Bagpipes Pro vs One Track Mind
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bagpipes Pro
Experience five realistic bagpipe simulations on your iPad. Learn authentic Scottish piping fingerings and explore various traditional and folk instruments from Scotland, Ireland, and Sweden. Adjust transposition and tuning for a personalized musical experience.
- Five realistic bagpipe simulations
- Authentic Scottish piping fingerings
- Adjustable transposition and tuning
- Scottish, Irish, and Swedish instrument sets
- iPad optimized interface
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Bagpipes Pro is five extremely realistic sounding sets of bagpipes for the iPad that are played using standard Scottish piping fingerings. The instrument may be transposed up to +/- one octave in semitone increments as well as tuned up to +/- 50 cents. It includes five authentic sounding sets of Scottish, Irish, and Swedish bagpipes. The five sets of bagpipes are: Great Highland Scottish Bagpipes - The most popular Scottish marching pipes, in the traditional key of Bb. Scottish Border Pipes - A Scottish smallpipe in the key of A with a sound distinctly different from but similar to the Highland pipes. Scottish Smallpipes - A Scottish smallpipe in the key of A, one octave lower than the Border Pipes, and has a rounder, bubbly sound. Irish Uillean Pipes - Bellows blown pipes in the key of D Swedish Säckpipa - A set of Swedish bagpipes in E, with a very haunting sound. All of the instruments use fingerings based on the standard Scottish Highland bagpipes chanter. IMPORTANT: Since this app requires as many as 8 fingers on the screen at the same time, before playing, disable "Multitasking Gestures" on your iPad (in the Settings app, under the General section, turn the Multitasking Gestures switch to the off position). Start/stop the drones playing by touching the drone puck. Select standard or alternate drone note from the controls. Use the Transpose slider to set the overall instrument transposition in semitones. Touch the transpose value to the left of the slider to reset the transposition to zero. Use the Tuning slider to set the overall instrument tuning offset in cents. Touch the tuning value to the left of the slider to reset the tuning offset to zero. To play the chanter, touch the bar at the top left with your left thumb. This bar is the hole normally on the back of a real chanter and must be covered for the lower notes to play. Next, touch the top three holes of the chanter starting with the tips of your left index, middle, and ring fingers. Finally, touch the bottom four holes of the chanter with the tips of your right index, middle, ring, and little fingers. Touch the "i" to show/hide the live performance controls. Touch the "?" for on-screen help. Audio samples for the Säckpipa provided by Jonathan Parker from an instrument made in 1986 by Leif Eriksson. Drone puck image courtesy of Mike DeSmidt.
One Track Mind
This app allows you to play a single track at a time from any playlist. It's ideal for situations requiring precise track control, like performances or workouts, offering options for looping or sequential playback with delays.
- Play one track at a time
- Loop single track
- Advance to next track and stop
- Playback delay options
- Visual feedback of played songs
- Customizable sleep delay
- Customizable color scheme
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There are some occasions when you want to be able to just play a single track at a time from a playlist. Maybe you're playing music for a ballet recital, a gym workout, or a play. If you want to have each track available at the touch of a finger, One Track Mind is the app you're looking for. Features: • Play one track at a time from any playlist • Loop a single track continuously or advance to the next track and stop • Available 5 or 10 second playback delay • Visual feedback of songs you've already played • Customizable sleep delay and color scheme
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Bagpipes Pro at 4.8 against One Track Mind's 3.3. One Track Mind's advantage is review sentiment (69% vs 46%) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months). On 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
Bagpipes Pro costs $2.99 and One Track Mind $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Bagpipes Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: One Track Mind has 31 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 46% of Bagpipes Pro's written reviews are positive against 69% of One Track Mind's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Bagpipes Pro ships an update every 5 months, One Track Mind every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Bagpipes Pro | One Track Mind |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better | 3.3 (31 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 46.2% of reviews | 68.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 31 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 102 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Eskin | Benjamin Pung |
Customer experience
Bagpipes Pro
One Track Mind
Bugs and requests
Bagpipes Pro
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
One Track Mind
Reported bugs
11 issues- App crashes on iOS 8 and newer versions
- Playlists not appearing or loading
- Pause function resets track to start instead of resuming
- Playback continues to next track instead of stopping
- App freezes when attempting to play songs
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- Duration display stops working randomly
- Delay timer freezes when switching apps
- Cannot scroll to bottom of playlist list
- Clock missing from top of screen after update
- App crashes on iPad Air and iPad Retina
- Incompatibility with iOS 12 and later
Requested features
9 requests- On-screen volume slider control
- Display time remaining/duration of tracks
- Font color customization options
- Play multiple tracks in sequence (2 songs then stop)
- Search functionality for playlists
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- Ability to number songs in playlist
- Fade out button for smooth transitions
- Keep playback working when switching apps
- Keep playback working with screen off
In-app purchases
Bagpipes Pro
No in-app purchases
One Track Mind
No in-app purchases
Questions
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