Brass Up! vs TrumpetTool
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Brass Up!
Practice valve brass instruments with this fingering simulator. Choose from 12 keys, random notes, scales, or Arban-style exercises. Features learning and drill modes, plus a reference lookup for all notes and alternate fingerings.
- Fingering simulation for valve brass instruments
- Support for 12 keys
- Random notes, scales, and Arban exercises
- Learn and drill modes
- Note reference lookup
- Alternate fingering support
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Simulate fingerings for true practice of most of the valve brass instruments, in any of 12 keys. Random notes are presented in the selected key, or select scales or Arban-style exercises. Learn mode (shows fingerings) and drill mode. Reference lookup of all notes in all 12 keys. Alternate fingerings included and accepted. Trumpet, euphonium, baritone, b-flat and e-flat tuba, french horn. 3-valve, 4-valve, and 3+1 valve configurations.
TrumpetTool
This tool helps musicians transpose notes between piano and trumpet. It displays fingerings for trumpet and notes for piano, simplifying the process of playing music across these instruments. Ideal for practice and composition.
- Piano to Trumpet transposition
- Trumpet to Piano transposition
- Displays fingerings
- Displays notes
- Simple interface
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TrumpetTool what for? The Trumpet is a transposing instrument, written notes are read at a pitch different from sounding note. TrumpetTool allows you to match the pitch and fingering from Piano to Trumpet and from Trumpet to Piano. TrumpetTool is very simple to use and very useful. For more: www.shuva.fr TWITTER @trumpettool
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Brass Up! at Free against TrumpetTool's $2.99. Brass Up! also leads on rating (2.7 vs 1.0) and review sentiment (70% vs 50%). TrumpetTool's advantage is iOS requirement (12.4 vs 15.0). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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
Brass Up! is free to download; TrumpetTool costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Brass Up! holds the better App Store score, 2.7 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Brass Up! has 29 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of Brass Up!'s written reviews are positive against 50% of TrumpetTool's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.
| Parameter | Brass Up! | TrumpetTool |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 2.7 (29 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 70.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | IdeateGames | Shuva |
Customer experience
Brass Up!
TrumpetTool
In-app purchases
Brass Up!
No in-app purchases
TrumpetTool
No in-app purchases
