If you’ve already purchased GarageBand for iOS, you get this content free of charge. For that additional $5 you gain the Guitar Amp, Smart Keyboard, Smart Bass, Smart Strings, Smart Drums, Sampler, and 157 preset sounds. Specifically, with the free version you get three instruments-Keyboard, Drums, and Smart Guitar with eight preset sounds-as well as the Audio Recorder instrument.
Like GarageBand 10.0 for the Mac, GarageBand 2.0 for iOS devices (iOS 7 required) is free, with the option to add more features via a $5 in-app purchase. And that’s hardly a terrible thing: GarageBand 1.0 was great and version 2.0 piles a few additional features atop that greatness. Although it has been improved, it hasn’t changed nearly as radically as its computer-bound sibling has. The same cannot be said for the latest iOS version of GarageBand, which operates almost exactly as the original iteration did. If you’ve read our review of GarageBand 10.0 for the Mac OS (and really, you should) you know that Apple brought a lot of changes to the Mac version of this venerable music-making application.
