DronePlayer vs UD Tuner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DronePlayer
This app provides a practice tool for musicians to improvise over sustained tones, known as drones. It helps develop ear training and musical ideas by allowing users to mute drone voices for focused practice or add multiple drones for a richer experience.
- Improvisation practice tool
- Extended tonality practice
- Ear training development
- Muteable drone voices
- Multiple drone options
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DronePlayer is a fun, interactive practice assistant for improvising musicians. Playing over extended tonalities is a great way to develop your ears as well as your musical ideas. Long, sustained tones are generally known as drones. Drones have proven themselves quite useful for practicing. Many people use them to assist with intonation. Some enjoy playing scales over them. I personally have found them useful for practicing improvisation and improving my ears. Muting one of the drone voices is a great way to play with just a fundamental pitch. You can then improvise over this and focus on hearing how what you are playing relates. Adding a second drone voice just adds to the fun.
UD Tuner
This tool helps tune Turkish and Arabic string instruments like the Oud, Cumbus, Tanbur, and Lute. It accurately measures instrument frequencies and provides tuning guidance. The app offers manual or automatic string selection and can produce reference sounds.
- Oud, Cumbus, Tanbur, Lute tuning
- Frequency measurement
- Manual string selection
- Auto string selection
- Reference sound production
- 0.01Hz professional sensitivity
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UD Tuner is a tool for tuning Turkish/Arabic musical instrument Oud. It can also tune instruments cumbus, tanbur and lute *It can listen to instrument sound and measures the sound frequency. So it gives directives for finding the correct tune. * It can run in two modes with manual string selection and auto string selection *It can also produce reference sounds when touching the strings on screen * you can reach 0.01Hz professional sensitivity in a silent room * it is a paid app, so you just buy the app, it doesn't run in subscription or auto-renewal mode. You just pay only once
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: UD Tuner at 4.4 against DronePlayer's 1.8. UD Tuner also leads on price ($1.99 vs $4.99) and chart position (#178 vs unranked). DronePlayer's advantage is review sentiment (38% vs 0%). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
DronePlayer costs $4.99 and UD Tuner $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
UD Tuner holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 1.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 22 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 38% of DronePlayer's written reviews are positive against 0% of UD Tuner's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
DronePlayer ships an update every 4 months, UD Tuner every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DronePlayer | UD Tuner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | $1.99 — better |
| Rating | 1.8 (5 ratings) | 4.4 (22 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 37.5% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 22 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #178 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | tingjing.com | Yasar Bozdag |
Customer experience
DronePlayer
UD Tuner
In-app purchases
DronePlayer
No in-app purchases
UD Tuner
No in-app purchases
