Guitar Kit vs samplerSequencer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Guitar Kit
Access a vast library of guitar chord forms and scales, or create your own. Play notes and chords, save favorites, and export data for use in DAWs. Supports left and right-handed play.
- Extensive preset chord library
- Create custom chord fingerings
- Play notes and chords
- Save favorite chords
- View multiple chords for songs
- Scale library with matched chords
- Left/right-hand modes
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The most excellent Guitar Chord Form tool in the world, in your pocket! You can search almost chord form and display it. Guitar Kit has enough huge preset library. And you can create your original fingering forms. Guitar Kit supports Slide Over and Split View on iPad, and provides the appropriate display and operation for iPhone and iPad. Guitar Kit has very large preset library, but you can view a target chord form so easily! You can directly select a chord form by smooth scrolling Chord Picker or focus on a little chord forms by typing a part of chord name. You can search by various Enharmonic Equivalents. If you tap the top guitar diagram, Guitar Kit play each note. And if you select a chord in the list or picker, play chord any times. Favorites Tab allows to memory your favorite chord forms. And Sheet allows to view more than one chord, so it’s especially convenient for you to confirm chord forms in specific song. Sheet support Black and White mode, it looks like chord forms paper sheet. And if you select Dark Background mode, you can reduce the reflection of light even in the dark places such as the live venues. Display doesn’t dim during working. It can be trusted to think other thing or play songs. And you can handle multiple songs by “Export Native File” feature. Make Tab allows you to create your original chord forms. You can handle them as like preset library completely. Of course you can add new chord form similar to existing chord form using Reproduce Form function easily. And you can slide decided chord form to left or right. So you’ll be able to add chord forms changed Root note in succession. Suggest Form function offers randomly new chord form contains selected notes. And Guess Chord Name function suggests chord names by decided chord form or selected notes on 1 octave keyboard. Scale Tab allows to show many popular scales. And also you can find matched chords with a scale you selected. You can change mode to left hand or right hand for all frets. And you can toggle setting Note Name / Interval for each note. You can back up data you’ve created to Mail, Dropbox, box, iCloud Drive and others. And you can restore it at any time. And also, you can export Sheet Chord Forms as SMF(Standard MIDI File) to Mail, Dropbox, box, iCloud Drive and others, so you will be able to use as Chord Progression if you import it to your DAW. By the way, Guitar Kit exports Chord Name as Marker. If you handle Sheet by Guitar Kit only, “Export Native File” function is very easy. Even if some sheet chord forms don’t exist in Library Tab, Native File can be imported to Sheet exactly. It is like function open and save multiple songs. Quick working and most beautiful Guitar Chord Form app “Guitar Kit” is very useful for you, exactly! Advanced Option : When you’ll buy this low price add-on, you can use more Chords and Scales. It will provide a complete set usually. You can read full function description at support page. https://therootage.com/iphone/guitar-kit-en/
samplerSequencer
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"samplerSequencer" turns your device into a sampler sequencer for professional musicians and composers. Just record a single sound / voice / special effect "A note" using the samplerSequencer audio recording feature (using the internal microphone of the device) or import the sound into the device through synchronization (using the iTunes software for Mac or PC) or with copy / paste using the technology "iTunes File Sharing" and samplerSequencer will create for you the whole scale of sounds and assign them to the virtual keyboard (n octaves) of samplerSequencer, so you can record an audio track using the sequencer recording feature of samplerSequencer (the sequencer records for you every note played by you). samplerSequencer operates with seven independent sound tracks, each with its own sampled sound (assignable to a track). You can then record a track at a time (using the virtual keyboard or by writing different notes by hand) and then listen all the tracks together using the sequencer play feature. The sampleSequencer "all tracks view" and "selected track view", the ability to manually enter a note or put it through the virtual keyboard, the ability to delete unwanted notes, to touch a note and change its position, length and the type of the note (note shift), the ability of including sequencer events such as pitch bending and many other features make samplerSequencer a professional sequencer like the most popular sequencers for Mac or PC. The software is able to read the common audio files (WAV, MP3, CAF, etc...) so you can create your own sound (you only need one audio file) using standard wave editor for Mac or PC and samplerSequencer will create automatically for you the musical instrument. You can also import a song from the iTunes library on the device and by controlling "SAMPLE START POSITION" you can select a sound by extracting it from the imported song: samplerSequencer will automatically create the complete musical instrument for you. You can import a song from iTunes and assign it to a track, and using the other tracks you can play your track over the imported song… the sequencer will play the song combined with your sound tracks. With samplerSequencer you will have in your pocket the smallest existing sampler and sequencer! Features: - Import any sound and samplerSequencer generates for you the entire scale of sounds (n octaves) - Storing infinite sound samples using the archive of sound ("Samples Archive") of samplerSequencer - Virtual Keyboard - Control for increase / decrease the keyboard octave (usable in real time) - "Bending control" to change the sound in real time - "Sample Start Position" control: you can remove the initial part of a sample (ex. silence) by specifying the start time position of the sample (CUT FEATURE) - "Sustain Pedal" control - Multi keyboard voices (64 entries) - Default "GRAND PIANO" sample - Ability of “recording” of musical patterns during live performances - sequencer with 7 independent tracks (you can assign to each track a different sampled sound) - MUTE function to turn off unwanted tracks (PLAY MUTE feature) - Independent VOLUME for each track (SEQUENCER MIXER) - View "all-track view ": it will display all the tracks simultaneously - View "PIANO ROLL": it will display the notes for the selected track - Function touch a note and change its parameters of position, duration, and type of the note - Function touch / drag to remove one or more notes - Function touch / drag to remove unwanted events (pitch bending, etc...) - Metronome - Beat control for the sequencer (it can be disabled) - "samplerSequencer internal archive" to store all the user-sampled sounds (infinite sound presets) - Infinite number of projects can be saved in the "projects archive" of samplerSequencer - NOTE QUANTIZATION for selected track - SEQUENCER PLAY LOOP from start position (PLAY FROM) to end position (PLAY TO) - EDIT WINDOW FOR EVENTS
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: samplerSequencer at none against Guitar Kit's 1. samplerSequencer also leads on price ($1.99 vs $2.99). Guitar Kit's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 11 months). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Guitar Kit costs $2.99 and samplerSequencer $1.99 up front. Guitar Kit sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. samplerSequencer asks for nothing beyond the download.
Guitar Kit ships an update every 5 weeks, samplerSequencer every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Guitar Kit | samplerSequencer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | $1.99 — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 11 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.1 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hidenori Matsuoka | Gianluca Natalini |
In-app purchases
Guitar Kit
- Advanced Option$1.99
samplerSequencer
No in-app purchases
Questions
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