Comparison

ScaleHelper vs Flying Beat

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

Head to head
About

ScaleHelper

Improve your musical instrument playing with real-time feedback on your performance. Practice scales, arpeggios, and other exercises with scoring and audio playback. Prepare for exams with customizable challenges and support for multiple instruments and users.

Highlights
  • Real-time performance scoring
  • Audio playback of notes and performance
  • Practice any scale or choose specific exercises
  • Exam preparation with challenge modes
  • Support for multiple instruments and users
  • Customizable syllabus creation
  • Save and share recordings
Features
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Choose an exercise: see the notes and hear them played Play the exercise: get a score, see the notes you played and listen to your performance ScaleHelper is the fast way to improve your playing. With actual feedback based on what you played, ScaleHelper enables you to concentrate on the aspects of your playing that will help the most. ScaleHelper has 3 modes: 1. Play any scale: ScaleHelper determines the exercise you have played and scores your performance. Ideal for impromptu practise sessions. 2. Choose a scale: Choose the exercise you want to play and ScaleHelper listens and gives you a score. Ideal to improve a specific musical exercise. 3. Challenge me: ScaleHelper will ask you to play exercises from your challenge list that is based on your chosen syllabus. ScaleHelper will identify what you need to practise and make sure you get exam ready while having fun on the way. Ideal for practising a range of exercises. ScaleHelper contains everything you need for most of the instruments covered by the ABRSM, Trinity Guildhall, and MTB examining boards all the way from Grade 1 to Grade 8. ScaleHelper will be there for you every step of the way as you grow as a musician. ScaleHelper allows you to create your own syllabus from the exercises it supports: major scales; major arpeggios; harmonic minor scales; melodic minor scales; natural minor scales; minor arpeggios; chromatic scales; dominant sevenths; diminished sevenths; augmented arpeggios; scales in thirds; whole-tone scales; and pentatonic major scales. All exercises are available starting from every tonic over 1 octave, 1 twelfth, 2 octaves, 2.5 octaves and 3 octaves. There is a range of exercise lists for popular music exams available for download. Instruments supported include Violin, Viola, Cello, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Clarinet, Flute, Oboe, Saxophone, Bassoon, Recorder, Trumpet, Cornet, Trombone and Horn. A full list is available at www.ScaleHelper.com along with details of the rich feature set ScaleHelper has to offer. At less than the price of a single music lesson the guidance that ScaleHelper provides between your lessons builds on that teaching. You can dispense with the need to review scales by playing them in your lessons and instead reuse the time you gain to learn technique and perfect your pieces. ScaleHelper supports multiple users, keeping each user's history for each of their instruments. You can save recordings to study later or to show and play to your teacher and friends. You can also email recordings to share them with others. Have fun competing with your friends to see who can get the highest score or who can maintain the highest average.

About

Flying Beat

Develop your musical rhythm skills with a vast library of patterns. Practice at your own pace with real-time feedback and adjustable difficulty. Improve sight-reading and rhythmic recognition for any instrument.

Highlights
  • Thousands of rhythm patterns
  • 26 time signatures
  • 8 difficulty levels
  • Adjustable speed
  • Real-time performance feedback
  • Look ahead mode
  • Instrument selection
  • Both Hands mode
Features
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This app is to train and develop your ability to read and perform musical rhythms accurately. You can practice almost all the rhythm patterns you may encounter, no matter what level of your music skills are. These countless patterns are arranged in increasing difficulty levels. Simply follow the animation and metronome to tap, and you will see how well you are playing in real-time. Make good use of this app, you can definitely improve your ability of sight-reading and rhythmic recognition. Features: • Practice rhythm by playing a game—scores and performance feedback keep every session engaging • thousands of rhythm patterns to explore • 26 types of time signature and 8 difficulty levels for each • allow adjusting the speed to be at your comfortable pace and conquer difficult patterns • intuitive real-time response to show how well you play for each note • “Look ahead” mode makes your eyes always ahead of your hands • various instruments to select just in case you get bored with any of them • Challenge “Both Hands” mode if you play two-hand instruments such as piano • More features are coming…

Screenshots

ScaleHelper4 screens
Flying Beat4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: ScaleHelper at 80% against Flying Beat's 22%. ScaleHelper also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). Flying Beat's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 11) and price ($2.99 vs $5.99). On ads, monetization model and device support 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

ScaleHelper costs $5.99 and Flying Beat $2.99 up front. ScaleHelper sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Flying Beat asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ScaleHelper ships an update monthly, Flying Beat every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
ScaleHelper versus Flying Beat: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScaleHelperFlying Beat
Price$5.99$2.99 — better
Rating—3.5 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews — better22.2% of reviews
Number of ratings—4 — better
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRichard WilliamsPlearn LLC

Customer experience

ScaleHelper

Written reviews10 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative10.0%

Flying Beat

All ratings4 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive22.2%
Neutral22.2%
Negative55.6%

In-app purchases

11 purchases

ScaleHelper

One-time11
  • Violin ABRSM G8$0.99
  • Cello TRINITY G1 to G3$0.99
  • Flute TRINITY G1 to G3$0.99
Show 8 more
  • Viola ABRSM G6$0.99
  • Viola ABRSM G7$0.99
  • Viola ABRSM G8$0.99
  • Violin ABRSM G1 to G3$0.99
  • Clarinet ABRSM G1 to G8$2.99
  • Violin ABRSM G1 to G8$2.99
  • Flute ABRSM G1 to G8$2.99
  • Cello ABRSM G1 to G8$2.99
None

Flying Beat

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ScaleHelper free?
ScaleHelper costs $5.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Flying Beat free?
Flying Beat costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do ScaleHelper or Flying Beat have ads?
Neither ScaleHelper nor Flying Beat shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ScaleHelper or Flying Beat?
ScaleHelper ships an update monthly, and Flying Beat every 3 months. Most recently, ScaleHelper was updated on September 14, 2026 and Flying Beat on September 21, 2026.

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