Bel Canto Serioso vs VideoDuck
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bel Canto Serioso
This voice training utility offers over 60 vocal exercises for ear training and solfege practice. Customize exercises by tonality, range, tempo, and interval span. Features manual and auto playback modes for flexible practice.
- 60+ vocal exercises
- Customizable tonalities and ranges
- Adjustable tempo (45-260 bpm)
- Filter exercises by interval and motion
- Manual and auto player modes
- Solfege system selection (English, Italian, Chromatic)
- Bookmarking for exercises
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Bel Canto Serioso is a voice training tool with various vocal exercises. It can also be used for ear training and practicing solfege, chromatic solfege. For now it has 60+ vocal exercises which can be played in either major or minor tonalities* in any given range and bpm. *For example; you can play Rossini Scale in major or in harmonic minor, the pentatonic exercises as major pentatonic or minor pentatonic. Triad/arpeggio exercises can be played in 5 qualities; major, minor, suspended, diminished and augmented. Some exercises can also be played in whole tone scale. Exercises can be filtered by interval span: third, fifth, sixth... or by motion: descending, stepwise, skipwise, agility, glides, diatonic... Exercise ranges can be set for a given voice classification. Female/Male Advanced section can be used if classified ranges are limiting. All scales can be played at any tempo between 45 and 260 bpm. Exercises can be bookmarked for quicker reference. The playing note of the scale is shown as text; Bb4 (or Sib4 or Te4) or as scale degree 1, b3, 5... In the settings you can set the solfege system to be used within the app. Solfege system choices are, English, Italian and Chromatic Solfege. The app will then display all note names in the chosen solfege system. There are two player modes; - Auto mode plays the exercises in a given range as usual. - In Manual mode the pattern/scale of the exercise can be advanced higher or lower manually. This is similar to practicing with an instrument, like playing a scale more than a few times at a problematic zone in your range ad advancing when done. Some of the included exercises are; Repeated Tone Third Jumps 3 Tone 5 Note ~ Chromatic Fifth Jumps Triad Triad ~ Descending Triad ~ Glides 8 Note ~ Chromatic 5 Tone 5 Tone ~ 3 times 5 Tone ~ Descending 5 Tone ~ Descending Ascending 5 Tone ~ Broken Thirds 5 Tone ~ Long Scale 5 Tone ~ Descending Long Scale 5 Tone ~ With Gallop Sixth Jumps Sixth Arpeggio Sixth Arpeggio ~ With Repeat 6 Tone ~ With Repeat 6 Tone ~ Long Scale Pentatonic Pentatonic ~ Descending Pentatonic ~ Variation I Pentatonic ~ Variation II Selve Amiche Octave Jumps One Octave Scale One Octave Scale ~ Broken Thirds One Octave Scale ~ Descending Voce Cuperto ~ One Octave Arpeggio Arpeggio ~ With Glides Arpeggio ~ With Repeat Arpeggio ~ With More Repeat Arpeggio ~ 2 times Arpeggio ~ With Skips Arpeggio ~ Descending Arpeggio ~ Descending Glides Arpeggio ~ Descending Ascending Queen of the Night Arpeggio ~ With a Turn Scale to the Ninth Tenth Scale Tenth Scale ~ Glides Tenth Scale ~ Descending Tenth Scale ~ Descending Ascending Tenth Scale ~ With Repeat Diatonic Third Jumps Diatonic 3 Tone Scale To The 11th Scale To The 11th ~ With Repeat Scale To The 11th ~ Groppo Scale To The 11th ~ Variation Queen of the Night (A coloratura pattern from Mozart's aria) Rossini Scale Rossini Scale ~ With Gallop Jazz Run Voce Cuperto ~ 1 ½ Octave Diatonic Triads Diatonic 5 Tone Voce Cuperto ~ Two Octave 2 Octave Scale ~ Descending ...and more.
VideoDuck
This app helps you shrink video file sizes to free up storage space on your device. It offers fast, offline compression without subscriptions or internet connection, allowing for quicker sharing. You can choose custom quality levels and compress multiple videos at once.
- Compress videos instantly
- Free up storage space
- Offline operation
- Faster sharing
- Batch compression
- Custom quality levels
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VideoDuck – Video Compressor & Space Saver Meet VideoDuck, your friendly video compressor that keeps your iPhone fast, light, and free – no subscriptions, no ads, no internet needed. Shrink clips. Free up space. Share faster. VideoDuck compresses videos right on your iPhone using Apple Silicon's hardware encoder. Everything stays private – no uploads, no waiting, no data used. Free, forever • Compress any video with one tap – keep the moment, lose the megabytes • See exactly how much space you freed, every time • 100% on-device – works offline, private by design • Share faster – smaller files fly through AirDrop, messages, and mail • Your originals are always safe – you choose what to keep VideoDuck Pro – one-time unlock, never a subscription • High & Low quality modes – you pick the balance between quality and size • Batch compression – shrink your whole camera roll at once, resumes if interrupted • Advanced controls – resolution cap, frame rate, format Free to use. One payment to unlock everything. Nothing to cancel – ever. Your pocket supercomputer Compression runs entirely on your iPhone – no servers, no cloud, no queue. It's not just fast, it's private by design. Quack. Compress. Done. Free your phone from heavy videos in one tap – your iPhone deserves to breathe again. Download VideoDuck and make space for what matters.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: VideoDuck at 100% against Bel Canto Serioso's 25%. VideoDuck also leads on price (Free vs $4.99) and rating (4.5 vs 3.7). Bel Canto Serioso's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On ratings volume and 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
VideoDuck is free to download; Bel Canto Serioso costs $4.99 up front. VideoDuck sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Bel Canto Serioso asks for nothing beyond the download.
VideoDuck holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of Bel Canto Serioso's written reviews are positive against 100% of VideoDuck's.
Bel Canto Serioso ships an update every 31 months, VideoDuck daily. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bel Canto Serioso | VideoDuck |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 31 months | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Altug Basaran | Davyd Horhiashvili |
Customer experience
Bel Canto Serioso
VideoDuck
In-app purchases
Bel Canto Serioso
No in-app purchases
VideoDuck
- VideoDuck Pro Lifetime$7.99
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