Sensation Drill vs AxeScales
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sensation Drill
Practice trumpet sight-reading with randomized musical scores featuring unexpected intervals. Focus on intonation and attacks to improve your inner ear and embouchure. The app generates new scores with a tap and allows intuitive zooming.
- Randomized musical score generation
- Unexpected interval exercises
- Focus on intonation and attacks
- Improve inner ear and embouchure
- Intuitive pinch-to-zoom score display
- Real-time music score rendering
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Train your sight reading and trumpet playing skills by playing unexpected intervals. As proposed by Clint 'Pops' McLaughlin the Sensation Drill app generates random scores with intervals you can't remember from well-known melodies. Playing this music-scores with focus on intonation and proper attacks will improve your inner ear and your embouchure. By tapping on the display the app will generate a completely new score. Scores can be zoomed be intuitive pinch gestures which trigger a complete re-formatting of the score. This app uses the GUIDOLib for rendering high quality music scores in real-time.
AxeScales
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Learn the Major and Minor Scales on Guitar. Select from Heptatonic (7 Note), Hexatonic (6 Note), Pentatonic (5 Note), Blues (6 Note), or Arpeggios (3 Notes), from any Root Note, for each Major and Minor Scale. (A total of 120 different combinations!) Shows the Scale Degree of each note in the Scale, with the Root Notes of each Scale highlighted. Each note will play when clicked. Fret numbers are shown below the Fretboard.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: AxeScales at every 3 days against Sensation Drill's every 28 months. Sensation Drill's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $1.99). On ads, in-app purchases, 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
Sensation Drill costs $0.99 and AxeScales $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Sensation Drill ships an update every 28 months, AxeScales every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sensation Drill | AxeScales |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 28 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kilian IT-Consulting | Joseph Svantner |
In-app purchases
Sensation Drill
No in-app purchases
AxeScales
No in-app purchases
