Mintzer Big Band Essentials vs RhythmBot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mintzer Big Band Essentials
This music app offers an immersive big band experience, allowing users to isolate or mute individual instrument tracks from a library of 10 tunes. Charts and parts can be printed or emailed directly from the application.
- Isolate or mute individual instrument tracks
- Play along with a big band
- Library of 10 tunes
- Print or email charts and parts
- Supports multiple instruments
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Welcome to the Mintzer Big Band App. This is, by far, the most ambitious app production and undertaking ever for us here at Fuzzy Music Mobile. But we know that the hard work and expense is worth it, because this app does more to bring the big band experience to everyone anywhere than any other product.. How? While most “play-along” products allow for the user to “music-minus” two or three tracks, this app allows the user to minus (or solo) .. 1st (Lead) Trumpet 2nd Trumpet 1st Trombone Bass Trombone Lead Alto Lead Tenor Baritone Sax Piano Bass Guitar (2 tunes) Percussion (4 tunes) Drums Instrument Solos Each chart/part can be printed or emailed from the app. The are 10 tunes total in the Mintzer Big Band App library and store. Our hope is that you’ll dig the experience and the music so much that you’ll want to play along with all of this great music, played so well by so many great musicians.
RhythmBot
This app serves as a personal music coach, offering tools for sight-reading practice, rhythm creation, and metronome functionality. It helps musicians master complex rhythms and enhance their creativity through customizable exercises and performance tracking.
- Infinite rhythm generation
- Customizable rhythm parameters
- Sight-reading practice mode
- Play-along accuracy tracking
- Advanced metronome functions
- Stepwise rhythm trainer
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RhythmBot is your personal sight-reading coach, creative tool, and metronome. Master complex rhythms and become more creative on your instrument. RhythmBot creates infinite new rhythms according to the parameters you set, which include complexity, tempo, time signature, subdivision, playback sound, swing percentage, and more. *READING MODE: An infinite scroll of sight-reading practice at your complexity level. *PLAY ALONG MODE: RhythmBot measures your accuracy and longest streak as you tap the rhythms. - Start simple and increase complexity. - See your stats after each attempt. - Push yourself by drilling rhythms that you missed. METRONOME - Tempo control - Tap tempo - Innovative outer wheels for subdivision and signature - Practice timer - Individual click volume control - Individual click accent or rest - *Gap click - *Stepwise trainer (increase, decrease, alternate) - *Save to setlist *Upgrade to RHYTHMBOT PRO to unlock: - Sight-reading mode - Play along mode - Playback sound controls - Subdivision controls - Time signature controls - Presets - Swing percentage - “Add space” slider - Metronome setlist, gap click, and stepwise trainer
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: RhythmBot at Free against Mintzer Big Band Essentials's $7.99. RhythmBot also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4) and review sentiment (96% vs 58%). Mintzer Big Band Essentials's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). On 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
RhythmBot is free to download; Mintzer Big Band Essentials costs $7.99 up front. Mintzer Big Band Essentials sells 9 one-off in-app purchases and RhythmBot sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
RhythmBot holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RhythmBot has 144 ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 58% of Mintzer Big Band Essentials's written reviews are positive against 96% of RhythmBot's.
Mintzer Big Band Essentials ships an update every 19 months, RhythmBot every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Mintzer Big Band Essentials | RhythmBot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $7.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.4 (20 ratings) | 5.0 (144 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 58.3% of reviews | 96.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 20 | 144 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 19 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 700 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fuzzy Music, LLC | Jean-Pierre Bouvet |
Customer experience
Mintzer Big Band Essentials
RhythmBot
Bugs and requests
Mintzer Big Band Essentials
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
RhythmBot
Requested features
2 requests- Include triplets, tuplets and ties
- Expand rhythm generation capabilities
In-app purchases
Mintzer Big Band Essentials
- El Caborojeño$2.99
- Havin' Some Fun Package$2.99
- Ellis Island Package$2.99
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- Original People Package$2.99
- New Rochelle Package$2.99
- Runferyerlife Package$2.99
- Latin Dance Package$2.99
- Tribute Package$2.99
- All Songs Bundle$19.99
RhythmBot
- RhythmBot Pro2 variants$4.99
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