ScratchQuartets vs Standard Tags
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ScratchQuartets
This app helps organize barbershop quartet competitions by randomly assigning singers to each voice and selecting a song. It's designed for large groups like choruses to facilitate fun, random performances.
- Random quartet generation
- Singer assignment by voice
- Random song selection
- Add unlimited singers
- Add custom songs
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Generate random barbershop quartets from a list of singers. Add all the singers you want on each voice and the app will choose one for each voice randomly. Yo can also add songs so the app can select a random song to be performed by the quartet. - What is the purpose of this app? The propose is to help large group of barbershop singers, like choruses, organize a fun competition called Scratch Quartets, that consist on choosing, randomly, a singer for each voice and hear them perform a song. - Who is the target audience? The target audience are barbershop choruses, but it can be used by any group of singers that want to perform a similar competition. - How does the app work? You add singers for each voice and add the songs that can be performed and the app choose the singers and the song to perform from those lists each time you tap on the new quartet button.
Standard Tags
Access and view tags and sheet music from the barbershoptags.com database. This utility app provides a streamlined way to explore musical resources.
- View tags
- View sheet music
- Access barbershoptags.com database
- Cloud backup subscription
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Standard Tags puts the entire BarbershopTags.com catalog in your pocket and keeps it there, signal or no signal. On first launch it downloads a complete local copy of the database. It's under 10 MB. From then on every search runs on your own device, instantly. The app only reaches the internet to fetch sheet music or a learning track you haven't opened before, and once you've viewed a tag its sheet music is cached for good. Rehearsal in a church basement, a hotel ballroom with four bars of signal, an afterglow in a parking lot; the app does not care. SEARCH AND SING • Full-catalog search that works with no connection • Filter by tag type and number of parts; sort by popularity, rating, newest, or relevance • Sheet music, learning tracks, and videos for the tags that have them • A real pitch pipe built in; hold to sound the key, swipe to change it, swipe sideways for sharps and flats • Tags with no written key show an estimated key, and you can swipe to the right one and submit a correction for the community • Rate tags and sort by your own ratings ORGANIZE YOUR REPERTOIRE • Star the tags you keep coming back to • Build unlimited lists; convention prep, chapter favorites, quartet repertoire, the four you can actually ring at midnight • Pin the lists you use most for one-tap access • Publish a list for every Standard Tags user to find, and save other people's lists for offline use SHARE A TAG ANYWHERE • Send a tag file that opens straight to the tag with the sheet music already attached, no database round trip, no waiting • Share a link that opens directly in the app, or show a QR code for someone to scan • If they don't have Standard Tags, the link takes them to BarbershopTags.com or their app store instead SING TOGETHER • Tag Circles: start a circle, share the code, and everyone's app follows the same queue and the same active tag in real time. Decide whether only the host or the whole circle can change tags. Pool everyone's favorites into one shared list to find what the group already knows. • Tag Roulette: a real-time multiplayer game. The host picks the pool, players join with a four-letter code, and everyone lands on the same random tag at the same moment. Vote to finish or skip, set a timer for speed rounds, and let the app assign each singer a part. FOLLOW AND KEEP SCORE • Follow arrangers and get a notification when they post something new • 82 achievements across 11 series, from your first tag to the genuinely obscure • Personal stats: what you've viewed, played, shared and rated • A Year in Review recap of your singing year FREE, WITH AN OPTIONAL SUBSCRIPTION Standard Tags is free, and an account is optional. Search, lists, sheet music, the pitch pipe and sharing all work without one. The optional subscription adds cloud backup and sync across your devices, so a lost or replaced phone never means starting over, plus a high-speed sheet music mirror that takes over automatically when BarbershopTags.com is slow to answer. It is priced to cover server costs. Publishing a list publicly is a separate one-time purchase that keeps the public collection curated. Available in English, Spanish, German and Swedish. Built for barbershoppers: quartets, choruses, woodshedders, and anyone who has ever stopped a conversation to ring a chord.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Standard Tags at 100% against ScratchQuartets's 0%. Standard Tags also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.0) and update cadence (weekly vs every 68 months). ScratchQuartets's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.6). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Standard Tags sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. ScratchQuartets asks for nothing beyond the download.
Standard Tags holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Standard Tags has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of ScratchQuartets's written reviews are positive against 100% of Standard Tags's.
ScratchQuartets ships an update every 68 months, Standard Tags weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ScratchQuartets | Standard Tags |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 68 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Taps and Swipes | Mike Nelson |
Customer experience
ScratchQuartets
Standard Tags
In-app purchases
ScratchQuartets
No in-app purchases
Standard Tags
- Standard Tags Cloud Backup$1.991 Month
- Standard Tags Curated Upload$1.99









