Comparison

朋友聆听 vs 简谱大师

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

Head to head
About

朋友聆听

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About

简谱大师

Create and edit musical scores with a user-friendly interface. This app supports a wide range of notation elements, instrument sounds, and export options, making it suitable for both beginners and professional musicians. Enjoy advanced features like multi-part editing and high-fidelity playback.

Highlights
  • Comprehensive simplified notation support
  • Playback with key and tempo adjustments
  • Multi-instrument sound selection
  • Export music to various file formats
  • Multi-part chorus editing
  • HD image export and high-fidelity playback
  • Undo/redo editing functions
Features
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A powerful short score editing software, it provides powerful input and editing capabilities, allowing you to write beautiful short score music with the familiar Apple keyboard. The original simple score input keyboard can meet your various simple score writing needs, thus providing a simple and efficient way to create your own music works. All the elements of simplified notation are built into the software. In this software, you can not only input simplified melody, but also belong to advanced notation and advanced writing according to your needs. This software is not only suitable for beginners to learn to create music, but also competent professional producers of music tools, but also as a good helper for you to practice singing. Software functions: - Support almost all simple notation notation - Support the playback experience under shift, transfer and different key signs - Support any rhythm, beat adjustment - Support more than 20 major Musical Instruments - Supports exporting music to any file - Support chorus mode, up to 4 voice parts editing - HD image export, high fidelity playback effect - Support for undo and repeat selection during editing - Support sharp, cost reduction, double lift, double drop - Support continuous line, extended line, triplet - Supports multiple grace notes - Supports multiple strength markers UNLIMITED ACCESS SUBSCRIPTION - Unlimited Notations - No Ads - Remove sharing of watermarked scores - Unlock all musical instruments - Unlock all theme backgrounds - Support up to 4 parts - Change key for each part - Change beat type and tempo - Experience new features in advance - The subscriptions are $6.99 monthly with free trial - Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase - Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period - Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal - Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase - Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that service, where applicable - Terms of use: https://beattap.oss-cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com/notation_item.html - Privacy of use: https://beattap.oss-cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com/notation_privacy.html

Screenshots

朋友聆听4 screens
简谱大师4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: 朋友聆听 at none against 简谱大师's 4. 简谱大师's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 weeks). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. 简谱大师 sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. 朋友聆听 asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

简谱大师 holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 25 and 36 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 79% of 朋友聆听's written reviews are positive against 73% of 简谱大师's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

朋友聆听 ships an update every 6 weeks, 简谱大师 every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
朋友聆听 versus 简谱大师: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter朋友聆听简谱大师
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (25 ratings)4.6 (36 ratings) — better
Positive reviews78.9% of reviews — better72.5% of reviews
Number of ratings2536 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB156 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPeiyuan Huang新玲 张

Customer experience

朋友聆听

All ratings24 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral8.3%
Negative8.3%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive78.9%
Neutral15.8%
Negative5.3%

简谱大师

All ratings36 ratings
Positive86.1%
Neutral8.3%
Negative5.6%
Written reviews80 reviews
Positive72.5%
Neutral10.0%
Negative17.5%

In-app purchases

None

朋友聆听

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

简谱大师

Subscriptions3
  • 简谱大师周订阅3 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • 超级会员3 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • yearly Subcription7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • 高级会员$24.99

Questions

Is 朋友聆听 free?
朋友聆听 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is 简谱大师 free?
简谱大师 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, 朋友聆听 or 简谱大师?
简谱大师 is rated higher. 朋友聆听 averages 4.4 out of 5 from 25 ratings, while 简谱大师 averages 4.6 from 36 ratings.
Do 朋友聆听 or 简谱大师 have ads?
Neither 朋友聆听 nor 简谱大师 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, 朋友聆听 or 简谱大师?
朋友聆听 ships an update every 6 weeks, and 简谱大师 every 2 weeks. Most recently, 朋友聆听 was updated on November 2, 2026 and 简谱大师 on November 7, 2026.

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