Music Tutor Plus vs Rhythm Lab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
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.
- 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.
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Music Tutor Plus | Rhythm Lab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 — better | $5.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (248 ratings) — better | 3.9 (15 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 82.3% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 248 — better | 15 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 159 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bijoy Thangaraj | Jonathan Ensminger |
Customer experience
Music Tutor Plus
Rhythm Lab
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
Music Tutor Plus
No in-app purchases
Rhythm Lab
No in-app purchases
Questions
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