SBL Groove Trainer vs TuneFinder
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SBL Groove Trainer
This app is a comprehensive practice toolkit for bass players. It offers a metronome, tuner, beat trainer, and a drum looper featuring live samples from professional drummers. Enhance your bass playing skills with realistic jamming and practice tools.
- Metronome
- Precision tuner
- Beat trainer
- Drum looper with live samples
- Practice with real musicians
- Jam with famous drummers
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The Groove Trainer from Scott's Bass Lessons (SBL) is not just another metronome app - it’s the ultimate bass player’s practice toolkit. Play along with real musicians, jam with famous drummers like Mark Guiliana and Nate Wood, and more. It's a precision tuner, beat trainer, and metronome - and the SBL Groove Trainer is also a drum looper packed with live samples from the hottest drummers on the planet. Every time you sit down to practice, the Groove Trainer is at your side with a power pack of tools to help level up your playing, quickly and easily.
TuneFinder
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Import your music PDFs and make their tune titles searchable. TuneFinder uses on-device OCR to suggest an index, which you can review, correct and complete in the index editor. You can also create an index manually or import one as CSV. Find a tune by title and open its PDF page directly from a result. Organise tunes into playlists for rehearsals and gigs. Browse your books in a searchable library and use the bottom navigation to move between Search, Playlists and Books. Your library stays on your device and works offline. Search one selected book for free. Multi-Book Search, available as an in-app purchase, lets you search several indexed books at once. Optional iCloud sync keeps playlists, book indexes and linked PDFs up to date across your Apple devices using the same iCloud account. Playlist changes made on different devices merge when you sync. Sync progress and results help you see what has been updated. You can pause sync and keep your local library. Apple and Android libraries sync separately. Open Help from the screen you are using to find relevant guides in your app language, with instructions for your device. Access Multi-Book Search purchases and purchase restoration from Settings.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SBL Groove Trainer at none against TuneFinder's 1. TuneFinder's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months). On price, ads, device support 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. TuneFinder sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. SBL Groove Trainer asks for nothing beyond the download.
SBL Groove Trainer ships an update every 5 months, TuneFinder every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SBL Groove Trainer | TuneFinder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (154 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 92.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 154 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 286 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Devine Music Limited | Emmanuel Keller |
Bugs and requests
SBL Groove Trainer
Reported bugs
3 issues- Grooves not loading after iOS update
- Drone feature not working properly
- Drum beats not loading on certain devices
Requested features
8 requests- Add visual tempo display
- Include reggae and other genre-specific beats
- Implement count-in feature
- Add lights to indicate each beat
- Integrate loop recording functionality
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- Support for third-party hardware like iRig
- Implement Dynamic Island support on iOS
- Add timer or practice session tracking
TuneFinder
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
SBL Groove Trainer
No in-app purchases
TuneFinder
- Multi-Book Search$2.99
Questions
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