Starfall Pumpkin vs Lute Lessons & Learn
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Starfall Pumpkin
Design unique pumpkin faces and weigh them to discover the lightest and heaviest. Save your creations and award blue ribbons to your favorites. This app is ideal for young learners developing reading and math skills.
- Pumpkin face design
- Pumpkin weighing (kg/lbs)
- Identify lightest/heaviest
- Save pumpkin creations
- Award blue ribbons
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Visit the Pumpkin Patch, choose a pumpkin and design a face. Weigh pumpkins in kilograms or pounds and discover which is the lightest and which is heaviest. Collect your pumpkin creations and give your favorite the blue ribbon! This app is excellent for emerging readers and young mathematicians.
Lute Lessons & Learn
This app helps you improve your lute playing skills through structured practice routines and lessons. It offers visual interfaces, animated scores, and tab notation to guide your learning. Practice at your own pace with customizable tempos and audio options.
- Supports various lutes and custom tunings
- Structured practice routines and lessons
- Advanced visual interface
- Animated musical score and tab notation
- Adjustable tempo and metronome
- Listen-try approach to practice
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Supporting all Lutes including: Mandolin, Banjo, Ukulele, Cittern, Mandore, Vihuela, Sitar, Tar, Dulcimer, Domra, Setar Plus any Lute with 3 to 8 strings and set custom tuning. Purely Lute is designed to help you become a better lute player. By repeatedly practising the routines and lessons included in the software, your playing technique will improve over time. The advanced visual interface adds an extra dimension to your lute practice, so you can see and hear how the music plays. Play along with Purely Lute, with the help of a fretboard, animated musical score and tab notation. Live animation makes it easy to follow the music, so you can practise in a way that suits you - whatever your skill level. See upcoming notes and hear how the piece should sound. Choose to hear synthesized music or a metronome rhythm - or a combination of both, if you prefer. This lets you engage in a listen-try approach to practice. Choose a tempo to suit your individual needs for each lesson or routine. Switch between hearing the music, the metronome or a combination of both to aid your learning. Play along with a stand-alone metronome to provide a customised tempo. Choose a constant tempo with adjustable accent (measure length) and visual display. In App Purchases: - Purely Lute "Full Content Pack" is offered as an in app purchase. - Subscription is for one month and charged monthly. - Cost is $2.99 or local equivalent. - Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. - Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. - Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, renewal costs $2.99 or local equivalent. - Subscriptions may be managed and auto-renewal turned off by going to the Account Settings after purchase. - No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Starfall Pumpkin at 60% against Lute Lessons & Learn's 0%. Starfall Pumpkin also leads on rating (3.8 vs 1.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 8). Lute Lessons & Learn's advantage is price (Free vs $0.99) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 11 months). On ads 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
Lute Lessons & Learn is free to download; Starfall Pumpkin costs $0.99 up front. Lute Lessons & Learn sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Starfall Pumpkin asks for nothing beyond the download.
Starfall Pumpkin holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Starfall Pumpkin has 12 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Starfall Pumpkin's written reviews are positive against 0% of Lute Lessons & Learn's.
Starfall Pumpkin ships an update every 11 months, Lute Lessons & Learn every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Starfall Pumpkin | Lute Lessons & Learn |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.8 (12 ratings) — better | 1.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #196 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Starfall Education Foundation | 2021 Inc LTD |
Customer experience
Starfall Pumpkin
Lute Lessons & Learn
In-app purchases
Starfall Pumpkin
No in-app purchases
Lute Lessons & Learn
- Full Content Pack Subscription$3.991 Month
- Irish Content Pack Subscription$3.991 Month
- American Content Pack Subscription$3.991 Month
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- Complete Content Pack Subscription$8.991 Month
- Full Content Pack Purchase$13.99
- Irish Content Pack One Off$13.99
- American Content Pack One Off$13.99
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- Complete Content Pack One Off$32.99
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