Comparison

Play 'n' Practice Pro vs PedalEditor

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

PedalEditor

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A Brain for Brainless Pedals. PedalEditor is a curated MIDI editor and preset library for the guitar pedals and synths you already own. It runs on iPhone and iPad, connects over Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or USB, and puts the full parameter map of every supported pedal on the screen — no laptop in the signal path, no proprietary editor for each brand. The pedal is the render target. Presets live in the app. —— SPEAKS FLUENT STRYMON BigSky, BigSky MX, blueSky V2, Brig, Cloudburst, Compadre, Deco V2, DIG V2, EC-1, El Capistan V2, Flint V2, Iridium, Lex V2, Mobius, NightSky, Riverside, Sunset, TimeLine, UltraViolet, Volante, Zelzah. 21 profiles. SPEAKS FLUENT WALRUS AUDIO ACS1, ACS1 MkII, D1, D1 MkII, M1, M1 MkII, R1, R1 MkII, Meraki, Qi. 10 profiles. SPEAKS FLUENT UAFX ANTI 1992, Dream '65, Enigmatic '82, Knuckles '92 Rev F, Lion '68, Ruby '63, Woodrow '55. 7 amp modelers. SPEAKS FLUENT CHASE BLISS Generation Loss MkII, Habit, Mood MkII. 3 profiles. ALSO: Hologram Microcosm. Meris LVX. Line 6 DL4 MkII. About 200 more profiles are built and releasing — 10 to 15 a week, brand by brand. —— THE EDITOR Every parameter on the pedal's faceplate is a control in the app — named the way the pedal prints it, laid out in the order the manual describes it. Knobs, toggle switches, algorithm selectors, multi-position physical switches, and dip banks all render as their hardware equivalents. Switching effect categories (BigSky's 12 reverb machines, TimeLine's 12 delay machines) updates the parameter layout to match. Three save actions, deliberately distinct: • Save — writes to the app library. Nothing goes to the pedal. • Send — pushes the current state to the pedal without writing hardware memory. • Save on Pedal — arms the pedal via Program Change, then writes the slot. On supported Strymon hardware, Read from Pedal pulls the current parameter state back into the app. Capture All Presets sweeps the hardware preset bank and imports it as a named Collection — useful for backing up a pedal before a firmware update. The MIDI Monitor shows every message in and out for the connected destination, with raw hex and human-readable descriptions. —— HOW YOU ORGANIZE Rig → Project → Pedal → Collection → Preset. A Rig is a physical board: specific pedals, specific MIDI channels. Multiple Rigs coexist — a studio rig, a fly rig, a rehearsal rig. A Project is a purpose within a Rig ("Worship Band," "Studio Sessions"). A Collection is a named, colored bank of presets for one pedal in one Project — multiple Collections per pedal, each with up to three independent A/B/C state slots. Presets have freeform names, notes, tags, and lineage tracking; they are not bound by hardware display character limits. Songs hold ordered sections, each with the presets that section needs. Setlists hold ordered songs. Build the setlist before the gig. —— LIVE Open the Live tab, tap a setlist, and step through it. Each advance sends the Program Change and CC values for that section to every pedal on the board. The screen stays awake. No tap-dancing through hardware menus in the dark. —— Custom MIDI (128 Knobs) is always free. It sends CCs 0–127 on any MIDI channel, so it drives any MIDI device you own, no profile required. No account. No cloud. No tracking. Restore Purchases lives in Settings, and it works. Presets, rigs, songs, and setlists sync automatically across your iPhone and iPad via iCloud — no setup, no logins, same Apple ID. —— PedalEditor runs on iPhone and iPad. Bluetooth LE MIDI, USB MIDI, and Network MIDI (RTP-MIDI) over Wi-Fi — same app, same presets, whichever cable you prefer. The pedal still doesn't know your name. The app remembers everything.

Screenshots

Play 'n' Practice Pro4 screens
PedalEditor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Play 'n' Practice Pro at 15.0 against PedalEditor's 17.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Play 'n' Practice Pro ships an update weekly, PedalEditor every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Play 'n' Practice Pro versus PedalEditor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlay 'n' Practice ProPedalEditor
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size80 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperArno PernozzoliCorey Cowan

In-app purchases

None

Play 'n' Practice Pro

No in-app purchases

None

PedalEditor

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Play 'n' Practice Pro free?
Play 'n' Practice Pro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PedalEditor free?
PedalEditor is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Play 'n' Practice Pro or PedalEditor have ads?
Neither Play 'n' Practice Pro nor PedalEditor shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Play 'n' Practice Pro or PedalEditor?
Play 'n' Practice Pro ships an update weekly, and PedalEditor every 2 weeks. Most recently, Play 'n' Practice Pro was updated on October 6, 2026 and PedalEditor on October 12, 2026.

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