Comparison

Vocal Tech vs Skeme

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

Head to head
About

Vocal Tech

An interactive guide for classical singing students, focusing on phonation, resonance, posture, and breathing. It offers vocal exercises with recorded examples, a voice recorder, and piano accompaniment.

Highlights
  • Classical singing guide
  • Vocal technique lessons
  • Phonation, Resonance, Posture, Breathing
  • Vocal exercises with examples
  • Voice recorder
  • Piano accompaniment
Features
Read full description

Vocal Tech is an interactive guide to classical singing. It is intended for students of classical vocal music: opera, oratorio, song literature, etc. Any student of singing hoping to build a solid technical foundation can use Vocal Tech. The app discusses Phonation, Resonance, Posture, and Breathing. It includes vocal exercises with recorded examples and a voice recorder for the student, as well as piano accompaniment for exercises. A tenured university professor with a doctorate in voice performance and vocal pedagogy from Indiana University created Vocal Tech.

About

Skeme

Read full description

Skeme puts your curriculum onto your schedule — and moves it for you when plans change. Made by a teacher, for teachers. Plan a topic once. Skeme schedules its lessons across the right periods, in the right order, for every class you teach. When a lesson cannot happen — a field trip, a PD day, a closure — Skeme bumps the rest of the sequence along, and the homework and preparation move with it. SCHEDULING THAT DOES ITSELF • Schedule one lesson, the rest of the topic, or your whole teaching order across topics • See exactly which lesson lands in which period before you commit to it • Topics can be reordered so that every class group follows its own Teaching Order WHEN PLANS CHANGE — AND THEY ALWAYS DO • Bump a sequence forward or back, a slot at a time • Lock a period that cannot move — a test, an assembly, a lesson already taught — and the bump goes round it • Mark a day as non-teaching and the lessons shift themselves • Homework dates and preparation tasks follow the lesson, not the calendar YOUR DAY, ON ONE SCREEN • Every lesson, event and task for today, in order • Four ways to look at it: day, week, class group and schedule • One-week or two-week schedules, with A and B days • Homeroom, break and lunch named the way your school names them PLAN ONCE, REUSE FOR YEARS • A proper curriculum: courses, topics and lessons, with rich-text plans and outcomes • The same lesson works in any period, any class group, any academic year • Preparation checklists become tasks the moment the lesson is scheduled HOMEWORK THAT KEEPS UP • Set homework on a lesson once — every class that reaches that lesson gets it • Set and due dates both attach to lessons rather than calendar dates, so each group's dates arrange themselves around their own schedule • The Class Planner grid shows every group side by side: what is set, what is due, what is next YOUR SCHOOL'S WORDS, YOUR SCHOOL'S YEAR • Terminology for the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Japan, Brazil, Italy, Germany, Hungary, India, Russia and international schools • Homeroom or tutor time or roll call; semester or term; Grade 9 or Year 9 • Available in 31 languages NO ACCOUNT. NO SERVER. NO SIGN-UP. • There is nothing to sign up for and no email address to give • Your planning syncs privately between your own iPhone and iPad through your own iCloud • Export any curriculum or whole academic year to a file, at any time SHARE YOUR PLANNING WITH COLLEAGUES • Export a course, send the file, and a colleague imports it • Re-importing a revised scheme updates it rather than duplicating it — and never deletes anything you added yourself ONE SUBSCRIPTION, THE WHOLE APP Skeme has one subscription, with everything included. Setting up your school year is free. Then try everything in Skeme free for 14 days — no subscription or payment details required, and nothing to cancel. After the trial, choose a yearly or monthly subscription to keep planning and editing. The App Store shows your local price before you subscribe. Cancel any time. If your trial or subscription ends, nothing is locked away. Your planner stays fully readable and everything stays exportable. Terms of Use: https://skeme.app/legal/terms Privacy Policy: https://skeme.app/legal/privacy

Screenshots

Vocal Tech4 screens
Skeme4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Skeme at Free against Vocal Tech's $0.99. Skeme also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 8 months). Vocal Tech's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On ads 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

Skeme is free to download; Vocal Tech costs $0.99 up front. Skeme sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Vocal Tech asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Vocal Tech ships an update every 8 months, Skeme every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Vocal Tech versus Skeme: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVocal TechSkeme
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size81 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJeremy HuntAndrew MacLeod

In-app purchases

None

Vocal Tech

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Skeme

Subscriptions2
  • Skeme Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Skeme Yearly14 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Skeme Lifetime$19.99

Questions

Is Vocal Tech free?
Vocal Tech costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Skeme free?
Skeme is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Vocal Tech or Skeme have ads?
Neither Vocal Tech nor Skeme shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Vocal Tech or Skeme?
Vocal Tech ships an update every 8 months, and Skeme every 2 weeks. Most recently, Vocal Tech was updated on November 2, 2026 and Skeme on November 6, 2026.

Other comparisons