Backing Track Builder vs Guitar Driller
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Backing Track Builder
Create custom backing tracks for practice or songwriting. Choose chords, tempo, and style from a wide variety of genres. Features live instruments and suggested scales for guitarists.
- Create billions of unique jam tracks
- Select chords, tempo, and style
- Wide range of musical genres
- Random chord progression generation
- Uses live instrument sounds
- Suggests scales and displays diagrams for guitarists
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************************************ Create you own custom jam tracks. Pick your chords, tempo and style and let Backing Track Builder do the rest! FEATURES: CREATE LITERALLY BILLIONS OF POSSIBLE JAM TRACKS. It's like having your own personal backing band! BUILD YOUR TRACK YOUR WAY. Choose the perfect chords, tempo and style. WIDE RANGE OF STYLES IN A VARIETY OF GENRES. Rock, blues, jazz, metal, pop, country and more. GET PLAYING IMMEDIATELY WITH RANDOM CHORD SEQUENCES. Randomly generate chord progressions for rock, blues and jazz. ALL TRACKS USE LIVE INSTRUMENTS. Midi sequencers and drum machines are not used. SUGGESTED SCALES FOR EACH TRACK. Backing Track Builder will also suggest scales and display diagrams for guitar players. ---------------------------------------------------------- The custom tracks are great for improvising for guitarists, pianists, saxophonists and other instrumentalists. The tracks are also very useful for song writers. 20 STYLES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE: Moody Blues: Straight back beat guitar chops, organ chords and a low bass riff. Pop Strums: 16th note strummed guitar with a syncopated rhythm. Aussie Rock: Distorted guitar chords with an offbeat rhythm, powerful drums and a constant 8th note bass guitar pulse. Blues Swing: Muted swing guitar with a lead organ part. Metal Riffing: 16th note metal guitar riff with roots, thirds or fifths. Agressive drums. It's like having your own heavy metal band in a phone! Blues Rhoads: Rhythmic Fender Rhoads piano recorded with a DI box along with a straight rhythm and cross stick drums. Simple Jazz: Major, minor, 7 and a wide range of other piano chords with 2 beats per bar accompanied by a swing hihat. Piano Rock: Play-along with driving piano chords with solid drums. Slow and Heavy: Slow, heavy powerchords with a high harmony lead guitar. Piano Rock: Driving piano chords with solid drums. Funky Organ: Crunchy Hammond organ with a 16th note syncopated rhythm. Split Strums: Strums in 2/4 time. Great for creating tracks with split bars. Keys and Pad: Electric piano arpeggios over soft synth pad. Soft Picking: Slow muted arpeggios with a synth pad accompaniment. Ballad Arps: Soaring piano arpeggios with a subtle synth pad. Jazz Trio: Classic piano, drums and bass trio. Organ Rock: Distorted organ with a swing rhythm eigths rhythm. Slow Blues: Blues swing with piano and organ comping. Offbeat Pop: Offbeat strums with a funky bass line. Big Band Jazz: Fast swing with horns. Metal Groove: Palm muted power chord chugs with an eight note drum beat. Smooth Jazz: Muted guitar with a straight 16ths feel. 6/8 Ballad: Slow arpeggios in a 6/8 time signature. Blues Piano: Piano, upright bass and jazz brushes in a jazz blues style. Epic Rock: Slow rock ballad. Rock Arps: Clean electric guitar arpeggios with power chords. Simple Blues: Piano, organ, bass and drums with a slow shuffle beat. Fast Rock: Fast hard rock power chords. The chords used include major, minor, minor7, major7, dominant7, minor7b5, altered dominants, add9 and diminished 7th.
Guitar Driller
Organize and enhance your guitar training with custom playlists. Integrate exercises from other compatible apps, add drum tracks, and fine-tune tempo and metronome settings for a personalized practice experience.
- Create and edit custom exercise playlists
- Import exercises from other Fonexsis apps
- Add drums to exercises
- Store different tempo values per exercise
- Modify metronome and drum set settings
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Introducing our new outstanding «Guitar Driller» app! This app is developed especially to help guitarists to organize their training exercises in many ways. It allows you to create various playlists from your favorite exercises by integrating different content from the other Fonexsis apps, installed on your device, as well as to learn and to explore new innovative guitar material from optionally purchased Guitar Driller packs. Guitar Driller supports all the features of the other guitar apps, released by Fonexsis, plus: ◦ Create and edit your own playlists of exercises for your guitar training; ◦ Import exercises from the other Fonexsis apps that support Guitar Driller integration; ◦ Add drums to exercises instead of metronome sounds; ◦ You can store different tempo values for every exercise in your playlist, as well as modify other settings like Metrotone beat, bar size, harmony timbre, drum sets and more! GUITAR DRILLER INTEGRATION There are two ways you can use your Fonexsis guitar apps with Guitar Driller. First, you can access them from Guitar Driller's "My Content" list to pick up exercises for creating your playlists. Second, you can add your favorite exercises directly to Guitar Driller's playlists from the other apps themselves by tapping a star button under the fretboard and selecting "Copy to Driller..." menu from within the app. To make your previously purchased Fonexsis guitar apps accessible from Guitar Driller's "My Content" list, please update these apps to their latest versions, and ensure they support Guitar Driller Integration. Then just launch each of these apps at least one time, and they will become available in Guitar Driller. We will be gradually adding Guitar Driller Integration support to most of our guitar apps. You can find out if the app already supports it in its description on the App Store. Here's the list of apps, that currently support Guitar Driller Integration: ◦ Guitar Modes Symmetry School ◦ Economy Picking Guitar School ◦ Swybrid Picking Guitar School ◦ International Guitar Chords 1, 2 and LE ◦ Bluesman Guitar Scales 1 and 2 ◦ Guitar Modal Pentatonic Scales ◦ Sweep Picking Guitar Arpeggios ◦ Two Handed Touch Guitar Arpeggios For more information please visit http://www.fonexsis.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Guitar Driller at 4.7 against Backing Track Builder's 2.4. Guitar Driller also leads on review sentiment (78% vs 37%) and ratings volume (95 vs 19). Backing Track Builder's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 12.0). 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. Backing Track Builder sells 18 one-off in-app purchases and Guitar Driller sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Guitar Driller holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Guitar Driller has 95 ratings behind it against 19, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 37% of Backing Track Builder's written reviews are positive against 78% of Guitar Driller's.
Backing Track Builder ships an update monthly, Guitar Driller every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 21, 2026.
| Parameter | Backing Track Builder | Guitar Driller |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.4 (19 ratings) | 4.7 (95 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 37.2% of reviews | 78.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 19 | 95 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jonathan Bell | Fonexsis |
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Backing Track Builder
Guitar Driller
In-app purchases
Backing Track Builder
- Unlock the Aussie Rock style$0.99
- Unlock the Blues Swing style$0.99
- Unlock the Metal Riffing style$0.99
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- Unlock the Simple Jazz style$0.99
- Unlock the Piano Rock style$0.99
- Unlock the Slow & Heavy style$0.99
- Unlock the Funky Organ style$0.99
- Unlock the Ballad Arps style$0.99
- Unlock the Jazz Trio style$0.99
- Unlock the Organ Rock style$0.99
- Unlock the Slow Blues style$0.99
- Unlock the Big Band Jazz style$0.99
- Unlock the Simple Blues style$0.99
- Unlock the 6/8 Ballad style$0.99
- Unlock the Epic Rock style$0.99
- Unlock the Soft Picking style$0.99
- Unlock the Smooth Jazz style$0.99
- Unlock all styles$6.99
Guitar Driller
- (7-Note) Modal Arpeggios$1.99
- Pentatonic: Chromatic Approach$1.99
- Famous Riffs on Guitar$1.99
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- Sliding Pentatonic$2.99
- Warm-up Licks$2.99
- Crosspick Patterns$3.99
- Lydian Triad Pairs$4.99
- Ionian Displace Permutations$4.99
- Melodic Minor Sequences$4.99
- Guitar Aerobics$6.99
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