Comparison

Tenuto vs GigsyPro

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

GigsyPro

Features
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GigsyPro is built for musicians, venues, event organizers, and music lovers who want a better way to connect through live music. Whether you are a guitarist, singer, drummer, DJ, producer, venue owner, or private event booker, GigsyPro helps bring the music community together in one place. GigsyPro makes it easier to discover musicians, find events, connect with venues, create live music opportunities, and grow your network. Instead of relying only on word of mouth, scattered social media posts, or random group chats, GigsyPro gives the music world a focused platform built specifically for collaboration, booking, and discovery. With GigsyPro, users can: • Create and promote music events • Discover musicians and music opportunities • Connect with artists, venues, and event organizers • Build a music profile and showcase their presence • Explore local music activity through a modern app experience • Help venues and musicians find each other faster • Support a stronger live music community GigsyPro is designed around one simple belief: music is universal. It brings people together across genres, backgrounds, cities, and cultures. The app is built to help artists meet people they may have never connected with otherwise, create new opportunities, and keep live music growing. For musicians, GigsyPro helps turn talent into opportunity. For venues, it helps make discovering and booking artists easier. For event organizers, it helps connect the right music with the right audience. For fans and communities, it helps make local music easier to find and support. GigsyPro is starting with a focus on real music communities and real connections, with a vision to become a worldwide platform for live music discovery, booking, and collaboration. Create. Connect. Discover. Perform. This is what GigsyPro is about.

Screenshots

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GigsyPro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: GigsyPro at Free against Tenuto's $4.99. GigsyPro also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months). Tenuto's advantage is chart position (#9 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases, 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

GigsyPro is free to download; Tenuto costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tenuto ships an update every 3 months, GigsyPro every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Tenuto versus GigsyPro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTenutoGigsyPro
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (668 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews94.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings668 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#9 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.815.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developermusictheory.netGigsy Inc.

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

GigsyPro

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Tenuto

No in-app purchases

None

GigsyPro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tenuto free?
Tenuto costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is GigsyPro free?
GigsyPro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tenuto or GigsyPro have ads?
Neither Tenuto nor GigsyPro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tenuto or GigsyPro?
Tenuto ships an update every 3 months, and GigsyPro every 2 weeks. Most recently, Tenuto was updated on November 10, 2026 and GigsyPro on November 5, 2026.

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