Tone Scan vs Lick Transposer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tone Scan
Analyze live or recorded audio to reveal musical details like pitch, timbre, and tonal balance. This app offers three live scans to help you understand sound more deeply, simplifying tasks like instrument tuning and learning songs by ear.
- Chromatic spectrum analysis
- Polyphonic tuner
- Note mix for tonal balance
- Pitch recognition
- Timbre analysis
- Instrument tuning
- Chord and key spelling
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Discover musical secrets in any live or recorded audio. Elevate your perception of sound with this unique app. You’ll be amazed. See what you hear — and can’t hear — with three live scans: 1. A chromatic spectrum to see sound partials and pitch 2. A polyphonic tuner to see the pitch accuracy of select notes 3. A note mix to see changes in tonal balance Simplify tasks like: • Pitch recognition • Timbre analysis • Instrument tuning • Chord and key spelling • Tonality analysis • Learning a song by ear Ready to explore? Try the app for free.
Lick Transposer
Easily create musical phrases using an on-screen piano or microphone input. Instantly transpose your creations to all 12 keys and save them as formatted images for practice. Customize interval and direction preferences for a personalized experience.
- Create musical phrases with on-screen piano
- Record audio from microphone
- Transpose to all 12 keys
- Save transpositions as formatted images
- Switch between Bass and Treble Clef
- Customize interval and direction preferences
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Create a lick(musical phrase) using the on screen piano or audio from microphone and immediately transpose it to all 12 keys. Switch between Bass and Treble Clef by tapping the Clef in the Lick creator. Save the transpositions easily to a formatted image for practice. Select the interval and direction preferences from the Settings. This app is intended to be simple and intuitive, but more features will be added later. Send feedback for what features you would like to see!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Lick Transposer at 100% against Tone Scan's 50%. Lick Transposer also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.2) and in-app purchases (none vs 4). Tone Scan's advantage is price (Free vs $1.99). On ratings volume, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Tone Scan is free to download; Lick Transposer costs $1.99 up front. Tone Scan sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Lick Transposer asks for nothing beyond the download.
Lick Transposer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Tone Scan's written reviews are positive against 100% of Lick Transposer's.
Tone Scan ships an update every 7 months, Lick Transposer every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tone Scan | Lick Transposer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 3.2 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Openchord Inc. | Jeff Taboloff |
Customer experience
Tone Scan
Lick Transposer
In-app purchases
Tone Scan
- Audio Free Trial3 variantsFree
- Unlock Audio$4.99
Lick Transposer
No in-app purchases
