Droneo vs TATAT
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Droneo
Create rich, evolving drone textures with precise intonations. This synthesizer is ideal for meditation, relaxation, or experimental music creation, offering a wide range of timbres from calming to discordant.
- Polyphonic drone textures
- Precise intonations
- Customizable timbres
- Evolving soundscapes
- Audiobus and IAA support
- User-controlled intervals
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Droneo will bathe your ears with rich polyphonic textures! Droneo is a synthesizer which drones with various timbres and precise intonations that blur the distinction between tones, timbres and chords. Its drone is great for meditation, centering, and calming, walking and biking, but also can be set up for discordant noise and insect-like buzzing and chirping. With Droneo, you can create surprisingly rich, motion filled drones which change over time in a controlled way. Quietly nested in your earbuds or blasted though your stack of amps, Droneo fills your droning needs! Droneo is a relative of one of my other iPhone Apps, SrutiBox. Droneo works with Audiobus and IAA to expand its droning capabilities. —————————————————————————————— Best app I have! "Absolutely love this beautiful app that I use every day. Fantastic concept. Ingeniously implemented. Worth buying an iPhone for!!" -- Petey Pete UK ''Brilliant ! Haunting & beautiful. Inspiring to use in creative music projects for recording or even live performance. The aching, melancholy voice drones are a perfect, gentle way to relax, meditate, induce calm & even aid sleep. Henry you have put something wonderful into the world here, not only an engrossing fun app. Any musicians lucky enough to discover Droneo will find it as cool as I do. Could be used on a daily basis by those practicing relaxation techniques & is a steal at the price!" -- JC / ENGLAND' "Composers delight" This is a truly beautiful little app, and should not be missed by any musicians or dabblers into minimalist or drone based composition. It produces a wide variety of mesmerising drone based tones, all customisable by the user. I have been exporting the audio straight into Logic via a midi keyboard and the results are fantastic. The creative possibilities presented by the iPhone continue to astound me! I highly recommend this app. -- Australian App Store comment Droneo is great whether you use it recreationally to relax or meditate, as a utility either to help tune, educationally to better understand harmonic interaction, or creatively with other music equipment. With a little creativity and effects :) you can use it with almost any type of music. For me, it's had a lasting appeal way beyond most other apps in this price range.[...] Recommended. -- J onah, US Store The most forward thinking music app I have seen. This app allows me to deal with ratios in sound. Most other music apps are limited to equal temperament. Thank you Mr. Lowengard for taking a step forward in musical thinking, and giving us the chance to experience music in a new way via your app, Droneo! -- by mike uhler Wonderful software. With the evolving voices it's as though I'm being accompanied by a living breathing entity - at the same time combined with precise control over what's played: the tuning, the notes and harmonics. -- materialworlds The settings for all the intervals can be visualized and manipulated using a special "Tone Spiral" interface. Droneo is also an excellent way to play with the way chords fuse into timbres. You can get a feel for how certain timbres fit "naturally" in certain frequency ranges, and how tunings and timbres and chords intertwine. Want to know more? Go to the Droneo support page at http://www.jhhl.net/iPhone/Droneo for more information, contact info, and videos! visit my iPhone App Facebook group for starting discussions etc! http://www.jhhl.net/iPhone/fb.html And don't forget to check out my other apps!
TATAT
Generate endless, ever-changing musical sequences and sketch new song ideas quickly. This app allows you to define moods and parameters to create unique note streams, which can then be recorded, tweaked, and played along with.
- Infinite note sequence generation
- Mood and parameter customization
- Real-time stream intervention
- MIDI data enrichment (Thru function)
- Melodic, harmonic, and percussive support
- Multiple time resolutions
- Velocity, delay, and length processing
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TATAT is a MIDI FX designed to create always-changing sequences, to quickly sketch music ideas, to add unexpected events to fixed patterns. If you’re looking for new ways of generating musical ideas, then look no further than TATAT! Set up your parameters, define a mood and listen to an endless flow of notes which you can then record, tweak, and play along to. HOW IT WORKS /// TATAT generates infinite and always changing sequences of notes. You cannot say exactly what TATAT will do, but you can suggest a path to it: by setting up its parameters you can create what we call a mood for TATAT. A mood is a configuration of notes, intervals, time fragmentation, velocity fluctuation, and other factors. Once you set a mood that you are happy with, you’ll listen to an infinite stream of events, always changing, all staying in the mood. At this point, according to your needs, you can: - Let TATAT play its stream, and make some intervention to control it: to add silence (Less), to obtain smooth accelerando and ritardando (Ratio), to control how TATAT generates intervals. You can enable Key In function to change notes on the fly. - Add some stability by controlling/automating the Liv/Mem slider, moving between the generated stream and frozen patterns. - Use TATAT to send its notes to enrich (by enabling Thru) existing/incoming MIDI data/parts. TATAT gives you excellent results both with melodic/harmonic and percussive parts! MULTIPLE TIME RES /// Set chance for each time resolution to rule the stream, and scale results with main ratio to create organic time fluctuations. NOTES /// Set chance for each notes to get triggered, enable the keys toggle to change the notes on the fly, giving a different color to the stream. DOUBLE HIT /// Set two intervals and the probability they got triggered, adding harmonic weight to the stream. LET’S PROCESS THE STREAM! /// You can process the generated notes with several parameters: add a velocity variation, a delay, set the length, randomize, and mute some notes. It’s easy and intuitive. FLOW VS PATTERN /// LIV/MEM parameter has a 0-100% range. When is set on 0%, a buffer with given length continuously records the stream; when it’s different than 0%, the buffer got locked, and you set the chance to get live or buffered notes. When you set 100% you always have the buffer content as a static pattern. You add the stability you want to the lunatic stream! 2 FLAVOURS: DARK AND LIGHT SKIN *** Please note: TATAT is an Audio Unit extension (AUv3) – it only works in an AUv3 host app compatible with MIDI FX like AUM, Logic Pro, Cubasis, etc... ***
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Droneo at every 4 months against TATAT's every 19 months. Droneo also leads on price ($2.99 vs $3.99) and iOS requirement (8.2 vs 10.13). TATAT's advantage is chart position (#185 vs unranked). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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
Droneo costs $2.99 and TATAT $3.99 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 — 4.7 for Droneo against 4.8 for TATAT. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 32 and 22 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 88% of Droneo's written reviews are positive against 90% of TATAT's.
Droneo ships an update every 4 months, TATAT every 19 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Droneo | TATAT |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (32 ratings) | 4.8 (22 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.2% of reviews | 90.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 32 — better | 22 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 19 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #185 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.2 — better | 10.13 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Henry Lowengard | K-Devices |
Customer experience
Droneo
TATAT
Bugs and requests
Droneo
Reported bugs
12 issues- Distorted sound output
- App crashes
- Cannot access or export recordings
- Refuses to close and drains battery
- Battery drain even after swiping to dismiss
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- Full restart required to stop battery drain
- Crashes on iPhone 6s, iPad Air, iPad Pro (iOS 10.2.1)
- Crashes after 20 seconds on title page
- Outdated, will not work in AudioBus 2.1
- Crashes a lot when putting in custom ratios
- Popping/clicking with 'evolving 1' timbre
- Cannot find email address for developer
Requested features
23 requests- iPad or Mac version
- More chords and consecutive partials/pitches
- AUv3 capable new version
- Modulate tones on spiral interface automatically
- More modulation methods
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- iPad version
- AUv3 support
- iPad interface
- iPad version with larger control interface
- Accelerometer controls
- Two more drone sounds
- Tilt to alter sound with accelerometer
- Dark mode option
- On-off toggle
- Individual osc shape changes
- Ability to change individual osc shapes
- More advanced modulation options
- Recording function
- Accelerometer controls
- More drone sounds
- Tilt control
- More comprehensive help information
- Remove bee icon and theme
TATAT
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Droneo
No in-app purchases
TATAT
No in-app purchases









