LitPads — Custom Soundboard

LitPads is a professional soundboard and audio pad app for musicians, DJs, podcasters, streamers, theater and live event sound ops, content creators, and live performers. Build custom sound boards, load your own audio files, and trigger sounds instantly with ultra low latency and polyphonic playback.

Whether you're running a live show, recording an in-person podcast, managing theater or church cues, DJing on stage, creating content for TikTok and Reels, or streaming on Twitch and YouTube Live (using LitPads on Mac for built-in audio routing), LitPads gives you a powerful, beautiful, and fully customizable sound trigger system across all your Apple devices.

PROFESSIONAL AUDIO ENGINE

• Four play modes: One Shot (retrigger on every tap), Loop (continuous playback), Toggle (tap on, tap off), and Hold (play while pressed)

• Layered retriggering with 4 voice polyphony per pad for seamless, click free sound stacking

• Per pad Volume, Stereo Pan, Fade In (0 to 5s), and Fade Out (0 to 5s) controls

• 3 band EQ per pad: High Pass Filter, Parametric EQ with adjustable frequency, gain, and Q factor, and Low Pass Filter with visual frequency response curve

• Pitch shifting from −24 to +24 semitones with fine tuning (±50 cents) in Pitch Only or Speed mode

• Audio trimming with a zoomable waveform editor (up to 20x zoom) and real time preview

• Configurable buffer sizes: 128 samples (2.9ms), 256 samples (5.8ms), 512 samples (11.6ms), and 1024 samples (23.2ms)

LIVE PERFORMANCE TOOLS

• Audio ducking: automatically lower other pads when a trigger pad plays, with adjustable duck amount and fade time

• Solo mode per pad: stops all other pads on the board with a single tap

• Track chaining: automatically trigger the next pad in sequence when the current one finishes

• Board Exclusive mode: only one pad plays at a time on a board

• Global Fade Out: smoothly fade every playing pad to silence with one tap, with per pad or universal fade time

MIDI AND HARDWARE CONTROL

• Full MIDI input support for hardware controllers and keyboards via USB-C or Bluetooth

• Per pad MIDI note assignment (0 to 127) with one tap MIDI Learn

• Auto Map entire boards to sequential MIDI notes starting from any octave (C0 through C5)

• Velocity sensitive playback that scales pad volume dynamically

• Pair with affordable MIDI pad controllers (Akai LPD8, Korg nanoPAD, Worlde Easypad) for tactile control

IMPORT FROM ANYWHERE

• Import audio files from the Files app, including iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive, and any connected cloud storage

• Record sounds with the built in microphone recorder

• Bulk import with preview, per file playback, and custom file naming before import

• Drag and drop audio files directly onto boards (iPad)

• Export and share entire boards as portable .soundboard bundles, or share individual pad audio files

ONE LITPADS, EVERY APPLE DEVICE

LitPads is one app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac — free to download on every platform from the App Store. Use iPhone or iPad for live performance, in-person podcasting, mobile content creation, on-stage DJing, and theater cues. Open it on Mac for full pro streaming workflows: route soundboard audio to OBS, Twitch, YouTube Live, Discord, and Zoom via virtual audio drivers like LitLink (our companion driver) or BlackHole.

FREE TO START, PRO TO UNLOCK

The free version includes 20 pads across 6 boards with full access to volume, pan, fade, trimming, all play modes, solo mode, board exclusive mode, recording, and all seven skins. Upgrade to LitPads Pro with a single one time purchase to unlock unlimited pads and boards, EQ, pitch shifting, MIDI support, audio ducking, track chaining, and more.

Buy Pro once on any of your Apple devices — iPhone, iPad, or Mac — and your Pro features unlock on every other device automatically when you sign in with the same Apple Account. Just install LitPads (free) on each device you want to use it on. No subscriptions. No ads. No re-buying. Just great sound.