Capture musical ideas before they fade.
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Record one track at a time, arrange on a grid, and build a structured piece — fast.
Features
Deliberately stripped back to the essentials.
Bars × tracks laid out like a map of your song. Build structure fast, rework ideas in seconds.
Open Skatch. Set your tempo. Hit record. Pure, immediate capture of whatever's in your head right now.
Trim, move, copy, delete clips with visual waveforms. Full control over your arrangement.
Loop any section for jamming and live iteration. Feel your idea before committing to it.
Set the groove with tap tempo or dial in a precise BPM. Per-track volume control included.
Export your full mix as a WAV file. Send it to a friend or import it into your DAW to go further.
Philosophy
No virtual instruments. No effects chains. No endless menus.
Just what you need to capture a raw idea and give it a shape.
Skatch is a mobile multitrack sequencer designed for one thing: getting a musical idea out of your head and into a structured recording before it disappears. Open the app, set your tempo, hit record. No configuration, no loading times, no menus to fight through.
Unlike a voice memo app, Skatch gives your idea a real structure — bars and tracks laid out on a grid, like a map of your song. Unlike a mobile DAW, it never pulls you into mixing, effects, or endless tweaking. It stays out of your way so you can stay in the creative moment.
Skatch is built for musicians who generate ideas faster than they can record them — and who keep losing those ideas to complex tools or the wrong moment.
Voice Memos is too simple — it captures audio but gives you no structure. A mobile DAW is too complex — it demands your attention before you've even played a note. Skatch sits exactly in between: the speed of a voice recorder, with the structure of a multitrack sequencer.
Each cell on the grid represents one bar on one track. Record a hook on track 1, a bassline on track 2, a rhythm on track 3. Move clips around, trim them, loop a section to check the feel. Build the shape of a song — without ever touching an effect chain or a mixing console.
Every musician has lost a great idea. The riff that came to you in the car, the melody you hummed in the shower, the groove you had for ten seconds before your phone rang. The usual tools are either too slow to open or too complex to use in the moment.
Skatch is built to be open and recording in seconds. Tap tempo, set the BPM, hit a cell and start. The interface is stripped to the minimum — no distractions, no friction, no rabbit hole. Just a clean grid waiting for your idea.
Skatch has no virtual instruments, no effects chains, no automation lanes. That's not a limitation — it's a deliberate choice. The goal is to keep you in the sketch phase, where ideas flow freely, instead of pulling you into the production phase before you're ready.
When your idea is ready to go further, export your full mix as a WAV file and bring it into your DAW. Or just send it to a collaborator as is. Skatch works as the first step in your creative process — or the only step, if that's all you need.
Download Skatch and start capturing them today.
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