Comparison

ePipes Drones vs skippodisk

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

skippodisk

This music app simulates the sound of a compact disc skipping and glitching. It offers a 2D slider for controlling delay time and feedback, with options for automatic skipping and silence dropouts to create unique audio effects.

Highlights
  • Simulates CD skipping and glitching
  • 2D slider for delay time and feedback
  • Automatic CD skipping
  • Silence dropout effect
  • Comb filtering effect
  • Bypass and volume controls
Features
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skippodisk is a free AUv3 plugin and standalone app. It features algorithm that imitates compact disc reading errors and adds feedback for some comb filtering. controls: * main control is a 2-dimensional slider that changes delay time / buffer size using value on X axis and feedback (positive and negative, -0.997 to 0.997) on Y axis. This control adds some creative comb-like effect. * algorithm settings: 
[ auto ] enables automatic cd skipping. 
[ dropout ] enables adding silence. Use both [auto] and [dropout] with zero feedback value (in the centre of touch control) to achieve the effect of a CD audio glitch * [ bypass ] control and volume control. This slider is in low value state by default.

Screenshots

ePipes Drones2 screens
skippodisk4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: skippodisk at 4.9 against ePipes Drones's 2.0. skippodisk also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 4 months) and review sentiment (80% vs 63%). ePipes Drones's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, 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

skippodisk holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 11 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of ePipes Drones's written reviews are positive against 80% of skippodisk's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ePipes Drones ships an update every 4 months, skippodisk every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
ePipes Drones versus skippodisk: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterePipes Dronesskippodisk
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.0 (4 ratings)4.9 (11 ratings) — better
Positive reviews62.5% of reviews80.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings411 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS10.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMichael EskinAlexey Nadzharov

Customer experience

ePipes Drones

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

skippodisk

All ratings11 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

ePipes Drones

No in-app purchases

None

skippodisk

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ePipes Drones free?
ePipes Drones is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is skippodisk free?
skippodisk is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ePipes Drones or skippodisk?
skippodisk is rated higher. ePipes Drones averages 2.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while skippodisk averages 4.9 from 11 ratings.
Do ePipes Drones or skippodisk have ads?
Neither ePipes Drones nor skippodisk shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ePipes Drones or skippodisk?
ePipes Drones ships an update every 4 months, and skippodisk every 2 weeks. Most recently, ePipes Drones was updated on October 21, 2026 and skippodisk on October 2, 2026.

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