Xalophone vs skippodisk
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Xalophone
Create music anywhere with this digital instrument app. Customize sounds with a variety of effects and presets, or build your own. Save and instantly replay your creations, then export them in high fidelity for sharing.
- Configurable sound effects pipeline
- 21 preset instrument configurations
- Create custom sound presets
- Auto-save and instant playback
- High fidelity file export (AAC, CAF)
- Multi-touch interface
- Adjustable musical note range
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Xalophone is a digital musical instrument that's easy to play while doing other activities. It features a configurable sound effects pipeline for customizing its sound to your mood and situation. 21 preset configurations mimic natural and synthetic instruments, but that's only the beginning: you can edit these presets or create new ones to generate a wide variety of sound styles. Auto-save and instant playback allows you to replay any tune you create with Xalophone. Plus high fidelity file export for easily sharing your music with friends and colleagues. Features: • Full-screen interface that is easy to learn and use. • Multi-touch: play and modulate up to five notes simultaneously. • Configurable sound effects: • Distortion (linear, square, cubic) • Ring Modulation • Decimation • Tremelo • Flanger • Delay • Zita Reverb • Chown Reverb • Costello Reverb • Adjustable musical note range, from a half octave up to 8 octaves. • Divide octaves into 1 to 12 intervals: 12 corresponds to the classic western musical scales, like on a piano; others offer different relationships between notes • Auto-save and Playback: Every note played on Xalophone is saved (in a super-efficient format, a hundredth the size of an mp3), so you can playback any tune you make. This recording stays on your device and is never shared, unless you choose to. • Export to AAC .m4a format for sharing with friends or playback on other devices • Export to high fidelity .CAF format for import into digital audio workstations or other audio processing pipelines • Share your exported tracks with friends by text message, email, social media, and other file sharing applications, even if they don't have Xalophone installed Watch a video to see how it works, or download it for free to see & hear for yourself. Headphones, EarPods or AirPods are recommended for an immersive experience. 3 minute video guide: https://youtu.be/w8-wNFnLfzo Works on iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S Plus, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone 11, iPhone 12 and iPhone 13
skippodisk
This music app simulates the sound of a compact disc skipping and glitching. It offers a 2D slider for controlling delay time and feedback, with options for automatic skipping and silence dropouts to create unique audio effects.
- Simulates CD skipping and glitching
- 2D slider for delay time and feedback
- Automatic CD skipping
- Silence dropout effect
- Comb filtering effect
- Bypass and volume controls
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skippodisk is a free AUv3 plugin and standalone app. It features algorithm that imitates compact disc reading errors and adds feedback for some comb filtering. controls: * main control is a 2-dimensional slider that changes delay time / buffer size using value on X axis and feedback (positive and negative, -0.997 to 0.997) on Y axis. This control adds some creative comb-like effect. * algorithm settings: [ auto ] enables automatic cd skipping. [ dropout ] enables adding silence. Use both [auto] and [dropout] with zero feedback value (in the centre of touch control) to achieve the effect of a CD audio glitch * [ bypass ] control and volume control. This slider is in low value state by default.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: skippodisk at 4.9 against Xalophone's 4.0. skippodisk also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (11 vs 1). Xalophone's advantage is iOS requirement (11.1 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
skippodisk holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: skippodisk has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Xalophone ships an update every 2 months, skippodisk every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Xalophone | skippodisk |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 4.9 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 80.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 11 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.1 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Xalnaut Inc. | Alexey Nadzharov |
Customer experience
Xalophone
skippodisk
In-app purchases
Xalophone
No in-app purchases
skippodisk
No in-app purchases









