Ultimate Piper

Bagpipe Music & Practice Tool

Free · In‑App Purchases

The complete companion for bagpipers. Compose, play, practice, and share your music with your band. 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 via microphone or MIDI chanter, automatically scrolling the score as you go. Connect a Blair Digital Chanter or Fagerström Technopipes for precise note and gracenote detection. Calibrate each instrument note-by-note for precise pitch matching — tracking strictness adjusts based on your proficiency level. Record sessions and replay them with score highlighting synced to your recording. Save sessions to track progress, or share with your pipe major. 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. STRUCTURED PRACTICE Set daily reminders, track practice sessions, and let Ultimate Piper suggest warm-up tunes based on what you've mastered. Add a "Tune of the Week" to every session. Rate your proficiency on each tune — from Want to Learn through to Mastered — and watch your progress grow. VERSION HISTORY Every edit is automatically saved. Browse your edit history, see what changed with colour-coded visual diffs, and revert to any previous version with a single tap. For shared tunes, see what's changed when someone else updates the music. SHARE WITH YOUR BAND Export to PDF or share tunes directly with other Ultimate Piper users. Create shared folders so your whole band always has the latest version of the music – with granular controls over who can edit. ORGANISE YOUR LIBRARY Import BWW and PipeScore files. Organise tunes into nested folders. Search by title, composer, genre, or time signature. Works on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION Ultimate Piper Premium is available as a monthly or yearly auto-renewable subscription with a 7-day free trial. After the free trial, payment will be charged to your Apple ID account and will recur at the end of each billing period. Subscription automatically renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel subscriptions in your Account Settings. Privacy Policy: https://ultimatepiper.com/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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• MIDI chanter support — connect Blair Digital Chanter or Fagerström Technopipes for follow-along practice with live note and gracenote/embellishment detection • Practice loop now supports follow-along tracking via mic or MIDI • Start follow-along hands-free when piper are selected — hold Low E on your pipes to begin score tracking • Version history — every edit is saved automatically. Browse versions, see visual diffs with colour-coded changes, and revert to any previous version • "What's Changed" banner for shared tunes updated by other band members • Save shared tunes to your own library • Practice session timer overlay • Faster iCloud sync and stability improvements

Version 1.1.0

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    Information

    Seller
    • MIXOLYDIAN LIMITED
    Size
    • 110.9 MB
    Category
    • Music
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
    • iPad
      Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 26.0 or later.
    • Apple Vision
      Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
    • Apple Watch
      Requires watchOS 26.1 or later.
    Languages
    • English
    Age Rating
    4+
    In-App Purchases
    Yes
    • Ultimate Piper Premium Monthly $5.99
    • Ultimate Piper Premium Yearly $49.99
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    Copyright
    • © 2026 Mixolydian Limited
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