Comparison

Tone Gen Pro vs Pips!

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Tone Gen Pro

Create various audio signals, including single tones, sweeps, and merged sounds, with extensive parameter control. Ideal for students, musicians, educators, and audio professionals exploring sound.

Highlights
  • Generate single type signals (sine, square, noise)
  • Create sweep (chirp) signals (linear/exponential)
  • Generate click signals with adjustable duty cycle
  • Merge multiple tones and sweeps
  • Frequencies up to 20 kHz
  • Extensive parameter control
Features
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Generate audio signal of different shapes with many parameters and options. You can generate frequencies up to 20 kHz of audio signal. If you are curious student about sound after a physics class, music instruments hobbyist/professional, a teacher, or a professional in audio equipment, this app is for you ! You can generate: - Single type signal (sinusoidal, square, noise, etc) - Sweep (chirp) signal (linear or exponential) - Click: ON-OFF sine wave with any duty cycle and ON frequency - Merged sound of any number of tones or sweeps

About

Pips!

Generate custom tone sequences for time synchronization, inspired by global broadcast signals. Control frequency, duration, and volume to create unique 'pips' for personal or professional use. Includes presets from international broadcasters.

Highlights
  • Build custom pip sequences
  • Control frequency, duration, and volume
  • Use built-in presets
  • Recreate historical time signals
  • Generate new tone combinations
Features
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Pips is a tone sequence generator inspired by the alluring & mysterious Greenwich Time Signal and its countless friends broadcast around the world. Both amateur and professional pip connoisseurs have the power to recreate time signals of yore or innovate new combinations of boops that will delight the world's radio lovers and keep things in sync. Become time by becoming boop. This is your goal. Features! - Build a sequence of one or more custom pips and play them through your device. - Control the frequency, duration, and volume of your pips so people of all ages can keep their clocks on time. - Use our built in presets to kickstart your new pip-filled existence. Includes time signals used by international broadcasters like the BBC & CBC as well as time stations like NIST's WWV. Pips will give you the power to tame time by delineating it in your own personal style. Synchronize yourself, your family, your life. You control time now. Congratulations.

Screenshots

Tone Gen Pro4 screens
Pips!3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Pips! at 5.0 against Tone Gen Pro's 4.5. Tone Gen Pro's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 25 months) and ratings volume (45 vs 1). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Tone Gen Pro sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Pips! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pips! holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tone Gen Pro has 45 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tone Gen Pro ships an update every 3 months, Pips! every 25 months. The most recent releases landed on July 6, 2026 and June 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Tone Gen Pro versus Pips!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTone Gen ProPips!
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (45 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings45 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 25 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB3 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperIbrahim Al-SammarraieJason Thompson

Customer experience

Tone Gen Pro

All ratings45 ratings
Positive84.4%
Neutral6.7%
Negative8.9%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

Pips!

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Tone Gen Pro

One-time1
  • Tone Gen Pro Full$1.99
1 purchases

Pips!

One-time1
  • Tip Jar$4.99

Questions

Is Tone Gen Pro free?
Tone Gen Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pips! free?
Pips! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Tone Gen Pro or Pips!?
Pips! is rated higher. Tone Gen Pro averages 4.5 out of 5 from 45 ratings, while Pips! averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Tone Gen Pro or Pips! have ads?
Neither Tone Gen Pro nor Pips! shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tone Gen Pro or Pips!?
Tone Gen Pro ships an update every 3 months, and Pips! every 25 months. Most recently, Tone Gen Pro was updated on July 6, 2026 and Pips! on June 8, 2026.

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