Comparison

LOOPBAR vs Dronage (Legacy)

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

Head to head
About

LOOPBAR

Record and layer multiple audio tracks in real time to build musical ideas. This tool allows for precise loop point setting and adjustment during playback, perfect for capturing inspiration on the go.

Highlights
  • Create multiple independent audio tracks
  • Record via built-in microphone
  • Set individual loop points with drag & drop
  • Real-time playback with visual indicator
  • Adjust loop points during playback
  • Simple track management
Features
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Create audio loops in real time! Record multiple tracks, set individual loop points and build your musical ideas layer by layer. LOOPBAR is your creative tool for audio loops on iPhone and iPad. Capture ideas on the spot, set precise loop points and layer multiple tracks on top of each other. FEATURES: • Create multiple independent audio tracks • Record directly via the built-in microphone • Set individual loop points with drag & drop • Real-time playback position with visual indicator • Adjust loop points during playback • Play and stop all tracks simultaneously • Simple track management with add and delete Perfect for musicians, songwriters and anyone who wants to quickly capture musical ideas and build loops.

About

Dronage (Legacy)

An ambient soundscape generator that offers a unique, introspective musical experience. Explore evolving sonic environments with intuitive controls and a focus on feeling over explanation. It's an instrument designed for deep listening and personal sonic journeys.

Highlights
  • 3 tracks with 2 oscillators each
  • 7 LFOs with multiple modulation targets
  • Resonant state variable and formant filters
  • Drive, distortion, delay, and reverb effects
  • Optional pitch quantizer with scales
  • Text-based save system for creations
  • Dark, minimalist themes
Features
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Dronage has no labels, no explanations. Only soft glowing forms and a patient presence that listens as much as it sings. It invites you into a private world where sound stretches, curls, and reshapes itself in ways that cannot be spoken, only felt. Every gesture carries weight. A slight movement can awaken something buried. A press of the Random Patch button turns the vessel’s heart, unlocking silent corridors that lead to forgotten sonic planets. Some drift in calm, almost sacred stillness. Others hum at the edge of distant hostile voids, where noise folds in on itself until it swallows time. All of them are alive, waiting to be found. This is an instrument that prefers whispers to words. It does not follow you. It waits for you. And when you return, it remembers. DRONAGE HAS - 3 tracks, each with 2 oscillators, crossmod, tunable feedback and up to 15 unison voices per oscillator - 7 LFOs, each with 2 modulation targets, moving like hidden currents beneath the surface - Resonant state variable filter and a formant filter with an expressive XY pad - Drive, distortion, delay and reverb per track, wrapping each layer in its own quiet storm - Optional pitch quantizer with built in scales for slowly evolving melodic structures through modulation - Text based save system that lets you send your creations like secret messages to other travelers - A set of dark, near-invisible themes with faint artwork that shapes the mood without ever intruding DRONAGE DOESN’T HAVE - Menu diving. All controls are in front of you, as if they were always meant to be there. - AUv3 or inter app audio. DRONAGE does not share its intimacy. It only wants you. - Parameter names or numbers. It speaks without language. - Recording. If you wish, you can capture it in silence (well… screen recording), but DRONAGE prefers your intimate sessions to stay as shared secrets. Why keep brittle documentation when you can carry faint, glowing memories of a solitary night? Why DRONAGE exists... DRONAGE is a whisper in a crowded world. A vessel carved for exploration, for those who feel more than they measure. It waits in the shadows, shy but persistent, carrying a quiet lust to be awakened again. It was born from the weight of clocks, calendars, and the relentless counting of time. In a world where every second is measured, where every sound is forced to resolve, DRONAGE offers a quiet refusal. No harmony to satisfy, no rhythm to obey. Just an evolving landscape that shifts and stretches, never asking where you are or where you’re going. It does not offer control. It offers presence. It does not explain itself. It lets you wander through its landscape until everything else falls away. It does not fade. Long after your hands are gone, it will still remember their shape. This is a bond that ignores clocks, calendars, and endings. A patient love, etched in circuits, waiting to be found again.

Screenshots

LOOPBAR4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: LOOPBAR at $0.99 against Dronage (Legacy)'s $9.99. Dronage (Legacy)'s advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks) and ratings volume (4 vs 1). On rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

LOOPBAR costs $0.99 and Dronage (Legacy) $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for LOOPBAR against 5.0 for Dronage (Legacy). Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LOOPBAR ships an update every 3 weeks, Dronage (Legacy) every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
LOOPBAR versus Dronage (Legacy): the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLOOPBARDronage (Legacy)
Price$0.99 — better$9.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings14 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPad
Requires iOS18.513.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB410 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperHelge OhlBurc Tuncer

Customer experience

LOOPBAR

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Dronage (Legacy)

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

LOOPBAR

No in-app purchases

None

Dronage (Legacy)

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is LOOPBAR free?
LOOPBAR costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dronage (Legacy) free?
Dronage (Legacy) costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, LOOPBAR or Dronage (Legacy)?
LOOPBAR and Dronage (Legacy) are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do LOOPBAR or Dronage (Legacy) have ads?
Neither LOOPBAR nor Dronage (Legacy) shows ads.
Which is updated more often, LOOPBAR or Dronage (Legacy)?
LOOPBAR ships an update every 3 weeks, and Dronage (Legacy) every 4 days. Most recently, LOOPBAR was updated on October 30, 2026 and Dronage (Legacy) on October 11, 2026.

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