Comparison

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.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Authentic drone sounds
  • Tunable pitch and tuning
  • Adjustable volume and reverb
  • Multiple pipe types (Highland, Border, Smallpipes)
  • MIDI chanter testing
  • Settings saved on exit
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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 .

Screenshots

ePipes Drones2 screens
Jeux d'orgues Mini2 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ePipes Drones ships an update every 4 months, Jeux d'orgues Mini every 3 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
ePipes Drones versus Jeux d'orgues Mini: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterePipes DronesJeux d'orgues Mini
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.0 (4 ratings)4.7 (41 ratings) — better
Positive reviews62.5% of reviews92.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings441 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS10.0 — better12.5.6
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB174 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMichael EskinMarkus Sigg

Customer experience

ePipes Drones

All ratings4 ratings
Positive25.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative75.0%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive62.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative25.0%

Jeux d'orgues Mini

All ratings41 ratings
Positive92.7%
Neutral2.4%
Negative4.9%
Written reviews54 reviews
Positive92.6%
Neutral5.6%
Negative1.9%

In-app purchases

None

ePipes Drones

No in-app purchases

None

Jeux d'orgues Mini

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ePipes Drones free?
ePipes Drones is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Jeux d'orgues Mini free?
Jeux d'orgues Mini is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ePipes Drones or Jeux d'orgues Mini?
Jeux d'orgues Mini is rated higher. ePipes Drones averages 2.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Jeux d'orgues Mini averages 4.7 from 41 ratings.
Do ePipes Drones or Jeux d'orgues Mini have ads?
Neither ePipes Drones nor Jeux d'orgues Mini shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ePipes Drones or Jeux d'orgues Mini?
ePipes Drones ships an update every 4 months, and Jeux d'orgues Mini every 3 months. Most recently, ePipes Drones was updated on November 1, 2026 and Jeux d'orgues Mini on November 1, 2026.

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