MTI Player vs MT Pit Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MTI Player
This app allows users to play show scores using performance accompaniment recordings. It provides essential resources for musical theatre productions, offering immediate assistance for any emergencies during a show.
- Play show scores
- Performance accompaniment recordings
- Emergency production support
- Proprietary playback technology
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The MTI Player is Music Theatre International’s proprietary app designed to play a show’s score using the Performance Accompaniment Recording resource. For emergency help during your production, please contact 1-888-340-3505 for immediate assistance.
MT Pit Pro
Access a vast library of live-recorded instrumental backing tracks for musicals. This app allows you to control tempo, key, create vamps, and navigate measures in real-time for auditions, rehearsals, and performances.
- Extensive library of musical titles
- Full orchestration including songs and overtures
- Live-recorded tracks by professional musicians
- Adjustable tempo and key
- Create custom vamps
- Real-time measure navigation
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The MT Pit provides instrumental backing tracks for musicals. Gain access to an ever expanding library of titles, which contain the full orchestration (songs, overture, underscores). Use your device to play tracks for your auditions, rehearsal, but most importantly, your performance. All tracks are recorded live, with industry elite musicians, giving you the best substitute to a full orchestra. With the MT Pit Pro app you can change tempo, key, create vamps, and easily jump to any measure. Follow the music as measures are listed in real time. Get authorization from your organization to use all these features!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: MT Pit Pro at 5.0 against MTI Player's 2.6. MTI Player's advantage is ratings volume (88 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
MT Pit Pro holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MTI Player has 88 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
MTI Player ships an update every 6 months, MT Pit Pro every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MTI Player | MT Pit Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.6 (88 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 14.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 88 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Music Theatre International | TheMTPit |
Customer experience
MTI Player
MT Pit Pro
In-app purchases
MTI Player
No in-app purchases
MT Pit Pro
No in-app purchases
