iGigBook Mobile vs Quartet 1
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iGigBook Mobile
Manage your sheet music collection on your iPhone. Quickly search for songs, view melodies, chords, and lyrics, and transpose chord charts. Easily share set lists and PDFs with band members.
- Song search by title or composer
- View melody, chords, and lyrics
- Transposable chord charts for Jazz standards
- Load PDF books via iTunes, email, or web
- Email set lists with PDF attachments
- Indexes for over 70 fake and real books
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The ultimate pocket sized song reference for Musicians, Music Students and Educators has just got even better with the addition of chord charts that transpose! We've added an index to over 1,300 chord charts of Jazz standards that you can transpose to any key. Register and check for "Jazz Chord Charts - Transpose" in the Book List view. iGigBook Mobile provides indexes for over 70 fake books and real books, giving you the ability to quickly search for songs by title or composer. Load PDF books onto your device using iTunes, email or the web for quick and easy reference. iGigBook Mobile lets you find out which book a song is in, what page it is on and most importantly, you can view the page of the book on your device. Heading to the gig or rehearsal and can't remember what the melody to the tune is? Just use iGigBook Mobile to look up the song and display it with melody, chords and lyrics. Do you need to share your set list and sheet music with your band members? iGigBook Mobile lets you email your set list AND include a PDF attachment of all of the songs in the set list. NOTE: This is not an iPad App, it is designed for the small screen of an iPhone or iPod. * iGigBook Mobile DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY PDF BOOKS, IT ONLY PROVIDES THE INDEXES FOR THE BOOKS.
Quartet 1
Practice and perform jazz standards with high-quality backing tracks. Mute your instrument, change keys, adjust tempo, and loop sections. Features animated chord diagrams and playlist creation for an enhanced musical experience.
- Live jazz standards backing tracks
- Mute your instrument
- Change key and tempo
- Loop practice sections
- Animated chord diagrams
- Multi-app playlist creation
- Multitrack export
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Practice and perform jazz standards on another level with Quartet. And with a host of brand-new features plus an additional 50 new versions of the most played standards, the top-selling jazz play along apps just got even better. No subscriptions. No in-app purchases. Yours to keep! Volume 1 now includes 200 stunning jazz standards recorded exclusively by 8 of the world’s best jazz musicians. All ‘live’ studio recordings with intros, endings and top line solos. Whether you play jazz piano, guitar, saxophone, trumpet, bass, drums…simply mute your instrument from the Quartet for the ultimate jazz play along. And for jazz singers too, each edition of Quartet is an unrivalled collection of jazz backing tracks powerful enough to gig with. Change key on the fly. Speed up or slow down the audio seamlessly. Loop sections and slow them right down for practice. Select the number of repeats. Choose from preset mixes or create your own custom mix using the new onboard mixer. Arrange each song exactly the way you want it with the new automated ‘Arranger’ feature. Add a touch of reverb and you’re good to go. Improve your skills with full screen animated chord diagrams for Piano, Guitar and Ukulele. Search the entire Quartet song library (700 songs) by composer, style, BPM, associated artist and more. Build and share multi-app playlists and easily export PDF chord charts for every song. Export your stereo mix or export the multitrack if you want to develop the high quality separated parts in GarageBand or whatever DAW you use. Either way, all recordings are offered to you royalty-free giving you endless creative possibilities. The 200 jazz standards in Quartet Volume 1 include improvisations in the style of… ‘All Blues’, ‘All of Me’, ‘All The Things You Are’, ‘Autumn Leaves’, ‘Beautiful Love’, ‘Blue Bossa’, ‘Body and Soul’, ‘Caravan’, ‘Cherokee’, ‘Cry Me a River’, ‘Fever’, ‘Georgia on my Mind’, ‘Giant Steps’, ‘Girl From Ipanema’, ‘Have You Met Miss Jones?’, ‘Love for Sale’, ‘Rhythm Changes’, ‘Satin Doll’, ‘Someday My Prince Will Come’, ‘Summertime’…and 180 more! Install Quartet on all of your iOS devices plus your Mac devices (M series only) at no extra cost. Ready to take your jazz standards to another level? Hear lots more and see the full song lists at www.quartetapp.com Featured artists Saxophones and Flutes Andy Panayi Credits - Shirley Bassey, Paul McCartney, Seth MacFarlane, Elaine Paige, Salena Jones, Elvis Costello, Georgie Fame, Helen Shapiro, Madeline Bell, Freddie Hubbard, Wynton Marsalis, Joe Lovano, Roy Hargrove Dave O’Higgins Credits - Joey Calderazzo, Joe Locke, Eric Alexander, Max Ionata, Joe Lovano, Phil Woods, Nancy Wilson, Peggy Lee, Kurt Elling, Wayne Shorter, Eddie Gomez, Jamie Cullum, Stéphane Grappelli, Michel Legrand Graeme Blevins Recording and performing credits include Phil Collins, Robbie Williams, Kylie Minogue, Kyle Eastwood, Mark Knopfler, Quincy Jones, Mark Ronson, Tom Jones, Taylor Swift Guitar Nigel Price Credits - James Taylor Quartet, Van Morrison, Nigel Price Organ Trio. Voted ‘Best Guitarist’ in the 2016 British Jazz Awards Piano Graham Harvey Credits - Incognito (MD), Stacey Kent, George Benson, Hamish Stuart, Will Lee, Philip Bailey, Chaka Khan, The BBC Big Band, Madeline Bell, Jocelyn Brown, Mica Paris, Sir Cliff Richard Bass Geoff Gascoyne Credits - Jamie Cullum (MD), Sting, Van Morrison, Bill Bruford, Mari Wilson, Paloma Faith, Georgie Fame, Gloria Estefan, Guy Barker, Charlie Watts, Benny Golson, Jacqui Dankworth, Bob Dorough, John Martyn, Eartha Kitt Drums Sebastiaan de Krom Credits - Herbie Hancock, John Scofield, Phil Woods, Dave Holland, Jamie Cullum, Guy Barker, Wynton Marsalis, Clark Terry, Tim Garland Rod Youngs Credits - Gil Scott-Heron, Lee Konitz, Sia, Courtney Pine, Jon Hendricks, Hugh Masekela, Natalie Cole, Mica Paris, Juliet Roberts, BBC Concert Orchestra, Ronnie Laws, Jocelyn Brown
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Quartet 1 at 85% against iGigBook Mobile's 35%. Quartet 1 also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.2). iGigBook Mobile's advantage is price ($9.99 vs $19.99) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.6). On ratings volume, update cadence, 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
iGigBook Mobile costs $9.99 and Quartet 1 $19.99 up front. iGigBook Mobile sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Quartet 1 sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Quartet 1 holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 68 and 196 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 35% of iGigBook Mobile's written reviews are positive against 85% of Quartet 1's.
iGigBook Mobile ships an update monthly, Quartet 1 every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iGigBook Mobile | Quartet 1 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 — better | $19.99 |
| Rating | 4.2 (68 ratings) | 4.7 (196 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 34.9% of reviews | 84.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 68 | 196 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #149 | #142 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 706 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Black & White Software LLC | UK Music Apps Ltd |
Customer experience
iGigBook Mobile
Quartet 1
User reviews
iGigBook Mobile
From 68 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Organizes PDF files well
- 👍 Great for gigging musicians
- 👍 Useful for practice
- 👍 Transposable chord charts are great
- 👍 Indexes PDF fake books
Room to improve
- 😞 No music content included
- 😞 Misleading app description
- 😞 Waste of money
- 😞 Difficult to set up
- 😞 Not intuitive
Quartet 1
From 196 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎶 Excellent sound quality
- 🎸 Real musicians' performance
- 👍 Great value for money
- 🚀 Flexible tempo and key changes
- 🎵 Inspiring for practice
Room to improve
- 🐛 Clunky UI
- 😵 Fiddly tempo adjustment
- 🎚️ Limited mixer options
- 🎛️ No individual instrument volume control
- 🎚️ Sound quality degradation with tempo/key changes
Bugs and requests
iGigBook Mobile
Reported bugs
9 issues- App doesn't work
- PDFs are grayed out
- Indexing doesn't always work
- Cannot access second page of a tune
- Song search has issues with multiple finds
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- Registration website won't load
- Conflicts with other apps (iFakeBooks)
- Cannot tap page turn when zoomed in
- Jazz1200 not working as advertised
Requested features
9 requests- Search function in unindexed scores
- Dark mode option
- Two-page view
- Support for other musical styles
- Ability to rotate pages
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- Easier way to import lyrics
- Direct download links for PDFs
- Option to change book names
- Landscape mode support
Quartet 1
Reported bugs
12 issues- Playlists disappear
- Playlists replaced by old ones
- Looping parts not saved
- Edits wiped out
- Cannot put song into desired key
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- Abrupt endings with no turnarounds
- Out of tune bass
- Crash when making playlist changes
- Doesn't remember key/tempo from last session
- Clicks when using iPad OS
- Double charge for app
- No actual endings found
Requested features
29 requests- Dark mode option
- Tap tempo button
- Ability to create own charts
- Export to WAV and MP3
- Export chord chart in different ways
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- Drum-only option
- Two versions of songs at different tempos
- Metronome/click track
- Pan tracks to left/right channel
- Type in tempo directly
- Slider for tempo change
- Search within playlists
- Cloud-based sync
- iReal-type portrait display
- Real Jazz Guitar chords
- Global default for chord transpose
- More variations in chorus repeats
- Actual song endings with variations
- MIDI out function
- Split screen on tablet
- Add tags to ends of tunes
- Fix pitch shifting on drums
- Lower price for stem export
- Adjustable font size for chords
- Vertical mode
- AUV3 version
- Edit tunes at bar level
- Create new tunes within the app
- More standards/tunes
In-app purchases
iGigBook Mobile
- Transposable Jazz Chord ChartsFree
Quartet 1
- Upgrade song$0.99
- Buy 10 tokens$8.99
- Buy 20 tokens$14.99
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- Buy 50 tokens$22.99
- Upgrade all songs$49.99
Questions
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