Harmonica Bending Trainer vs Banjo Lessons Academy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Harmonica Bending Trainer
This app aids in practicing bending techniques for 10-hole diatonic harmonicas. It provides a dedicated tool for musicians looking to improve their harmonica playing skills.
- Bending practice support
- 10-hole diatonic harmonicas
- Improve harmonica skills
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Harmonica Bending Trainer supports your bending practice for 10-hole diatonic harmonicas.
Banjo Lessons Academy
Learn to play the banjo with easy-to-follow video lessons and tutorials. Explore beginner, intermediate, and advanced content, plus bonus popular songs and radio stations. Start your journey to becoming a skilled banjo player today.
- Video lessons
- Beginner to advanced content
- Popular songs and tunes
- Bluegrass and folk radio
- Learn other instruments
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Everything you need on How to Play The Banjo is now made easy with our well selected lessons and video tutorials! It’s super fun and simple how to to play the banjo! All you need to do is check out the series of videos and lessons we have prepared on our app for you to begin your journey on how to become the best banjo player of your dreams! Beginner, Intermediate or Advanced banjo student will find it easy to click, play and get started with it. We will keep you wanting for more. Isn’t that cool? Banjo is a stringed musical instrument with a long neck and a round open-backed body consisting of parchment stretched over a metal hoop like a tambourine, played by plucking or with a plectrum. It is used especially in American folk music. The first definitive description of an early banjo is from a 1687 journal entry by Sir Hans Sloane, an English physician visiting Jamaica, who called this Afro-Caribbean instrument a “strum strump.” It's a cool instrument to learn! You may want to check our bonus content we have on the app for you which includes the most popular songs and banjo tunes, also listen to bluegrass radio and folk radio which is part of a great musical experience and learning. Our musical instruments app selection takes pride on having this app as part of it. You can also find content to learn how to play the harmonica, the oboe, the flute and many other instruments! So if you're a beginner, and would like to find out more about how to play the banjo, this is the best place to be, check it out now!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Harmonica Bending Trainer at 4.5 against Banjo Lessons Academy's 1.0. Harmonica Bending Trainer also leads on ratings volume (38 vs 1) and device support. Banjo Lessons Academy's advantage is monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.6). On price 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Harmonica Bending Trainer holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Harmonica Bending Trainer has 38 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Harmonica Bending Trainer | Banjo Lessons Academy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (38 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 87.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 38 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | — |
| Ads | Yes | — |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | — |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Blowbend.jp | Ivan Marti |
Bugs and requests
Harmonica Bending Trainer
Reported bugs
4 issues- Bugs after new update
- Does not detect harmonica sound
- Inconsistent sound detection
- Not supporting overnotes
Requested features
5 requests- Option to remove ads
- Paid version without ads
- Support for overnotes
- Tablature charts
- Practice scales feature
Banjo Lessons Academy
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Harmonica Bending Trainer
No in-app purchases
Banjo Lessons Academy
No in-app purchases
Questions
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