Comparison

iFretless Guitar vs Sensation Drill

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

Head to head
About

iFretless Guitar

This app offers a unique, touch-optimized guitar fretboard for iOS devices. It allows for expressive, one-touch note playing with real-time pitch control, enabling fast melodies, scales, and arpeggios. It's a powerful new instrument for making music, not just a simulation.

Highlights
  • One-touch-per-note design
  • Real-time pitch control
  • Audio unit support
  • Fretless note bending
  • Velocity sensitive instruments
  • MIDI input and output
  • Built-in reverb and EQ
Features
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iFretless is a guitar fretboard re-designed for maximum playability on iOS devices. It replaces two handed playing and strumming with a one-touch-per-note design that enables fast, precise playing of melodies, scales, and arpeggios and real-time control over the pitch of each individual note. iFretless is not an imitation guitar for your iPhone; it's a powerful new way to make music. FEATURES 1) Audio unit support allows you to connect to a software effects chain or record directly in DAW apps 2) Fretless note bending 3) Velocity sensitive multi-sampled instruments 4) 10 different velocity sensitive guitar sounds 5) MIDI input and output 6) built-in reverb and Eq Sounds: 1) Nylon String Folk 2) Picked Steel String 3) Grunge Telecaster 4) Snarling Synth 5) Bridge-Mid Pickup Bright Strat 6) Blues Neck Pickup Strat 7) Hollow Body Electric 8) Classical 9) Clean bridge pickup 10) Clean neck pickup

About

Sensation Drill

Practice trumpet sight-reading with randomized musical scores featuring unexpected intervals. Focus on intonation and attacks to improve your inner ear and embouchure. The app generates new scores with a tap and allows intuitive zooming.

Highlights
  • Randomized musical score generation
  • Unexpected interval exercises
  • Focus on intonation and attacks
  • Improve inner ear and embouchure
  • Intuitive pinch-to-zoom score display
  • Real-time music score rendering
Features
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Train your sight reading and trumpet playing skills by playing unexpected intervals. As proposed by Clint 'Pops' McLaughlin the Sensation Drill app generates random scores with intervals you can't remember from well-known melodies. Playing this music-scores with focus on intonation and proper attacks will improve your inner ear and your embouchure. By tapping on the display the app will generate a completely new score. Scores can be zoomed be intuitive pinch gestures which trigger a complete re-formatting of the score. This app uses the GUIDOLib for rendering high quality music scores in real-time.

Screenshots

iFretless Guitar4 screens
Sensation Drill4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Sensation Drill at 100% against iFretless Guitar's 55%. Sensation Drill also leads on price ($0.99 vs $9.99) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). iFretless Guitar's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 28 months) and ratings volume (11 vs 1). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

iFretless Guitar costs $9.99 and Sensation Drill $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Sensation Drill holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iFretless Guitar has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of iFretless Guitar's written reviews are positive against 100% of Sensation Drill's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iFretless Guitar ships an update every 2 months, Sensation Drill every 28 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
iFretless Guitar versus Sensation Drill: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriFretless GuitarSensation Drill
Price$9.99$0.99 — better
Rating4.7 (11 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews54.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings11 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 28 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size201 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBlue Mangoo Consulting Company LimitedKilian IT-Consulting

Customer experience

iFretless Guitar

All ratings29 ratings
Positive79.3%
Neutral3.4%
Negative17.2%
Written reviews66 reviews
Positive54.5%
Neutral12.1%
Negative33.3%

Sensation Drill

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

iFretless Guitar

Reported bugs

37 issues
  • App keeps crashing
  • Crashes after 5 minutes in Audiobus3
  • Crashes with background audio
  • DSP jumps high
  • App crashes upon opening
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  • AUv3 not loading in AUM
  • No sound at all
  • Audio output muted when app starts
  • No sound on iPad Air
  • No sound on iPad Air with latest iOS
  • Reverb only sound
  • Crashes anytime (standalone or IAA)
  • Doesn't show in Audiobus anymore
  • IAA instrument loading error
  • Audiobus icon unresponsive
  • App falls immediately when standalone
  • No guitar presets, all bugged
  • DSP jumps high, trash
  • Update caused problems with Audiobus
  • Distorted graphics
  • No audio sometimes
  • App does not work well on iPad Pro / iOS14
  • Config right panel disappeared
  • No sound in Auria Pro
  • MIDI is broken in Auria Pro
  • App crashes on iPad 5th gen with iOS 12.4
  • App crashes on iPad Air 5
  • App crashes on iPad Pro 2022
  • App crashes on iPad Air, iOS 7.1.2
  • App crashes on iPad Air II
  • App crashes on iPad 2 iOS 7.1
  • App crashes on iPad 5th gen with iOS 12.4
  • App crashes on iPad Air 5
  • App crashes on iPad Pro 2022
  • App crashes on iPad Air, iOS 7.1.2
  • App crashes on iPad Air II
  • App crashes on iPad 2 iOS 7.1

Requested features

37 requests
  • AUv3 support
  • Strumming coordinates
  • Ability to play loose strings
  • Open tunings with extensions
  • Lap Steel / Dobro Tunings
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  • Fix guitar tuning wonkiness
  • Longer recording length
  • Scale overlay for learning
  • Ability to pick chords
  • MPE compatibility
  • Lock UI rotation for AUv3
  • Save presets
  • Adjustable attack and release times
  • Palm muting
  • Remember last session settings
  • Add drum machine beats
  • Improve sound quality
  • Add more presets
  • Scale selector with markers
  • Polyphonic mode
  • Customizable note range
  • Different MIDI channels for chords
  • Add violin or trumpet instruments
  • Make app compatible with latest iOS versions
  • Add advanced features like other apps in the suite
  • Make it compatible with iOS 17
  • Make it compatible with iOS 14
  • Make it compatible with iOS 8
  • Make it compatible with iOS 12.4
  • Make it compatible with iOS 7.1.2
  • Make it compatible with iOS 16
  • Make it compatible with iOS 17
  • Make it compatible with iOS 14
  • Make it compatible with iOS 8
  • Make it compatible with iOS 12.4
  • Make it compatible with iOS 7.1.2
  • Make it compatible with iOS 16

Sensation Drill

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

iFretless Guitar

No in-app purchases

None

Sensation Drill

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is iFretless Guitar free?
iFretless Guitar costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sensation Drill free?
Sensation Drill costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, iFretless Guitar or Sensation Drill?
Sensation Drill is rated higher. iFretless Guitar averages 4.7 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while Sensation Drill averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do iFretless Guitar or Sensation Drill have ads?
Neither iFretless Guitar nor Sensation Drill shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iFretless Guitar or Sensation Drill?
iFretless Guitar ships an update every 2 months, and Sensation Drill every 28 months. Most recently, iFretless Guitar was updated on November 1, 2026 and Sensation Drill on November 1, 2026.

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