iPracticePro vs Play Jazz Tracks Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Play Jazz Tracks Mobile
Access hundreds of high-quality jazz backing tracks created by a professional musician. Stream all available tracks, including future additions, with tempo and key information. Customize your listening experience with a dedicated player featuring EQ, pitch controls, and a favorites list.
- Hundreds of high-quality jazz backing tracks
- Stream all tracks, including new additions
- BPM tempo and key information for each track
- Search and filter tracks by BPM
- Dedicated track player with EQ
- Pitch controls
- Create favorite track lists
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Welcome to Play Jazz Tracks Mobile. This app allows you to stream literally hundreds of some of the best backing tracks on the market with a huge collection of Jazz standards, Funk, Groove, Study tracks and more. Featuring all the classic Jazz repertoire you can imagine plus any new tracks added to the Play Jazz Tracks library in the future. Latest features include high quality time stretching for speed and pitch. The new chord chart screen has a control panel allowing users to transpose the chart for Bb and Eb transposing instruments plus the pitch slider will also transpose the chart to match so the chart is always in the right key. Download for free and try the free tracks with all the features unloked before committing to a subscription. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: iPracticePro at 87% against Play Jazz Tracks Mobile's 33%. iPracticePro also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and rating (4.7 vs 4.3). Play Jazz Tracks Mobile's advantage is price (Free vs $5.99) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On update cadence, ads and device support 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
Play Jazz Tracks Mobile is free to download; iPracticePro costs $5.99 up front. Play Jazz Tracks Mobile sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $8.99 per month. iPracticePro asks for nothing beyond the download.
iPracticePro holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iPracticePro has 242 ratings behind it against 6, 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 33% of Play Jazz Tracks Mobile's.
iPracticePro ships an update every 5 weeks, Play Jazz Tracks Mobile every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iPracticePro | Play Jazz Tracks Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (242 ratings) — better | 4.3 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 87.0% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 242 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 170 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Steffen Weber | Philip Wilkinson |
Customer experience
iPracticePro
Play Jazz Tracks Mobile
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
Play Jazz Tracks Mobile
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
iPracticePro
No in-app purchases
Play Jazz Tracks Mobile
- Monthly Subscription$8.991 Month
Questions
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