Comparison

Songistic vs JAMMATES

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

Head to head
About

Songistic

This app provides a vast library of digital chord charts for various music genres. It offers a full-band play-along experience with customizable styles and an intuitive editor for creating and modifying chord charts. Ideal for musicians of all levels, from beginners to professionals, for practice and performance.

Highlights
  • Extensive song library (2500+ songs)
  • Full-band play-along with customizable styles
  • Intuitive chord chart editor
  • Customizable chart layout and display options
  • Practice tool with adjustable key and tempo
  • Error checking for chart consistency
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Songistic is a pop, rock, jazz, gypsy jazz, latin, etc. digital chord chart, chord sheet library with more than 2500 songs. It is a full-band play-along app with many-many styles, and a new tool for creating and editing chord chart in a real easy way. It is very useful for both beginners, music students, hobbyists, and professional musicians, for both skill development and as a performance aid. 1. The Players The players will simply use the charts, in chart mode, will probably do little or no editing at all. Assemble some playlists for gigs/practice and simply read the charts on their device. In Songistic we enforce correct use of the symbols for both chord and navigation, and we give the end user (the player) the control over how the charts will look on his particular device. The charts we supply with Songistic are all audited to be correct in both form and harmonic content. Options: How the charts will look on your particular device, will depend on your individual settings. The symbols for "minor" or "major" chords will be what you set, how many bars will display in a single line, and many chart layout options will determine how the chart will look on your device. These options will give you deep control on the chart layout regardless of how they looked on the author's machine. The reason for this is very simple: the same chart wants to look very different on a small iPhone screen from what it will look like on an iPad Professional. Our view options and features (including auto-navigation) are far more advanced than anything you would find in the other apps. 2. The practicing musicians Music students of all ages/levels, even professional musicians can use Songistic for practicing. Songistic has many sounds and grooves built in you can choose from. All gooves/groove options can be audited while the song is playing. For instance you can select "Shuffle" for your song then pick the appropriate drum and bass grooves while the song is playing. Songistic is a full featured play-along app, has great sounding grooves, the songs can be played in any key and tempo. 3. The Writes/Editors These are the musicians who will write/customize existing songs for their own purposes. They will use the editing function a lot. Songistic has a first class bar editor that is very powerful, has many features to speed your work in either editing existing music or entering a new song from scratch. Our quick-bar-insert bar lets you enter a new song in matter of minutes. The logical breakdown of harmonies will ensure that you do not have to dig through a hundred obscure chord types to find a minor7. After analyzing thousands of songs we know what the most used chord combinations are, and these are quickly at your fingertips as you edit. Once you are ready to save, another Songistic feature kicks in: error checking. In order to maintain consistency of the charts we enforce many rules in how repeat signs, repeat bars, codas etc.. are used. When you save a song Songistic will warn you if the chart have errors that were detected during the error check. Once you fix these errors and save without warnings, your song is ready to be played or presented as a chart. 4. Performance Songistic is more than a practicing tool. By default, the chart is being repeated in midi-play infinitely. However, there are repeat settings, where you can set the song to just play the song from top to bottom, once. Or, repeat the "form" of the song a predetermined number of times. Even better, using the solo-section feature (which identifies the form, the "meat"of the song between the intro and the outro), a performance can be set up easily where the intro is played, then the middle section is repeated a number of times, then the outro is played, possibly with a fermata (birdseye) at the end. This can be used for performances where a singer or a soloist play along the Songistic backing. Terms of service: https://songistic.eu/terms-of-service/

About

JAMMATES

Practice with realistic backing tracks recorded by professional musicians. This app offers over 190 Jazz standards with live band sound, allowing you to play along with piano, bass, and drums. Adjust tempo to match your playing style and enjoy a dynamic practice experience.

Highlights
  • Live band sound backing tracks
  • Over 190 Jazz standards
  • Piano, bass, and drums accompaniment
  • Adjustable tempo
  • Offline track downloads
  • Professional musician recordings
Features
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Real Band Sound, JAMMATES JAMMATES is an app that features backing tracks of over 190 Jazz standards recorded by professional musicians. Stop practicing with robotic, mechanical backing tracks. You can play with a live band every time you want. Every single JAMMATES backing track was recorded by a live-playing trio with thoughtful consideration for the musicians. Try JAMMATES, an unprecedented Jazz backing track app. Features: - Wherever you are, that place becomes the stage. Once you download the backing tracks from the app, try playing along a full live band sound with piano, bass, and drums. - Play with groovy backing tracks. Move away from repetitive mechanical loops. To enhance your performance, there should be a sense of rhythm on the backing track. - Change the tempo according to your style of playing. The songs provided by default have up to 3 different tempo selections, each recorded separately. - Various music included in JAMMATES Do you spend time searching online to find backing tracks? Install JAMMATES and search for the jazz standards you want to play along with, then start practicing as if a live band is playing behind you. JAMMATES contains music commonly played in jam sessions and professional performances. Do you have any questions, comments, or suggestions? Please contact us at eve@adup.kr

Screenshots

Songistic3 screens
JAMMATES4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Songistic at Free against JAMMATES's $15.99. Songistic also leads on review sentiment (92% vs 65%). JAMMATES's advantage is rating (3.8 vs 3.0) and ads (none vs shown). On ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Songistic is free to download; JAMMATES costs $15.99 up front. Songistic sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $7.99 per year and JAMMATES sells 28 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

JAMMATES holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 17 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 92% of Songistic's written reviews are positive against 65% of JAMMATES's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Songistic versus JAMMATES: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSongisticJAMMATES
PriceFree — better$15.99
Rating3.0 (7 ratings)3.8 (17 ratings) — better
Positive reviews91.7% of reviews — better65.3% of reviews
Number of ratings717 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.6
Further details — not scored
Size205 MB71 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRV Software LTD(주)애드업

Customer experience

Songistic

All ratings7 ratings
Positive42.9%
Neutral14.3%
Negative42.9%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive91.7%
Neutral8.3%
Negative0.0%

JAMMATES

All ratings17 ratings
Positive58.8%
Neutral17.6%
Negative23.5%
Written reviews75 reviews
Positive65.3%
Neutral10.7%
Negative24.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Songistic

Subscriptions1
  • Songistic Yearly Subscription$7.991 Year
28 purchases

JAMMATES

One-time28
  • Bossa Nova Blues 12key$2.99
  • Ⅱ-Ⅴ Reharmonization 12key$2.99
  • Bird Blues Changes 12key$2.99
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  • Gospel Style Jam Track$2.99
  • Funk Popular$2.99
  • Feel Like Makin love 12key$2.99
  • Rhythm Changes Reharmonization$2.99
  • Tricky Songs$3.99
  • Major Jazz Blues 12 key$4.99
  • Swing Ⅱ-V-I-VI 12key (Short)$4.99
  • Swing Ⅱ-V-I-VI 12key (Long)$4.99
  • Slow Funky Groove 12key$4.99
  • Neo Soul Jam Track 12key$4.99
  • Metheny & Mehldau$4.99
  • Rhythm Change 12key$4.99
  • Herbie Hancock & Chick corea$4.99
  • Minor Blues 12 key$4.99
  • Art Blakey&The Jazz Messengers$4.99
  • Minor Swing Ⅱ-Ⅴ-Ⅰ-Ⅵ 12key(L)$4.99
  • Benny Green Songbook$4.99
  • Film Music Repertoire$4.99
  • Essential Wayne Shorter$4.99
  • One Chord Funk (Dominant7th)$4.99
  • Latin Jazz Song Book (Cuban)$5.99
  • Antonio Carlos Jobim Book Ⅰ.$5.99
  • Antonio Carlos Jobim SongBookⅡ$5.99
  • Sing like Chet$6.99
  • Bill Evans Repertoire$7.99

Questions

Is Songistic free?
Songistic is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is JAMMATES free?
JAMMATES costs $15.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Songistic or JAMMATES?
JAMMATES is rated higher. Songistic averages 3.0 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while JAMMATES averages 3.8 from 17 ratings.
Do Songistic or JAMMATES have ads?
Songistic shows ads; JAMMATES does not.
Which is updated more often, Songistic or JAMMATES?
Songistic ships an update every 2 months, and JAMMATES every 2 months. Most recently, Songistic was updated on October 7, 2026 and JAMMATES on October 29, 2026.

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