Comparison

iPracticePro vs JAMMATES

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

Head to head
About

iPracticePro

This app offers a comprehensive suite of tools for musicians, including a chromatic tuner, extensive chord library, and customizable metronome. Practice scales, intervals, and complex chord progressions with adjustable tempos and time signatures. Explore fingering charts and reed adjustment information for wind instruments.

Highlights
  • Chromatic tuner with adjustable frequencies
  • Extensive chord library with over 45 types
  • Customizable metronome with adjustable BPM and time signatures
  • Chord progression practice with over 50 progressions
  • Pad for creating custom intervals and chords
  • Saxophone fingering charts and reed adjustment info
Features
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•Drones• The first part of the app allows you to play all chromatic notes in tunings from 432Hz to 444Hz in many different sounds. The notes sound continuously and it´s a perfect way to practice intervals, chords and scales. You also have the possibility to play the notes randomly in an adjustable period of time. The app supports quarter tones if you´ve chosen expert mode. Sounds: organ, piano, electric piano, strings, guitar, double bass, bassoon, clarinet, oboe, flute and sine •Chords• The chord section contains 5 chords in standard mode more than 45 chords in expert mode. The metronome allows you to practice in tempos from 30bpm up to 300bpm. It can be set to different time signatures like 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 7/4, 9/4, 11/4, 13/4. You can also select or deselect the downbeats and offbeats separately. You can listen and play to all chords in all twelve keys, see which notes are the chord notes and scale notes and read information about the chord and the corresponding scale. In addition to that, all chords can also be played randomly. You can choose to just randomly change the root or the root and the chord type. The app lets you filter the chords, which allows you to only randomly play the chords of for example the modes of melodic minor or harmonic minor. 45+ Chords: ▵7, 7, -7, ø7, o7, 5 69, ▵7#11, ▵7#5, ▵7#5(11), ▵7#9, ▵7#9b13 7sus4, 7susb9, 7#11, 7#5, 7b913, 7b9b13, 7b13, 7alt -6, -▵7, -▵7b13, -7b13, -7b9, -7#11, -∆7#11, phryg, ø713, o7b2b11 major, major/3, major/5, major/b9, major/9, major/b3, major/11, major/#11, major/b13, major/13, major/7, major/▵7 minor, minor/b3, minor/5 augmented, diminished Sounds: electric piano, piano, organ and strings •Progressions• In this section you can practice more than 50 chord progressions in all twelve keys. The metronome, with all its setting options, is also included in this section. The volume of the root note, third and septime or rather the tensions is adjustable. If you press one of the two random buttons, the app picks a random root or a random progression and root. 50+ progressions: II-7 V7 I▵7, II-7 V7alt I▵7, II-7 bII7#11 I▵7, II-7 V7b913 I▵7, II-7 V7b9b13 I▵7, II-7 V7susb9 I▵7 IIø7 V7 I-, Coltrane Changes and so on…see full list on my website. Sounds: electric piano, piano, organ and strings •Pad• Using the pad you can put together your own intervals and chords. You have four octaves and five sounds to choose from, with which you can select up to five tones. The tones can sound both simultaneously and one after the other. The metronome, with all its setting options, is also included in this section. You can choose out of these sounds: electric piano, piano, organ, strings and sine •Fingerings for saxophone and reed adjustment for saxophone and clarinet• There are fingering charts about standard fingerings, false fingerings, altissimo and quarter tones and information about reed adjustment of sides, table, tip, shoulder and heart. If you don´t play the saxophone, you can hide this part of the app. •Features• * Stealth Mode (Ear Training Mode). You can use stealth mode in drones, chords and progressions. This will hide the currently played chords and display them afterwards. * A practice timer that informs you when your set practice time has expired. * Landscape mode. * Light- and dark appearance (Night Shift). * You can set if you play a C, Bb, oder Eb Instrument. * Are you an advanced player? The expert mode offers you additional information which could be confusing to unexperienced musicians. If you have no idea what C▵7#5 means or if you have never heard of quarter tones you probably should choose the standard mode. * All sounds can be played from 432Hz to 444Hz.

About

JAMMATES

Practice with realistic backing tracks recorded by professional musicians. This app offers over 190 Jazz standards with live band sound, allowing you to play along with piano, bass, and drums. Adjust tempo to match your playing style and enjoy a dynamic practice experience.

Highlights
  • Live band sound backing tracks
  • Over 190 Jazz standards
  • Piano, bass, and drums accompaniment
  • Adjustable tempo
  • Offline track downloads
  • Professional musician recordings
Features
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Real Band Sound, JAMMATES JAMMATES is an app that features backing tracks of over 190 Jazz standards recorded by professional musicians. Stop practicing with robotic, mechanical backing tracks. You can play with a live band every time you want. Every single JAMMATES backing track was recorded by a live-playing trio with thoughtful consideration for the musicians. Try JAMMATES, an unprecedented Jazz backing track app. Features: - Wherever you are, that place becomes the stage. Once you download the backing tracks from the app, try playing along a full live band sound with piano, bass, and drums. - Play with groovy backing tracks. Move away from repetitive mechanical loops. To enhance your performance, there should be a sense of rhythm on the backing track. - Change the tempo according to your style of playing. The songs provided by default have up to 3 different tempo selections, each recorded separately. - Various music included in JAMMATES Do you spend time searching online to find backing tracks? Install JAMMATES and search for the jazz standards you want to play along with, then start practicing as if a live band is playing behind you. JAMMATES contains music commonly played in jam sessions and professional performances. Do you have any questions, comments, or suggestions? Please contact us at eve@adup.kr

Screenshots

iPracticePro4 screens
JAMMATES4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: iPracticePro at $5.99 against JAMMATES's $15.99. iPracticePro also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.6) and in-app purchases (none vs 28). On update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

iPracticePro costs $5.99 and JAMMATES $15.99 up front. JAMMATES sells 28 one-off in-app purchases. iPracticePro asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

iPracticePro holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iPracticePro has 239 ratings behind it against 17, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 87% of iPracticePro's written reviews are positive against 65% of JAMMATES's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iPracticePro ships an update monthly, JAMMATES every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
iPracticePro versus JAMMATES: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriPracticeProJAMMATES
Price$5.99 — better$15.99
Rating4.7 (239 ratings) — better3.6 (17 ratings)
Positive reviews86.8% of reviews — better65.3% of reviews
Number of ratings239 — better17
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.6
Further details — not scored
Size170 MB71 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSteffen Weber(주)애드업

Customer experience

iPracticePro

All ratings239 ratings
Positive95.4%
Neutral2.9%
Negative1.7%
Written reviews53 reviews
Positive86.8%
Neutral7.5%
Negative5.7%

JAMMATES

All ratings17 ratings
Positive58.8%
Neutral17.6%
Negative23.5%
Written reviews75 reviews
Positive65.3%
Neutral10.7%
Negative24.0%

Bugs and requests

iPracticePro

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • App closes on its own after about 30 seconds
  • Cannot limit roots and progression at the same time

Requested features

10 requests
  • Display notes of a chord when improvising
  • Ability to create own chord progressions
  • Random tempo oscillation with tweakable parameters
  • Add sax voices
  • Cover more than an octave
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  • Add a metronome for drones
  • Keep audio playing in the background
  • Progress tracking with gamification
  • Drones cycle down the scale
  • Drone scale made of selected notes

JAMMATES

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

iPracticePro

No in-app purchases

28 purchases

JAMMATES

One-time28
  • Bossa Nova Blues 12key$2.99
  • Ⅱ-Ⅴ Reharmonization 12key$2.99
  • Bird Blues Changes 12key$2.99
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  • Gospel Style Jam Track$2.99
  • Funk Popular$2.99
  • Feel Like Makin love 12key$2.99
  • Rhythm Changes Reharmonization$2.99
  • Tricky Songs$3.99
  • Major Jazz Blues 12 key$4.99
  • Swing Ⅱ-V-I-VI 12key (Short)$4.99
  • Swing Ⅱ-V-I-VI 12key (Long)$4.99
  • Slow Funky Groove 12key$4.99
  • Neo Soul Jam Track 12key$4.99
  • Metheny & Mehldau$4.99
  • Rhythm Change 12key$4.99
  • Herbie Hancock & Chick corea$4.99
  • Minor Blues 12 key$4.99
  • Art Blakey&The Jazz Messengers$4.99
  • Minor Swing Ⅱ-Ⅴ-Ⅰ-Ⅵ 12key(L)$4.99
  • Benny Green Songbook$4.99
  • Film Music Repertoire$4.99
  • Essential Wayne Shorter$4.99
  • One Chord Funk (Dominant7th)$4.99
  • Latin Jazz Song Book (Cuban)$5.99
  • Antonio Carlos Jobim Book Ⅰ.$5.99
  • Antonio Carlos Jobim SongBookⅡ$5.99
  • Sing like Chet$6.99
  • Bill Evans Repertoire$7.99

Questions

Is iPracticePro free?
iPracticePro costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is JAMMATES free?
JAMMATES costs $15.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, iPracticePro or JAMMATES?
iPracticePro is rated higher. iPracticePro averages 4.7 out of 5 from 239 ratings, while JAMMATES averages 3.6 from 17 ratings.
Do iPracticePro or JAMMATES have ads?
Neither iPracticePro nor JAMMATES shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iPracticePro or JAMMATES?
iPracticePro ships an update monthly, and JAMMATES every 2 months. Most recently, iPracticePro was updated on October 13, 2026 and JAMMATES on October 14, 2026.

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