StudioMini – Music Recorder

Your ideas. Your music.

StudioMini helps musicians capture ideas quickly on iPhone and iPad, build songs by layering real performances, and keep moving without DAW complexity.

StudioMini – Music Recorder

StudioMini is a music recording app for musicians who play.

It’s designed to help you capture musical ideas quickly, commit to real performances, and keep moving without getting lost in endless options or editing.

Whether you’re sketching a rough idea, layering parts with bandmates, or finishing a song, StudioMini keeps the focus on playing, not programming.

When inspiration strikes, you don’t need complexity.
You need something that lets you press record and stay in the moment.

What StudioMini Is

StudioMini is built around real performances. It’s for musicians who want to play through ideas, capture takes, and build songs by layering parts – not by assembling music from fragments on a timeline.

You won’t find endless setup steps, complicated routing, or editing tools that pull you out of the moment. StudioMini keeps decisions lightweight so you can stay focused on the music, not the software.

That doesn’t mean you can’t refine a performance. When you need to fix a section, you can punch in without losing the feel of the take. When you’re ready to move forward, you can create a mix and share your song, or take your tracks into any DAW for further production.

StudioMini isn’t trying to replace full desktop DAWs. It’s designed to be the place where musical ideas are captured, shaped, and kept alive – before inspiration fades or momentum is lost.

What you can do

• Capture ideas the moment they arrive
  • Press record and play. Capture a rough idea with a single track, or start building right away. StudioMini makes it easy to get something down before the moment passes.
• Build songs by layering
  • Add parts one at a time by recording real takes. Guitar, vocals, bass, keys – layer performances naturally instead of assembling music from fragments.
• Fix what needs fixing, keep the take
  • Punch in to re-record just the section you need, without losing the feel of the performance. Refine enough to keep moving forward.
• Create a mix, or collaborate
  • Create a high-quality mix when a song is ready to listen and share. Or share the StudioMini project itself so bandmates can add their parts and pass it back.

Trusted by musicians

StudioMini has been used on recordings by Grammy-winning artists and has earned the trust of musicians around the world for over a decade.

It has built a reputation for being dependable and focused – a tool musicians come back to when they want to capture performances and keep ideas moving.

StudioMini is developed by a small team of musicians and indie software developers in Los Angeles, California, with a deep respect for the art of making music.

Features

• Multitrack recording for building songs from real performances
• High-resolution audio recording
• Punch-in recording for fixing sections without losing the take
• Drum track with a curated set of professionally produced loops
• Mixer with faders, mute, solo, and panning
• Create high-quality mixes for listening and sharing
• Share StudioMini projects for easy collaboration with bandmates
• Import and export audio and projects (iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive, and more)
• Per-project notepad for lyrics, notes, and ideas
• iCloud backup for seamless restore across devices