# Digital Pan — user reviews > 130 indexed App Store user reviews of Digital Pan by Digital Business Limited, rated 4.30/5 from 195 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/digital-pan/id453125793/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/digital-pan/id453125793.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 129 · 4★ 30 · 3★ 17 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 17 ## What do users think of Digital Pan? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Worthy Investment - 👍 Great for Practice - 👍 Fantastic App - 👍 Realistic Sounding Pan - 👍 Helpful for Beginners - 👍 Allows Arranging and Practicing **Cons** - 🐛 No Sound - 🐛 Glitchy/Unstable - 🐛 Recording Issues - 🐛 Sensitivity/Latency Problems - 🐛 Incorrect Note Mapping **Commonly reported bugs** - Crashes when accessing Help screen - Inconsistent note playback - Compatibility issues on older devices **Most requested features** - Allow Mirroring/Rearranging of Pans - Add More Pan Layouts - Implement MIDI Support - Add Tutorials and Sheet Music - Improve Recording Functionality ## Newest reviews (10 of 130) ### 3/5 — Pretty good *2025-08-15, version 503000* Overall, it’s pretty good, but you can only rotate and move the drums. I wish you could also mirror them. Our band’s drums on the 6 bass are mirrored and so I can’t practice some songs very well. ### 3/5 — Side Bar Placement *2024-11-27, version 503000* Please MOVE the side bar of options to the TOP of the screen. My wrist, during practice, invariably touches the bottom of the screen (the 3-bar icon), which takes me out of the practice session and back to the main screen, thereby having to restart. Having to restart the session is incredibly frustrating. Please relocate. ### 3/5 — Sometime-y *2024-10-31, version 503000* I am just learning pan and i thought this would be useful. I find myself more frustrated than educated. Unfortunately I have to close the app and open it to try and get sound to come out of the digital pan. I’m not sure if I’m missing a button or if it’s my phone or if it’s the app. I really want to love it, but there are a couple of challenges. To the developers if there is something that I’m missing, please let me know. ### 4/5 — Great app *2022-11-18, version 503000* Overall a very great app. Very handy and very much worth it. Sometimes when I open it though it doesn’t play music when I tap so I’ll have to reopen it. ### 5/5 — Outstanding way to practice *2022-08-01, version 503000* I looked through all of the online resources to help me learn the steel pan without actually taking my pan with me. Then I came across this app and was extremely pleased. I was able to master several songs and apply them to real life. Awesome app! ### 4/5 — Great for practice *2022-06-08, version 503000* Loads of common pan layouts (being able to move and rotate pans is great), no latency. My only complaint is that the sounds are not very high quality sometimes, especially with the bass pan, but they actually bothered to sample each note which is not true for many other apps. ### 4/5 — Good app *2022-05-15, version 503000* Basic app for a iPad. Lots of fun. Ok sounds. Useful for parking around with. ### 5/5 — Love It! *2022-04-08, version 503000* When I can’t be on my pan, this is a great substitute. ### 5/5 — Love it *2021-08-20, version 503000* Love it ### 4/5 — No sound on iPad *2021-05-25* Hi. I’m so glad that this app is back! This is the best steel pan app! I’m using an iPad Air 4th generation with iOS 14.4.2, but the sound won’t come out. While I’m using other app like metronome or piano, I can hear the sound but not from this app. I’m also using an app called Gold Steel Pan by Napeinc, and 3D Steel Pan by appbadger but those are the same. I won’t hear any sound. Only the steel pan apps... On my iPhone, all apps are working. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — No Sound *2026-01-24* I paid for this app and the first few times I opened it, there was no sound when I play the instruments. It also gets stuck on the help page if I do tap on the ? Once I get to that page the only way for me to get back to the main page is to close the app and restart it. I got sound from the instrument once and when I opened it later there was no sound. This was a waste of money. ### 1/5 — No Sound *2025-08-12, version 503000* I want to ask for a refund. I purchase the app, but there’s no sound when playing pan. Very frustrating. ### 1/5 — Sound would not play *2025-06-28, version 503000* Was going great then the sound stopped working. ### 1/5 — Don’t buy *2025-01-12, version 503000* Very expensive for a poor quality app ### 1/5 — Does not work *2024-07-31, version 503000* The keys don’t produce any sound. Downloaded it years ago, it was mediocre at best then. Now it’s 1 star maximum ### 1/5 — Sound not working *2024-06-16, version 503000* I’ve tried this app on my iPad and my iPhone and there is no sound on either of them. Can anybody tell me how they fix this issue? For now it’s a one star review but this looks like a great app. Shame ### 1/5 — Needs Improvement *2023-03-08, version 503000* This is close to being worth the money. I don’t have the patience. When I go to the help screen, I can’t get out. I need to rearrange the 6 bass drums to match how they are set up in our band. It took me a while to figure out how, but I managed to set them up. I thought when I clicked the lock, it would save my set up the way I liked it. No. The lock is temporary. Apparently I have to reconfigure the drums every time I use them. No, thanks. ### 1/5 — Trash *2022-07-09, version 503000* First of all when I load in the game there forcing me to write a review and if I press No Thanks it’s going to keep asking me. And the pans some don’t even sound real like the bass and seconds. ### 1/5 — No sound *2022-05-13, version 503000* I downloaded this to help me practice and both on my iPad and on my phone there is no sound! Pointless ### 1/5 — No sound *2021-06-26, version 503000* Thought I would try out the app but its not very intuitive. After choosing an instrument, when I tap the screen, there is no sound and no obvious way to turn it on. Have increased the volume on my iPad but it doesn't make a difference. Toggle notes on and off just shows you what the notes are. The help button just shows you a picture of what the buttons do but no explanations. Very disappointing ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — digitalpan *2026-06-07, version 503000* This digital SteelPan App is actually the best that i’ve seen heard and also played! It’s very imperative that i thank you guys create this. ### 5/5 — Worthy Investment *2026-02-08, version 503000* Not only does this app help beginners get to know their pan while away from the panyard but it also allows other players and arrangers to work out melodies and accompaniments on all the pans of the orchestra/band. Another lovely feature is the history of each type of pan and who invented each (tenor/cello/guitar/etc). A truly educational & revolutionary app that every dedicated pannist must own! ### 5/5 — Great app *2024-12-27, version 503000* Great app ### 5/5 — Best SteelPan App ever! *2024-07-11, version 503000* I really do love this App…it’s actually the best/phenomenal ❤️🫶🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 ### 5/5 — Great app *2024-07-02, version 503000* It’s helped me to learn my bass parts. I can even move the pans around to match the same arrangement as the ones in my pan yard! ### 5/5 — I can practice a part anywhere! *2023-04-05, version 503000* And I can learn the entire Steelpan family of instruments! ### 5/5 — Digital Pan *2023-03-30, version 503000* Three words - Love. This. App! ### 5/5 — Great app BUT *2023-02-28, version 503000* The recording option plays back really wrong, and I agree with the review above hold to roll would be great! ### 5/5 — Good *2023-02-03, version 503000* Better than any other app on the App Store ### 5/5 — Change Fro The worse. *2022-10-20, version 503000* This app used to be perfect, since the "update" something went wrong. The notes on the drums will now mute out before reaching maximum decay. This really stinks. The velocity is now very unstable. This is a true nightmare. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-07.*