Ultimate Piper

Ultimate Piper is the complete music app for bagpipers – whether you're learning on a practice chanter or performing with a full pipe band.

COMPOSE & EDIT
Create complete scores for light music and piobaireachd alike, with reactive grace notes and a full embellishment picker including doublings, grips, taorluaths, and more. Long-press any bar for quick access to copy, paste, insert, delete, and time signature options. Bar validation alerts you when note durations don't match the time signature. Add 1st/2nd time bars and write multi-part harmonies with ease. Annotate your scores with colour-coded markup to highlight tricky passages or add personal notes.

PLAY ALONG
Practice with intelligent tracking that follows your playing, automatically scrolling the score as you go. Calibrate each instrument note-by-note for precise pitch matching — tracking strictness adjusts automatically based on the proficiency level you've set for the tune. Record your follow-along sessions and instantly replay them — hear exactly how you sounded with the score highlighting synced to your recording. Save sessions to track your progress over time, or share recordings with your pipe major or band members.

PRACTICE LOOP
Select any range of bars and loop them at adjustable tempo. Perfect for drilling tricky passages — the app can automatically bump the BPM each time you nail a loop, gradually building you up to full speed.

LISTEN & LEARN
Play back any tune with realistic practice chanter or pipe sounds. Enable expressive timing for natural, musical playback that breathes like a real performance. Visual tracking highlights each note as it plays. Control playback from your lock screen or headphones. Enable the metronome with optional haptic taps to keep time.

TUNE UP
Built-in chanter and drone tuner calibrated to your reference Low A, which syncs across all your devices. Switch between chanter and drone modes to tune your whole instrument. Also available on Apple Watch — tune your drones without reaching for your phone.

STANDALONE METRONOME
A full-featured metronome with authentic pipe band drum sounds — side drum, bass drum, and tenor drum — all tuned to your target Low A. Choose your time signature, toggle accent and subdivisions, and tap to set tempo. Also available on Apple Watch — configure on your iPhone and play from your wrist with haptic taps on every beat.