Comparison

iPracticePro vs Jazz Scales Trainer

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

Jazz Scales Trainer

Master jazz improvisation with play-along exercises focused on scales. Practice single scales and transitions, with customizable accompaniment beats and chords. Prepare for jam sessions by analyzing your favorite songs and selecting scale proposals for each chord.

Highlights
  • Play-along jazz scale exercises
  • Scale transition training
  • Customizable accompaniment beats and chords
  • Song analysis for scale selection
  • Instrument configuration (clef, pitch, range)
Features
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This app trains you on playing jazz solos with a variety of play-along exercises focused on jazz scales. Playing single scales as well as changing from scale to scale is trained. Various accompaniment beats and chords make practicing fun. Get ready for your next jam session by exercising your favorite songs. Listen and select from scale proposals for each bar of your song, after entering the song chords. Configure the app to adapt to your instrument (clef, pitch, range, etc.)

Screenshots

iPracticePro4 screens
Jazz Scales Trainer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: iPracticePro at 4.7 against Jazz Scales Trainer's 3.0. iPracticePro also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 22 months) and ratings volume (239 vs 2). Jazz Scales Trainer's advantage is price ($2.99 vs $5.99). On ads, in-app purchases, 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 Jazz Scales Trainer $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

iPracticePro holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iPracticePro has 239 ratings behind it against 2, 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 75% of Jazz Scales Trainer's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iPracticePro ships an update monthly, Jazz Scales Trainer every 22 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
iPracticePro versus Jazz Scales Trainer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriPracticeProJazz Scales Trainer
Price$5.99$2.99 — better
Rating4.7 (239 ratings) — better3.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews86.8% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings239 — better2
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 22 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size170 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSteffen WeberMartin Miller

Customer experience

iPracticePro

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

Jazz Scales Trainer

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

None

iPracticePro

No in-app purchases

None

Jazz Scales Trainer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is iPracticePro free?
iPracticePro costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Jazz Scales Trainer free?
Jazz Scales Trainer costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, iPracticePro or Jazz Scales Trainer?
iPracticePro is rated higher. iPracticePro averages 4.7 out of 5 from 239 ratings, while Jazz Scales Trainer averages 3.0 from 2 ratings.
Do iPracticePro or Jazz Scales Trainer have ads?
Neither iPracticePro nor Jazz Scales Trainer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iPracticePro or Jazz Scales Trainer?
iPracticePro ships an update monthly, and Jazz Scales Trainer every 22 months. Most recently, iPracticePro was updated on September 21, 2026 and Jazz Scales Trainer on September 9, 2026.

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