Fingering vs Instrument Bible
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fingering
Access interactive fingering charts for a wide range of woodwind and brass instruments, including alternate fingerings and trills. Features a piano interface to visualize notes and their notations across various clefs, with transposition options.
- Interactive fingering charts
- Alternate fingerings and trills
- Piano visualization
- Multiple clef support
- Transposition options
- Instrument-specific guides
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“This is a must have app for every music teacher, students and enthusiast.” Immediate access to fingerings (with alternates and trills) for each instrument’s entire playable range. Get fingerings from the written or concert pitch. Support for Key Signatures to more easily find a fingering in the music you're working on. Woodwinds: Piccolo, Concert, Alto and Bass Flutes, Oboe and Cor Anglais, Soprano, Alto, Bass and Contrabass Clarinets, Bassoon and Contrabassoon, Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Baritone Saxophones Brass: F/Bb Double French Horn, A, Bb, C and D Trumpets (Cornet, Flugelhorn), Bb/F Tenorbass and Bb/F/Gb/D Bass Trombones, Euphonium and Baritone, BBb, CC, Eb and F Tubas The 'Piano' instrument simultaneously displays the note names, the locations on the piano, and the musical notations of up to 5 pitches in either Treble, Alto, Tenor or Bass clef. The Notation can be transposed for most all instrumental transpositions. • All woodwinds have trill fingerings for minor 2nd and major 2nd intervals. • Flutes and Saxophones have additional fingerings for minor 3rd and major 3rd trills. • Alto and Tenor Sax include altissimo fingerings up to written F, two octaves above the top line F of the treble clef. • All Woodwinds include visual guides to the key names and locations on the instrument to understand the fingering charts better. • Trombones include position guides for the different valve combinations. Common Clefs for Select Instruments: • Bassoon and Contrabassoon include Treble, Tenor and Bass clefs. • Bb/F Tenorbass Trombone, Bb/F/Gb/D Bass Trombone, Euphonium and Baritone include Treble, Tenor and Bass clefs. • F/Bb Double French Horn, BBb Tuba, CC Tuba, Eb Tuba, and F Tuba include Treble and Bass clefs. Treble clef on the brass instruments follow British Band tradition of being in transposing notation for non-transposing instruments. Affects Bb/F Tenorbass and Bb/F/Gb/D Bass Trombones, Euphonium, Baritone, and BBb, Eb and F Tubas. How to Use: Pick a written note (touch the staff) and have the fingering displayed and concert pitch played. Touch a button and reveal the note on the piano. Play a concert pitch on the piano, and have that pitch's fingering displayed. Touch a button and reveal the transposed note written on the staff. • If there are alternate fingerings available for a note or trill, a button will allow you to navigate through them. • Use the 'Play Note' or 'Play Trill' button to repeatedly hear what's being displayed. • Use the mute button to access the fingerings without hearing the pitches. Selecting a Pitch: Using the Staff (transposed for the current instrument): Simply touch and slide up and down on the staff to select the note, slide to the right or left of the note for sharps and flats. Using the Piano (concert pitch): drag in the area below the keyboard to move the keyboard, touch to play notes, touch & slide to change the pitch. When you glissando up the keyboard, notes will be notated as a raised value (sharps), when you glissando down, notes will be notated as lowered values (flats). Use the up and down arrows to move chromatically up and down without touching the music staff or piano keyboard.
Instrument Bible
This app provides interactive fingering charts for a wide range of instruments, including woodwind, brass, fretted, and string. It synchronizes with a MIDI player and tuner, allowing users to see how to play notes or entire songs. Additional features include a metronome, visual analysis tools, and a tone generator.
- Interactive fingering charts
- Synchronized MIDI player and tuner
- Chromatic tuner with color mode
- Tap tempo metronome
- Multi-track MIDI playback
- Visual audio analysis tools
- Tone generator with multiple waveforms
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Instrument Bible is a virtual fingering chart for woodwind, brass and string instruments. A new resource for music education. AVAILABLE INSTRUMENTS • Woodwind: Flute, Clarinet, Saxophone, Recorder, Oboe, Bassoon • Brass: Trumpet, Horn, Trombone, Euphonium, Tuba • Fret: Guitar, Bass, Ukulele, Banjo, Mandolin • String: Violin, Viola, Cello, Contrabass FINGERING CHART • Interactive fingering charts (touch to play the instrument) • Tap on woodwind/brass valves to toggle them up or down • Synchronized with MIDI player and tuner The fingering diagram is synchronized with the tuner and MIDI player. This means you can sing a note, and see how to play it on any instrument. Or upload a MIDI file and watch how to play the song on any instrument. TUNER • Chromatic tuner • Show concert pitch or written pitch • Toggle color mode (background turns green or red to display tuning) • Display accurate cents and frequency METRONOME • Use the metronome module or full-screen metronome • Tap tempo input • Click on beats to change the accent pattern • Optional 'blink mode' in the background MIDI PLAYER • Multi-track MIDI player • Upload your own MIDI files • MIDI file import and export • Adjust tempo and transpose key Just click on the track you want to send to the instrument! VISUAL ANALYSIS Choose between the various audio/visual modes: • Fourier analysis • Oscilloscope • Frequency line graph • VU meter • Sonogram • 3D sonogram MODULAR INTERFACE • Drag & drop modules to re-arrange the UI • Toggle which modules you want to see • Customize colors SYNTH • Pick between sine, triangle, square, and sawtooth waveforms • Input an exact frequency, or just tap a note on the piano • Tone generator (drone) AUDIO RECORDER • Create audio recordings • Save recordings as .WAV files • Import audio files and play them back through the tuner for analysis MUSIC THEORY • Display scales and modes on the piano • Transpose key of MIDI player STAFF NOTATION • Chose between sharp/flat accidental display • Display either treble, alto, bass, or grand clef. We look forward to your feedback! Contact us with your questions, comments, or feedback: contact@instrument.bible Visit our website: https://instrument.bible
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Instrument Bible at Free against Fingering's $4.99. Instrument Bible also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 7 months) and device support (4 vs 1). Fingering's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 3.9) and review sentiment (85% vs 46%). On ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Instrument Bible is free to download; Fingering costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Fingering holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fingering has 157 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 85% of Fingering's written reviews are positive against 46% of Instrument Bible's.
Fingering ships an update every 7 months, Instrument Bible every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fingering | Instrument Bible |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (157 ratings) — better | 3.9 (12 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 84.8% of reviews — better | 46.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 157 — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #186 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 183 MB | 69 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Patrick Q. Kelly | Instrument Bible |
Customer experience
Fingering
Instrument Bible
Bugs and requests
Fingering
Reported bugs
6 issues- Contra fingerings are wrong after E natural
- Huge battery drain
- Cannot hear saxophone sounds, only piano
- No sound at all
- Sound not working
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- No sound
Requested features
10 requests- Option to switch to light mode
- Create own fingering option with notes
- Fix piccolo fingering chart
- Incorporate extended range fingerings
- Add recorder charts (Baroque and German)
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- Option to see pitch rather than concert pitch
- Include more alternate woodwind fingerings
- Add Eb and F tuba fingerings
- Allow user to choose between transposed or concert pitch display
- Allow user to choose between sounding or muting displayed notes
Instrument Bible
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Fingering
No in-app purchases
Instrument Bible
No in-app purchases
Questions
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