Down An Escalator vs Tes Magazine
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
Tes Magazine
Stay informed about the latest education news, trends, and insights. This app provides award-winning journalism covering school happenings, leadership strategies, and practical teaching advice. Access essential articles on pedagogy and research anytime, anywhere.
- Education news updates
- School leadership trends
- Teaching and learning articles
- Latest research and pedagogy
- Practical advice for educators
- Award-winning journalism
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The Tes magazine app brings you an essential guide to what’s happening in schools, both in and out of the classroom. Keep up to date with education’s biggest news stories and must-read analysis, discover key leadership trends and strategic insights, and dive into teaching and learning articles covering the latest research, pedagogy and practical advice. The Tes magazine app is free to download and enables you to read our award-winning journalism for schools wherever and whenever it suits you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Tes Magazine at Free against Down An Escalator's $2.99. Tes Magazine also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.0) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 39 months). Down An Escalator's advantage is review sentiment (50% vs 33%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Tes Magazine 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.
Tes Magazine holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Down An Escalator's written reviews are positive against 33% of Tes Magazine'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, Tes Magazine every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Down An Escalator | Tes Magazine |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — 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 — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 112 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Belinda Byers | TES Global |
Customer experience
Down An Escalator
Tes Magazine
In-app purchases
Down An Escalator
No in-app purchases
Tes Magazine
No in-app purchases
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