Well, I am very much your typical hobbyist synth nerd with far too little time to spend doing music what with working and looking after the kids, but I would say that the 8bit Warps is almost the perfect device for me. Pick up and play personified. Almost everything sounds good, but I lean towards a more ambient kind of vibe. Love having a mini speaker on a device, even although I mainly use headphones. Battery powered is handy. I’m so impressed I’m selling my Microfreak and picking up an XFM.
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Given how my days usually go, it’s not something I use so much anymore because I’d prefer to read or something not screen-related before bed, but when I do have an idea I want to get out, I reach for the Nanoloop iOS app.
It actually inspired me to get an Octatrack as my first Electron device, and I think the two sequencers are actually quite similar. The only thing I wish Nanoloop did that it doesn’t currently is have independent clock division per track.
Otherwise it’s great for coming up with little patterns or ideas or just playing around. It’s quick, has enough variation in sounds between the synths and sample player, and the sequencer has a lot of great tricks. Still one of my favorites after many years.
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What’s the battery life of it?
I’ve had c. 3 hours so far (AAs), but also have a USB power adaptor thing which I use most of the time.
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I want this. Maybe @Airyck could build it for me.
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I need one too. I’ll just build 2 of them 
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Nanoloop is the best ! I’ve never felt so at ease with an app on my phone. I’ve always thought the other great apps we all know about were more made for tablets than for phones (even drambo or koala), because they are always tiny on phones.
I even think nanoloop is better on phone rather than on a dedicated hardware like analog pocket.
And Nanoloop is very similar to the Elektron workflow.
2024 update: any combinations of Circuit Tracks & iPad.