iPracticePro vs RealPlay
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.
RealPlay
Practice music with authentic backing tracks performed by professional musicians. Customize tempo, key, and mix for focused learning. Features over 100 standard chord progressions with an expanding library.
- Authentic backing tracks
- 100+ standard chord progressions
- Real-time tempo adjustment
- Instrument isolation and mixing
- Instant transposition to all keys
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RealPlay lets you practice with real music—not midi tracks, AI, or loops. Play along with authentic backing tracks performed by world-class rhythm sections, featuring an expanding library of over 100 essential standard chord progressions. Easily customize your practice with real-time controls for tempo, key, and mix—so you can focus on exactly what you need. Features: • World-class rhythm sections • 100+ essential jazz standards and chord progressions (expanding library) • Real-time tempo adjustment • Instrument isolation and mixing (ideal for rhythm section players) • Instant transposition to all 12 keys Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: RealPlay at Free against iPracticePro's $5.99. RealPlay also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs monthly). iPracticePro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and review sentiment (87% vs 73%). On rating, ratings volume, 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
RealPlay is free to download; iPracticePro costs $5.99 up front. RealPlay sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.29 per month. iPracticePro asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for iPracticePro against 4.8 for RealPlay. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 239 and 161 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 87% of iPracticePro's written reviews are positive against 73% of RealPlay's.
iPracticePro ships an update monthly, RealPlay every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iPracticePro | RealPlay |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (239 ratings) | 4.8 (161 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 86.8% of reviews — better | 72.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 239 — better | 161 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 170 MB | 113 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Steffen Weber | RealPlay LLC |
Customer experience
iPracticePro
RealPlay
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
RealPlay
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
iPracticePro
No in-app purchases
RealPlay
- RealPlay Pro Monthly$3.291 Month
- RealPlay Pro Yearly$21.991 Year
Questions
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