Bach Cello Suites vs ScalePlay
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bach Cello Suites
Experience classical music with synchronized sheet music. Listen to high-quality recordings of Bach's Cello Suites while following along with the score as it flows in perfect timing. Features iconic performances and detailed track information.
- Synchronized sheet music and audio
- High-quality classic recordings
- Detailed track and movement information
- Flowing score visualization
- Includes all six Bach Cello Suites
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Historic Recording with Flowing Sheet Music SyncScore provides a new way of enjoying classic compositions. You can listen to the music with the score flows in a synchronized timing. Carefully hand-picked, high quality classic recordings. Album Information Bach Cello Suites BWV 1007 ~ BWV 1012 Artist: Pablo Casals 36 tracks 2 hours 10 minutes Track Information Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007 Suite No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008 Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009 Suite No. 4 in E-flat major, BWV 1010 Suite No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011 Suite No. 6 in D major, BWV 1012 Each suite has six movements I. Prelude II. Allemande III. Courante IV. Sarabande V. Galanteries – (Minuets for Suites 1 and 2, Bourrées for 3 and 4, Gavottes for 5 and 6) VI. Gigue
ScalePlay
This app generates intricate musical patterns and sequences using complex scale theory. It's a powerful tool for both music production and education, offering scale references, virtual instruments, and interactive playback features.
- Generates intricate ostinatos and sequences
- Applies complex scale patterns
- User-defined songforms and chord changes
- Scale references for hundreds of scales
- Nine virtual instruments and 128 sounds
- Visualizes scale relations
- Interactive playback with generated patterns
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ScalePlay is a generative music app capable of producing the most intricate ostinatos and sequences by applying complex scale patterns over user defined songforms and chord changes. It can be used in music production and is also a fantastic tool for music education. It includes scale references for hundreds of scales, nine virtual instruments and 128 instrument sounds. Its unique set of features allows the musician to visualize scale relations and to play along with generated patterns. Modern musicians often practice playing scales according to organizing principles like thirds. What is meant by that is to play a scale tone, then its third, then the second scale tone, the third on top of that one and so forth. The exercise would result in the scale tones 1, 3, 2, 4, 3, 5, etc. Not an easy feat at first, because before even getting started, one has to know the base scale. Playing patterns through different keys and scale types finally is a demanding task even for advanced musicians. ScalePlay constructs patterns like these and much more complicated ones by using two simple grids. Grids have been around in music apps for years, but they are based on half-tone steps and include all available notes of the spectrum. That leaves one difficulty on the table, namely that of correctly identifying the notes of a scale. These grids also don’t easily allow for patterning as in our scale in thirds. So a different solution is called for and ScalePlay provides just that and so much more. In the application songs are used as metaphor to organize different scale types into a harmonic context. They are constructed with chords which in turn determine what scale types are available at a given time. During playback the app then cycles through these virtual chords or as with TouchPlay allows to call them up at will. This architecture is very helpful for superimposing ScalePlay patterns over existing pieces and even practicing improvising over changes. For practicing ScalePlay shows a pattern's progression on the built-in instrument and also provides a music notation reference. One can slow things down to need and play along. With the pattern lock feature all patterns can be kept in the same general vicinity. So instead of raising all scale tones when a base chord moves from C to G for example, patterns stay in place. This allows guitarists to practice scale patterns over changes while remaining in the same position. ScalePlay is also a fabulous generative music app. That is because of the magic that happens when these self-repeating scale structures are put in motion. Fantastic music occurs. Since ScalePlay supports virtual MIDI and can be recorded into any iOS based DAW. It also features TouchPlay for advanced looping. With TouchPlay scale structures can be looped endlessly and out of order. The TouchPlay environment is superimposed over ScalePlay's main interface and allows live switching between different scale types with the tap of a finger in continuous or full pattern mode. Of course ScalePlay supports multi-app multitasking as well as split-view and split-screen to make this feature even more useful. Instruments • Banjo, Bass, Cello, Double Bass, Guitar, Mandolin, Piano, Viola, Violin Some other Features: • 211 scale types • Virtual MIDI • Advanced looping with TouchPlay • Full general MIDI instrument library
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ScalePlay at 4.9 against Bach Cello Suites's 3.7. ScalePlay also leads on ratings volume (10 vs 3). Bach Cello Suites's advantage is price ($5.99 vs $9.99) and review sentiment (88% vs 71%). On update cadence, ads, 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
Bach Cello Suites costs $5.99 and ScalePlay $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ScalePlay holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 10 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 88% of Bach Cello Suites's written reviews are positive against 71% of ScalePlay's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Bach Cello Suites ships an update every 2 months, ScalePlay every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bach Cello Suites | ScalePlay |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 — better | $9.99 |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 4.9 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.5% of reviews — better | 71.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 129 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zininworks Inc. | RoGame Software |
Customer experience
Bach Cello Suites
ScalePlay
In-app purchases
Bach Cello Suites
No in-app purchases
ScalePlay
No in-app purchases
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