Comparison

Ancient Drums vs Fizzy Bacon

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

Head to head
About

Ancient Drums

Explore a diverse collection of 32 authentic world percussion instruments with concert-quality sound and zero latency. Create rhythms with loop recording, adjustable BPM, and multiple time signatures. Features a random beat generator and haptic feedback for an immersive experience.

Highlights
  • 32 authentic world percussion instruments
  • Concert-quality audio samples
  • Zero-latency response
  • Loop recording with adjustable BPM
  • Multiple time signatures
  • Random beat generator
  • Haptic feedback
Features
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Ancient Drums puts 32 authentic percussion instruments from around the world at your fingertips. From West African djembes to Japanese taiko, Middle Eastern darbukas to Brazilian surdo — every drum delivers concert-quality sound with zero latency, making it a real instrument you can perform with live. FEATURES: 32 Drum Pads across 2 pages featuring traditional percussion from West Africa, Japan, India, Middle East, Ireland, Native America, Brazil, Cuba, Peru, Central Asia, and North Africa Concert-quality CC0 audio samples recorded from real instruments Zero-latency response — feels like playing a real drum Loop Recording with adjustable BPM (40-200) and bar length (1-8 bars) Quantize mode for tight, on-beat recordings 5 Time Signatures: 4/4, 3/4, 6/8, 7/8, and 5/4 Random Beat Generator with culturally authentic rhythm patterns 3 Complexity Levels: Simple, Medium, and Complex Drum Selection Filter to choose which drums participate in generated beats Per-drum volume control for balanced playback Haptic feedback for tactile response Beautiful forest-themed atmospheric design DRUMS INCLUDED: West Africa: Djembe Bass, Djembe Tone, Djembe Slap, Dundun, Talking Drum, Shekere Japan: Taiko, Taiko Deep Middle East: Darbuka, Doumbek Tek, Doumbek Bass, Bendir, Frame Drum Ireland: Bodhrán India: Dholak, Tabla Native America: Pow-wow, Hand Drum, Hoop Drum, Rattle Brazil: Cajon, Surdo, Pandeiro, Repinique, Tambor Cuba: Bongo Hi, Bongo Lo, Conga, Tumba Africa: Udu, Log Drum Central Asia: Nagara Whether you're a musician exploring world rhythms, a producer looking for authentic percussion, or someone who just loves drums — Ancient Drums is your portable percussion studio. Made with care by Coyote Song Productions LLC.

About

Fizzy Bacon

This app emulates the sound of analog tape saturation and compression, adding warmth and character to your audio. It offers intuitive controls for adjusting tape 'dirt,' 'age,' and 'noise,' along with dynamic compression and modulation effects. Achieve a polished, finished sound for individual tracks or your entire mix.

Highlights
  • Tape saturation emulation
  • Analog compressor
  • Adjustable 'Dirt' and 'Age' controls
  • Built-in noise and wow/flutter
  • Real flanging effect
  • Four compression ratios plus All-buttons mode
  • 51 presets
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Some tracks are perfect and still sound like a computer. Fizzy Bacon is the box that fixes that. A tape deck and its compressor, together, on your channel strip. Turn up Dirt. Keep going. You'll know when. PUT IT ON THE DRUM BUS Drive it until the kit stops being a grid and starts being a room. The compressor catches the whole thing on the way past, and the low end arrives on its own, without you touching an EQ. PUT IT ON A VOCAL A little Dirt for body, a little Age to take the glare off a bright mic, and the loud words sit down without you drawing a single automation line. PUT IT ON THE MIX Ease it in and everything moves a little closer together. Nothing sounds processed. It just sounds finished. PUT IT ON EVERYTHING Full wet, slow tape, wow and flutter up — and now you're listening to a cassette that's been in somebody's glovebox since 1982. FIVE KNOBS AND NO HOMEWORK Dirt is how hard you're hitting the tape. Age is how many miles are on the machine. Noise is the hiss and the hum, and it only shows up while the music does. Wow and Flutter are the drift and the shimmer — let them wander, or sync their rates to your tempo. Synced Wow lands on the beat; Flutter remains random. And Mix is hiding a flanger you didn't pay for: pull it back with the wobble running and the two sides sweep past each other. Real flanging, the two-tape-machines kind, free. A COMPRESSOR WITH NOTHING TO HUNT FOR No threshold to find. You just drive it harder until it's doing what you want. Four ratios, plus an All-buttons setting for when the whole track should be breathing rather than politely controlled. Two VU meters swing the way meters should — flip them to watch the gain reduction, or to check your width survives a mono fold-down. 51 PRESETS, ALL AT THE SAME LEVEL From a barely-there print to a completely melted reel, plus mastering and mixing banks. They all sit within a decibel of each other, so you can walk the whole bank without riding the fader and hear the difference instead of the volume. Save your own and they follow you to your other devices. NOTHING TO WATCH OUT FOR Latency never changes, your DAW compensates, bypass vanishes completely. Any hardware knob drives any control. Everything automates. An AUv3 plug-in in your DAW, or a standalone app on Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Vision Pro. Same engine either way. There's a full manual inside the window, if you're the type. Most people just turn Dirt up.

Screenshots

Ancient Drums2 screens
Fizzy Bacon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Ancient Drums at $4.99 against Fizzy Bacon's $19.99. Ancient Drums also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). Fizzy Bacon's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 1.0). On ratings volume, 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

Ancient Drums costs $4.99 and Fizzy Bacon $19.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Fizzy Bacon holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Ancient Drums versus Fizzy Bacon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAncient DrumsFizzy Bacon
Price$4.99 — better$19.99
Rating1.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCoyote Song Productions LLCChristian Thompson

Customer experience

Ancient Drums

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Fizzy Bacon

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

In-app purchases

None

Ancient Drums

No in-app purchases

None

Fizzy Bacon

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ancient Drums free?
Ancient Drums costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Fizzy Bacon free?
Fizzy Bacon costs $19.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Ancient Drums or Fizzy Bacon?
Fizzy Bacon is rated higher. Ancient Drums averages 1.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Fizzy Bacon averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Ancient Drums or Fizzy Bacon have ads?
Neither Ancient Drums nor Fizzy Bacon shows ads.

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