Backing Track Builder vs Guitar Jam Backing Tracks
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 Jam Backing Tracks
Access royalty-free guitar backing tracks with seamless loops for practice, lessons, and live performances. Explore a variety of genres and keys, with offline playback and built-in tuning aids. Created by musicians for musicians.
- Royalty-free backing tracks
- Seamless loops
- Browse by key and genre
- Offline playback
- Built-in drone and tuning
- Made by musicians
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Guitar Jam Backing Tracks gives you royalty-free guitar backing tracks with seamless loops for practice, lessons, studio and live gigs. Made by musicians, not AI-generated, the tracks are built to help you improvise, solo and stay in the groove across blues, rock, pop and more. Features - Royalty-free backing tracks for practice, lessons, studio and gigs - Made by musicians, not AI-generated - Seamless loops that keep the groove going - Browse by key and genre - Offline playback anywhere - No accounts, no sign-ups, just play - Built-in drone and tuning references Terms of Use TLDR: Simple application, no nonsense https://guitarjam.fun/terms Privacy Policy TLDR: No accounts required, no personalized data collected https://guitarjam.fun/privacy Download Guitar Jam Backing Tracks and keep the right track ready wherever you play.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Guitar Jam Backing Tracks at 5.0 against Backing Track Builder's 2.4. Backing Track Builder's advantage is ratings volume (19 vs 1) and update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Backing Track Builder sells 18 one-off in-app purchases and Guitar Jam Backing Tracks sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Guitar Jam Backing Tracks holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Backing Track Builder has 19 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Backing Track Builder ships an update monthly, Guitar Jam Backing Tracks every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Backing Track Builder | Guitar Jam Backing Tracks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.4 (19 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 37.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 19 — better | 1 |
| 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 | 15 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 191 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jonathan Bell | Constlet Oy |
Customer experience
Backing Track Builder
Guitar Jam Backing Tracks
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 Jam Backing Tracks
- Premium Access - Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Monthly Premium Access$1.991 Month
- Premium Access - Annually$7.991 Year
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- Annual Premium Access$7.991 Year
- Lifetime Premium Access$13.99
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