Comparison

Fingering Brass vs Brass Up!

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

Head to head
About

Fingering Brass

Access interactive fingering charts for a wide range of brass instruments, including alternate fingerings. View notes on a piano interface and hear concert pitches. Supports multiple clefs and transpositions for various instruments.

Highlights
  • Interactive fingering charts
  • Alternate fingerings
  • Piano interface
  • Concert pitch playback
  • Multiple clef support
  • Transposition options
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Immediate access to fingerings (with alternates) 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. Instruments: 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. • Trombones include position guides for the different valve combinations. Common Clefs for Select Instruments: • 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, a button will allow you to navigate through them. • Use the 'Play Note' 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.

About

Brass Up!

Practice valve brass instruments with this fingering simulator. Choose from 12 keys, random notes, scales, or Arban-style exercises. Features learning and drill modes, plus a reference lookup for all notes and alternate fingerings.

Highlights
  • Fingering simulation for valve brass instruments
  • Support for 12 keys
  • Random notes, scales, and Arban exercises
  • Learn and drill modes
  • Note reference lookup
  • Alternate fingering support
Features
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Simulate fingerings for true practice of most of the valve brass instruments, in any of 12 keys. Random notes are presented in the selected key, or select scales or Arban-style exercises. Learn mode (shows fingerings) and drill mode. Reference lookup of all notes in all 12 keys. Alternate fingerings included and accepted. Trumpet, euphonium, baritone, b-flat and e-flat tuba, french horn. 3-valve, 4-valve, and 3+1 valve configurations.

Screenshots

Fingering Brass4 screens
Brass Up!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Brass Up! at 70% against Fingering Brass's 17%. Brass Up! also leads on price (Free vs $1.99) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 9 months). Fingering Brass's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 2.7). On ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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

Brass Up! is free to download; Fingering Brass costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Fingering Brass holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 29 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 17% of Fingering Brass's written reviews are positive against 70% of Brass Up!'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fingering Brass ships an update every 9 months, Brass Up! every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Fingering Brass versus Brass Up!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFingering BrassBrass Up!
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (14 ratings) — better2.7 (29 ratings)
Positive reviews16.7% of reviews70.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1429 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size120 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPatrick Q. KellyIdeateGames

Customer experience

Fingering Brass

All ratings14 ratings
Positive92.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive16.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative50.0%

Brass Up!

All ratings28 ratings
Positive39.3%
Neutral10.7%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive70.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative30.0%

In-app purchases

None

Fingering Brass

No in-app purchases

None

Brass Up!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fingering Brass free?
Fingering Brass costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Brass Up! free?
Brass Up! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Fingering Brass or Brass Up!?
Fingering Brass is rated higher. Fingering Brass averages 4.6 out of 5 from 14 ratings, while Brass Up! averages 2.7 from 29 ratings.
Do Fingering Brass or Brass Up! have ads?
Neither Fingering Brass nor Brass Up! shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fingering Brass or Brass Up!?
Fingering Brass ships an update every 9 months, and Brass Up! every 3 months. Most recently, Fingering Brass was updated on October 29, 2026 and Brass Up! on October 23, 2026.

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