Session Studio vs Guild
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Session Studio
This app helps musicians and producers manage song rights and credits from creation to release. It facilitates collaboration by allowing users to share audio, lyrics, and notes, and ensures accurate royalty payments by injecting creator metadata into the music ecosystem.
- Collaborate with music creators
- Share audio, lyrics, notes, voice memos
- Synchronize song information from DAWs
- Log creator credits via QR check-in
- Manage releases and label copy
- Cross-platform access (mobile, desktop, web)
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Session Studio is the must-have music collaboration tool for music creators, producers and musicians who want to manage their song rights and credits, from the studio right through to release. • Collaborate with music creators by uploading & sharing audio, lyrics, notes and voice memos. • Synchronize song information from major DAWs and recording software to the Session Studio App (desktop only) • Log creator credits and identifiers from all collaborators via QR check-in. • Manage your releases and label copy. • Access to the app across mobile, desktop and web. The Session Studio app collects all creator metadata and ensures it’s injected authoritatively into the music ecosystem (labels, distributors, publishing rights organizations, streaming platforms), facilitating correct creator credits and accurate, timely music royalty payments. Make music, get credit. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Guild
This app empowers music creators, teams, and fans to collaborate on content creation, community growth, and monetization. It offers tools for singers, producers, and managers to streamline the process from idea to impact.
- Music collaboration tools
- Community building
- Content creation support
- Release planning
- AI-powered features
- Monetization options
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Guild is where music creators, teams, and fans collaborate. Whether you're a singer, producer, manager, or videographer, Guild gives you the tools to make better content, grow your community, and earn more from your work. With built-in collaboration, release planning, AI-powered tools, and community monetization features, Guild helps you go from idea to impact — all in one place.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Guild at 100% against Session Studio's 63%. Guild also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Session Studio's advantage is ratings volume (199 vs 3). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. Session Studio sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $6.99 per month. Guild asks for nothing beyond the download.
Guild holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Session Studio has 199 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of Session Studio's written reviews are positive against 100% of Guild's.
Session Studio ships an update monthly, Guild every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Session Studio | Guild |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (199 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 63.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 199 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 83 MB | 91 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Session.id | musical world inc. |
Customer experience
Session Studio
Guild
In-app purchases
Session Studio
- Creator Tier - Monthly$6.991 Month
Guild
No in-app purchases
