Comparison

Practice Pro | Metronome Tuner vs Tactus

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Practice Pro | Metronome Tuner

Create your ideal music practice environment by combining various tools like metronomes, tuners, and recorders. Customize layouts, share pages with friends, and track your progress with this modular app designed for musicians of all levels.

Highlights
  • Customizable practice pages
  • Multiple metronomes
  • Three tuner types
  • Pitch pipe and drones
  • Practice journal
  • iCloud sync
  • Shareable practice pages
Features
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Practice Pro is a set of 28 powerful music practice widgets that you can combine in any way you wish to create your PERFECT practice app. It has everything you need- Metronome, Tuner, Strobe Tuner, Pitch Pipe, Pitch Drone, Recorder, Practice Journal and so much more. Combine up to 8 widgets per page and you can even create multiple practice pages for each phase of your practice session, or start from one of 10 ready-made templates. Each widget comes in up to three sizes, and everything can be customized. Each widget has its own independent settings for further customization. Your pages sync across your iPhone and iPad with iCloud, and you can even share practice pages you have made with friends! Details: Create Custom Practice Pages - Design a dedicated page for each stage of your practice routine Start From a Template - 10 ready-made pages for guitar, violin, voice, winds and brass, rhythm and more Combine Multiple Widgets - Use up to 8 widgets per page, all running simultaneously Personalize Your Layout - Drag to reorder, resize from the corner, and choose from 58 color themes or make your own Three Kinds of Tuner - A needle tuner, a phase-detection strobe tuner, and a strings tuner that checks every string in one strum 62 String Instruments - Guitar, bass, ukulele, violin, mandolin, banjo and more, with 247 tunings, a capo and your own custom tunings Pro-Grade Metronome - 30 to 300 BPM in 15 meters, with custom accents, six sounds and subdivisions Run Multiple Metronomes - Several at once, each at its own tempo Automatic Tempo Increase - Gradually raise the tempo to master difficult passages Random Mute - Drop beats at random so you learn to keep time on your own Tap Tempo Sync - Set a tempo by tapping, and instantly sync all metronomes Pitch Pipe and Drones - Play a starting note, hold a drone under your scales, or build a chord to tune against Sound-Back Mode - Have the app listen to your notes and play them back as a reference Multiple Temperaments - Choose from 8 temperaments, including equal temperament, just intonation, meantone and Werckmeister Fine Tune and Transpose - Set A4 anywhere from 392 to 491 Hz and transpose to any key Record While You Play - Capture audio or video of your practice while using the metronome and tuner at the same time Practice Journal - A page for each day, and send a recap of your week to your teacher Practice Routine - A daily checklist of what to work on Track Your Progress - Practice time and streaks are tracked automatically Independent Volume Control - Set volumes for each widget individually And Much More - Decibel reader, mirror, timer, stopwatch, repetition counter, clock, text and photo widgets iCloud Sync - Your pages, journal, practice history and recordings on all your devices Share Your Pages - Send your custom practice layouts to friends and colleagues Terms of Use: https://dynamicappdesign.com/tos.html Privacy Policy: https://dynamicappdesign.com/privacy

About

Tactus

Features
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Tactus lets you enter a passage of changing meters in seconds, then subdivide every beat exactly as the passage demands. Tactus is a rhythmic mapping tool for musicians working with complex, changing meters and subdivisions. Tap through a bar of 5/8, into 7/16, into a plain 4/4. Then shape each beat as detailed as you want it to be. MACRO ENTRY Tap the meter keyboard to build your bar sequence, one tap per bar: 5/4, 7/8, 3/16, anything Enter any custom meter too, any numerator from 1 to 32 over 2, 4, 8, or 16 SUBDIVISION Any beat can be subdivided independently, as detailed as you want it to be One beat can sit in triplets while the next sits in quintuplets Tap any pulse to cycle strong, normal, soft, silent, each with its own pitch and amplitude Group consecutive beats into a tuplet, like 3 notes over 2 beats, and subdivide a single pulse again into sub-pulses for nested rhythms TEMPO, SHAPE & ORGANIZATION Draw a quick but detailed tempo ramp across a range of bars for a written accelerando or ritardando Override the tempo of a single bar for metric modulation or a conductor's marking Layer conducted feel on top of the click, a visual-only pattern showing how a conductor would beat the meter, in 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 8 Set a bar number offset so on-screen numbers match your printed score SYNC & SHARE Passages live in iCloud and appear automatically on every device signed into your Apple ID Ableton Link lets Tactus start and stop in sync with another Tactus user, or any Link-enabled device, on the same network Export any passage and share it with a collaborator, so they see exactly the map you built MADE FOR Percussionists preparing contemporary repertoire. Conductors internalizing a mixed-meter score before rehearsal. Composers, chamber musicians, and orchestral musicians working through anything a normal metronome can't handle. Tactus is a one-time purchase. No subscription.

Screenshots

Practice Pro | Metronome Tuner4 screens
Tactus4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Practice Pro | Metronome Tuner at Free against Tactus's $9.99. Tactus's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Practice Pro | Metronome Tuner is free to download; Tactus costs $9.99 up front. Practice Pro | Metronome Tuner sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per year. Tactus asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Practice Pro | Metronome Tuner versus Tactus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPractice Pro | Metronome TunerTactus
PriceFree — better$9.99
Rating4.7 (167 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews71.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings167 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDynamic App Design LLCALAN GALE MOLINA

Bugs and requests

Practice Pro | Metronome Tuner

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Unable to add widgets
  • Blank white screen issue

Requested features

2 requests
  • Support for macOS
  • Dark mode option

Tactus

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Practice Pro | Metronome Tuner

Subscriptions1
  • Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$0.991 Year
None

Tactus

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Practice Pro | Metronome Tuner free?
Practice Pro | Metronome Tuner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tactus free?
Tactus costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Practice Pro | Metronome Tuner or Tactus have ads?
Neither Practice Pro | Metronome Tuner nor Tactus shows ads.

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