PlaySections vs Suede Guitar Tuner & Studio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PlaySections
This app allows users to mark and play specific sections of audio and video files. It's ideal for practicing music, learning languages, or transcribing audio with features like loop playback, speed and pitch adjustment, and vocal cancellation.
- Section marking and playback
- Loop playback for sections or songs
- Adjustable playback speed and pitch
- Vocal cancellation and EQ
- Import from Music Library and other apps
- YouTube video support
- Background playback
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PlaySections is an audio/video player that allows you to freely set marks and play back specific sections of your audio/video files. For example, while you're playing music, you can insert marks where the song transitions between the verse and the chorus, dividing the song into sections. Then you can pick a section from the generated section list and listen to any part of the song. For each section title, you can enter multiple lines of text. As a result, in addition to verse/chorus labels, you can make notes about the chord progression, measure count, lyrics, and so on, offering a tool that you can use for many purposes. PlaySections supports section and song loop playback, allowing you to listen to your favorite section on loop. It also features useful functionality including tempo/playback speed adjustment, pitch shift, vocal cancellation, 7 band equalizer, and flip video, making it a perfect app to use in instrument, vocal, or dance practice, or when playing music by ear. Not only can it read files from the iOS Music Library, but by using the Share Extension/Open-in functionality, you can import files from other applications. For example, you can load a recording from the Voice Memo app that comes standard on the iPhone, letting you create and play back a section list for a song that you performed yourself. Even more, you can use it to study a new language, or to prepare meeting notes. Version 4.0.0 adds support for YouTube videos. Many uses - Set marks for intro, verses, chorus, instrumental solo - Set chord progressions and lyrics for each section - Practice of playing musical instruments, singing, and dancing - Analyze music structure, chords for music dictation - Great for language learners, transcription from audio files of meeting/conference Feature Highlights - Music Library Integration - YouTube video - Waveform scroll - Section Marks - Section title edit - Loop playback (section, song) - Speed control (-50% to +200%) * - Pitch control (-12 to +12) ** - 7 bands EQ control (-24dB to +12dB) ** - FX (vocal cancel) ** - Flip Video (except for YouTube videos) - Share Extension, Open-in support (File import) - Remote control, AirTurn support - Low latency playback (Audio Unit support) - Supports all major audio/video formats (AAC, MP3, WAV, AIFF, FLAC [requires iOS 11], MP4, MOV...) - Background playback (except for YouTube videos) - VoiceOver - Drag & Drop on iPad - Inter-App Audio,** * No support for DRM contents (Apple Music, ...) ** No support for Video, YouTube and DRM contents Support http://playsections.github.io/ https://twitter.com/PlaySections playsections@gmail.com --- Video by TRIAMPERSANDY - ROLLY-POP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RC_rV_dCCg
Suede Guitar Tuner & Studio
This app offers a comprehensive guitar practice studio with a precise tuner, timing trainer, chord identifier, and rig management tools. It helps musicians improve their playing, maintain their instruments, and capture musical ideas.
- Strobe-style and polyphonic guitar tuner
- Chord ID and scale visualization
- Metronome and timing trainer
- Pedalboard signal-chain builder
- Guitar setup and room diagnostics
- Song idea and note capture
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Play one string. Read the needle. Move on. Suede Guitar Tuner & Studio is a native chromatic tuner with the everyday tools around it: chords, scales, a metronome, an idea recorder, and a bench to ask. No ads. No sign-in. No subscription. Open the app and tune. THE TUNER - A steady note and cents readout for one string at a time - Auto string detection, or lock a string by hand - Standard, Drop D, half and whole step down, DADGAD, Open G, D, and E - Chromatic mode for anything else, with a reference pitch from 415 to 466 Hz - A quiet haptic tick when the string lands FRETBOARD - Chord voicings for every root: open shapes plus movable barre shapes - Scale maps for major, minor, pentatonic, blues, and the modes - Chord shapes in standard tuning; scale maps in your selected tuning PULSE BY ANTHONY J - A metronome that schedules clicks on the audio sample clock - Tempo 30 to 300, tap tempo, meters from 2/4 to 12/8, subdivisions to sixteenths - Tap a beat to accent it or mute it - Keeps playing when you switch apps SUEDE SESSIONS - One tap to record. One tap to stop. Save a take when you stop recording - Rename, play back, share, or delete from one list ASK - Johnny, the luthier: setup, action, intonation, frets, nuts, and care - Ruby Sable, the tone tech: amps, pedals, pickups, and signal chain - Anthony J, the percussionist: time, subdivision, and practice routines Private by design. Microphone audio is processed on your device for tuning and session capture. The app does not send recordings to the AI service. You can share recordings, and device backups may include them. Ask sends your conversation, tuning, reference pitch, and latest tuner reading through Suede AI to OpenRouter and OpenAI. The three personas are AI-generated, and replies can be wrong. Clear a conversation in Ask to remove it from this device. Independent, musician-built, and proudly not made by Fender. Built by Suede AI.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Suede Guitar Tuner & Studio at Free against PlaySections's $3.99. Suede Guitar Tuner & Studio also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 77%). PlaySections's advantage is ratings volume (16 vs 2). On rating, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Suede Guitar Tuner & Studio is free to download; PlaySections costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for PlaySections against 5.0 for Suede Guitar Tuner & Studio. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PlaySections has 16 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 77% of PlaySections's written reviews are positive against 100% of Suede Guitar Tuner & Studio's.
PlaySections ships an update every 3 weeks, Suede Guitar Tuner & Studio every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PlaySections | Suede Guitar Tuner & Studio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.9 (16 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hiroshi Kajihata | jason colapietro |
Customer experience
PlaySections
Suede Guitar Tuner & Studio
In-app purchases
PlaySections
No in-app purchases
Suede Guitar Tuner & Studio
No in-app purchases
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