Backing Track Builder vs Jam
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.
Jam
Practice and play along with original backing tracks for guitar, piano, bass, and ukulele. Visualize chord progressions and musical scales on interactive fretboards and keyboards. Adjust tempo and key, and loop sections for focused practice.
- Original backing tracks
- Visual chord progressions
- Fretboard and keyboard display
- Adjustable tempo and key
- Looping practice sections
- 31 musical scales
- 140+ chords
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Jam-Master helps guitar, piano, ukulele, bass plays to play and practice with high-quality original backing tracks and visual notes progression. Features : - Wide variety of original backing tracks for you to play along . You can see their live chord progression on a guitar fretboard or piano so you know the right notes to hit ! - 4 instruments supported: Guitar, Piano, Bass, Ukulele - Shift the key and tempo of any of your songs .- Loop any part of your song for better practice .- Guitar / Piano display of 31 musical scales in any key and more than more than 140 chords - All kinds of scales of Modes like Major, Minor, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian etc Backing tracks genres : Rock, Blues, Metal, Ambient, Jazz etc Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Jam at 4.8 against Backing Track Builder's 2.4. Backing Track Builder's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (19 vs 6). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Backing Track Builder sells 18 one-off in-app purchases and Jam sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Jam holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 19 and 6 respectively.
Backing Track Builder ships an update monthly, Jam every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Backing Track Builder | Jam |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.4 (19 ratings) | 4.8 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 37.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 19 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| 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 | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jonathan Bell | 群 丁 |
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Backing Track Builder
Jam
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
Jam
- Subscribe Weekly$4.997 Days
- Subscribe Monthly$17.991 Month
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