat Maker Pro passes 10 million downloads.
Spring to summer 2021
Ten times more downloads
Monthly downloads grow tenfold in a few months, from about 270,000 in April to 2.8 million in August 2021.
October 2021
Over 1,000 lessons
The app now offers more than 1,000 lessons, with statistics to follow your progress.
July 2022
50 million downloads
Beat Maker Pro passes 50 million downloads across the App Store and Google Play.
October 2023
100 million downloads
Five and a half years after launch, Beat Maker Pro passes 100 million downloads.
September 2024
Build your own kit
Custom packs arrive: pick sounds from the library, place them on 12 pads and save your own pack.
January 2025
150 million downloads
Beat Maker Pro passes 150 million downloads.
November 2025
A new career mode
A redesigned career mode rolls out to everyone: play songs on falling notes, earn stars and open chests to unlock sound packs.
2026
Picked by Apple’s editors
Beat Maker Pro appears in the App Store’s Top 10 apps for making music in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada, alongside edjing Mix in the US and the UK.
June 2026
200 million downloads
Eight years after launch, Beat Maker Pro passes 200 million downloads across the App Store and Google Play.
Made by MWM
From the studio
behind edjing.
Beat Maker Pro is developed and published by MWM, the French mobile app studio behind edjing Mix and Color Pop. Its team keeps improving the app, with regular updates on both stores.
In the press
Part of the
MWM story.
Articles about MWM that mention Beat Maker Pro, from its funding round to its publishing platform.
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MWM opens new business unit focused on US markets
MWM lance "MWM Publishing", une plateforme d’édition destinée aux applications non-gaming
Music app start-up MWM raises €50m in Series B round
MWM raises $55.9M after generating 400 million music app downloads
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