Play 'n' Practice Pro vs SimplyFlange
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Play 'n' Practice Pro
Manage your music repertoire and track practice sessions with this comprehensive journal. Structured workouts and detailed statistics help you improve your musical skills effectively. Features include automated time tracking, rich text notes, and a built-in sheet music viewer.
- Automated practice time tracking
- Structured workout templates
- Repertoire management with database access
- Integrated sheet music viewer
- Progress review and statistics
- Rich text notes and annotations
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Play ‘n’ Practice is a music instrument journal to manage your repertoire and track your music instrument practice. While offering all required information about the current practice session, Play ‘n’ Practice has been designed for a non-intrusive user experience during your instrument practice. The management of even complex repertoires is supported by offering several criteria for grouping work by playlists, genre, level and status. Structured workouts aims to raise the effectiveness of even the shortest practice session by automatically selecting pieces you didn’t play for a long time, scales and arpeggios, individual playlists and more. Finally the diary and statistics supports reviewing your progress, tracking your practice and experience and continuously improving your skills. Play ‘n’ Practice features in detail MUSIC INSTRUMENT JOURNAL Automated tracking of music instrument practice time Time tracking based on the individual learning phases of a piece Comprehensive richt text notes about the practice progress Long term progress tracking within the integrated diary Calendar based overview on your daily practice Progress review, rating and notes on individual practice sessions WORKOUTS / PRACTICE *Pro* Workout templates editor to create structured practice sessions Definition of parts and pieces based on their current learning phase or individual playlists Automatic selection of pieces, which weren’t practiced for a long time Automatic time based rotation of pieces in the repertoire Automatic selection of scales and arpeggio exercises based on the workout structure Playlist based workouts to practice for a special event Selection of individual measures on a MusicXML score to focus on difficult passages *Pro* Integrated recording over the microphone or any other audio device available Teaching metronome for gradual improvement of difficult passages Integrated YouTube media player to view referenced videos and tutorials during a workout Quick navigation between pieces in the workout list Capability to add other pieces you want to practice on-the-fly during your workout Inline and full-screen sheet music viewer REPERTOIRE MANAGEMENT Over 3000 pieces registered within the inbuilt database Predefined ABRSM levels (piano grade) on most pieces Access to millions of classic and modern works from the MusicBrainz database Integrated navigator through the registered repertoire based on genre, form, status etc. Playlist management to group pieces according to the users preferences Comprehensive description of genre, form and period for easier selection Reference management for sheet music, videos and web sites also made available during practice Additional user defined rich text notes Direct play to immediately start a piece based practice session and track practice time SHEET MUSIC VIEWER Integrated sheet music viewer, no need to switch to a different app Individual annotations, text, freehand and shapes for PDF sheet music on the fly Selection of individual measures when using MusicXML 3.0 sheet music Selectable Inline-viewer for individual measures Top-bar timer and control complication in full screen view Support for bluetooth foot pedal for page flipping *PDF only, select iOS viewer* STATISTIC Table and charts statistics showing practice time by selectable date spans Individual piece statistics for practice time and learning phases Integrated navigation from a chart item to the daily pieces statistics
SimplyFlange
This audio effect app provides a straightforward flange effect for a retro sound. It functions as an AUv3 app extension, compatible with hosts like AUM, Cubasis, and GarageBand.
- Retro flange audio effect
- AUv3 app extension
- Compatible with AUM, Cubasis, GarageBand
- Standalone app functionality
- Simple and straightforward interface
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A simple but straightforward flange audio effect to give you that nice retro feel. The filter exists in an AUv3 app extension so it is available for use in any host app that supports AudioUnit components such as AUM or Cubasis or GarageBand.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: SimplyFlange at 100% against Play 'n' Practice Pro's 50%. SimplyFlange also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4). Play 'n' Practice Pro's advantage is price (Free vs $0.99) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On update cadence, 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
Play 'n' Practice Pro is free to download; SimplyFlange costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SimplyFlange holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Play 'n' Practice Pro has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Play 'n' Practice Pro's written reviews are positive against 100% of SimplyFlange's.
Play 'n' Practice Pro ships an update weekly, SimplyFlange every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Play 'n' Practice Pro | SimplyFlange |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.4 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 80 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Arno Pernozzoli | Brad Howes |
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In-app purchases
Play 'n' Practice Pro
No in-app purchases
SimplyFlange
No in-app purchases
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