Comparison

ECD Tunes vs Bagpipe Player

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

Head to head
About

ECD Tunes

This app provides a digital library for English Country Dance musicians, allowing them to organize and access sheet music. It supports various file formats and lets users create and share event schedules.

Highlights
  • Digital sheet music library
  • Supports PDF, GIF, TIF, PNG
  • Add custom music volumes
  • Capture images via camera
  • Create and share events
  • AirDrop and email sharing
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ECD Tunes is meant for English Country Dance musicians. It contains a copy of the Blue and Red Barnes and allows users to add their own volumes of music by creating ZIP archives of PDF, GIF, TIF, and PNG files. Users can also capture images using their iPad's camera and image library. Events can be created and shared via AirDrop, email, and file sharing apps. You can find instructions for this app at http://www.TransportedProductions.com/iDeas

About

Bagpipe Player

Learn, play, and compose bagpipe music with this app. It supports popular music file formats, offers authentic sounds, and provides tools for practice and creation. Manage your tunes, export them, and sync across devices.

Highlights
  • Play bagpipe music with authentic sounds
  • View sheet music for BWW, BMW, ABC files
  • Compose new tunes with a graphical editor
  • Practice tools: section repeat, playback delay
  • Export music as PDF or MIDI
  • Organize tunes with folders
  • Sync files via iCloud
Features
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The Bagpipe Player is app for IOS uses very popular format BWW, BMW, ABC files for writing music of the bagpipe . Basic functions: show bww file as musical notes sheet, for playing and printing. The app useful for learning a new tunes and writing a new tune. Bagpipe Player play tunes like Great Highland Bagpipe with drones and embellishments. Authentic sound sampled from real GHB and Practice chanter. Ability to choose: - sound of the practice chanter or bagpipe ; - sound of the drones; - volume sound of drones and chanter; - duration of grace notes; - tempo change; - tone of sound on +- 5 halftone; - height of the music staff; - background for the sheet of notes; There is an ability: - create PDF, print it, send it email ; - create folders in main folder to store certain tunes; - to delay begin of playback for training; - highlight a section of the tune and repeat it; - turn on sound of the metronome; - use demo tuner; - create midi file of the tune and to send it to the email; - create own bww file in the graphical editor. The Bagpipe Player contains some .bww files for demonstration purpose. This is tunes from Tutor 1 and Tutor 3 The College of Piping and also my favorite tunes. Remember tap on button (i) you get info about control in the app. Your files can to download to iPad from a PC using iTunes file sharing or download from DropBox, attachment email, websites and etc. Posibility to sync files between devices using iCloud. Can to upload files from the app to the DropBox folder. Count of files is not limited. The preferred source to produce files .bww is a lot of network resources. I think, app Bagpipe Player will be useful for beginners and professional bagpipers for purposes learning new tunes and writing new tunes. The Bagpipe Player created for everybody who want, learn, plays and to loves sound of the bagpipe.

Screenshots

Bagpipe Player4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Bagpipe Player at $14.99 against ECD Tunes's $40.99. Bagpipe Player also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 36 months) and review sentiment (62% vs 50%). ECD Tunes's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). On rating and ads 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

ECD Tunes costs $40.99 and Bagpipe Player $14.99 up front. Bagpipe Player sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. ECD Tunes asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.0 for ECD Tunes against 4.0 for Bagpipe Player. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bagpipe Player has 25 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of ECD Tunes's written reviews are positive against 62% of Bagpipe Player's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ECD Tunes ships an update every 36 months, Bagpipe Player every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on June 23, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
ECD Tunes versus Bagpipe Player: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterECD TunesBagpipe Player
Price$40.99$14.99 — better
Rating4.0 (3 ratings)4.0 (25 ratings)
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews61.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings325 — better
Update frequencyEvery 36 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB76 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRalph CanapaAleksey Vasilyev

Customer experience

ECD Tunes

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative25.0%

Bagpipe Player

All ratings25 ratings
Positive76.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative24.0%
Written reviews39 reviews
Positive61.5%
Neutral12.8%
Negative25.6%

In-app purchases

None

ECD Tunes

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Bagpipe Player

One-time4
  • Unlock save$0.99
  • Tip Jar 1$0.99
  • Tip Jar 2$1.99
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  • Tip Jar 3$2.99

Questions

Is ECD Tunes free?
ECD Tunes costs $40.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bagpipe Player free?
Bagpipe Player costs $14.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ECD Tunes or Bagpipe Player?
ECD Tunes and Bagpipe Player are both rated 4.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 25 ratings respectively.
Do ECD Tunes or Bagpipe Player have ads?
Neither ECD Tunes nor Bagpipe Player shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ECD Tunes or Bagpipe Player?
ECD Tunes ships an update every 36 months, and Bagpipe Player every 2 months. Most recently, ECD Tunes was updated on June 23, 2026 and Bagpipe Player on September 16, 2026.

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