Comparison

Tenuto vs Modacity

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Tenuto

Enhance your musicality with a comprehensive suite of 24 customizable theory exercises and six essential musical calculators. Practice note and chord identification, ear training, and construct musical elements. Tools include accidentals, intervals, scales, chords, analysis symbols, and twelve-tone matrices.

Highlights
  • 24 customizable theory exercises
  • Note and chord identification
  • Ear training for intervals and scales
  • Musical construction exercises
  • Accidental calculator
  • Interval calculator
  • Chord calculator
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Tenuto is a collection of 24 highly-customizable exercises designed to enhance your musicality. From recognizing chords on a keyboard to identifying intervals by ear, it has an exercise for you. Tenuto also includes six musical calculators for accidentals, intervals, scales, chords, analysis symbols, and twelve-tone matrices. A short description of the exercises and calculators follows. –––––– • Note Identification • Key Signature Identification • Interval Identification • Scale Identification • Chord Identification Tap the button corresponding to the written staff line. For example: if shown a C, E, and G with a sharp; tap the "Augmented Triad" button. –––––– • Note Construction • Key Signature Construction • Interval Construction • Scale Construction • Chord Construction Construct the specified label by moving notes and/or adding accidentals. For example: if shown a C and an "Augmented 4th" label, move the second note to F and add a sharp. –––––– • Keyboard Reverse Identification Tap the piano key corresponding to the written note on the staff. While similar to Note Identification, this exercise uses a piano keyboard rather than note name buttons. • Keyboard Note Identification • Keyboard Interval Identification • Keyboard Scale Identification • Keyboard Chord Identification Tap the button corresponding to the highlighted piano key(s). If the C and G keys are highlighted, tap the "P5" (Perfect 5th) button. –––––– • Fretboard Note Identification • Fretboard Interval Identification • Fretboard Scale Identification • Fretboard Chord Identification Tap the button corresponding to the marked fretboard position(s). If the 2nd fret of the D string is marked, tap the "E" button. –––––– • Keyboard Ear Training • Note Ear Training Listen to the played reference and question notes. Select the piano key or note button corresponding to the question note. • Interval Ear Training • Scale Ear Training • Chord Ear Training Tap the button corresponding to the played notes. If E and F are played, tap the "Minor 2nd" button. –––––– • Accidental Calculator Display the accidental for a note and key. • Interval Calculator Display the interval for a note, type, and key. • Chord Calculator Display the scale for a tonic and scale type. • Chord Calculator Display the chord for a note, type, and key. • Analysis Calculator Display the chord for a symbol and key. • Matrix Calculator Display the twelve-tone matrix for a specified tone row.

About

Modacity

This app provides serious musicians with a professional metronome, chromatic tuner, and practice log. It helps track practice sessions, monitor progress, and improve timing and intonation for all instruments. Unlock advanced features with a premium subscription.

Highlights
  • Professional metronome with subdivisions and accent patterns
  • Accurate and responsive chromatic tuner
  • Automatic practice session tracking
  • Practice statistics and improvement monitoring
  • Support for all musical instruments
  • Cloud sync for notes and recordings
Features
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Stop ending practice with a question mark. Modacity is the Deliberate Practice System for serious musicians — helping you plan, record, reflect, and hear your progress session by session. USED BY PROFESSIONALS Serious musicians improve because their next session starts with a plan. "Musically life changing app! Amazing app that every serious musician should have! Bravo." -- Richard Stoelzel, President World Trumpet Society & Professor of Trumpet, McGill. "I am amazed how well the Modacity system works." -- Anne, amateur violinist “As a trumpet player (ergo, loudmouthed and opinionated) I’ve often been wrong. However, in this case I’ve never been wronger. The app has become the central pillar of my practice schedule and I’d be lost without it. With that in mind, the price is cheap!!” -- John Thirkell, trumpet & flugelhorn - Jamiroquai, Level 42, Buddy Rich Band "Swiss army knife to organize and focus my music practice. I can’t imagine my life without it" -- Armen, product manager & duduk player “Just wanted to tell you how helpful this app has been over the years. I got my first regional job at 640 hours and then one more regional gig and a one year with a big orchestra at 930 hours on the app.” -- Samuel Wamhoff, Principal Trombone - Modesto Symphony Orchestra; 2nd Trmb - Stockton Symphony; Acting 2nd - San Francisco Opera METRONOME — Professional-grade metronome with subdivisions, accent patterns, and tap tempo. The timing foundation every serious musician needs. CHROMATIC TUNER — Accurate, responsive, always available. Never practice out of tune again. PRACTICE PLANNER — Plan and track every session. Write what needs work mid-session, rate how it went, and come back to it next time. Never lose the thing you meant to fix. Start your first session. Know what to fix tomorrow. Enjoy an automatic 14-day free trial with your new account. Modacity helps musicians of all genres practice effectively; Classical to Rock, Bluegrass to Pop, Modacity works for everyone. Subscribe to Modacity Premium (monthly or annual) to unlock: • Practice Statistics • Unlimited Deliberate Practice Mode • All Metronome Features • Unlimited cloud-sync notes & recordings • Practice Folders • Full History Log • Practice Break Reminders Subscription payments will be charged to your Apple ID account and will automatically renew at $12.99 USD per month or $129 USD per year, unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current billing period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription. Prices may vary by country. Terms of Service: https://www.modacity.co/legal/#terms For All Instruments! Piano Flute Violin Trumpet Percussion Cello Clarinet French horn Trombone Saxophone Tuba Oboe Bassoon Viola Bass Timpani Harp Guitar Voice Soprano Tenor Alto Baritone Bass

Screenshots

Tenuto4 screens
Modacity4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Modacity at Free against Tenuto's $4.99. Modacity also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 3 months). Tenuto's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.3) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). On ratings volume, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Modacity is free to download; Tenuto costs $4.99 up front. Modacity sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. Tenuto asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Tenuto holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 652 and 284 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 94% of Tenuto's written reviews are positive against 65% of Modacity's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tenuto ships an update every 3 months, Modacity every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Tenuto versus Modacity: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTenutoModacity
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (652 ratings) — better4.3 (284 ratings)
Positive reviews94.1% of reviews — better64.7% of reviews
Number of ratings652 — better284
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank#4 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.815.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB123 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developermusictheory.netBotRobot, Inc

Customer experience

Tenuto

All ratings652 ratings
Positive93.9%
Neutral2.0%
Negative4.1%
Written reviews354 reviews
Positive94.1%
Neutral3.1%
Negative2.8%

Modacity

All ratings284 ratings
Positive79.6%
Neutral6.3%
Negative14.1%
Written reviews153 reviews
Positive64.7%
Neutral11.1%
Negative24.2%

User reviews

Tenuto

From 652 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Essential for musicians
  • 👍 Great app
  • 👍 Perfect app
  • 👍 Wonderful app
  • 👍 Highly recommend

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Wrong billing
  • 🐛 Piano tone is so bad
  • 🐛 Not good
  • 🐛 Great but buggy
  • 🐛 All sounds stopped working

Modacity

From 284 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💡 Helps organize practice sessions
  • 👍 Useful practice tools (metronome, recording, etc.)
  • 🚀 Streamlines practice workflow
  • 👍 Tracks practice progress and history
  • 💡 Encourages deliberate practice

Room to improve

  • 💰 Expensive subscription model
  • 🐛 Crashes and stability issues
  • 🔒 Requires account creation
  • 👎 Limited free version functionality
  • 👎 Cluttered or unintuitive UI

Bugs and requests

Tenuto

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Sound cuts out
  • Unresponsive at times
  • Freezes up
  • Doesn't work well for guitar
  • Incorrect chord/key associations

Requested features

20 requests
  • Cadences and inversions for ear training
  • Chord progressions for ear training
  • Melodic and harmonic minor modes for scale recognition
  • 6th, 9th, 11th and 13th chord extensions for chord recognition
  • Melodic dictation
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  • Rhythm exercises
  • Fretboard reverse identification
  • Chord inversions for chord identification
  • Scales written on staff using various clefs
  • Rhythm, melodic, and harmonic dictation exercises
  • Part writing exercises
  • Exercises for form, cadences, etc.
  • MIDI support
  • Autoplay function
  • Ability to input notes/chords on fretboard
  • Chord progression ear training
  • Inversion options for chord and interval identification
  • Melodic and harmonic minor scale identification
  • Extended chord identification
  • Rhythmic dictation

Modacity

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Recordings stop playing unexpectedly
  • Practice history data sometimes lost or inaccurate
  • Crashes when creating new practice items

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add video recording capability
  • Improve iPad support and layout
  • Allow more customization of practice items and lists
  • Implement better data export and backup options
  • Add more drone and metronome features

In-app purchases

None

Tenuto

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Modacity

Subscriptions2
  • Modacity Premium - Monthly14 Days trial$12.991 Month
  • Modacity Premium - Annual$129.001 Year

Questions

Is Tenuto free?
Tenuto costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Modacity free?
Modacity is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Tenuto or Modacity?
Tenuto is rated higher. Tenuto averages 4.8 out of 5 from 652 ratings, while Modacity averages 4.3 from 284 ratings.
Do Tenuto or Modacity have ads?
Neither Tenuto nor Modacity shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tenuto or Modacity?
Tenuto ships an update every 3 months, and Modacity every 2 months. Most recently, Tenuto was updated on October 19, 2026 and Modacity on October 17, 2026.

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