# Tenuto vs Basic

The clearest difference is price: Basic at $0.99 against Tenuto's $4.99. Tenuto's advantage is chart position (#7 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Tenuto costs $4.99 and Basic $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

## The numbers

| Metric | Tenuto | Basic |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Price | $4.99 | **$0.99** |
| Rating | **[4.7 (667 ratings)](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tenuto/id459313476/reviews)** | — |
| Number of ratings | **667** | — |
| Positive reviews | 94.1% of reviews | — |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Ads | No | No |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | — |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Best chart rank | **#7** | — |
| Size | 11 MB | 4 MB |
| Requires iOS | **15.8** | 16.6 |
| Devices | **iPhone, iPad, iPod** | iPhone, iPad |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | [musictheory.net](https://appshunter.io/developer/459313479) | [逸 屠](https://appshunter.io/developer/1854274685) |

## What reviewers say

### Tenuto

[App page](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tenuto/id459313476)

**Currently charting:** #7 Top Paid · Music, #39 Top Paid (US App Store)

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

**In-app purchases:** none

**What reviewers like**

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

**What reviewers complain about**

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

**Reported bugs**

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

**Requested features**

- 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


### Basic

[App page](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/basic-tempo/id6755927515)

**Features:** macOS Compatibility

**In-app purchases:** none


## Frequently asked questions

### Is Tenuto free?

Tenuto costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.

### Is Basic free?

Basic costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.

### Do Tenuto or Basic have ads?

Neither Tenuto nor Basic shows ads.

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