Droneo vs NoInputMixer
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!
NoInputMixer
Explore experimental sound design by creating feedback loops with a virtual analog mixer and effects rack. Generate unique electronic textures, from unsettling soundscapes to glitchy elements, with extensive configuration options and presets.
- Virtual analog mixer modeling
- Feedback loop creation
- Extensive effects rack
- Algorithmic noise generators
- Adjustable signal path
- Hi-res/lo-fi processing options
- MIDI support
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No-Input Mixing is an experimental technique for creating a wide range of amazing, otherworldly electronic sounds by feeding the mixer output back to the input, thereby making a feedback loop. This application models an analog mixing console and effects rack in detail, providing the ability to make a huge number of feedback configurations with additional effects. By using this technique in the creative process, the sound designer can explore many different and special ways to create sound. Unsettling soundscapes perfect for sci-fi, dystopian and horror projects, like strange noises, disrupted signals, broken communication, buzzing drones, faulty machinery, futuristic tech sounds, and glitchy elements are some results of the No-Input Mixing technique. The downside of this technique, which can scare off beginners, is extreme unpredictability and instability, when the movement of any knob on the mixer can dramatically change the sound in the most unexpected way. But at the same time, this discover an endless space of experimentation and inspiration when creating new and unique sounds or live performance. In addition, a large set of ready-to-use drone and noise presets with a parameter randomizer provide a great point for quickly getting started with this application. NoInputMixer consists of a seven-channel mixer and an effects rack with eight slots. Each effect slot can be configured as an insert effect for a mixer channel or used with two send/return buses. Effects has an option for hi-res or lo-fi sound processing. Each mixer channel has its own algorithmic generator of different types of noise, which can be added to the feedback signal or used separately. The input selector switches between multiple points in the signal path to make different types of feedback loops or can be switched to an external input for any channel to use it as an effect processor. Also this application provides several additional options not found in usual mixers, such as preamp tube type and mode selection, op-amp type selection, adjustment of overload protection circuit, and other features that greatly expand the possibilities for experimenting with sound. The user interface can be presented in the form of a classic mixer, or in the form of complete control of a single channel. NoInputMixer 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). NoInputMixer works on iPhone and iPad standalone, as an Audio Unit or Inter-App Audio module, and supports Audiobus. On MacOS, NoInputMixer 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. NoInputMixer has a built-in detailed description of all parameters also available as PDF file on the application website. Quick start and demos: https://youtu.be/K7yh0-34Llw https://youtu.be/74LyfDM2dQM https://youtu.be/AeF3oBoXp80 https://youtu.be/95AM6OGoTdo You can find more information on NoInputMixer and other experimental audio processing apps at: https://motion-soundscape.blogspot.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Droneo at $2.99 against NoInputMixer's $15.99. Droneo also leads on iOS requirement (8.2 vs 13.4). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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 NoInputMixer $15.99 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 — 4.8 for Droneo against 4.8 for NoInputMixer. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 31 and 28 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 90% of Droneo's written reviews are positive against 95% of NoInputMixer's.
Droneo ships an update every 4 months, NoInputMixer every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Droneo | NoInputMixer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 — better | $15.99 |
| Rating | 4.8 (31 ratings) | 4.8 (28 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 89.6% of reviews | 95.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | 28 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.2 — better | 13.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Henry Lowengard | Igor Vasiliev |
Customer experience
Droneo
NoInputMixer
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
NoInputMixer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Droneo
No in-app purchases
NoInputMixer
No in-app purchases









