Aubo vs Drop Soundboard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Aubo
Create and customize soundboards with sounds from various sources, including web and recordings. Play sounds via widgets, edit audio properties, and share creations as videos. Organize and resize sound elements for a personalized experience.
- Add sounds from Files and web
- Play from widgets and controls
- Customize colors, photos, and emoji
- Adjust pitch, speed, and trim audio
- Record new sounds
- Share sounds as videos
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• Add sounds from Files and the web • Play from widgets and controls • Customize colors, photos, and emoji • Adjust pitch, speed, and trim audio • Explore and add open source free sounds • Record new sounds • Play sounds • Adjust soundboard layouts and sizes • Share sounds as videos in Messages • Export soundboards to Files
Drop Soundboard
Enhance your conversations with custom sound reactions. Record or import audio, trim it, and send it directly within messaging apps. Manage your collection and control how others interact with your shared sounds.
- Send sound reactions in messages
- Record or import custom audio
- Trim audio clips to 8 seconds
- Control sound sharing (open/locked)
- Star favorite sounds
- Expand collection with premium purchase
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Drop Soundboard puts sound reactions inside Messages. Preview a sound, stage it in the conversation, and send it when the group chat needs more than words. Start with 25 included sounds, or make your own. MAKE FIVE CUSTOM DROPS FOR FREE Record with the microphone or import audio or video from Files and Photos. Trim the moment to eight seconds or less, title it, add an author, and choose whether others can save it. Keep up to five custom Drops for free. Deleting one frees a slot for another. Included and received sounds do not use these five slots. PLAY AND SEND Listen in the app, open a sound's details, and choose Send in Messages. Choose a recipient and tap Send in Apple's message composer. Inside a Messages conversation, tap a Drop card to play it and queue it beside Apple's send arrow. The info button beside search explains how Drop works. OPEN OR LOCKED Open sounds can be saved by recipients when they have collection space. Locked sounds stay playable in the message, but recipients cannot save or resend them from Drop Soundboard. Authors can still send their own Locked sounds. YOUR COLLECTION Star your favorites to keep them at the top. Free users can keep up to 75 active sounds in total. A one-time Premium purchase expands the collection to 500 sounds, lets you create more custom Drops within that collection, and unlocks style editing for every sound and app appearance customization. No subscription. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, ads, analytics, tracking, or developer server. Your custom audio, credits, styles, and preferences stay on your device and in the app's local shared container. Apple Messages handles delivery; Apple StoreKit handles purchases.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Aubo at 35 against Drop Soundboard's 1. Drop Soundboard's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8). 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
Both are free to download. Aubo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Drop Soundboard sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Drop Soundboard holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Aubo has 35 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Aubo ships an update every 3 weeks, Drop Soundboard fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Aubo | Drop Soundboard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (35 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 90.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 35 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Thomas Kane | Didier Osias |
Customer experience
Aubo
Drop Soundboard
In-app purchases
Aubo
- Snbd Pro$3.99
Drop Soundboard
- Drop Premium — Lifetime$4.99









