Comparison

Drone Meditations vs Bungee

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

Head to head
About

Drone Meditations

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A deep four-oscillator drone synthesizer for meditation, sound healing, and ambient composition. Inspired by Pauline Oliveros, Γ‰liane Radigue, Stars of the Lid, William Basinski, and the long-form drone tradition. Real synthesis, real tuning systems, real cymatics β€” designed for listeners who want to go deep. Most "drone apps" give you a few sliders and call it ambient. Drone Meditations gives you a real instrument. SOUNDS YOU CAN SIT WITH FOR HOURS β€’ Four oscillators per patch β€” sine, triangle, sawtooth, square, white / pink noise, granular pink, or loaded sample β€’ Per-voice filter (LP / HP / BP), drive, cross-osc FM, stereo chorus, three-mode delay with musical timing, stereo Schroeder reverb β€’ Twenty multi-target LFOs per patch (five per voice). LFOs 1–4 hit amp / pan / cutoff / Q / pitch / FM / FX-Mix; LFO 5 has its own row of granular + FX targets (grain, delay, reverb). Each LFO's rate can lock to a musical subdivision of the tempo. β€’ Per-voice timing envelopes β€” fade in over minutes, fade out later, repeat N times or forever. Rotate harmonically across 20 minutes without touching a slider. β€’ Six tuning systems: 12-TET, just intonation, Pythagorean, Lou Harrison Free JI, Wendy Carlos Ξ±/Ξ²/Ξ³, Harry Partch 43-tone DESIGNED FOR THE DRONE TRADITION β€’ 110+ presets across Drone Artists, Developer Patches, Solfeggio, Natural Resonance, Cymatics, Mystic & Composers, and Binaural categories β€” plus an INIT preset pinned at the top β€’ 48 Drone Artists tributes β€” Oliveros, Riley, Radigue, Stars of the Lid, Sunn O))), Basinski, Niblock, Palestine, Budd, Coltrane, and more β€” capturing each artist's waveforms, FX, and tuning, not just their pitches β€’ 21 Developer Patches showcasing granular sampling, BPM-locked grain density, FX-Mix LFO swells, and the JG hybrid pad/groove series β€’ Modal chord category β€” the 7 diatonic modes plus Harmonic and Melodic Minor β€” with quantize-to-scale so pitch-modulated voices arpeggiate across all 7 mode degrees β€’ Auto-morph between any two presets over 30 s to 60 min β€’ 25 scripted meditation journeys (Deep Listening, Heavy Resonance, Minimalist Arc, and 22 more) β€’ Tune to Room β€” global LISTEN snaps the chord root to a pitch from the mic; per-strip ear icon snaps just one voice LIVE CYMATICS THAT BREATHE WITH THE AUDIO β€’ Physically-calibrated Chladni patterns fit from real plate- vibration footage. The renderer crossfades between two adjacent eigenmodes bracketing each voice's live frequency β€” vibrato breathes between physical modes, not styled animation. β€’ Pinch to zoom; tap to enter fullscreen Performance mode with a drifting sand-particle simulation along the nodal lines β€’ Cymatic snapshot gallery + spectrum-analyzer alternative GRANULAR + TEMPO β€’ Granular waveform: pink noise chopped into Hann-windowed grains with size, density, jitter, stereo spread, per-voice overlap β€’ Granular sampling: same scheduler on any loaded sample β€” freeze a bansuri forever, smear a chord into a tape-decay cloud β€’ BPM-quantized density (Β½ β†’ 1/32T) locks grain spacing to the global tempo. Per-LFO rate sync extends musical subdivisions to LFO speed. Metronome click toggle for an audible reference. RECORD, SHARE, AND COMPOSE β€’ Mastered session recording: 24-bit WAV + AAC M4A sidecar with loudness normalization, automatic fades, embedded metadata β€’ Per-voice mic record captures into a voice's sample slot β€” normalized, granular-ready, with the current frequency as the sample's reference pitch β€’ 50+ bundled samples: bansuri, organ, piano, storm, tide, forest, urban, cosmic β€’ Cross-device preset sharing via .dronepreset files β€” AirDrop a patch between web, iPhone, and iPad, samples embedded inline. iCloud auto-syncs samples-free presets across devices. One-time purchase. No subscription, no accounts, no tracking. Free web version: dronemeditations.com

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Bungee

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Bungee turns your iPhone and iPad into a musical instrument. Touch the screen to play a granular synthesizer, pluck glowing stripes like strings, and let sequences and drum beats play along. No music theory needed: every note fits the scale, so everything you play sounds musical. Made for ambient music, beats, sound design and live jamming, from your first touch to a full performance. PLAY THE PLATE Every finger sprays clouds of tiny grains of sound. Move left and right to travel through the sound, up and down to change the grain size, press harder for denser clouds and swipe fast for stutter bursts. Up to ten fingers play at once. PLUCK, HOLD AND STRETCH STRIPES The stripes behave like strings. Pluck them, hold them to sustain, stretch them until they snap, or bow them with a slow swipe. Hold one stripe with up to four fingers and pull: the note rises as it stretches. Each stripe plays a note of the scale, and you can draw your own. THROW THE NODES Nodes sit on the stage and play whenever a stripe touches them. Drag them into place, or flick one and it flies across the stage like a bullet, bouncing off the edges and plucking every stripe it crosses. TEN LOOKS, ONE INSTRUMENT Pick a theme and the whole app changes with it, from the stage to the menus: - Chrome: liquid-metal strings and mirror-polished shapes (the default) - Clay: soft white clay on black - Neo Brutalism: bold colour, thick outlines, hard shadows - Acid: poster neon, holographic shapes and acid smileys - Pixel: 8-bit stripes and sprites, with a pixelated sound to match - Op Art: hairline stripes on a bending grid - Thermal: a heat camera where every pluck glows white-hot - Glacier: false-colour satellite maps - Orbit: planets gliding along luminous orbits - Bubble: liquid bubbles on cream Your home-screen icon can follow the theme too. 56 READY-TO-PLAY INSTRUMENTS Every template is a complete instrument with its own sound, stripes, effects and sequence, laid out on shelves: Techniques, Ambient, Melodic, Beats, Drums and Glitch. Long-press any template to preview it or star it. Or start a New project on an empty stage. LEARN IN NINE STEPS The guided tour shows each move on the stage, waits for you to try it and moves on: playing, swiping, the sequence, drawing stripes and working with nodes. DRUM MACHINES BUILT IN Ten drum templates play real beats: footwork, house, boom bap, bongos, metal, wood, chiptune, IDM clicks, water drums and half-time trap. Play along on the stripes. SOUND NODES AND SAMPLES Drop sample, synth, noise and drone nodes on the stage and play them by holding or dragging, each with its own volume. Choose from 13 built-in samples (kalimba, felt piano, Rhodes chords, tape choir, rain, birds, shortwave radio and more), or import your own audio from Files: WAV, MP3, M4A, AIFF, FLAC and OGG. SEQUENCER Pick a pattern and a tempo, or open Advanced for the step grid, Euclidean and Turing patterns, swing and direction. Sequences drive the notes, move nodes and animate the stage in time with the music. EFFECTS AND MIXER Shape your sound with reverb, delay, phaser and drive, and balance everything in a touch-friendly mixer. MIDI, AUV3 AND ABLETON LINK - Use Bungee as an AUv3 instrument inside your favourite host app - Connect a MIDI controller and it maps itself: Korg nanoKONTROL2, Novation Launch Control XL, Launchkey Mini and more, plus MIDI learn for anything else - Sync the tempo with other apps and devices over Ableton Link MAKE IT YOURS - Save projects and your own templates, and share them - A retro terminal view that shows every event as you play WHO IT'S FOR - Ambient, lo-fi and electronic musicians looking for new textures - Beatmakers who want a playful drum machine - Sound designers who want a hands-on granular synth - Beginners who want to make music without learning an instrument Everything is generated live on your device. No account, no sign-up, no subscription. Touch the screen and start playing.

Screenshots

Drone Meditations4 screens
Bungee4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Bungee at every 5 days against Drone Meditations's every 3 weeks. Bungee also leads on price ($9.99 vs $14.99). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Drone Meditations costs $14.99 and Bungee $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Drone Meditations ships an update every 3 weeks, Bungee every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 4 level
Drone Meditations versus Bungee: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrone MeditationsBungee
Price$14.99$9.99 β€” better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 5 days β€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.0 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size131 MB50 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperJOSE ANTONIO GUDEIbrahim Sefa Tuna

In-app purchases

None

Drone Meditations

No in-app purchases

None

Bungee

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Drone Meditations free?
Drone Meditations costs $14.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bungee free?
Bungee costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Drone Meditations or Bungee have ads?
Neither Drone Meditations nor Bungee shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Drone Meditations or Bungee?
Drone Meditations ships an update every 3 weeks, and Bungee every 5 days. Most recently, Drone Meditations was updated on October 20, 2026 and Bungee on October 13, 2026.

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