Comparison

goodtags vs Beat

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

Head to head
About

goodtags

Access and organize a vast library of community-generated barbershop song snippets. Play learning tracks, watch videos, and find specific tags with an interactive interface.

Highlights
  • Organize favorites by label
  • Navigate lists in sheet music view
  • Play starting note for tags
  • Find tags by ID
  • Play learning tracks
  • Watch learning videos
Features
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Goodtags provides a rich interactive interface to the library of community-generated barbershop tags, or song snippets, from the barbershoptags.com database. Features: - Store favorites on your device, and organize them by label - Navigate lists without leaving the sheet music view - Play the starting note for a tag - Find tags by id - Play learning tracks - Watch learning videos

About

Beat

Develop pitch sensitivity and harmonic awareness through interactive exercises focused on just intonation. Explore intervals and chords, tune by ear, and enhance your musical listening skills in a focused environment. Ideal for musicians seeking to refine their understanding of pure tuning relationships.

Highlights
  • Interactive interval training
  • Chord tuning and harmonic awareness
  • Progressive ear-training exercises
  • Customizable interval and chord building
  • Focus on just intonation
  • Designed for real musical environments
Features
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Core Features Interactive Interval Training Develop sensitivity to pitch relationships by exploring intervals tuned using just intonation. • Hear intervals begin perfectly aligned • Adjust pitch in real time to hear beats appear and disappear • Tune intervals by ear using guided listening exercises • Practice intervals across multiple keys and registers Chord Tuning and Harmonic Awareness Understand how scale degrees shape harmony by exploring chords built from pure tuning relationships. • Major, minor, diminished, and augmented triads • Seventh chords including dominant, major, minor, half-diminished, and fully diminished • Isolate chord tones to hear how each pitch affects resonance • Adjust individual notes to hear chords stabilize or destabilize Challenge Mode Strengthen listening accuracy through progressive ear-training exercises. • Tune intervals by ear with adjustable difficulty levels • Customize time limits and precision targets • Unlock intervals through guided progression • Track improvement and share results with teachers or directors Lab Mode Experiment freely with pitch relationships and harmonic structure. • Build custom intervals, chords, or harmonic textures • Assign independent tuning values to each pitch • Explore consonance, dissonance, and overtone interaction Designed for Real Musical Environments In rehearsals and performances, musicians rarely hear themselves in isolation. Beat-Less Tuning removes ensemble noise and allows you to focus on deliberate listening, helping you build reliable tuning instincts that translate directly into real musical situations. This app is ideal for: • Band and orchestra students • Choir and vocal ensemble singers (especially Straight-Tone singing) • Drum corps and marching musicians • Barbershop and a cappella performers • Music educators and ensemble directors Why Just Intonation? Most modern instruments use equal temperament, which balances pitch across all keys but slightly compromises many intervals. Beat-Less Tuning introduces just intonation, where intervals follow natural harmonic ratios that create clarity, depth, and resonance. The listening skills developed in this app strengthen tuning awareness in any musical tuning system. Built by Musicians and Educators Beat-Less Tuning was created by Grammy Finalist and Recording Academy Music Educator of the Year Jeremy Bradstreet, in collaboration with software developer Noirit Ghosh Choudhuri. Together they combined decades of teaching experience and advanced software design to create a powerful and intuitive listening tool for musicians at every level. Train your ears. Build your sound. Hear music more clearly.

Screenshots

goodtags4 screens
Beat4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: goodtags at Free against Beat's $4.99. goodtags also leads on ratings volume (20 vs 4). Beat's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and review sentiment (100% vs 89%). On ads, in-app purchases, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

goodtags is free to download; Beat costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Beat holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: goodtags has 20 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 89% of goodtags's written reviews are positive against 100% of Beat's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
goodtags versus Beat: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametergoodtagsBeat
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating4.8 (20 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews88.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings20 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 5 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.415.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB223 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKenji MatsuokaJeremy Bradstreet

Customer experience

goodtags

All ratings19 ratings
Positive94.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative5.3%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive88.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.1%

Beat

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

goodtags

No in-app purchases

None

Beat

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is goodtags free?
goodtags is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Beat free?
Beat costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, goodtags or Beat?
Beat is rated higher. goodtags averages 4.8 out of 5 from 20 ratings, while Beat averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do goodtags or Beat have ads?
Neither goodtags nor Beat shows ads.

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