Guitar Fretboard Addict vs Loop Buddy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Guitar Fretboard Addict
Master the guitar fretboard with interactive exercises for notes, chords, and ear training. Improve your skills in just 5 minutes a day and apply your knowledge to your instrument. Suitable for musicians of all levels.
- Fretboard note and chord learning
- Customizable exercises
- Ear training
- Sight reading practice
- 11 musical key exercises
- Right and left-handed options
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This app gives you an invaluable tool for mastering the fretboard. Come join over 1,000,000 musicians of all levels and see why they can't stop playing Fretboard Addict for learning & practicing acoustic guitar fretboard notes, chords, soloing, ear training, and sight reading. You will improve your skills by using the app just 5 minutes a day and then applying the knowledge to your real instrument. There is nothing else like this in the app store!!! WE'VE BEEN FEATURED IN: • IK Multimedia IKlip App of the Week • Premier Guitar Magazine • iTunes App Store Top Areas WHAT USERS ARE SAYING: • "I am a guitar teacher and this app is great for learning the notes on the strings - able to customize very well for quizzing yourself or your students!!" • "This is a well thought out app that is teaching me the fretboard while on vacation from my guitar. The best learning tool that I've yet to encounter for this purpose." CHECK OUT A DEMONSTRATION VIDEO AT: www.guitaraddict.net SIMPLE AND EFFECTIVE ON YOUR IPHONE, IPAD, AND IPOD TOUCH: Easy to use with a method that just works. No fretboard scrolling, real instrument sounds, and you only have to buy once for all of your iOS devices. CREATE YOUR OWN CUSTOM EXERCISES: • Configure the fretboard the way you want it! Simply touch the fretboard to select notes or chords to work on or use the convenient presets • Presets for configuring notes to work on by Key, by String, by Fret, or by Note • Presets for configuring chords to work on by Key, by Inversion, by Strings, by Type, or by Root Note • Learn the fretboard forwards, backwards, randomly, vertically, and horizontally • English (C D E F G A B) or Romance (Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Si) Syllables • Right and Left Handed Options • Smart learning engine that keeps track of your incorrect answers and gives you the best next round • Configure Sharps or Flats • Configure whether the answer is shown, sound is heard, and/or notation is shown when you want to challenge yourself further. LEARN & PRACTICE NOTES: Master fretboard notes intelligently with 11 built in musical key exercises that progress in difficulty or create your own exercises. Learning the fretboard notes is fundamental to understanding chords. LEARN & PRACTICE CHORDS: Master the fundamental triad chords (maj, min, dim, aug) intelligently with 11 built in musical key exercises that progress in difficulty or create your own exercises. Learning triad chords will take your playing to the next level. LEARN & PRACTICE FRETBOARD POSITIONS: Master fretboard movement by practicing and recognizing fretboard note and chord positions. This will give you the confidence and the mental training for playing notes and chords all over the fretboard. LEARN 11 MUSICAL KEYS: Gain an understanding of the circle of fifths and learn the notes & chords in 11 major musical keys. This will help you to pick up and play a song with ease! LEARN & PRACTICE EAR TRAINING: Improve your ability to improvise and play by ear with ear training exercises for notes and chords LEARN & PRACTICE SIGHT READING: Practice reading music notation which will help you sight read and gain an understanding of how pitch relates to the fretboard positions PRACTICE WHAT YOU LEARN: Solo on a responsive fretboard to practice notes, chords, sight reading, and ear training or just relax and create some music MONITOR YOUR PROGRESS: Simple color coded statistics show you where you are strong and weak on the fretboard. This is a great way to know where to adjust your practice routines. THE APP IS LOADED WITH FRETBOARD FUN: •Full Notes feature is included •Limited Chords feature is included •Full Chord and Solo features are available as in-app purchases •Alternate Tunings are available as in-app purchases
Loop Buddy
Practice music sections repeatedly by creating custom loops. Slow down playback to learn difficult passages and memorize entire songs more effectively. Ideal for musicians who need to rehearse on the go.
- Create custom loops from music library
- Set start and end points for loops
- Adjust playback speed of loops
- Slow down music without pitch change
- Memorize song sections easily
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Can’t rehearse at home? Rehearse in the car, on the train, in the bus, or on a plane! Identify sections of the music you want to learn, like a guitar solo or some tricky phrase, then create a looping pattern that you can play over and over again. Slow down the loops you create in order to memorize them easier! Create a whole series of loops for a given song in your music library, and become familiar with an entire piece before your plane lands! Features: - Create loops from any song in your music library by identifying the start and end loop points for any section of the song: a guitar solo, a fast-paced rap verse, a drum fill, and so on. - Listen to that loop section 10 billion times until you have it memorized. - Change the playback speed of your loops. Slow it down without changing the pitch of the song in order to hear each note more clearly!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Loop Buddy at Free against Guitar Fretboard Addict's $4.99. Loop Buddy also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.6). Guitar Fretboard Addict's advantage is rating (3.0 vs 1.8) and review sentiment (66% vs 33%). On ratings volume, ads and device support 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
Loop Buddy is free to download; Guitar Fretboard Addict costs $4.99 up front. Guitar Fretboard Addict sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Loop Buddy asks for nothing beyond the download.
Guitar Fretboard Addict holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 1.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 66% of Guitar Fretboard Addict's written reviews are positive against 33% of Loop Buddy's.
| Parameter | Guitar Fretboard Addict | Loop Buddy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.0 (9 ratings) — better | 1.8 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 65.9% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Rylee | Clear Blue Media |
Customer experience
Guitar Fretboard Addict
Loop Buddy
In-app purchases
Guitar Fretboard Addict
- Solo Feature$2.99
- Chords Feature$4.99
- Eb Tuning$4.99
Loop Buddy
No in-app purchases
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