InTune vs PracticePlay
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
InTune
Enhance your musical ear for tuning and intonation with this app. It utilizes academic research to help you track progress, compete, and master pitch discrimination. Offers a variety of instrument sounds to aid your practice.
- Improve musical intonation
- 25 years of academic research
- Track progress
- Compete on Game Center
- Add instrument sounds
- Pitch discrimination training
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Improve your ear for tuning and intonation with this beautiful app. • Improve your musical intonation — one of the most important skills a musician can have. • Leverage 25 years of academic research on how to train intonation. • Track your progress and compete on Game Center. • Add on beautiful instrument sounds, including piano, guitar, violin, cello, clarinet, banjo, flute, French horn, trombone, and trumpet. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING “A brilliantly simple game of precision hearing…ingenious. It will absolutely help you develop a more discerning ear.” — Voice Council Magazine “Very easy to use…a fun and useful addition to your practice toolbox.” — Horn World “There are a number of ear training apps available for the iPhone, but InTune has actual science to back it up.” — discchord “I have your app on my phone and love it!!!” — David P. Schurger, orchestra director, Indiana “Excellent...it’s made a remarkable difference this past year in my ability to rehearse complex 20th and 21st century music!” — Paul Piazza, conductor/composer, LA THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE APP InTune began as a way for researchers to test pitch discrimination, the ability to differentiate pitches that are close together. But then researchers discovered that musicians improved the more often they played – 3x faster than those who didn’t. Download for free and see if InTune works for you! HELP US IMPROVE! We’re always improving InTune and love hearing from users. Please send your comments and requests to support@halfnotelabs.com.
PracticePlay
This app automatically records and replays your musical practice sessions hands-free. It intelligently listens for instruments, capturing only your playing to help you focus on improving your sound and technique. Analyze your performance with playback speed and pitch adjustments.
- Hands-free recording
- Automatic playback
- Instrument sound recognition
- Session library
- Playback speed and pitch control
- Share recordings
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Stop fumbling for the record, stop, and play buttons. PracticePlay automatically listens, records, and plays back your musical practice sessions hands-free so you can focus on actively hearing yourself and improving your sound, technique, and musicality. “I can’t think of a more helpful app for both teaching and performing. The ability to truly hear exactly what you sound like is the greatest benefit of all.” —Ryan Gardner, Professor of Trumpet, University of Colorado Boulder “PracticePlay is a dream come true: an intuitive tool with hands-free recording and automatic playback for reflective, efficient, and meaningful deep practice.” —Wiff Rudd, Professor of Trumpet, Baylor University Practice without thinking about technology. PracticePlay listens for your instrument, records every take you play, and stays out of the way the rest of the time. Whatever the environment, it just works. Conversations, instruction from a teacher, lesson notes spoken aloud, ambient noise from your home—none of it triggers a recording. PracticePlay’s on-device sound model recognizes musical instruments specifically, so the only takes in your library are the ones you actually played. WHY MUSICIANS LOVE IT • Never miss a take. The breakthroughs you didn’t expect to record? They’re already saved. • Practice with full attention. No tapping a record button between phrases, no audio editing afterward. • Compare progress over time. Every session is in your Library, organized by date and searchable by name. • Keep the takes that matter. Name and star your best recordings, and let PracticePlay clear out the old ones you never marked. • Listen back with intent. Adjust playback speed and pitch for analysis. FOR SOLO PRACTICE IN THE WOODSHED The phone sits ten feet away on the music stand. You play. It records. You stop. You hear yourself. You play again. With rest while listening you’ll improve faster without burning yourself out. FOR CHAMBER MUSIC AND ENSEMBLE REHEARSALS The app sits in the back of the room and earns its place by knowing when not to act. The whole group hears how they sound together and starts making improvements immediately. FOR LESSONS AND MASTERCLASSES PracticePlay sits in like a quiet assistant. It captures every excerpt the moment the student plays, then steps aside while the teacher and student talk it through. The next recording begins on the next note. FOR AUDITION TAKES Take back-to-back recordings without walking over to your device. Play, listen back, adjust, play another take. Hear exactly what the panel will hear before they hear it. FEATURES • Listens for music—ignores everything else • Records the moment you start playing • Replays automatically when you stop • Saves every session to your Library • Name, star, search, and filter your recordings • Select several at once to share, rename, star, or delete • Optional auto-cleanup of old recordings (starred and named ones are always kept) • Waveform scrubbing with speed and pitch controls • Works with any mic or speaker • Share recordings or whole sessions straight from the app • Native apps for iPhone, iPad, and Mac No record button. Just play. PracticePlay does the rest! TRY IT FOR FREE When you’re ready, the full app is yours forever with a one-time $9.99 purchase. No subscriptions. No accounts. No ads. Pay ONCE and use it on EVERY iPhone, iPad, and Mac you own. Family Sharing supported. (Prices shown in this description are in USD. Exact price may vary by region based on current exchange rates. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID Account at confirmation of purchase. Devices using the same Apple ID can share the purchase.) Questions? Need help? Send us a message at hey@practiceplay.app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: PracticePlay at Free against InTune's $0.99. PracticePlay also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). InTune's advantage is ratings volume (551 vs 22) and chart position (#58 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases 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
PracticePlay is free to download; InTune costs $0.99 up front. InTune sells 13 one-off in-app purchases and PracticePlay sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
PracticePlay holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: InTune has 551 ratings behind it against 22, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of InTune's written reviews are positive against 100% of PracticePlay's.
InTune ships an update every 3 months, PracticePlay fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | InTune | PracticePlay |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (551 ratings) | 5.0 (22 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 551 — better | 22 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #58 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 86 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Half Note Labs | One Good Idea, LLC |
Customer experience
InTune
PracticePlay
Bugs and requests
InTune
Reported bugs
5 issues- App freezes mid-round
- Oboe timbre is inconsistent
- Timpani sounds are poor quality
- Flute sound is low quality
- Compatibility issues with iPhone 13
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to replay the tones
- Option to start from any level
- Ability to choose different intervals
- Option to turn off 3-strike mode
- Ability to save personal best scores
PracticePlay
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
InTune
- InTune French Horn Add-on$0.99
- InTune Tuba Add-on$0.99
- InTune Viola Add-on$0.99
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- Timpani$0.99
- InTune Clarinet Add-on$0.99
- InTune Piano Add-on$0.99
- InTune Double Bass Add-on$0.99
- InTune Violin Add-on$0.99
- InTune Cello Add-on$0.99
- Guitar$0.99
- Trumpet$0.99
- Trombone$0.99
- Flute$0.99
PracticePlay
- Unlock Unlimited Recording$9.99









