Fretuoso vs One Minute Changes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fretuoso
Learn note positions on stringed instruments through an engaging game. Supports multiple instruments and offers staff training to improve sheet music reading. Practice specific fret ranges and tunings with adaptive learning.
- Learn note locations on fretboard
- Supports 11 string instruments
- Staff training for sheet music
- Customizable practice modes
- Flexible tuning options
- Progress tracking and statistics
- Adaptive learning engine
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Master the Fretboard with Fretuoso Fretuoso is an engaging educational game designed to help you learn the location of notes on the fretboard of the guitar and other stringed instruments. With support for eleven instruments—including 4, 5, and 6-string basses, mandolin, ukulele, and banjo—you can expand your musical knowledge no matter your instrument of choice. How It Works Presented with random notes on the fretboard, you choose the correct answer from multiple options. Simply tap the right button to score points and improve your skills! The new Staff Training Mode helps you learn the positions of notes on the musical staff relative to your instrument’s fretboard, making reading sheet music a breeze. Features • Train Your Ear and Mind: Enhance your auditory skills while deepening your understanding of your instrument. • Learn Sheet Music: Master the positions of notes on the musical staff; say goodbye to tabs! • Eleven Realistic Instruments: Choose from 4 guitars, 3 basses, mandolin, ukulele, and banjo—all with beautiful, lifelike graphics. • Customized Training: Focus on specific fret ranges or string subsets to target your practice. • Flexible Tunings: Use built-in common tunings or create your own custom tunings. • Progress Visualization: Track your improvement with detailed statistics for every fret. • Smart Learning Engine: The app adapts to focus on areas where you need more practice. • Competitive Play: Enjoy Game Mode with levels of increasing difficulty, compete with friends, and share your achievements via Game Center. • Left-Handed Mode: Fully compatible with left-handed players. What Artists Are Saying “Learning the notes on the fretboard is key to any guitarist’s development, and Fretuoso is a neat way to get that info burned into your brain without having to carry a guitar everywhere you go. Pretty cool!” — Bryan Beller (The Aristocrats, Steve Vai, Mike Keneally) “This is one of the best apps I’ve seen in a while. It’s simple, fun, and educational. Very useful for guitar players, as many tend to play by ear and not focus on knowing the fretboard.” — Rick Musallam (Mike Keneally, Gryphon Labs) Unlock Full Access This version offers free access to only part of each available instrument. Unlock the full potential of Fretuoso with a Premium subscription, including every instrument, level, and feature, ad-free! Terms Of Service (EULA): https://fretuoso.app/terms/
One Minute Changes
This free app helps beginner guitarists track their chord changes. It includes all chords from a popular beginner course and allows custom additions. The app analyzes your performance to highlight challenging chords.
- Chord change tracking
- Built-in course chords
- Custom chord addition
- Performance statistics
- Automatic difficult chord identification
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The One Minute Changes app is a free app from Justinguitar.com to help beginner guitarists using my Beginner's Course keep track of the amount of chord changes they can do! All the chords used in the course are built in, but you can add in your own too, see statistics and it will automatically pick the chords you struggle with most if you ask it to! If you dig it, please check out my other apps :)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: One Minute Changes at none against Fretuoso's 12. One Minute Changes also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (10.3 vs 17.0). Fretuoso's advantage is update cadence (every 11 days vs every 12 months) and rating (4.6 vs 4.3). On price, review sentiment 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
Both are free to download. Fretuoso sells 12 one-off in-app purchases. One Minute Changes asks for nothing beyond the download.
Fretuoso holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fretuoso has 953 ratings behind it against 114, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of Fretuoso's written reviews are positive against 57% of One Minute Changes's.
Fretuoso ships an update every 11 days, One Minute Changes every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fretuoso | One Minute Changes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (953 ratings) — better | 4.3 (114 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 61.1% of reviews — better | 57.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 953 — better | 114 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 10.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Catloaf Software LLC | Justin Guitar |
Customer experience
Fretuoso
One Minute Changes
User reviews
Fretuoso
From 953 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Good way to learn the fretboard
- 👍 Great app
- 👍 Helpful learning tool
- 👍 Fun and engaging way to learn
- 👍 Effective for learning notes on the fretboard
Room to improve
- 🐛 Random note generator gets stuck
- 🔍 Unclear instructions
- 💰 Paywall for full access
- 📢 Intrusive ads
- 🤔 Fretboard orientation issues
One Minute Changes
From 114 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great for beginners
- 📈 Tracks improvement well
- 💡 Useful for practice
- ⭐ Highly recommended
- 💪 Helps strengthen fingers
Room to improve
- 🐛 Microphone not working
- 🔊 Quiet timer alerts
- 📱 Not optimized for iPad landscape
- 🎛️ Interface not intuitive
- 🚫 Cannot delete or edit chords
Bugs and requests
Fretuoso
Reported bugs
5 issues- Restore purchases not working
- Sound not working
- Crashes and freezes
- Incorrect note display
- Syncing issues
Requested features
5 requests- Allow adjusting fret marker positions
- Add 'play the fret' mode
- Improve randomness of note selection
- Provide more tuning and instrument options
- Add landscape mode support
One Minute Changes
Reported bugs
31 issues- Microphone not working
- App cannot hear chords
- Timer sounds too quiet
- App only works in portrait mode
- Problems adding and editing chords
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- Writing is invisible when tagging chords
- Lowest chord scores include 0 changes
- Ghost chords reappear after deletion
- Cannot delete chords
- Cannot change chord names
- Best score counter cannot be reset
- Timer stops if phone goes into standby
- No sound/buzzer on iPad
- Random chords not truly random
- Screen times out before timer ends
- Lowest scoring combination not appearing
- App doesn't access microphone for scoring
- No scores recorded
- Doesn't count chord changes
- Scores lost during upgrade
- Countdown and time-up alerts too quiet
- Score increase/decrease buttons don't auto count
- Best score display is tiny
- Not updated to 64 bit (iOS 11)
- Timer sounds need to be volume adjustable and selectable
- Screen times out before timer ends
- App doesn't keep screen from timing out
- Lowest scoring combination not showing
- App doesn't access microphone
- No auto count
- App doesn't count chord changes
Requested features
30 requests- Audible signal for timer end
- App use mic to count chords
- Add up chord changes automatically
- See progress over time by dates
- Delete or modify previous scores
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- Sync scores over iCloud
- Full chord library
- Edit chords after entering
- Select chords from score menu
- Add slash chords with '/'
- Comprehensive dictionary of chords
- Volume adjustable and selectable timer sounds
- Save score automatically
- Hold plus/minus buttons to increment/decrement score
- Best score display larger
- Keep screen from turning off
- Randomize chord combinations better
- Recognize strum for auto count
- Track dates and scores for progress
- Hold plus button to record higher numbers faster
- Display horizontally
- Track number of changes
- Manual selection of chord combos
- Link to video lessons
- In-app purchase of products
- Progress over time graph
- Feedback on completion
- User profile login
- Scores saved to Game Center
- Optional practice reminder notifications
In-app purchases
Fretuoso
- 8-String Guitar$3.99
- 12-String Guitar$3.99
- Guitar$39.90
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- Bass Guitar$39.90
- Banjo$39.90
- Mandolin$39.90
- Ukulele$39.90
- 7-String Guitar$39.90
- 5-String Bass Guitar$39.90
- 6-String Bass Guitar$39.90
- Acoustic Guitar$39.90
- All Instruments$89.90
One Minute Changes
No in-app purchases
Questions
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