ePipes Drones vs Jeux d'orgues Mini
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ePipes Drones
This app provides tunable, authentic-sounding drones for Scottish Highland, Border, and Smallpipes. It's designed for musicians learning bagpipes, offering high-fidelity studio recordings for practice. Adjust volume, pitch, tuning, and reverb to enhance your playing experience.
- Authentic drone sounds
- Tunable pitch and tuning
- Adjustable volume and reverb
- Multiple pipe types (Highland, Border, Smallpipes)
- MIDI chanter testing
- Settings saved on exit
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ePipes Drones is a tunable, authentic sounding set of Scottish Highland, Border Pipes, and Smallpipes drones. This app is for musicians who are learning to play the Scottish bagpipes and want high-quality sets of tunable drones to play along with on their practice chanters. The sounds are provided by ePipes.co.uk in Glasgow, Scotland, from extremely high-fidelity studio recordings of three very fine instruments. Touch the ePipes logo to switch the drones on and off. Select the drone type using the drone selector. Available drone types are Great Highland, Border, and Smallpipes. Set the volume using the Drone Volume slider. The pitch may be transposed in semitone increments +/- one octave in using the Tranpose slider. Additionally, the Tuning slider may be used to fine-tune the drone +/- 50 cents in one-cent increments The Reverb slider sets how much reverb effect is added to the sound. All settings are saved when the app exits and restored the next time it is run. MIDI Chanter Test Features: Test your MIDI Chanter by setting the MIDI channels for the chanter and drones channels. Any MIDI Note-On message note numbers received on those channels will be displayed at the bottom of the screen. This value can be used to determine the MIDI offset value from 67 for the chanter in my other MIDI-enabled apps that default to the Fagerstrom Technopipes standard of the bottom note being MIDI note 67 (G3) as a zero offset.
Jeux d'orgues Mini
Play a pipe organ sample set using a MIDI keyboard and pedal connected to your iOS or macOS device. This app offers a subset of a famous pipe organ sound library for musical exploration.
- MIDI keyboard support
- MIDI pedal support
- Pipe organ sample set
- iOS and macOS compatibility
- Subset of Jeux d'orgues 2
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Use a MIDI keyboard and a MIDI pedal connected to your iOS or macOS device to play with a subset of the famous Jeux d'orgues 2 pipe organ sample set of Joseph Basquin. For more information, please consult the app support page http://polaron.de/JeuxdorgMini/ , the Napo documentation at http://polaron.de/Napo/ and in particular the Napo user manual at http://polaron.de/Napo/manual .
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Jeux d'orgues Mini at 4.7 against ePipes Drones's 2.0. Jeux d'orgues Mini also leads on review sentiment (93% vs 63%) and ratings volume (41 vs 4). ePipes Drones's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 12.5.6). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Jeux d'orgues Mini holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Jeux d'orgues Mini has 41 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of ePipes Drones's written reviews are positive against 93% of Jeux d'orgues Mini's.
ePipes Drones ships an update every 4 months, Jeux d'orgues Mini every 3 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.
| Parameter | ePipes Drones | Jeux d'orgues Mini |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (4 ratings) | 4.7 (41 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.5% of reviews | 92.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 41 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 12.5.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 174 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Eskin | Markus Sigg |
Customer experience
ePipes Drones
Jeux d'orgues Mini
In-app purchases
ePipes Drones
No in-app purchases
Jeux d'orgues Mini
No in-app purchases
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