Comparison

ABRSM Singing Practice Partner vs Riyaz

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

ABRSM Singing Practice Partner

This app allows singers to practice with piano accompaniments. Users can transpose tracks to their preferred key, adjust tempo, and loop difficult sections. It offers individual song purchases and full songbook selections.

Highlights
  • Transpose accompaniments to any key
  • Adjust practice tempo
  • Loop difficult musical passages
  • Access 66 piano accompaniments
  • Purchase individual tracks or songbook selections
Features
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Discover a new way to practise! The official ABRSM Singing Practice Partner app gives you flexibility like never before. Featuring all 66 piano accompaniments* from the new ABRSM Songbook Plus series, you can download the tracks you need and sing them in your chosen key, at your chosen speed! With the app, you can: • Choose the key that best suits your voice – the accompaniments are available in all 12 keys • Change the speed without altering the pitch and practise at a tempo that suits you • Repeat tricky passages by setting loops around them Singing Practice Partner comes with one example piece from the new Grade 3 ABRSM Songbook Plus. In app you can purchase: Individual pieces • Any accompaniment track* from the new ABRSM Songbook Plus series, for Grades 1–5. Songbook Plus selections • All accompaniment tracks* from each ABRSM Songbook Plus book for Grades 1-5. To use the accompaniment tracks in Singing Practice Partner, the Songbook Plus audio must be downloaded within the app. *Please note that the accompaniments available to purchase in-app match the exam requirements as described in the ABRSM Songbook Plus books. Where appropriate, cuts or edits have been made to the pieces to achieve this.

About

Riyaz

Learn to sing with instant feedback and thousands of practice lessons across various music styles. Track your progress and overcome mistakes with smart visual tools. Suitable for all ages and skill levels, from beginner to professional.

Highlights
  • Instant vocal feedback
  • Thousands of practice lessons
  • Carnatic, Hindustani, Devotional, Western styles
  • Smart visual tanpura
  • Voice recording and analysis
  • Progress tracking
  • Supports all voice types
Features
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Is singing your childhood dream? Let’s make that a reality! Riyaz has fulfilled the dreams of 30,00,000+ passionate singing aspirants. Just invest 10-15 mins a day on yourself. Be a proud connoisseur and a happy lifelong learner of music! Learn and practice singing with precise, instant feedback that guides you optimally to overcome your mistakes! No shyness, no embarrassment! With Riyaz, anybody can learn to sing! Give it a shot!! Download now and have ready access to thousands of practice lessons and songs in Carnatic, Hindustani classical, Devotional (light classical), and Western classical music styles! The smart visual tanpura in Riyaz helps you know and fix your mistakes before anyone else can. Let Riyaz record your practices to understand how much you exercised your voice! Top riyazers spend more than an hour daily doing sadhana and learning singing with the lessons offered! Join us today! Do get in touch with us (feedback [at] riyazapp [dot] com) if you need anything else as an aspiring singer or face any issues with Riyaz, we promise a reply to every email! Riyaz serves the needs of singing aspirants from absolute beginners to professional singers and everyone in between. We regularly update and add lots of lessons in all the music styles supported in Riyaz. Do send in your requests, we honor them :-) In Hindustani music, Beginner singing lessons include sargam, paltas and alankars. Advanced singing lessons include more than 45 raags with several bandishes in all those raags. In Carnatic music - Beginner lessons include Swaravalis, and intermediate and advanced singing lessons include Nottuswarams, Geethams, Geethams, Jatisvaras, and Svarajatis. In Devotional and light classical categories, Riyaz has various bhajans in praise of the deities. You're never too far from finding that perfect bhajan for offering your prayers. In Western classical music, we have structured vocal exercises for warm-up, vocal agility, dexterity, and vocal range. We also offer extensive solfege-based exercises and lessons to practice and be pitch perfect. Also comes with plenty of exercises to learn intervals, combinations of notes, rests, and much more! Whether you are a kid/teenager/adult, Riyaz supports all voice types and vocal ranges across all the course offerings for comfortable practice! Riyaz keeps track of your progress so that you know what’s happening. What are you waiting for? Come join the largest singing revolution the world has ever witnessed! :-) SUBSCRIPTIONS: All the content on Riyaz is offered for free, but the free version allows you to practice only 8 minutes per day. We offer a premium version with “unlimited practice” through a recurring subscription. Users can subscribe to either the monthly or annual subscription packages which are automatically renewed unless canceled by the user. An active subscription will give users unlimited practice to all content available on Riyaz. * Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase * Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period * Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal * Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. Terms of Service - https://riyazapp.com/terms-of-service/ If you have questions, suggestions, or feedback please write to us at [feedback]@riyazapp[dot]com

Screenshots

ABRSM Singing Practice Partner4 screens
Riyaz4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Riyaz at 4.4 against ABRSM Singing Practice Partner's 2.3. Riyaz also leads on review sentiment (45% vs 5%) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 7 months). ABRSM Singing Practice Partner's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. ABRSM Singing Practice Partner sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Riyaz sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $24.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Riyaz holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Riyaz has 340 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 5% of ABRSM Singing Practice Partner's written reviews are positive against 45% of Riyaz's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ABRSM Singing Practice Partner ships an update every 7 months, Riyaz fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
ABRSM Singing Practice Partner versus Riyaz: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterABRSM Singing Practice PartnerRiyaz
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.3 (4 ratings)4.4 (340 ratings) — better
Positive reviews4.5% of reviews44.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4340 — better
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB121 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThe Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (Publishing) LimitedMusicMuni Labs Pvt. Ltd.

Customer experience

ABRSM Singing Practice Partner

All ratings4 ratings
Positive25.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative75.0%
Written reviews22 reviews
Positive4.5%
Neutral22.7%
Negative72.7%

Riyaz

All ratings340 ratings
Positive86.2%
Neutral3.2%
Negative10.6%
Written reviews67 reviews
Positive44.8%
Neutral13.4%
Negative41.8%

Bugs and requests

ABRSM Singing Practice Partner

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Riyaz

Reported bugs

49 issues
  • App not optimized for large screens
  • High note not registered
  • App hanging when trying to loop
  • No repeat mode feature
  • Incorrectly marking perfect singing as incorrect
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  • Cannot find songs
  • App not displaying notes after high octave Sa
  • Looping gets stuck
  • Voice not taken consistently
  • Subscription not auto-renewing
  • Login buttons not working
  • Course preference not working
  • App stuck infinitely
  • App keeps rebooting
  • Updates introduced many bugs
  • App doesn't work anymore
  • Error fetching data message
  • App keeps crashing
  • Subscription not showing
  • Singalong feature uses substituted recordings
  • Slow speed and issues with loading
  • Practice plans failing to load
  • Subscription pricing misleading
  • Looping is poor
  • Tanpura not running properly
  • App not tracking singing properly
  • Stopped counting points on practices
  • App won't open
  • App hanging up frequently
  • App doesn't open for a long time
  • Doesn't move to the next lesson
  • Previous completed modules gone
  • App crashing on iOS
  • Progress lost after updates
  • App starts over at lesson 1 repeatedly
  • Exercise freezes during analysis
  • Daily practice sessions require uninstall/reinstall
  • Cannot update date of birth
  • App crashes after practice routines
  • Cannot find specific practice sections (e.g., seven notes)
  • Navigation not intuitive
  • Beginner starts with sangam without individual notes
  • Daily practice starts with sargam/paltas for beginners
  • No option to listen to own recording
  • No FAQs
  • No contact option within the app
  • Subscription issues (charged but not active)
  • Scammer trying to access Facebook account
  • App not working anymore after purchase

Requested features

12 requests
  • Add more song options (pop, musical theatre, rap)
  • Add intermediate and advanced carnatic levels
  • Add western music options
  • Add downloadable PDF for sargam and lyrics
  • Add Taal notations
Show 7 more
  • Add more vocal workouts in upper and lower octaves
  • Add Raag Darbari
  • Add option to practice Taal
  • Add option to practice seven notes
  • Simpler and flexible app interface
  • Dark mode option
  • Advanced analytics dashboard

In-app purchases

10 purchases

ABRSM Singing Practice Partner

One-time10
  • Grade 1 List A, Anna-Marie$1.99
  • Sing a Rainbow$1.99
  • Out in the Garden$1.99
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  • Catch a Falling Star$1.99
  • Singin' in the Rain$1.99
  • Fly Me to the Moon$1.99
  • Go tell it on the Mountain$1.99
  • Songbook Plus Grade 1$8.99
  • Songbook Plus Grade 2$8.99
  • Songbook Plus Grade 5$8.99
10 purchases

Riyaz

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly Subscription$24.491 Month
  • Yearly Subscription$79.991 Year
  • Yearly Subscription$88.991 Year
One-time7
  • Melodies on Krishna$49.99
  • Mridangam Accompaniment$49.99
  • Sanskrit Prosody & Verse$49.99
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  • Master Your Morsing$49.99
  • Master Any Song (Hindustani)$59.99
  • Hindustani Classical Basics$59.99
  • Voice Training Course$59.99

Questions

Is ABRSM Singing Practice Partner free?
ABRSM Singing Practice Partner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Riyaz free?
Riyaz is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ABRSM Singing Practice Partner or Riyaz?
Riyaz is rated higher. ABRSM Singing Practice Partner averages 2.3 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Riyaz averages 4.4 from 340 ratings.
Do ABRSM Singing Practice Partner or Riyaz have ads?
Neither ABRSM Singing Practice Partner nor Riyaz shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ABRSM Singing Practice Partner or Riyaz?
ABRSM Singing Practice Partner ships an update every 7 months, and Riyaz fortnightly. Most recently, ABRSM Singing Practice Partner was updated on November 3, 2026 and Riyaz on November 9, 2026.

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