Passaggi vs Perfect Timing
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Passaggi
This app provides high-quality audio backing tracks for historical music performers to practice improvisation and ornamentation. It features adjustable tempo and pitch, user-defined looping, and historically accurate organ samples to enhance immersive study.
- High-quality audio backing tracks
- Improvisation and ornamentation practice
- Adjustable pitch and tempo
- User-defined looping
- Historically accurate organ samples
- Complements historical treatises
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Passaggi is an improvisation and ornamentation practice app for historical performers. The app delivers high-quality audio backing tracks for personal practice, which, when used in conjunction with facsimiles or modern editions of historical sources, enable the user to develop skills in the areas of improvisation and ornamentation. Suitable for students, amateurs and professionals alike, the app features adjustable pitch and tempo settings and user-defined looping capabilities. Tracks are recorded using a sampled historical organ in a temperament appropriate to the repertoire and are designed to complement the pedagogy of historical treatises. The idea behind Passaggi springs from a desire, common to many performers of historical repertoires, to recreate aspects of the musical experience as it may have existed at the time a piece of music was written. Improvisation and ornamentation may form only one aspect of this wide-reaching desire, yet it is clear that in this area students and professionals would achieve more successful immersive study and practice if the harmonic and musical context for improvisation, ornamentation and diminution were more easily accessible. How many of us can open Dalla Casa’s Il vero modo… and sing the baseline to his exercise embellishing Striggio’s I dolci colli, for example? And how much more profitable would our practice of this exercise be if we could? How many more of us would practise improvising on a ground, if we had a ground? The Passaggi project will enable more effective exploration of historical sources and approaches by providing digitally some aspects of the innate and inherited musical awareness common to all musicians of the past that we strive to connect with in the twenty-first century.
Perfect Timing
This music app helps users improve their rhythm and timing with a metronome, beat counter, and rhythm trainer. It allows users to record their playing and evaluate precision, with a free version offering limited daily use and a full version unlockable via in-app purchase.
- Metronome with beat count and divisions
- Rhythm trainer with random beat patterns
- Timing evaluator with recording
- Drum pattern player
- Customizable metronome sounds (full version)
- No play time limit (full version)
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* Metronome with beat count, divisions and shuffle mode * Rhythm trainer with random beat patterns * Timing evaluator: record your playing and evaluate the precision in Advanced mode * Drum pattern player: drum patterns of various music styles The free version has a play time limit of 2 minutes per day. Full Version Benefits (in-app purchase): * No play time limit * Presets * Custom beat patterns * Playing statistics * Customise metronome sounds
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Perfect Timing at Free against Passaggi's $14.99. Perfect Timing also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and update cadence (every 4 months vs every 42 months). Passaggi's advantage is rating (4.0 vs 2.5) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On 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
Perfect Timing is free to download; Passaggi costs $14.99 up front. Perfect Timing sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Passaggi asks for nothing beyond the download.
Passaggi holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Passaggi's written reviews are positive against 100% of Perfect Timing's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Passaggi ships an update every 42 months, Perfect Timing every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Passaggi | Perfect Timing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $14.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.0 (3 ratings) — better | 2.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 42 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Septenary Foundation | Matthias Santer |
Customer experience
Passaggi
Perfect Timing
In-app purchases
Passaggi
No in-app purchases
Perfect Timing
- Perfect Timing Full Version$9.99
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