Lick Transposer vs Beat Scribe
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lick Transposer
Easily create musical phrases using a piano or microphone and instantly transpose them to all 12 keys. Save your transpositions as formatted images for practice. Customize interval and direction preferences in the settings.
- Create musical phrases via piano or microphone
- Transpose to all 12 keys
- Switch between Bass and Treble Clef
- Save transpositions as formatted images
- Customize interval and direction preferences
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Create a lick(musical phrase) using the on screen piano or audio from microphone and immediately transpose it to all 12 keys. Switch between Bass and Treble Clef by tapping the Clef in the Lick creator. Save the transpositions easily to a formatted image for practice. Select the interval and direction preferences from the Settings. This app is intended to be simple and intuitive, but more features will be added later. Send feedback for what features you would like to see!
Beat Scribe
Easily tap out rhythms and hear them play back instantly on a musical staff. Build complex grooves by layering tracks, adjusting timing, and adding swing. Ideal for musicians, students, and teachers looking to sketch out ideas quickly.
- Tap notes and rests onto a musical staff
- Layer grooves across multiple tracks
- Instant playback and looping of patterns
- Adjust rhythm feel with swing and nudging
- Support for various time signatures
- Built-in metronome
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A metronome you can compose. A metronome gives you a click. Beat Scribe gives you the whole rhythm — written on a staff, looping back, in real note values you can actually read. Hear a rhythm in your head? Tap it in and hear it back in seconds — quarters, eighths, sixteenths, triplets, dotted notes and rests, not abstract grid squares. That link between the symbol and the sound is the point: practise reading what you play, or sketch a groove without picking up the instrument. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Tap a rhythm live on the pads, or place notes on the staff for exact notation • Drop in beamed rhythm cells — two eighths, four sixteenths, dotted figures and more • Hit play and loop it back instantly • Layer parts across tracks — ride, snare, hi-hat, bass drum, toms and cymbals • Shape the feel of each track — swing or shuffle (8th- or 16th-note), or nudge a part ahead of or behind the beat for a human push and pull • Work in any meter — 4/4, 3/4, 5/4 and beyond • Keep time with the built-in metronome • Share any groove as a playable link — free, and it plays in any browser • New here? A short guided tour walks you through it, replayable any time • Made for iPhone and iPad MADE FOR Drummers, musicians, students and teachers — reading practice, building a groove, or catching an idea before it disappears. FREE & PRO The free version gives you snare and hi-hat across two tracks, plus sharing — enough to build and play a real rhythm. Beat Scribe Pro (one-time purchase) unlocks the full kit, more tracks, save / load, and importing your own sounds.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Beat Scribe at Free against Lick Transposer's $1.99. Lick Transposer's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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
Beat Scribe is free to download; Lick Transposer costs $1.99 up front. Beat Scribe sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Lick Transposer asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Lick Transposer against 5.0 for Beat Scribe. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 5 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Lick Transposer ships an update every 10 days, Beat Scribe every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lick Transposer | Beat Scribe |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 11 days |
| Ads | — | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jeff Taboloff | Vegan World |
Customer experience
Lick Transposer
Beat Scribe
In-app purchases
Lick Transposer
No in-app purchases
Beat Scribe
- Beat Scribe Pro$8.99
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