Tunebook vs VRTGO
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tunebook
This app is a viewer for music written in the ABC format, a text-based notation popular for folk music. It allows users to import tunes from the web, organize them into collections, search by title, key, or time signature, and view them in musical notation. Users can also play the tunes with various voices.
- ABC music format viewer
- Import tunes from websites
- Search tunes by title, key, time signature
- Display musical notation
- Play tunes with various voices
- Organize tunes into tunebooks
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Tunebook is now identical to the Tunebook for iPad application - don't buy both! I keep both on the App Store because it's not possible to provide an upgrade path to a single app without forcing some users to pay twice. Tunebook is a viewer for music expressed in the ABC format. ABC is a simple text-based notation for music and many thousands of tunes are freely available in this format on the Web. ABC is also supported by many music applications. See http://abc.sourceforge.net/ for more details on the ABC format. The format is primarily geared towards traditional folk music where tunes fit on a single page. Tunebook allows you to import files in the ABC format from websites into its database. You can then list the tunes, search for tunes by words in the title, by key and by time signature. Selecting a tune will display it in musical notation and allow you to play it in a variety of voices. You can also create tunebooks to organize your tune collection. Tunebook is based on the well-known abc2ps and abc2midi applications, and licensed under the GPL. The source code is available from http://www.jhlabs.com/tunebook.
VRTGO
Experience live performances from top musicians in immersive virtual reality. Explore concerts and music events in stunning 360° video.
- Virtual reality concerts
- 360° artist performances
- Immersive music experiences
- Exclusive content
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See the world's biggest artists in Virtual Reality and 360° exclusively in VRTGO
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: VRTGO at 3.7 against Tunebook's 3.0. Tunebook's advantage is review sentiment (75% vs 33%) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. VRTGO sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Tunebook asks for nothing beyond the download.
VRTGO holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 3 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 75% of Tunebook's written reviews are positive against 33% of VRTGO's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Tunebook ships an update every 2 months, VRTGO monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tunebook | VRTGO |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (6 ratings) | 3.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 188 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 9+ |
| Developer | JH Labs | U-Apps |
Customer experience
Tunebook
VRTGO
In-app purchases
Tunebook
No in-app purchases
VRTGO
- Queen 3 Song Bundle$9.99
