Down An Escalator vs PeriPage
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Down An Escalator
Engage with ten interactive music theory games designed to enhance your understanding of key signatures, scales, intervals, triads, and more. Track your progress with an in-app leaderboard and utilize the 'Show' button for assistance.
- Ten interactive music theory games
- Covers key signatures and scales
- Interval and triad recognition
- Music symbols and terms
- Time signatures and rests
- In-app leaderboard
- Hints available
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10 Games in one App to improve your Music Theory through play. Fun interactive games. Topics include: Major and Minor Key Signatures Major and Harmonic Minor Scales Recognising and Building Major and Perfect Intervals Recognising Triads Music Symbols and Terms Time Signatures Rests Includes in-App Leaderboard to encourage achievement of High Scores. Some games include ‘Show’ button to display correct answers if you can’t work them out! Based on areas covered in the book ‘Down an Escalator Backwards’, by Belinda J.Byers
PeriPage
This mini printer allows you to print photos, notes, lists, labels, and more using various thermal paper types. It aims to make your life, study, and work easier and more enjoyable with its versatile printing capabilities.
- Print photos
- Print notes and lists
- Print labels
- AR printing
- Web page printing
- OCR functionality
- Supports various thermal papers
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Print you like, enjoy little happiness. PeriPage mini printer. It can print photos, notes, lists, labels, AR phone, web pages, OCR, material moments and more functions. There are many kinds of thermal papers (note paper, label, full sticky paper, part sticky paper, photo paper and so on). PeriPage will make your life, study and work easier and more fun.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: PeriPage at Free against Down An Escalator's $2.99. PeriPage also leads on rating (4.7 vs 1.0) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 39 months). Down An Escalator's advantage is review sentiment (50% vs 32%). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
PeriPage is free to download; Down An Escalator costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
PeriPage holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PeriPage has 2.7K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Down An Escalator's written reviews are positive against 32% of PeriPage's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Down An Escalator ships an update every 39 months, PeriPage every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Down An Escalator | PeriPage |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 4.7 (2.7K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 32.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2.7K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 39 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 112 MB | 281 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Belinda Byers | 厦门爱立得科技有限公司 |
Customer experience
Down An Escalator
PeriPage
Bugs and requests
Down An Escalator
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
PeriPage
Reported bugs
4 issues- App gets stuck in tutorial or on certain screens
- Printer not recognized or unable to connect
- Printing issues like paper jamming or not feeding properly
- App crashes or freezes after recent updates
Requested features
4 requests- Add more font options, especially for Arabic
- Improve resizing and editing capabilities
- Expand compatibility to more devices like iPad
- Bring back removed features like tattoo printing
In-app purchases
Down An Escalator
No in-app purchases
PeriPage
No in-app purchases
Questions
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