Comparison

Fiddle Tunes for Viola vs TempoScope

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

Head to head
About

Fiddle Tunes for Viola

Access a vast library of fiddle tunes specifically arranged for viola in alto clef. Explore traditional and contemporary pieces from various global traditions, perfect for practice and performance.

Highlights
  • 471 fiddle tunes in alto clef
  • Search by Title, Key, or Meter
  • Includes waltzes, airs, and contras
  • Tunes from global traditions
  • Import personal collections
Features
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This is a collection of about 470 fiddle tunes which have been transposed into alto clef (and usually down an octave) to play on the viola. The collection is slanted toward New England and contra dance tunes, but includes tunes from other traditions and in other styles as well. There are a number of waltzes and airs as well as contras, and tunes from Cape Breton, Québec, the Pacific Northwest, Ireland, England, Scotland, and other areas as well. Most of the tunes are traditional, but there is also a fair number of contemporary composed tunes. A few tunes include harmonies, also in alto clef. Key features: 471 fiddle tunes in alto clef Display any tune in the collection through the Search mechanism Search by Title Search by Key Search by Meter Search by Page Number Import personal collections

About

TempoScope

Features
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Hold your phone up to the music and it finds the tempo and key in real time. Drop in an audio file and it pulls tempo, key, and the chord progression in one pass. ■ Free · Live detection — tempo (BPM) and key from the microphone, as it plays · Delay and reverb times — milliseconds worked out from the detected BPM. Straight, dotted, triplet · The whole metronome — 30-300 BPM, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 6/8, 12/8 · Bar maps — lay out a song that changes tempo or meter partway through and play it straight through. Section looping included · Six sounds — electronic beep, tick-tock, wood block, cowbell, claves, rimshot · Subdivisions — eighths, triplets, sixteenths, swing eighths, dotted eighth + sixteenth, sextuplets, 3:2 polyrhythm · 59 drum style presets with a pattern grid · Haptic beats (iPhone) · Background playback — keeps clicking while you read a score or with the screen locked · Record to MIDI — record your playing to the click and it writes the notes down as a piano roll (iPhone and iPad, reference only) ■ Pro (one-time lifetime purchase, not a subscription) · Full-song analysis — free covers the first 60 seconds · Save and revisit your analyses · Setlist — put your songs in show order and on stage you only press Next. Tempo, meter, and drum pattern all switch together. Practice mode lets you save the tempo you settle on straight back to the song. · Playback detection — leave it listening and it finds where songs change, splitting them into a list. Saving the song playing right now by hand is free for the first three · Export MIDI — save a Record to MIDI result as a MIDI file, ready to drop into your DAW ■ About accuracy Measured against 13 tracks with known answers: tempo was right on 13, key on 12. That is a small sample, so treat it as a guide. Chord detection is well below that and is a reference aid only — it goes wrong most often on ballads with dense harmony. Check it yourself with the free 60 seconds before you decide. Record to MIDI is a reference aid too. In one test — 14 bars of a straight 8-beat drum groove, recorded at a live venue with an iPhone on the music stand — it got the kick and snare right in 13 of 14 bars and caught 43 of 56 hi-hat hits. Recording and viewing the result are free, so try it on your own playing first. ■ No internet needed All analysis runs on your device. No account, no server, no ads. Audio from the microphone never leaves your device. The only recording kept is the last one you make yourself in Record to MIDI, and it stays on your device too. ■ Made for · Sound engineers who need a song's tempo fast, on site · Mixing engineers who need delay and reverb times that match the BPM · Performers who change tempo song by song through a set · Drummers practising triplets and polyrhythms

Screenshots

TempoScope4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fiddle Tunes for Viola at none against TempoScope's 1. TempoScope's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 41 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads 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

Both are free to download. TempoScope sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Fiddle Tunes for Viola asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fiddle Tunes for Viola ships an update every 41 months, TempoScope weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Fiddle Tunes for Viola versus TempoScope: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFiddle Tunes for ViolaTempoScope
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 41 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size67 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTransported ProductionsHYO SEOP LEE

In-app purchases

None

Fiddle Tunes for Viola

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

TempoScope

One-time1
  • TempoScope Pro$2.99

Questions

Is Fiddle Tunes for Viola free?
Fiddle Tunes for Viola is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TempoScope free?
TempoScope is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Fiddle Tunes for Viola or TempoScope have ads?
Neither Fiddle Tunes for Viola nor TempoScope shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fiddle Tunes for Viola or TempoScope?
Fiddle Tunes for Viola ships an update every 41 months, and TempoScope weekly. Most recently, Fiddle Tunes for Viola was updated on October 10, 2026 and TempoScope on October 25, 2026.

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