Comparison

VS vs DroPilot Modes

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

VS

Transform audio and MIDI input into dynamic, real-time visuals. This app offers a powerful, playable visual engine for creators, musicians, and VJs to craft immersive graphics and prepare live sets or music videos.

Highlights
  • Real-time audio and MIDI reactive visuals
  • Playable visual synthesis engine
  • Customizable shaders and media import
  • Built-in waveform, spectrum, and oscilloscope visualizers
  • Playlist manager for live sets
  • HD output and recording
Features
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Turn your music into stunning real-time visuals. VS 2 is the ultimate visual synthesizer for creators, musicians, VJs, and performers, combining audio and MIDI reactivity with a powerful, playable visual engine. Prepare live sets, create music videos, or delve into creative exploration with the numerous visual engines and extensive factory content. VS 2 transforms sound into immersive graphics with unmatched control and flexibility. Features: Synced to Your Music - Create visuals that react to audio and MIDI in real time. Every beat, note, and rhythm shapes the visuals you see. Deep Visual Synthesis - Blend shaders, text, images, video, visualizers and live input to compose unique and expressive graphics. Playable Like an Instrument - Trigger visuals live with polyphonic visual voices and perform visuals with the same feel as playing music. Refined Interface - VS 2’s redesigned, performance-focused UI makes complex visuals intuitive and fast to control. Modulation Matrix - Use audio modulators, envelopes, and LFOs along with a built-in matrix to shape visuals in deeply expressive ways. Built-In Visualizers - Waveform, spectrum, and oscilloscope views let you visualize your sound and create custom, social media-ready visualizers. Customizable - Import or code your own shaders and media to create truly personal visual styles. Playlist Manager - Organize and sequence visual sets for shows and creative sessions. Output & Capture - Send output to external displays and record HD visuals with audio directly inside VS. Expanding Ecosystem - Packed with rich factory content and a growing collection of expansion packs to explore. From live performances to studio workflows, VS 2 makes powerful visual synthesis accessible, no steep learning curve, just expressive tools that follow your music. Built on user feedback with workflow improvements and creative flexibility at every turn. Bring your music to life with visuals.

About

DroPilot Modes

Features
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DroPilot Modes helps you understand and practice guitar modes in a visual, clear and musical way. Choose a root note and a mode, and the app shows which notes you can play, how they are laid out on the fretboard and which chord type fits the sound best. Ideal for guitarists who want modes to stop being abstract diagrams and start recognizing their character: Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, melodic minor and more. WHAT'S INCLUDED • Major scale modes: Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian and Locrian • Melodic minor family for jazz, fusion and modern sounds • 7 positions per mode to practice each scale across the fretboard • Notes, intervals or characteristic note view (Color mode) • Related chord and suggested progressions for each mode • Player with vamp, progression, tempo, loop and metronome • Interval jumps and note highlighting to train your ear • Favorites to save your practice setups • Built-in guitar tuner (4 and 6 strings) • Chord diagrams and shape dictionary • Right- and left-handed display HOW IT WORKS 1. Pick a family (major scale or melodic minor), root note and mode. 2. Explore the fretboard in 7 positions with notes or intervals. 3. Hear the mode in context: vamp or suggested progression. 4. Adjust tempo, loop and patterns; save what works in favorites. DroPilot Pro (one-time purchase, no subscription) unlocks all modes, 4th–7th positions, full progressions, advanced interval patterns and player loop. Developed by Zipizapp.

Screenshots

DroPilot Modes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: DroPilot Modes at Free against VS's $49.99. DroPilot Modes also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks) and device support (3 vs 1). VS's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On 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

DroPilot Modes is free to download; VS costs $49.99 up front. VS sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and DroPilot Modes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

VS ships an update every 3 weeks, DroPilot Modes weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
VS versus DroPilot Modes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVSDroPilot Modes
Price$49.99Free — better
Rating4.1 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews40.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size931 MB74 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperImaginando LdaPablo Niveiro

In-app purchases

10 purchases

VS

One-time10
  • Raw Reflections Preset Pack$17.99
  • Granular Preset Pack$17.99
  • Retina Refill Preset Pack$17.99
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  • Retro Riot Preset Pack$17.99
  • Textural Memories Preset Pack$17.99
  • Glitch & Doom$17.99
  • Shattered Illusions Preset Pack$17.99
  • Offset Preset Pack$17.99
  • Dimensional Preset Pack$17.99
  • Minimal Preset Pack$19.99
1 purchases

DroPilot Modes

One-time1
  • DroPilot Modes Pro$4.99

Questions

Is VS free?
VS costs $49.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is DroPilot Modes free?
DroPilot Modes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do VS or DroPilot Modes have ads?
DroPilot Modes shows ads; VS does not.
Which is updated more often, VS or DroPilot Modes?
VS ships an update every 3 weeks, and DroPilot Modes weekly. Most recently, VS was updated on October 30, 2026 and DroPilot Modes on October 25, 2026.

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