iGigBook Sheet Music Manager vs Quartet 3
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iGigBook Sheet Music Manager
Organize all your digital sheet music, including real books, chord charts, and scores. Instantly find any song with a powerful search engine and access your entire music library for any gig. Supports PDF and image files, with advanced editing and annotation tools.
- Organize PDF sheet music
- Powerful song search engine
- Customizable page scrolling
- Cut & Paste music sections
- Transpose lead sheets
- Draw on scores
- Integrated metronome
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Say goodbye to multiple 3 ring binders, suitcases full of books, and time wasted trying to find that one song you need. iGigBook organizes all of your PDF sheet music resources; It easily handles real books, fake books, transposable chord charts, single sheets of music, and multi-page scores so that you can access all your music at any time, for any gig. Created by musicians for musicians, iGigBook features a powerful song title search engine that allows you to instantly find any song you need from thousands in your sheet music collection. Show up to any gig confident that when the tune is called, you'll have it ready while others fumble and flip through pages. iGigBook works like the powerful search engines that you've used for finding stuff on the web. Start typing in the name of a song and search results from over 90 books appear so that you can choose the best arrangement that you have available. Only iGigBook can allow you to find, in seconds, all versions of "Autumn Leaves" or all of the songs by Antonio Carlos Jobim. Whether you're a professional musician, an aspiring performer, or just someone who loves to play music, iGigBook is the perfect solution for organizing and accessing your music library on the go. With support for PDFs, image files, and even online content, you can store all of your music in one place and have it at your fingertips whenever you need it. So if you're ready to take your music to the next level, give iGigBook a try today! Take a look at the features: • Customizable page scrolling that enables you to see both the bottom of the current page and the top of the next page. • Cut & Paste: Take parts from one page of music and paste them on another page of music. (In App Purchase) • Transpose lead sheets, yes both chords AND melody of specially created PDF books! (In App Purchase) • Edit PDF files, rearrange pages, extract pages, and more all inside of iGigBook. (In App Purchase) • Draw on your scores with an Apple Pencil, finger or stylus. (In App Purchase) • Integrated metronome with tap tempo and rhythm patterns. • Large iPad Pro ready, view 2 pages side by side in landscape mode. • Over 90 accurate fake book and real book indexes makes searching a breeze. • Import PDF files from iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, One Drive and others. • Add notes to any score, highlight repeats, D.S., D.C., Coda, etc. • Transpose between Bb, C, Eb and Bass clef versions of the same PDF. • Manage scores of any size, 1 page to thousands of pages. • Quickly locate the song you need by typing in the title. • Looking for all of the tunes by Miles Davis? iGigBook can find them! • Powerful Set List Manager lets you create, arrange, sort, combine and rename. • Email set lists to band members and include a PDF of the songs in the set. • Print a hard copy via AirPrint, of the music contained in a set. • Import bookmarks present in your PDF documents or create your own. • Send MIDI commands to your MIDI devices from any page. • Add and delete pages from your PDF (In App Purchase). • Turn pages hands free with an iPod 5th Gen/iPhone 4S or greater. * iGigBook DOES NOT PROVIDE PDF BOOKS FOR DOWNLOAD. Got questions? Ask them before you buy. If you're not sure what this app does or whether or not it will do what you want, visit forum.igigbook.com and ask questions, we will help you.
Quartet 3
Enhance your jazz performance and practice with live studio recordings of jazz standards. Mute your instrument to play along, change keys, adjust tempo, and loop sections for focused learning. Features animated chord diagrams and playlist creation for seamless practice sessions.
- Live jazz standards play-along
- Mute your instrument
- Change key and tempo
- Loop sections for practice
- 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, the top-selling jazz play along apps just got even better. No subscriptions. No in-app purchases. Volume 3 includes another 100 stunning jazz standards recorded exclusively by 6 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 100 jazz standards in Quartet Volume 3 include improvisations in the style of… ‘After You’ve Gone’, ‘Ain’t No Sunshine’, ‘At Last’, ‘Baubles, Bangles & Beads’, ‘Blueberry Hill’, ‘Blues’ (in all keys), ‘Breezin’’, ‘Chameleon’, ‘Down by the Riverside’, ‘Freedom Jazz Dance’, ‘How Long Has This Been Going On?’, ‘Ladies in Mercedes’, ‘On the Street Where You Live’, ‘Second Time Around’, ‘Someone To Watch Over Me’, ‘Summer Knows’, ‘Só Danço Samba’, ‘Too Marvelous for Words’, ‘Who Can I Turn To?’, ‘With a Song in My Heart’… and 80 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 more at www.quartetapp.com Featured artists on Quartet Volume 3 Guitar Nigel Price Nigel has recorded with many big-name artists, performing on over 50 albums, most recently Van Morrison’s studio album ‘Keep Me Singing’. A former member of The James Taylor Quartet, Nigel was voted the UK’s ‘Best Guitarist’ in the 2016 British Jazz Awards and is “…probably the most dynamic and gifted guitarist on the British jazz scene today” [All About Jazz]. Trumpet Steve Fishwick Steve has performed and recorded with many leading European jazz musicians including Sir John Dankworth, George Mraz, Dado Moroni, Claus Raibler, Tony Lakatos and the WDR big band. In the USA, Steve has performed and recorded with Anita O' Day, Ron Carter, Jimmy Heath, Peter Erskine, Eric Harland, Scott Hamilton, Herb Geller Saxophones and Flutes Andy Panayi Credits include Shirley Bassey, Jessye Norman, Paul McCartney, Seth MacFarlane, Elaine Paige, Elvis Costello, Georgie Fame, Helen Shapiro, Madeline Bell, Patty Austin, Freddie Hubbard, Wynton Marsalis, Billy Cobham Piano Graham Harvey Credits include Incognito (MD), Stacey Kent, George Benson, M People, Hamish Stuart, The Jones Girls, Philip Bailey, Chaka Khan, The BBC Big Band, Madeline Bell, Jocelyn Brown, Mica Paris, Sir Cliff Richard Bass Geoff Gascoyne Credits include Jamie Cullum (MD), Sting, Van Morrison, Bill Bruford, Mari Wilson, Paloma Faith, Georgie Fame, Gloria Estefan, Guy Barker, Charlie Watts, Benny Golson, Jacqui Dankworth, John Martyn, Eartha Kitt Drums Sebastiaan de Krom Credits include Herbie Hancock, John Scofield, Phil Woods, Dave Holland, Jamie Cullum, Guy Barker, Wynton Marsalis
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: iGigBook Sheet Music Manager at 1.5K against Quartet 3's 23. iGigBook Sheet Music Manager also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.6). Quartet 3's advantage is review sentiment (90% vs 68%) and price ($16.99 vs $19.99). On rating, 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 Sheet Music Manager costs $19.99 and Quartet 3 $16.99 up front. iGigBook Sheet Music Manager sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Quartet 3 sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for iGigBook Sheet Music Manager against 4.7 for Quartet 3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iGigBook Sheet Music Manager has 1.5K ratings behind it against 23, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 68% of iGigBook Sheet Music Manager's written reviews are positive against 90% of Quartet 3's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iGigBook Sheet Music Manager | Quartet 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $19.99 | $16.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.5K ratings) | 4.7 (23 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 68.0% of reviews | 90.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.5K — better | 23 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 528 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Black & White Software LLC | UK Music Apps Ltd |
Customer experience
iGigBook Sheet Music Manager
Quartet 3
User reviews
iGigBook Sheet Music Manager
From 1.5K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Convenient and organized
- 🚀 Searchable fake book indexes
- 🚀 Ability to create setlists
- 🚀 Transposable chord sheets
- 👍 Useful for gigging musicians
Room to improve
- 🐛 Buggy and crashes frequently
- 🐛 Difficult to set up and use
- 🐛 Indexing issues with PDFs
- 🐛 Clunky and unintuitive interface
- 🐛 Lack of support and documentation
Quartet 3
From 23 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Superb tool for drum teachers
- 👍 Huge selection of styles and tempos
- 👍 Ability to mute drums for playing along
- 👍 High-quality audio recordings
- 👍 Intuitive and easy to use interface
Bugs and requests
iGigBook Sheet Music Manager
Reported bugs
4 issues- Crashes on startup
- Page turning issues
- Incorrect song indexing
- Compatibility problems with newer devices
Requested features
4 requests- Landscape mode
- Easier PDF management and editing
- More seamless integration with other apps
- Better support and documentation
Quartet 3
No bugs or feature requests surfaced in reviews.
In-app purchases
iGigBook Sheet Music Manager
- Transposable Jazz Chord ChartsFree
- Holiday Charts TransposeFree
- Transposable Pop Chord ChartsFree
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- Additional Features Pack$9.99
- Book Tranpose Feature$19.99
Quartet 3
- 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$39.99
Questions
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Is Quartet 3 free?
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