Brass Up! vs BandPad
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.
BandPad
This app provides a practice and learning environment for wind instrument musicians. It offers music scores and play-along audio for various instruments, helping users learn and practice with interactive features.
- Music scores for wind instruments
- Play-along audio tracks
- Interactive LiveScore feature
- Note and fingering information
- Index of songs and etudes
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BandPad is a wind instruments practice and learning environment supplying music scores and play-alongs for students, teachers and bands. The application supports: Flute, Recoreder, Clarinet, Saxophone, Trumpet, French Horn, Trombone, Euphonioum and Tuba. The Application contains an index of songs,compositions and etudes (tunes) and corresponding play-along audio files that can be served from your device. BandPad enable you to see musical score (depnding on your screen size) and controlling the corresponding play-anlongs. BandPad featuring LiveScore - An interactive score page. while playing the beat indicator will help you locate your location on the staff. Pressing the score will open an information dialog displaying the note name, note fingering and other helpfull informain.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: BandPad at 3.7 against Brass Up!'s 2.7. BandPad also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 70%) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 15.0). Brass Up!'s advantage is ratings volume (29 vs 3) and device support. On price, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
BandPad holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Brass Up! has 29 ratings behind it against 3, 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 100% of BandPad's.
| Parameter | Brass Up! | BandPad |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (29 ratings) | 3.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | — |
| Ads | No | — |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | — |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 6.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | IdeateGames | Amit Gur |
Customer experience
Brass Up!
BandPad
In-app purchases
Brass Up!
No in-app purchases
BandPad
No in-app purchases
