Comparison

Music Tutor Plus vs Rhythm Lab

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

Head to head
About

Music Tutor Plus

Master sheet music and enhance your sight-reading abilities. Practice identifying musical notes across various clefs with timed or untimed sessions. Review your performance to track progress and correct mistakes.

Highlights
  • Learn sheet music identification
  • Improve speed and accuracy
  • Practice treble, bass, and alto clefs
  • Timed and untimed sessions
  • Mistake review and progress tracking
  • Customizable note practice range
  • MIDI keyboard support
  • Companion Apple Watch app
Features
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Learn to read sheet music and improve your sight-reading skills with Music Tutor. Develop your speed and accuracy in reading sheet music by identifying music notes in timed sessions. Choose to practice with notes in treble, bass and alto clefs in timed or untimed sessions. After each test, you can review your mistakes and see your progress. Other features of Music Tutor include: • Custom Practice Range - Set your own range of notes that you want to practice with. • Supports notes up to 4 ledger lines above or below the staff on any of the clefs. • Notes Reference Charts - For Treble, Bass and Alto clefs. • MIDI Support - Connect your keyboard or digital piano using Lightning to USB Camera Adapter and respond directly from your instrument. • Companion Apple Watch app using which you can practice recognising music notes on the go.

About

Rhythm Lab

This music tool helps users improve rhythmic accuracy and explore complex musical patterns. It offers features for creating, importing, and exporting rhythms, along with a metronome and playback controls. Ideal for musicians and educators, it supports external MIDI devices and Audiobus for expanded functionality.

Highlights
  • Rhythm accuracy testing
  • On-screen and MIDI keyboard support
  • Metronome and playback controls
  • Rhythm creation and import/export
  • Customizable rhythm patterns
  • Worksheet generation for teachers
  • Audiobus 3.0 integration
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Rhythm Lab 4.0 is the best rhythm trainer and rhythm tool for the iPad! New! On-screen keyboard. Play and improvise tunes and chords without being restricted to single tap notes. Integrates seamlessly with any external MIDI keyboard. Simple. Test, Playback, Metronome, Loop, and Audio controls are easy to access on the main screen. Flexible. Use Rhythm Lab to improve rhythmic accuracy, listen to new rhythms, create, copy, and import new rhythms, export rhythms, create rhythm worksheets, group rhythms into custom sets, and more! Use the iPad tap buttons or an external MIDI device to practice and test your accuracy. Many user features are highly customizable. Teachers can create customized student groups and import or export student results. Compatible with Audiobus 3.0 for expanded sound and recording possibilities. Comprehensive. Rhythm Lab patterns are not limited to single patterns, but also include double patterns, drum patterns (left/right snare exercises), or three-part drumkit patterns (hi hat, snare, kick). Patterns can range from very simple, such as whole notes, half notes, quarter notes in simple meters, to very complex - with nested tuplets, mixed and irregular time signatures. Rhythm Lab also allows incomplete (pick-up) measures. Worksheets. The worksheet feature is great for teachers who want to create printable, customized worksheets for students. You have the option of hiding time signatures and barlines, and including open space within measures. Files. Rhythm Lab allows you to import or export patterns and users in JSON format, a standard data format. Worksheets can be exported in PDF format. Individual rhythm patterns can be imported from MusicXML files. Soundfonts can be imported in .sf2 format. Documentation. Help documentation is now web-based, and will continue to expand to include video tutorials, FAQs and other documentation as needed.

Screenshots

Music Tutor Plus4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Music Tutor Plus at 4.5 against Rhythm Lab's 3.9. Music Tutor Plus also leads on ratings volume (248 vs 15) and price ($2.99 vs $5.99). Rhythm Lab's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months). On review sentiment, ads, in-app purchases 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

Music Tutor Plus costs $2.99 and Rhythm Lab $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Music Tutor Plus holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Music Tutor Plus has 248 ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Music Tutor Plus's written reviews are positive against 75% of Rhythm Lab's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Music Tutor Plus ships an update every 2 months, Rhythm Lab every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Music Tutor Plus versus Rhythm Lab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMusic Tutor PlusRhythm Lab
Price$2.99 — better$5.99
Rating4.5 (248 ratings) — better3.9 (15 ratings)
Positive reviews82.3% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings248 — better15
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPad
Requires iOS12.012.0
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB159 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBijoy ThangarajJonathan Ensminger

Customer experience

Music Tutor Plus

All ratings240 ratings
Positive85.8%
Neutral7.9%
Negative6.3%
Written reviews293 reviews
Positive82.3%
Neutral6.5%
Negative11.3%

Rhythm Lab

All ratings15 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral13.3%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative20.0%

Bugs and requests

Music Tutor Plus

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Sound sometimes stops working
  • Ads still present in paid 'Pro' version

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add support for chords and chord recognition
  • Implement a landscape mode with larger keyboard
  • Allow MIDI input from connected instruments
  • Provide more detailed progress tracking and statistics

Rhythm Lab

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Music Tutor Plus

No in-app purchases

None

Rhythm Lab

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Music Tutor Plus free?
Music Tutor Plus costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Rhythm Lab free?
Rhythm Lab costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Music Tutor Plus or Rhythm Lab?
Music Tutor Plus is rated higher. Music Tutor Plus averages 4.5 out of 5 from 248 ratings, while Rhythm Lab averages 3.9 from 15 ratings.
Do Music Tutor Plus or Rhythm Lab have ads?
Neither Music Tutor Plus nor Rhythm Lab shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Music Tutor Plus or Rhythm Lab?
Music Tutor Plus ships an update every 2 months, and Rhythm Lab every 10 days. Most recently, Music Tutor Plus was updated on October 24, 2026 and Rhythm Lab on October 22, 2026.

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