vocalBeazz vs Backbeat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
vocalBeazz
Create music with this powerful production app. Separate songs into stems, record vocals with pitch correction, and generate beats using AI. Supports AUv3 plugins and MIDI controllers for live performance.
- AI beat and sound generation
- Real-time audio stem separation
- Vocal removal and karaoke creation
- Automatic vocal pitch correction
- AUv3 plugin support
- MIDI controller integration
- Live performance launch pad
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Now with AIBeazz, an AI preset generator - just tell vocalBeazz what kind of beat or sound you want! vocalBeazz is a powerful music production app with AUv3 support that lets you create beats, make remixes by separating songs into vocals, drums, bass and other instruments, compose loops, record vocals and instruments, sample, perform live sets with a launch pad or MIDI controller, and share your beats within the vocalBeazz community. Features in the 'sing' and 'remix' modes: - Remove vocals from any song to create a karaoke version including lyrics in no time, detect lyrics in more than 50 languages - Real-time audio stem separation: Separate any song into vocals, bass, drums and other instruments without preprocessing on-the-fly - Various song import options or even make a microphone live recording for stem separation! - Vocal recording with automatic pitch correction: create an instrumental version of your favorite song and sing along it and vocalBeazz will try to correct the pitch of your vocals according to the original! - Change the pitch of any song in amazing quality, without affecting the pitch of the drums: Get the same bassdrum punch even if the melody is pitched up! - Record vocals with latency-free in-ear real-time monitoring, even with real-time reverb effect - Alter the tempo of any song without changing the pitch with minimal robotic effects Features in the 'create' mode: - Create drum loops, beats and even synthesizer arpeggios by using a library with thousands of drums samples - AIBeazz: Tell vocalBeazz something like 'Make a fat beat with acid bassline' or 'generate a dance synth lead pad' ! - AUv3 support: Use vocalBeazz as instrument in your favorite DAW supporting AUv3 plugins - Control your tracks with an innovative step sequencer or even by external MIDI keyboards - Powerful sampler with time stretching, pitch shift with formant correction and MIDI control - Record vocals and instruments in the sequencer with up to 30 tracks and comprehensive sample editing functions - Launch pad view for ultimative live performances and unique pattern recording options - Edit MIDI notes and control the pitch of audio tracks by the MIDI events - High quality vocoder effect for talk box simulation - Use powerful filter effects to generate forceful TB303-like sounds - Share your loops with other vocalBeazz users by uploading the drum tracks of your projects - Control the most important effect settings by external MIDI controllers (bluetooth MIDI controller support) - Audio to MIDI function - Audio effects: Brickwall limiter, soft&hard lowpass filter, 6 band equalizer, reverb, delay and vocoder/talk box! - LFO and automation - Pitch detection and retuning with formant correction Here you can find several tutorial videos for the 'create' mode: https://www.vocalbeazz.de/tutorials.html Our Terms Of Use (EULA) can be found here: https://www.vocalbeazz.de/terms-of-service.html Our Privacy Policy can be found here: https://www.vocalbeazz.de/privacy.html
Backbeat
This app helps drummers improve their skills by focusing on rudiments and grooves. It transcribes your playing into musical notation, provides a customizable metronome, and tracks your progress with detailed statistics. Practice routines can be automated to keep you focused and motivated.
- Real-time notation transcription
- Rudiment library with target tempos
- Customizable metronome with subdivisions
- Automated practice routines
- Groove generation from text descriptions
- Progress tracking and speed curves
- Exportable song charts as PDF
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Most practice apps speak in chords and scales. Drummers count. Backbeat starts where drum practice actually starts: a rudiment, a tempo you can hold today, and a tempo you're chasing. It keeps the numbers, writes what you play as real notation, and runs the click while you do it. WRITTEN AS REAL NOTATION Tap hits into the grid and the staff writes itself. Hands stems-up, feet stems-down, ghost notes in parentheses, accents marked, flams and drags and diddles drawn the way you'd write them out by hand. Kick, snare, hi-hat, ride, crash, toms, cowbell and more across fourteen voices, on straight or triplet grids from two to thirty-two steps a bar. RUDIMENTS WITH A TARGET Every rudiment carries its sticking and a target tempo. Log a session and your current BPM moves. The library starts with eight basics and you can add your own. A CLICK THAT PUSHES YOU Quarter, eighth, sixteenth and triplet subdivisions. Accent, click or mute any beat. Tap the tempo when you don't have a number. The Speed Trainer raises the tempo on a schedule you choose and logs how far you got. ROUTINES THAT RUN THEMSELVES Give each block a length and a target tempo. The click follows along, every block logs itself when it ends, and the record fills in while your hands stay on the sticks. Three starter routines are there on day one. GROOVES, GENERATED Describe a feel in your own words and Backbeat renders it as notation you can play, edit and keep. PROOF YOU'RE GETTING FASTER Sessions, minutes, streaks, and a speed curve per rudiment. Not a participation badge; the actual tempo you held, over time. SONG CHARTS Build a chart measure by measure with repeats and counts, then export it as a paginated PDF, or share a single groove as an image for video. BUILT TO BE READ FROM A STAND Dark, high contrast, and large enough to follow at arm's length in a dim room. It follows your phone's appearance. Backbeat is free, made by one drummer, and still being built. If something in the notation looks wrong to you, say so; that's the part I most want to get right.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Backbeat at 100% against vocalBeazz's 54%. Backbeat also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 10). vocalBeazz's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.1 vs 18.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. vocalBeazz sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Backbeat asks for nothing beyond the download.
Backbeat holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: vocalBeazz has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 54% of vocalBeazz's written reviews are positive against 100% of Backbeat's.
| Parameter | vocalBeazz | Backbeat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 53.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 301 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Markus Heininger | PETER ANTHONY AFIF |
Customer experience
vocalBeazz
Backbeat
In-app purchases
vocalBeazz
- Create mode weekly subscription$1.997 Days
- Sing&Remix weekly subscription$1.997 Days
- Create mode monthly subscription$4.991 Month
- Unlimited song length$0.49
- 20 AIBeazz Credits$0.99
- Remix Mode$3.99
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- Sing Mode$4.99
- Create Mode$6.99
- Full Version Unlimited$6.99
- Create Mode$7.99
Backbeat
No in-app purchases









