Comparison

iPracticePro vs Saxophone Notes & Tablatures

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

Saxophone Notes & Tablatures

Learn to play popular melodies and traditional tunes with an interactive collection of sheet music and tablatures. Import your own music, customize playback speed and transposition, and bookmark favorites. Unlock all content and remove ads with a subscription.

Highlights
  • 130+ melodies to learn
  • Import Music XML files
  • Printable music sheets
  • Adjustable playback speed
  • Customizable saxophone types
  • Bookmark favorite melodies
Features
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Collection of sheet music with notes, tablatures, and interactive training for saxophone. This application helps to learn and practice playing popular, traditional melodies on your saxophone. Try it now, for free! Application features: - Selection of saxophone kind (Alto, Soprano, Tenor, Baritone, Bass, Contrabass, Sopranino, Sopranissimo); - Over 150 traditional melodies to learn and practice; - Allows to import additional melodies from your own, local Music XML files (.mxl, .musicxml, .xml); - Interactive training modes (recognition via the microphone of the music you play on a real world saxophone, and scoring it against the music sheet); - It can play every melody displaying the progress in the music sheet; - Optional countdown before the melody playback; - Tune-able playback speed (tempo); - Allows custom transposition of melodies; - Allows to print out music sheets; - Allows to bookmark favorite melodies. ADVERTISEMENTS & SUBSCRIPTIONS By default, this application is supported by advertisements, and only a handful of melodies are accessible for free. Paid application subscriptions, available in the in-app store, unlock all melodies, and remove all advertisements. The profit from subscriptions supports application maintenance and further development, including bug-fixes, new features, and new melodies. USER SUPPORT Any comments, ideas, suggestions are welcome to support@music-tabs.com TERMS OF USE (EULA) https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

Screenshots

iPracticePro4 screens
Saxophone Notes & Tablatures4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: iPracticePro at 87% against Saxophone Notes & Tablatures's 0%. iPracticePro also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4) and ads (none vs shown). Saxophone Notes & Tablatures's advantage is price (Free vs $5.99). On update cadence, 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

Saxophone Notes & Tablatures is free to download; iPracticePro costs $5.99 up front. Saxophone Notes & Tablatures sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.49 per month. iPracticePro asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iPracticePro ships an update monthly, Saxophone Notes & Tablatures every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
iPracticePro versus Saxophone Notes & Tablatures: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriPracticeProSaxophone Notes & Tablatures
Price$5.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (239 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews86.8% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings239 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS15.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size170 MB108 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSteffen WeberSergey Pogodin

Customer experience

iPracticePro

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

Saxophone Notes & Tablatures

Written reviews3 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral66.7%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

None

iPracticePro

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Saxophone Notes & Tablatures

Subscriptions4
  • Monthly Subscription$4.491 Month
  • 3-Months Subscription$12.493 Months
  • Half-Year Subscription$20.996 Months
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  • Annual Subscription$27.991 Year

Questions

Is iPracticePro free?
iPracticePro costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Saxophone Notes & Tablatures free?
Saxophone Notes & Tablatures is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do iPracticePro or Saxophone Notes & Tablatures have ads?
Saxophone Notes & Tablatures shows ads; iPracticePro does not.
Which is updated more often, iPracticePro or Saxophone Notes & Tablatures?
iPracticePro ships an update monthly, and Saxophone Notes & Tablatures every 2 months. Most recently, iPracticePro was updated on September 21, 2026 and Saxophone Notes & Tablatures on September 20, 2026.

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