Comparison

Crescendo Masters Edition vs ChoirZone

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

Head to head
About

Crescendo Masters Edition

Easily arrange professional-quality sheet music, guitar tabs, and percussion notation. Add notes, accidentals, text, and lyrics, then listen back to your compositions with MIDI playback. This tool is ideal for composers to write, save, and print their musical ideas.

Highlights
  • Create sheet music, guitar tabs, percussion notation
  • Change time and key signatures
  • Add whole to thirty-second notes with accidentals
  • Drag notes to adjust pitch and placement
  • Add text for titles, tempo, dynamics, lyrics
  • MIDI playback for compositions
  • Save and print music
Features
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Crescendo Masters makes arranging your own professional quality sheet music fun and easy. Create sheet music, guitar tabs, or percussion notation. With Crescendo, you can easily change the time signature and key signature and choose between Treble, Bass, Tenor, and Alto Clefs. Add notes from whole to thirty-second and assign sharps, flats, or natural accidentals to them. You can also easily drag notes to change their pitch or placement. Place text wherever in your sheet music to add titles, specify tempo changes and dynamics, or write lyrics. When you are finished, listen back to your composition with MIDI playback. Crescendo is the perfect program for composers to write, save and print their music compositions on their computer. This version of Crescendo is under a 7-day free trial. Once the trial expires, you will have to pay for the subscription in order to access the full features.

About

ChoirZone

Features
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ChoirZone is your personal practice studio for choir singing. Bring your score, learn your part, and walk into rehearsal ready. PRACTICE STUDIO See the sheet music and hear each voice at the same time, always in sync. Solo your part, mute the rest, slow it down, and loop the tricky four bars until they finally stick. Works with PDF and MusicXML scores. MARK UP YOUR MUSIC Add notes and musical stamps exactly where you need them, or draw freehand with your finger or Apple Pencil. Read continuously or page-by-page, like a book. TRAIN YOUR EAR AND VOICE On-device exercises that actually listen to you: interval training, sight-reading, rhythm, and a "drift" exercise that shows when you're slipping off pitch. Check your vocal range, warm up, and record yourself to listen back. All pitch detection runs privately on your device. YOUR WHOLE CHOIR IN ONE PLACE Share the set list, see who's coming to rehearsal, and point everyone at the exact score. Your singers arrive already knowing the notes — so rehearsal is for making music, not teaching parts. FREE TO PRACTISE ChoirZone is free for your own practice. Running a choir with members is available as a subscription. Made by choir singers, for choir singers. Support: support@choirzone.com Privacy: https://choirzone.com/privacy

Screenshots

Crescendo Masters Edition4 screens
ChoirZone4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ChoirZone at none against Crescendo Masters Edition's 1. Crescendo Masters Edition's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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

Both are free to download. Crescendo Masters Edition sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. ChoirZone asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Crescendo Masters Edition ships an update fortnightly, ChoirZone every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Crescendo Masters Edition versus ChoirZone: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCrescendo Masters EditionChoirZone
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB45 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNCH SoftwareTrädtopp

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Crescendo Masters Edition

Subscriptions1
  • Full Features (Monthly)7 Days trial$2.991 Month
None

ChoirZone

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Crescendo Masters Edition free?
Crescendo Masters Edition is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ChoirZone free?
ChoirZone is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Crescendo Masters Edition or ChoirZone have ads?
Neither Crescendo Masters Edition nor ChoirZone shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Crescendo Masters Edition or ChoirZone?
Crescendo Masters Edition ships an update fortnightly, and ChoirZone every 2 weeks. Most recently, Crescendo Masters Edition was updated on October 30, 2026 and ChoirZone on October 31, 2026.

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