Comparison

Rhythm Lab vs MusiClock

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

MusiClock

This app simplifies music theory and scales for guitar and piano players. It helps users practice improvisation, soloing, and jamming with interactive tools and backing tracks. Learn scales and transpose to different keys instantly, even without prior music theory knowledge.

Highlights
  • Scale charts for guitar
  • Interactive piano
  • 8 different scales
  • Professional backing tracks
  • Instant key transposition
  • Jamming and soloing practice
Features
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*** Featured by Apple in "Best New Apps" *** *** #1 Paid Music App in 9 countries *** *** #1 Prize in Expressing Category, Interaction Awards 2017, New York *** WHAT GLOBAL APP REVIEWERS SAY ABOUT MUSICLOCK: “This app is pure genius, and in my 20 years of playing music I have never seen anything like it.” - apptreasurehunter.com "Apple loves this music app. You will too." - MacLife "This is incredibly useful, it teaches you how to play in all the different keys and scales... Super duper idea, fabulous for jamming and great for learning as well.. brilliant" - thesoundtestroom "If you want to teach improvisation to students of any age, this is a wonderful app" - techinmusiced.com "Slice of genius – Musiclock nails making music theory and scales far more approachable, providing a helping first step for total beginners, and a useful resource tool for musicians to dip into" - TapSmart "The key to making music that sounds good (–) is rooted in first finding (and playing) all those correct notes. MusiClock can definitely help in this regard" - iPhoneLife "As a rock and blues guitar player whose idea of relaxation is just having a good noodle, Musiclock is a pleasure to use. It can give your practice sessions a little bit of structure but without it feeling like a classroom music theory session" - musicappblog.com ------ *The ultimate scale tool & jam buddy for guitar and piano players* MusiClock is an easy-to-use improvisation tool that makes it dead easy to practice scales, jamming and soloing with a guitar or piano. Our award-winning approach helps you to hit all the right notes so that you can get jamming within seconds without any prior music theory training. REVOLUTIONARY LOGIC MusiClock transforms the complexity of different notes, scales and keys into a simple and powerful jam tool.The beautifully simple MusiClock enables you to jam with piano or guitar right away without prior knowledge of music theory. With the help of the revolutionary design, you can master all the scales you need for jamming in no time. Practice and expand your playing skills easily to more challenging keys – just rotate the wheel and you can transpose your jam instantly to any key. PLAY THE LEADS WITH PROFESSIONAL BACKING TRACKS Practice and play along with professional backing tracks. MusiClock features multiple tunes from various genres. Choose your favorite from pop, rock, heavy metal and more. Start playing leads with your favorite musical style in seconds. SPICE UP YOUR GROOVE Create new melodies by mixing different scales and backing tracks together. How would those delicious blues licks merge with heavy metal? What about mashing up bepop melodies with pop? However you choose to explore your creativity, MusiClock takes your jamming to the next level. FEATURES - Over 1000 easy-to-read guitar charts (require iOS 8 or higher!) - Interactive piano - 8 scales: Major, Natural Minor, Major Pentatonic, Minor, Pentatonic, Melodic Minor, Harmonic Minor, Blues, Dominant Bepop - 12 different keys for every scale and backing track - Professional backing tracks (pop, rock, blues, metal, jazz, dance, classical) - Staff showing notes and scales - Intuitive & beautifully simple design Follow us on - Facebook www.facebook.com/mymusiclock - Twitter https://twitter.com/mymusiclock - Instagram https://instagram.com/musiclock/ - Website www.getmusiclock.com FEEDBACK What was your jamming experience like? Let us know! Feel free to send us any questions/feedback at hello@mymusiclock.com.

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Rhythm Lab at 3.9 against MusiClock's 3.6. Rhythm Lab also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 5 weeks) and review sentiment (75% vs 59%). MusiClock's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (7.1 vs 12.0). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Rhythm Lab costs $5.99 and MusiClock $8.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Rhythm Lab holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 31 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Rhythm Lab's written reviews are positive against 59% of MusiClock's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Rhythm Lab ships an update every 10 days, MusiClock every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Rhythm Lab versus MusiClock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRhythm LabMusiClock
Price$5.99 — better$8.99
Rating3.9 (15 ratings) — better3.6 (31 ratings)
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews — better59.5% of reviews
Number of ratings1531 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.07.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size159 MB102 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJonathan EnsmingerperTunes Oy

Customer experience

Rhythm Lab

All ratings15 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral13.3%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative20.0%

MusiClock

All ratings31 ratings
Positive64.5%
Neutral9.7%
Negative25.8%
Written reviews37 reviews
Positive59.5%
Neutral10.8%
Negative29.7%

In-app purchases

None

Rhythm Lab

No in-app purchases

None

MusiClock

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Rhythm Lab free?
Rhythm Lab costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is MusiClock free?
MusiClock costs $8.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Rhythm Lab or MusiClock?
Rhythm Lab is rated higher. Rhythm Lab averages 3.9 out of 5 from 15 ratings, while MusiClock averages 3.6 from 31 ratings.
Do Rhythm Lab or MusiClock have ads?
Neither Rhythm Lab nor MusiClock shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Rhythm Lab or MusiClock?
Rhythm Lab ships an update every 10 days, and MusiClock every 5 weeks. Most recently, Rhythm Lab was updated on October 5, 2026 and MusiClock on September 28, 2026.

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