Scheme Songs vs Literacy Tree
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Scheme Songs
Access musical performance backing tracks from a musical school program. Download tracks for offline playback or stream them online. Ideal for rehearsals and performances where internet access may be unreliable.
- Access all performance backing tracks
- Download tracks for offline playback
- Stream tracks online
- Organized by year and term
- Searchable A-Z list of tracks
- Familiar timeline player
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Scheme Songs is a free app that lets you use your Charanga Musical School login to access all the performance backing tracks from Scheme, wherever you are. Use it to help your class put on a performance or sing a song, in places where you would find it difficult to use the website. All the Scheme backing tracks are available to download and play offline on your iPhone or iPod touch or online over wifi/mobile internet. Scheme Songs is perfect if you can't be sure that there's a reliable internet connection in your performance area, because you can save an entire term's performances in advance. • Includes all the seasonal productions in performance order, including Little Angel Gets Her Wings and Five Gold Rings. • Familiar timeline player from Charanga Musical School Scheme lessons. • Just plug your iPhone or iPod touch into the PA system and you're all set. • Organised by year and term so you can find the performance you're looking for with ease. • If you can't connect to the internet, but you've already got songs saved, you can play them offline. • All seven years of Charanga Musical School Scheme songs, from Reception through to Year 6. • Includes an searchable A-Z list of all our Freestyle performance tracks
Literacy Tree
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Welcome to the Literacy Tree app. It’s completely free to download and can be used by anyone with a Free, Individual or School Membership! Designed and built to support work-life balance and to help with teachers’ cognitive load, it’s an easy-to-access addition to the suite of book-based resources already on offer from the team at Literacy Tree. Here's a quick rundown of everything you can do inside the app… Adapt: Easily annotate any Literacy Tree plan in your account – no more printing or labour-intensive replanning. You can finally plan with ease knowing you can access and edit Literacy Tree book-based resources from anywhere. Just add an annotation bubble anywhere you like on the plan, and simply click on it to view or edit. The autosave function means you’ll never lose your work, and the edited plan will be available straight away in your account on the Literacy Tree website to print off or view. Not got the right resource in your account? Just navigate to our site and add the required resource and it’ll pop up in your account straight away ready to annotate! Capture Take a photo on your device of any of your pupils’ work, and save it straight to the app! Have children’s work available immediately and anywhere, by tagging the work to specific pupils, books, and even RATE standards – transforming assessment and moderation meetings once and for all! You can either save your samples straight to your device or you can upload them to the site where they could be added to our ever-growing ‘Work Samples’. You can even scroll through a selection of the very best Work Samples on the app Home Page too! Assess Easily assess pupils’ Writing and Reading using RATE. Create a class list and choose from one of the six assessment points across each year group. Once you’ve selected each standard (either met, partially met or not yet met), you can finalise the assessment for that period and the app will automatically calculate the Writing or Reading Standard (either emerging, developing or securing). Not ready to finalise? You can return to the assessment any time which will be autosaved on your device. Link work samples to standards, and transform assessment and moderation meetings – no more lugging books backwards and forwards between meetings! You’ll now have each child’s evidence at your fingertips to show when they’ve met each standard. You can even view and edit RATE assessments on the Literacy Tree website in your account, as well as create, edit and update class lists and year groups. Please note, RATE is only available to users with an Individual or School Membership. For purposes of data protection and compliance with GDPR, we recommend that the Literacy Tree app is installed and used only on school-approved devices.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Literacy Tree at every 5 days against Scheme Songs's every 7 months. Scheme Songs's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Scheme Songs ships an update every 7 months, Literacy Tree every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Scheme Songs | Literacy Tree |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Charanga Ltd | The Literacy Tree Ltd |
In-app purchases
Scheme Songs
No in-app purchases
Literacy Tree
No in-app purchases
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