Comparison

DroneLab vs Stellarvox

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

Head to head
About

DroneLab

Generate evolving ambient music with three parallel audio sources and unique sound effects. Save and export your creations for use in music or video projects, or use it for improvisation and practice.

Highlights
  • Three parallel continuous audio sources
  • Custom sound effects
  • Preset selection and customization
  • Stereo audio export up to 96KHz
  • Real-time recording
  • Improvisation and experimentation tool
Features
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DroneLab creates slowly shifting musical soundscapes. Control three continuous audio sources running in parallel, each with its own rate of shifting intensity. Expand the soundscape with unusual sound effects crafted specifically for DroneLab. Get going quickly by selecting one of the included presets. Go further by selecting and customizing the sound sources, and save your own presets to the list. Create soundscapes for your music and video projects: - Export a stereo audio file with your current settings, at sample rates up to 96KHz. On newer devices, exports occur faster than real time. - Or, you can record in real time, capturing all the changes you make to the sounds as you go. DroneLab is great for improvisation and experimentation: - Explore the melodic side of your instrument in a fun, relaxing setting. - Warm up before practicing more difficult material. - Explore sounds and articulations that aren't part of your usual repertoire. Please visit us at dronelab.app for videos, more information and support.

About

Stellarvox

Design immersive ambient soundscapes with a hybrid reverb and artificial space designer. Create lush textures, deep spaces, and whispering backgrounds for electronic, experimental, and sound design projects. Offers intuitive controls and inspiring presets for quick, high-quality results.

Highlights
  • Hybrid reverb with artificial space designer
  • Algorithmic reflections tail processing
  • Dynamic timbre changes over time
  • Geometry and dimension control
  • Factory presets and random feature
  • MIDI learn support
  • Standalone and AUv3 module
Features
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Hybrid reverb with an artificial space designer, combining it with algorithmic reflections tail processing, is ideal to creating immersive ambience of deep spaces, lush atmospheric textures or stunning whispering backgrounds in your ambient, electronic, experimental and sound design projects. Unlike traditional algorithmic reverbs, Stellarvox constructs a complex model of a vast resonant sound spaces with choice of geometry, dimensions and tonal structure of the space, along with a unique feature that dynamically change the timbre of reflections over the reverberation time. The second algorithmic reverb allows you to prolong and blur reflections, adding extra dimensions to the sound space. Easy-to-use controls on a single screen, along with optimally designed parameters that always give great results, make insignificant the peculiarity of that kind of reverbs, when the model creates with a little delay after changing it. Factory presets and the random feature will give you a starting point of inspiration and allow you to get a quick result where you need just to slightly tweak the parameters to align with your idea. This application is great for ambient projects, it can create mesmerizing atmosphere from single infrequent sounds of various instruments, or giving a beautiful and deep backgrounds to sharp sequences in electronics, as well as for any experimental projects that require unusual, deep and rich sound ambience. Stellarvox is a universal application for iOS and macOS. It can work on iPhone and iPad as well as Mac / MacBook with M1 chip (and later). Stellarvox works on iPhone and iPad standalone, as an Audio Unit or Inter-App Audio module, with supports Audiobus host app. On MacOS, Stellarvox can works both as a standalone application and as an Audio unit (AUv3) with DAWs and other hosts that support AUv3 plugins. All application features are available on iOS and macOS, including MIDI support (with a MIDI learn option) and audio unit parameters. Stellarvox has a built-in detailed description of all parameters also available as PDF file on the application site. Sound demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEtZfvLtJy8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqCYa1tp2Qw You can find more information on Stellarvox and other audio apps at: https://motion-soundscape.blogspot.com

Screenshots

DroneLab4 screens
Stellarvox3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: DroneLab at $1.99 against Stellarvox's $11.99. Stellarvox's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.4) and review sentiment (100% vs 74%). On ratings volume, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

DroneLab costs $1.99 and Stellarvox $11.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Stellarvox holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 20 and 11 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of DroneLab's written reviews are positive against 100% of Stellarvox's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DroneLab ships an update every 4 months, Stellarvox every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
DroneLab versus Stellarvox: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDroneLabStellarvox
Price$1.99 — better$11.99
Rating4.4 (20 ratings)5.0 (11 ratings) — better
Positive reviews73.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings20 — better11
Update frequencyEvery 4 months — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJon LukasIgor Vasiliev

Customer experience

DroneLab

All ratings20 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative15.0%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive73.7%
Neutral15.8%
Negative10.5%

Stellarvox

All ratings11 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

DroneLab

No in-app purchases

None

Stellarvox

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DroneLab free?
DroneLab costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Stellarvox free?
Stellarvox costs $11.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, DroneLab or Stellarvox?
Stellarvox is rated higher. DroneLab averages 4.4 out of 5 from 20 ratings, while Stellarvox averages 5.0 from 11 ratings.
Do DroneLab or Stellarvox have ads?
Neither DroneLab nor Stellarvox shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DroneLab or Stellarvox?
DroneLab ships an update every 4 months, and Stellarvox every 5 months. Most recently, DroneLab was updated on September 21, 2026 and Stellarvox on September 7, 2026.

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