Comparison

ScaleHelper vs Legacy ClariMate

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

Legacy ClariMate

This app configures a hybrid instrument for silent practice and digital music creation. It translates reed, breath, and fingering input into digital signals, allowing for virtual instrument playback or use as a MIDI controller.

Highlights
  • Silent practice mode
  • Digital music creation
  • MIDI controller functionality
  • Note recognition technology
  • Standalone mode configuration
  • Virtual instrument playback
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SILENT PRACTICE, DIGITAL PLAY The ClariMate is a reversible hybrid instrument manufactured in the UK and designed in partnership with Buffet Crampon and Audio Inventions LTD that allows you to use your clarinet for silent practice and digital music creation. It uses high precision sensors and patented note recognition technology to translate reed, breath, and fingerings into digital signals. Connect your wired headphones to the ClariMate to play silently with a virtual, sample-based clarinet synthesizer, or connect it to a computer, tablet, or phone to use it as a MIDI controller and unlock the possibilities of digital music creation. The ClariMate can be used in standalone mode without the use of a computer, phone, or tablet, but must be connected to the ClariMate app for setup and configuration.

Screenshots

ScaleHelper4 screens
Legacy ClariMate4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: ScaleHelper at 80% against Legacy ClariMate's 33%. ScaleHelper also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months). Legacy ClariMate's advantage is price (Free vs $5.99) and in-app purchases (none vs 11). On ads, device support 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

Legacy ClariMate is free to download; ScaleHelper costs $5.99 up front. ScaleHelper sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Legacy ClariMate asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ScaleHelper ships an update monthly, Legacy ClariMate every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
ScaleHelper versus Legacy ClariMate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScaleHelperLegacy ClariMate
Price$5.99Free — better
Rating—3.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews — better33.3% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB46 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRichard WilliamsAudio Inventions Limited

Customer experience

ScaleHelper

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

Legacy ClariMate

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral33.3%
Negative33.3%

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
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  • 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

Legacy ClariMate

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ScaleHelper free?
ScaleHelper costs $5.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Legacy ClariMate free?
Legacy ClariMate is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ScaleHelper or Legacy ClariMate have ads?
Neither ScaleHelper nor Legacy ClariMate shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ScaleHelper or Legacy ClariMate?
ScaleHelper ships an update monthly, and Legacy ClariMate every 4 months. Most recently, ScaleHelper was updated on September 14, 2026 and Legacy ClariMate on June 1, 2026.

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