iDousyn vs DroneSynth
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iDousyn
This app transforms your device into a professional music production tool. It features a sample-based synthesizer with dual-layer sampling, advanced filters, and a professional effects chain. Create immersive sounds and build captivating tracks with an intuitive interface and extensive sound library.
- Dual-layer sampling
- Advanced filters and EQ
- Professional effects chain
- Creative chord pads
- MIDI mastery
- Expansive sound library
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iDousyn transforms your iPhone and iPad into a premium sampler, synthesizer, and AUv3 plugin built for professional music production, beat making, and sound design. Powered by a massive dual-layer rompler engine, it delivers a touch-optimized workflow to create studio-quality music anywhere. Seamlessly integrating as a high-performance AUv3 Audio Unit, iDousyn is the perfect companion for Logic Pro for iPad, GarageBand, Cubasis, AUM, Loopy Pro, and other leading iOS DAWs. Whether you are producing EDM, making hip hop beats, scoring cinematic soundtracks, or designing ambient soundscapes, iDousyn gives you the ultimate sonic palette. Chord Sequencer & Harmony Engine • Ultimate Inspiration: Instantly browse, audition, and map over 432 chord variations and 100 global musical scales directly to your pads—no advanced music theory required. • Timeline Sequencer: Drag and drop your custom chords into the new visual timeline. Program rests, set loop lengths, and let the zero-latency lookahead scheduler play your progressions with perfect tempo synchronization. • Dynamic Performance: 10 customizable Chord Pads featuring intelligent strumming, dual MIDI keyboards, and assignable key ranges with real-time Neon Glow visual feedback. Dual-Layer Synthesis & DSP Effects • True Dual-Layer Rompler: Stack and blend two independent sample oscillators. Fine-tune with octave, semitone, cents, pan, and level controls for massive, evolving textures. • Studio-Grade FX Chain: Shape your tone with multi-mode filters, a parametric EQ, and fully automatable AUv3 effects including Reverb, Delay, Chorus, Flanger, Phaser, Compressor, and Limiter. Massive Sound Library & iCloud Sync • 1,100+ Premium Samples: An expansive built-in soundbank featuring heavy basses, lush synth pads, sharp leads, drum kits, acoustic guitars, and orchestral strings. • Smart Presets: Create unlimited custom patches. Your library is safely backed up with automatic, silent background iCloud Drive synchronization across all your Apple devices. Pro Recording & Export • Lossless Audio & MIDI: Record your live sessions directly within the app and export high-fidelity FLAC, WAV, AIFF, CAF, or M4A audio files, as well as full MIDI sequences. • AudioShare Integration: Instantly route your bounces to your favorite audio editors. • Background Audio: Keep your sequences running and your MIDI controllers active even while switching between apps. Designed for modern producers, beat makers, live performers, and synth enthusiasts, iDousyn brings desktop-class virtual instruments right to your fingertips.
DroneSynth
Create ambient textures, evolving pads, and hypnotic soundscapes with an analog-style drone synthesizer. Shape your sound with multiple oscillators, envelopes, LFOs, and built-in effects like delay and reverb. Offers hands-on control without complex menus.
- Three independent oscillators
- ADSR envelope and LFO modulation
- Stereo-capable Moog Ladder filter
- Tempo-syncable delay and reverb
- Drone/sustain mode for hands-free use
- On-screen keyboard with adjustable range
- Save and recall unlimited presets
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As both a musician and a software engineer, I've always found drones incredibly useful for my musical creativity, supporting my practice with singing, flute, didgeridoo, and other instruments like synthesiser and guitar. That passion for music and technology led me to bring DroneSynth to iOS, built from the ground up for the Apple ecosystem. Including AU support for supported DAWs DroneSynth turns your iPhone and iPad or Mac into a hands-on, analog-style drone synthesiser built for ambient textures, evolving pads, and hypnotic soundscapes — no menus to dig through, knobs you can hear. It now includes AU Support on all platforms. Layer three independent oscillators — sine, triangle, square, saw, and pink noise — each with its own volume, octave, semitone, and fine-tune. Shape the blend with a full ADSR envelope and two independent LFOs modulating filter cutoff and pitch, each with sine, triangle, or random shapes and drift. STEREO-CAPABLE MOOG LADDER FILTER Sculpt your tone with a classic Moog Ladder filter, featuring live cutoff and resonance. Upgrade to true stereo filtering — two independently detuned filters panned hard left and right — for a wider, richer, more three-dimensional drone. BUILT-IN EFFECTS • Tempo-syncable delay with tap-tempo and ping-pong stereo bouncing • Lush reverb across four distinct spaces — Room, Hall, Plate, and Cathedral — each with its own size, pre-delay, and decay character PERFORMANCE-READY • Drone/sustain mode for endless, hands-free evolving tones • On-screen keyboard with adjustable octave and range • Save and recall unlimited presets, so your favourite patches are always one tap away • Adaptive layout — a focused portrait view and a full landscape control surface with a persistent sidebar, so every parameter stays reachable Whether you're scoring a film, building a meditation soundscape, or want a synth that rewards knob-twisting over menu-diving, DroneSynth gives you real-time control over every stage of the signal path. Stereo Filters is available as an optional one-time in-app purchase.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: DroneSynth at Free against iDousyn's $5.99. DroneSynth also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.2) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months). iDousyn's advantage is ratings volume (161 vs 1). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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
DroneSynth is free to download; iDousyn costs $5.99 up front. iDousyn sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and DroneSynth sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
DroneSynth holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iDousyn has 161 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
iDousyn ships an update every 2 months, DroneSynth every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.
| Parameter | iDousyn | DroneSynth |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.2 (161 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 34.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 161 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1.2 GB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jorge Lozada | frederick bertram |
Customer experience
iDousyn
DroneSynth
Bugs and requests
iDousyn
Reported bugs
15 issues- App crashes immediately
- Full version displays full-page ads
- Ads appear on the front page
- New update has ads
- Implemented trackers
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- iDousyn Lite works, this one does not
- App does not open
- MIDI input timing issues
- Sound crash sometimes
- Long delay between external MIDI and sound
- Sluggish keyboard
- Sluggish interface
- Glide is always on
- Scrolling menu is hard to use
- Sliders on scrolling menu
Requested features
10 requests- Adaptive Crasher (AUV3, Adaptive Cubasis and Zenbeats)
- AUV3 support
- Audiobus compatibility
- MIDI IN for better keyboard control
- Background audio option
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- Reset button
- Fix sound crash
- Improve interface contrast
- Make panel brighter
- Allow turning off glide
DroneSynth
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
iDousyn
- Unlock ProFree
DroneSynth
- Stereo Filters$0.99
- Motion Controller$4.99









