Pocket Pitch vs The Score Stack
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pocket Pitch
This app provides singers with essential tools for pitch identification and practice. It features a high-quality pitch pipe, a versatile piano for warm-ups, and a precise tuner to check vocal accuracy. Designed to be a comprehensive vocal companion, it aims to be the ultimate free mobile resource for singers.
- Pitch pipe with professionally recorded sound
- 6-octave piano for warm-ups
- Note tuner to check pitch accuracy
- Vocal warm-up tool
- Pitch identification
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Play or identify any musical note, instantly. Pocket Pitch is the singer's pocket toolkit — a reliable pitch pipe, piano, tuner, and metronome in one simple app. Whether you're a choir member finding your starting note, a soloist checking your pitch, or a music student learning to read a staff, Pocket Pitch gives you the essentials at your fingertips. THE TOOLKIT * Pitch Pipe — professionally recorded reference notes, just like the physical pitch pipe you'd keep in your pocket * Piano — six octaves for warming up, checking intervals, or plunking out a melody * Tuner — identify any note you hear, and see whether it's flat or sharp * Metronome — keep time during practice or rehearsal PREMIUM FEATURES While the toolkit is always ready to play or identify notes — the premium features keep your voice and ear ready for performances and practice. Build your voice with guided vocal warmups using staff notation. Train your ear and musical knowledge with practice tests at multiple difficulty levels, covering accidentals, key signatures, harmonies, and sight singing. Used by singers in choirs, a cappella groups, barbershop quartets, musical theatre casts, and voice students around the world. 800,000+ downloads. Rated 4.6 stars. Pocket Pitch lives on your phone so you're always ready — for the rehearsal, the audition, the performance, or the practice session at home.
The Score Stack
This app centralizes sheet music, practice tracks, rehearsal schedules, and group chat for choirs and vocal ensembles. Singers can access music offline, customize practice tracks, and directors can manage rehearsals and communicate with their groups.
- Offline sheet music and practice tracks
- Customizable MIDI practice tracks
- Learning playlists
- Director's markings
- Rehearsal calendar and attendance
- Group and section messaging
- Setlists and live program pages
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Everything your chorus needs, in one app. Sheet music, practice tracks, the rehearsal calendar and the group chat, together on every singer's phone, with music that still opens when the rehearsal room has no signal. MUSIC AND PRACTICE TRACKS Scores and learning tracks in the same place, listed Soprano to Bass, so a singer can read and listen without switching apps. Turn on Offline Music and a group's songs download to your phone. MIDI TRACKS THAT FOLLOW THE SCORE Make your part louder, hear it alone, or leave it out and sing against everyone else, at any speed. The music turns its own pages and keeps the current bar on screen, and you can loop a tricky passage with a bar's run-up. Directors can upload MusicXML scores and the app lines the bars up with the PDF. LEARNING PLAYLISTS Put the songs you are learning, from all your groups, into one queue. Choose the tracks you sing with for each song and mark it ready when you know it. Directors can share a playlist with the whole group and see how ready each section is, song by song. DIRECTOR'S MARKINGS Mark up a score once and push it to the whole section. Everyone rehearses from the same breath marks and cuts. CALENDAR, RSVPS AND ATTENDANCE Rehearsals and performances with RSVPs and attendance check-in, plus a feed your singers can subscribe to in their own calendar app. MESSAGING THAT STAYS Group and section conversations with replies, threads and reactions that do not scroll away, and announcements that reach everyone. SETLISTS AND SHOWTIME Build the setlist for a concert and sing straight through it. Publish a live program page, put its QR code on the printed program, and the audience follows along. FOR BARBERSHOP CHAPTERS A built-in tag library with all four parts recorded, alongside your chapter's sheet music, section tracks and rehearsal schedule. GET YOUR SINGERS IN QUICKLY Share one QR code at rehearsal and the room joins at once, or read out the short join code for anyone who has to install the app first. WHO IT IS FOR Barbershop choruses and quartets, community choirs, church and worship teams, school and college choirs, and small ensembles of every kind. Free for groups of 8 or fewer. No card required.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: The Score Stack at none against Pocket Pitch's 6. The Score Stack also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Pocket Pitch's advantage is ratings volume (2.1K vs 15) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. Pocket Pitch sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. The Score Stack asks for nothing beyond the download.
The Score Stack holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pocket Pitch has 2.1K ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of Pocket Pitch's written reviews are positive against 100% of The Score Stack's.
Pocket Pitch ships an update every 3 days, The Score Stack every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pocket Pitch | The Score Stack |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (2.1K ratings) | 5.0 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 86.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2.1K — better | 15 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | John Walbolt | The Stack Technologies LLC |
Customer experience
Pocket Pitch
The Score Stack
Bugs and requests
Pocket Pitch
Reported bugs
3 issues- App crashes or freezes
- Bluetooth issues with audio output
- Inconsistent note recognition
Requested features
4 requests- Add metronome functionality
- Include more instrument sounds
- Allow adjusting octave range on pitch pipe
- Integrate key signature detection
The Score Stack
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pocket Pitch
- Premium Monthly$0.991 Month
- Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
- Premium Annual$8.991 Year
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- Premium Annual$19.991 Year
- Blow Mode$0.99
- No Advertisements$1.99
The Score Stack
No in-app purchases
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