Comparison

Music Score Pad vs Sampledex Effect Shift

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

Head to head
About

Music Score Pad

Compose and edit musical scores directly on your device with a continuous, expandable staff system. Easily insert space, print formatted pages, and share your creations. Designed for stylus input on tablets, it also functions with finger input on phones.

Highlights
  • Continuous, expandable staff system
  • Insert space within scores
  • Automatic page formatting for printing
  • Copy, paste, clone, and delete score sections
  • Share and import score files
  • Stylus-optimized for tablets
Features
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This app is designed for composers and musicians who wish to hand-write musical ideas, with a stylus on a screen. Features include: 1. There are no pages. Instead, there is one continuous stave system which is automatically extended as you write new music. 2. Insert more space at any section of the hand-written score. 3. Print your work and the app will format the continuous system into a standard page layout.  4 Copy/Paste/Clone and Delete options within and across files. 5. Share and import files created by the app. 6. Simple to use. The app is designed for using it with a stylus on an iPad. It will still work without a stylus on both an iPad and an iPhone, but you'd be drawing notes with a finger which may be a suboptimal experience. PRIVACY POLICY: Everything you write is saved locally in the app on this device unless you explicitly share it. In other words, the app doesn't transfer what you write to an external server or a third party. The app is meant to be a helper tool in music-writing process. While a reliable and safe experience in using this app is my top priority, a creator of the app, I shall not be held responsible for any loss of files and/or intellectual property or damages. Please use at your own risk!

About

Sampledex Effect Shift

Features
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Give your sound a new direction. Sampledex Effect Shift brings 50 effect choices, seven hands-on macro controls and the seven-band Bender EQ to iPhone and iPad. Add drive to a drum loop, movement to a synth or space around a melody, then shape the result to fit your track. FIND A STARTING POINT Choose from 51 factory presets: Default plus a starting sound for each of the 50 effects. A factory preset recalls a complete sound. Use the separate effect menu when you want to change the algorithm while keeping your other settings. CHOOSE YOUR CHARACTER Explore drive, digital textures, filters, chorus, flanging, phasing, tremolo, ring modulation, delay and reverb. Start with an effect, then turn Amount, Tone, Time, Mix, Dimension, Sparkle and Output to make it your own. SHAPE IT WITH BENDER EQ Follow seven colored band curves and their numbered handles. Select a band to adjust frequency, gain and Q directly. Use Fine for smaller graph movements, or lock dragging to frequency or gain. High-pass, low-pass and Prism controls give you more ways to shape the response. COMPARE AND KEEP YOUR IDEAS Use EQ A/B to compare two settings and copy a favorite into the other slot. Save the full sound as a preset and import or export preset documents when moving between your workflows. Each instance keeps its own sound in your host's project state. BUILT FOR TOUCH Move between Effects, Bender EQ and Advanced pages. Scroll to reach every control, enter a precise value or turn a textured macro knob. Switch Light or Dark directly from the touch header, or use the theme menu in Advanced. Your theme and settings return when the instance is restored. BRING IT INTO YOUR MUSIC WORKFLOW The included AUv3 audio effect extension loads in compatible hosts. The containing app also offers live input processing: connect headphones or an audio interface, then enable live input. Microphone permission is requested when you enable input. Your host manages audio when you use the extension. GO FURTHER Explore HoloRune character, spatial modes, EQ routing, parallel mix and Mid/Side levels in Advanced. Sidechain ducking requires a compatible host and a routed sidechain source.

Screenshots

Music Score Pad2 screens
Sampledex Effect Shift4 screens

Verdict

The call

Music Score Pad and Sampledex Effect Shift are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Music Score Pad versus Sampledex Effect Shift: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMusic Score PadSampledex Effect Shift
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLeonid IogansenRobert Clemons

In-app purchases

None

Music Score Pad

No in-app purchases

None

Sampledex Effect Shift

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Music Score Pad free?
Music Score Pad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sampledex Effect Shift free?
Sampledex Effect Shift is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Music Score Pad or Sampledex Effect Shift have ads?
Neither Music Score Pad nor Sampledex Effect Shift shows ads.

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