Comparison

BANDIMAL vs Score

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

BANDIMAL

This app introduces children to music creation through an intuitive interface. Kids can experiment with different animal instruments, create drum loops, and add effects, all while enjoying amusing animations. It's designed to be a fun and pressure-free way to explore musical creativity.

Highlights
  • Nine animal instruments
  • Create drum loops
  • Change loop speeds and add effects
  • Save compositions
  • Lively animations and audio
  • No ads
Features
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Introduce your kid to the joy of making music! BANDIMAL is a fun and intuitive music composer that lets kids discover the creative world of making music. Set up a drum loop, swipe through animals to change instruments, compose melodies, change loop speeds and add a quirky effect on top. Amusing animals animate in hilarious ways as you perfect your song. Everything will sound great - we designed it that way! Features: + Play with 9 animals as instruments + Create catchy drum loops in the beat section + Switch between loop speeds and apply effects + Save compositions to your collection + Lively animations and impressive audio + No failing, no goal, no wrong or right + Supports all iPads and iPhones with iOS 14 or later + No internet access needed! + No advertisements! We recommend headphones to enjoy the full experience! Learn more about YATATOY: yatatoy.com Contact us for assistance or to give feedback: https://yatatoy.com/info/ MADE BY YATATOY

About

Score

This app is an animated music notation editor designed for music education. It allows users to compose, import, and play back music with engaging visual aids and customizable features for various learning levels and instruments.

Highlights
  • Animated music notes
  • Solfège playback
  • Color customization for notes
  • Import/export MusicXML and MIDI
  • Melodic to rhythmic staff view
  • Accessibility options for colorblindness
Features
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Cornelius composer is the first ANIMATED music editor, where music notes become alive! Compose, import, show, and reproduce your music by adapting the presentation to students' ages with animated and colorful music notes and accessibility features for color-blind beginners! Customize the color scale to match your boomwhackers or other instrument sets in the classroom! Music teachers can introduce pupils to sheet music and reproduce arrangements and compositions with the world's first SOLFÈGE playback! Create an opportunity in teaching how to read music, it's a unique sight-reading experience! Do you use Musescore, Sibelius, Finale, Flat, or other professional software? No problem! Feel free to import your work and reproduce it with our educational features. Export and keep editing with other software if you like or share with your students, and let them keep up at home with Cornelius Composer on their tablets, smartphones, or desktop PCs. Cornelius Composer is a simple sheet music editor with powerful features for everyone to use anywhere! What is so cool about Cornelius Composer? • It matches the curriculum and the expectations of music educators in elementary and general music education • You can create, import, and reproduce arrangements in the classroom and let your students play along • Use your touchscreen, smart- and interactive boards! User-friendly Interface for large screens • Introduce students to read sheet music with the solfège feedback – Educational Feature #1 • Animate your music notes to engage younger kids - E. F. #2 • Customize the color of each music note to match with your instruments in the classroom – boomwhackers, Orff, Glockenspiel, or other reading methods – E. F. #3 • Change the whole music staff from melodic to rhythmic view in seconds - E. F. #4 • Let your students compose and let them change the notes during the playback developing their listening skills – E. F. #5 • Kids can use it at home and import your music files • Accessibility Options for Colorblindness • Multiple staves for piano, exercises, and small school band arrangements • Import your work from previously used software or your favorite online content (MusicXML or MIDI) • Export scores and share them with your students (MusicXML, MIDI, or PDF)  • It makes part of the World of Music App Suite – Elementary Music Educational Apps Hey, teachers... leave your kids practicing at home! • Import the score from the teacher, reproduce the score and understand how it sounds like • Reproduce it with the solfège function and increase your sight-reading skills • Change to horizontal mode and play along with sheet music • Interact with funny animated music notes • Adapt the tempo and loop to exercise • Keep up and play together with the metronome • Exercise with the available music instruments – piano, violin, trumpet, clarinet, boomwhackers, soprano recorder, tenor recorder, flute & other • Transpose any score into any key What do you get with the PREMIUM VERSION?  • Import, export, and save as many scores as you like. In the app trial, you can only create/edit up to 2 music scores • Fair and transparent pricing to support our passion – Onetime Purchase! • Test for FREE! Only if it matches your expectations consider purchasing it and supporting our passion.   • Prices can be different from country to country. Please write us if you feel that our pricing is not fair.  • Attention Music Teachers: You can use the “for schools” version for FREE! About us  We are an enthusiastic young team passionately creating meaningful music apps and games for kids, children, and music teachers. Our dream is to introduce kids to music, reading, and performing an instrument, game-based, in a fun way, together with the use of elementary music educators worldwide. All our awarded educational apps are part of the app suite called "World of Music Apps" The innovative educational approach brought Classplash worldwide recognition at Microsoft Educational Forums.

Screenshots

BANDIMAL4 screens
Score4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Score at Free against BANDIMAL's $4.99. Score also leads on update cadence (every 3 months vs every 6 months) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). BANDIMAL's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 3.6) and in-app purchases (none vs 6). On review sentiment, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Score is free to download; BANDIMAL costs $4.99 up front. Score sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. BANDIMAL asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

BANDIMAL holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BANDIMAL has 2.3K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of BANDIMAL's written reviews are positive against 73% of Score's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BANDIMAL ships an update every 6 months, Score every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
BANDIMAL versus Score: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBANDIMALScore
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (2.3K ratings) — better3.6 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews78.5% of reviews — better72.7% of reviews
Number of ratings2.3K — better5
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size137 MB146 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYATATOYInsignio Labs

Customer experience

BANDIMAL

All ratings2,274 ratings
Positive91.3%
Neutral4.9%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews186 reviews
Positive78.5%
Neutral5.9%
Negative15.6%

Score

All ratings5 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative40.0%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive72.7%
Neutral9.1%
Negative18.2%

Bugs and requests

BANDIMAL

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Crashes after adding multiple animals
  • Glitches and visual bugs with animations
  • Compatibility issues with certain devices
  • Sound not working in some cases

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more animals and sound options
  • Ability to save and export compositions
  • More customization options for music creation
  • Tutorials or instructions for first-time users
  • Support for older/less powerful devices

Score

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

BANDIMAL

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

Score

One-time6
  • Cornelius Composer - Full App$4.99
  • Cornelius Composer - Full App$5.99
  • Cornelius Composer - Full App$6.99
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  • Cornelius Composer - Full App$7.99
  • Full App Unlock$8.99
  • Full App Unlock$9.99

Questions

Is BANDIMAL free?
BANDIMAL costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Score free?
Score is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, BANDIMAL or Score?
BANDIMAL is rated higher. BANDIMAL averages 4.7 out of 5 from 2.3K ratings, while Score averages 3.6 from 5 ratings.
Do BANDIMAL or Score have ads?
Neither BANDIMAL nor Score shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BANDIMAL or Score?
BANDIMAL ships an update every 6 months, and Score every 3 months. Most recently, BANDIMAL was updated on October 29, 2026 and Score on October 24, 2026.

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