Croak

What is it?

Croak is a feature-rich soundboard app for iPad and iPhone. As someone who frequently GMs roleplaying sessions, I was disappointed by the lack of affordable soundboards for the iPad, and this motivated me to create Croak. But to be honest, I didn’t write the code, I left that to Claude Code - entirely.

So, what can you do with it? Here’s a list of features:

• Organize sounds into projects and boards, customize their grid size and appearance
• Import audio from files or from your Music library
• Adapt volume, panning, looping, fades, playback rate and random silence intervals per button.
• Trim clips with start and stop marks, without touching the source file.
• Let one button control others: stop, pause, resume or fade whole groups, selected by tag.
• Style buttons with colors, background images or cover art taken from the audio source.
• Export and import boards and projects as archives, to back them up or move them to another device.

Not only is Croak available completely free of cost - everything runs on the device, you don’t need an account, there are no ads, no tracking, and nothing hidden behind a payment. If Croak is useful to you, I’d be delighted if you left me tip, there’s a tip jar in the app for that purpose.

Credits

Thanks to Barti, Marcus Jürgens and SteveD for testing Croak, for their ideas, and for the patience to keep looking at it.

Croak uses two open-source libraries:

• Yams for reading and writing the YAML manifests inside export archives, and
• ZIPFoundation for packing and unpacking those archives.

Privacy

Croak collects no data — no account, no analytics, no tracking, no network access at all. The details are in the Croak privacy policy.

Contact

If you have a question about Croak, write to [email protected].

The postal address and the responsible person under German law are listed in the imprint.