Guitar Notepad vs Listento Player
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Guitar Notepad
Easily create, edit, and share guitar tablature with a touch-screen fretboard interface. Add chords, lyrics, and advanced techniques, then export to PDF or text. Organize your songs and sync them to the cloud.
- Touch-screen fretboard input
- Add chords, lyrics, and performance notes
- Customizable strings and tunings
- Advanced editing tools (cut, copy, paste, undo)
- Export to PDF and text
- Cloud saving and sharing
- Tab playback
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Guitar Notepad helps you easily and quickly jot down song ideas in guitar tab, save them to the cloud and email them to band mates. I created this app as I found that when playing around with ideas on my own, or after a jam session, I was still using paper to jot down ideas. I have tried some of the other tab writing apps out there but none of them used the touch screen like a guitar fret board which really speeds things up. I'm keen to make this app as useful as possible so please feel free to contact me if you want any new features added. Create and Edit Tab: - Edit song details like title, artist, transcribed by and tempo - Add time signatures, lyrics and performance notes - Add chords, strum patterns and lyrics above your tabbed notes (no other apps I've seen support this!) - Add any number of strings and custom tunings including 4,5,6 and 7 string guitars/bass guitars - Use touch screen to quickly add notes with a single tap - Choose from common chord patterns to save time - Add techniques likes slides, hammer ons, pull offs muted notes, harmonics, tremolo, vibrato, ghosts/ties, tapping and more - Backspace as well as delete button for faster editing - Cut, copy and paste sections of tab, even between different songs - Undo button - the last 10 actions are recorded and can be undone - Continuous chord mode - saves having to perform an extra tap to start adding chords - Option to view notes on the fret board - Supports repeated bar notation - Tab Playback (no note modulation for now) - Can change guitar neck to left handed view - Supports note lengths from whole notes to 1/64, dotted notes and triplets - Add a capo View, Export and Share: - Export to PDF or text - Transpose songs up and down - Organize songs by artists or use tags to create albums and setlists - Use autoscroll to view tabs and play along - Layout optimised for both tablets and phones - Zoom in and out depending on your screen size - Print from device - Save songs to file in your cloud storage like Dropbox, or export via email. - Ability to perform a full backup and restore - useful if you are switching devices - Import songs shared from other people's Guitar Notepad apps - View and search through your songs by title, artist name or last modified time
Listento Player
This application allows users to listen to music. It provides a platform for experiencing audio content. The app is designed for music enthusiasts.
- Music playback
- Audio content experience
- iOS compatibility
- Free to use
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Guitar Notepad at 59% against Listento Player's 0%. Guitar Notepad also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). Listento Player's advantage is price (Free vs $1.99) and rating (4.3 vs 3.6). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Listento Player is free to download; Guitar Notepad costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Listento Player holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 27 and 16 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 59% of Guitar Notepad's written reviews are positive against 0% of Listento Player's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Guitar Notepad ships an update every 2 months, Listento Player every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 3, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Guitar Notepad | Listento Player |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.6 (27 ratings) | 4.3 (16 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 59.2% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 27 — better | 16 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Codefad | Audiomovers |
Customer experience
Guitar Notepad
Listento Player
In-app purchases
Guitar Notepad
No in-app purchases
Listento Player
No in-app purchases
