Eternal Flow Drone vs Drone Meditations
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Eternal Flow Drone
This app generates endless ambient drone music directly on your device, creating unique "mixes" that evolve every few minutes. It functions offline and offers features to customize the soundscape, record generated music, and mute specific instruments.
- Endless generative drone music
- Offline playback
- Automatic track changes
- Sound customization
- Music recording
- Instrument muting
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If you like drone ambient music, you can turn your phone into endless drone "mix" or "live" generator. Just turn it on, press Start and listen as a usual player, but music will never end. Main theme or "track" will change on every 3-4 minutes automatically. All music is created right on your phone, no streams and samples, so it can work offline without internet connection. To switch to next track tap Reset button. To enable full spectre of possible sounds, tap Go Dark button. To record/stop recording created music tap R icon (recorded WAV files path is Files/EFDrone). Also it has "mute" feature - tap on gear icon and you can mute chosen instruments and use app as a drone or chords generator, for example.
Drone Meditations
This app offers a sophisticated drone synthesizer for creating ambient music, sound healing, and meditative soundscapes. It features four oscillators per patch, extensive modulation options, and multiple tuning systems, providing a deep and authentic instrument for drone music enthusiasts.
- Four oscillators per patch with multiple waveform options
- Per-voice filter, drive, FM, chorus, delay, and reverb effects
- Twenty multi-target LFOs with tempo-locked rates
- Per-voice timing envelopes for dynamic sound shaping
- Six distinct tuning systems
- Over 110 presets and 48 artist tributes
- Live cymatics visualization with pinch-to-zoom
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A deep four-oscillator drone synthesizer for meditation, sound healing, and ambient composition. Inspired by Pauline Oliveros, Éliane Radigue, Stars of the Lid, William Basinski, and the long-form drone tradition. Real synthesis, real tuning systems, real cymatics — designed for listeners who want to go deep. Most "drone apps" give you a few sliders and call it ambient. Drone Meditations gives you a real instrument. SOUNDS YOU CAN SIT WITH FOR HOURS • Four oscillators per patch — sine, triangle, sawtooth, square, white / pink noise, granular pink, or loaded sample • Per-voice filter (LP / HP / BP), drive, cross-osc FM, stereo chorus, three-mode delay with musical timing, stereo Schroeder reverb • Twenty multi-target LFOs per patch (five per voice). LFOs 1–4 hit amp / pan / cutoff / Q / pitch / FM / FX-Mix; LFO 5 has its own row of granular + FX targets (grain, delay, reverb). Each LFO's rate can lock to a musical subdivision of the tempo. • Per-voice timing envelopes — fade in over minutes, fade out later, repeat N times or forever. Rotate harmonically across 20 minutes without touching a slider. • Six tuning systems: 12-TET, just intonation, Pythagorean, Lou Harrison Free JI, Wendy Carlos α/β/γ, Harry Partch 43-tone DESIGNED FOR THE DRONE TRADITION • 110+ presets across Drone Artists, Developer Patches, Solfeggio, Natural Resonance, Cymatics, Mystic & Composers, and Binaural categories — plus an INIT preset pinned at the top • 48 Drone Artists tributes — Oliveros, Riley, Radigue, Stars of the Lid, Sunn O))), Basinski, Niblock, Palestine, Budd, Coltrane, and more — capturing each artist's waveforms, FX, and tuning, not just their pitches • 21 Developer Patches showcasing granular sampling, BPM-locked grain density, FX-Mix LFO swells, and the JG hybrid pad/groove series • Modal chord category — the 7 diatonic modes plus Harmonic and Melodic Minor — with quantize-to-scale so pitch-modulated voices arpeggiate across all 7 mode degrees • Auto-morph between any two presets over 30 s to 60 min • 25 scripted meditation journeys (Deep Listening, Heavy Resonance, Minimalist Arc, and 22 more) • Tune to Room — global LISTEN snaps the chord root to a pitch from the mic; per-strip ear icon snaps just one voice LIVE CYMATICS THAT BREATHE WITH THE AUDIO • Physically-calibrated Chladni patterns fit from real plate- vibration footage. The renderer crossfades between two adjacent eigenmodes bracketing each voice's live frequency — vibrato breathes between physical modes, not styled animation. • Pinch to zoom; tap to enter fullscreen Performance mode with a drifting sand-particle simulation along the nodal lines • Cymatic snapshot gallery + spectrum-analyzer alternative GRANULAR + TEMPO • Granular waveform: pink noise chopped into Hann-windowed grains with size, density, jitter, stereo spread, per-voice overlap • Granular sampling: same scheduler on any loaded sample — freeze a bansuri forever, smear a chord into a tape-decay cloud • BPM-quantized density (½ → 1/32T) locks grain spacing to the global tempo. Per-LFO rate sync extends musical subdivisions to LFO speed. Metronome click toggle for an audible reference. RECORD, SHARE, AND COMPOSE • Mastered session recording: 24-bit WAV + AAC M4A sidecar with loudness normalization, automatic fades, embedded metadata • Per-voice mic record captures into a voice's sample slot — normalized, granular-ready, with the current frequency as the sample's reference pitch • 50+ bundled samples: bansuri, organ, piano, storm, tide, forest, urban, cosmic • Cross-device preset sharing via .dronepreset files — AirDrop a patch between web, iPhone, and iPad, samples embedded inline. iCloud auto-syncs samples-free presets across devices. One-time purchase. No subscription, no accounts, no tracking. Free web version: dronemeditations.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Eternal Flow Drone at $4.99 against Drone Meditations's $14.99. Eternal Flow Drone also leads on ratings volume (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (10.2 vs 17.0). Drone Meditations's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months). On rating, 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
Eternal Flow Drone costs $4.99 and Drone Meditations $14.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Eternal Flow Drone against 5.0 for Drone Meditations. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.
Eternal Flow Drone ships an update every 5 months, Drone Meditations every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Eternal Flow Drone | Drone Meditations |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 — better | $14.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 10.2 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 131 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Petr Serkin | JOSE ANTONIO GUDE |
In-app purchases
Eternal Flow Drone
No in-app purchases
Drone Meditations
No in-app purchases
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