Comparison

City Sounds vs Quartet 3

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

Head to head
About

City Sounds

This app serves as a companion for music festivals and events organized by the City Sounds team. Users can create personalized schedules, explore the artist lineup, and view venue information.

Highlights
  • Personalized schedule creation
  • Browse artist lineup
  • View venue details
  • Event companion
  • New music discovery
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CITY SOUNDS, CELEBRATING NEW MUSIC IN CHICHESTER. This app is the companion app for the City Sounds music festival in Chichester and other events from the City Sounds team. Create your own personalised schedule, browse the line-up, artists and venues.

About

Quartet 3

Enhance your jazz performance and practice with live studio recordings of jazz standards. Mute your instrument to play along, change keys, adjust tempo, and loop sections for focused learning. Features animated chord diagrams and playlist creation for seamless practice sessions.

Highlights
  • Live jazz standards play-along
  • Mute your instrument
  • Change key and tempo
  • Loop sections for practice
  • Animated chord diagrams
  • Multi-app playlist creation
  • Multitrack export
Features
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Practice and perform jazz standards on another level with Quartet. And with a host of brand-new features, the top-selling jazz play along apps just got even better. No subscriptions. No in-app purchases. Volume 3 includes another 100 stunning jazz standards recorded exclusively by 6 of the world’s best jazz musicians. All ‘live’ studio recordings with intros, endings and top line solos. Whether you play jazz piano, guitar, saxophone, trumpet, bass, drums…simply mute your instrument from the Quartet for the ultimate jazz play along. And for jazz singers too, each edition of Quartet is an unrivalled collection of jazz backing tracks powerful enough to gig with. Change key on the fly. Speed up or slow down the audio seamlessly. Loop sections and slow them right down for practice. Select the number of repeats. Choose from preset mixes or create your own custom mix using the new onboard mixer. Arrange each song exactly the way you want it with the new automated ‘Arranger’ feature. Add a touch of reverb and you’re good to go. Improve your skills with full screen animated chord diagrams for Piano, Guitar and Ukulele. Search the entire Quartet song library (700 songs) by composer, style, BPM, associated artist and more. Build and share multi-app playlists and easily export PDF chord charts for every song. Export your stereo mix or export the multitrack if you want to develop the high quality separated parts in GarageBand or whatever DAW you use. Either way, all recordings are offered to you royalty-free giving you endless creative possibilities. The 100 jazz standards in Quartet Volume 3 include improvisations in the style of… ‘After You’ve Gone’, ‘Ain’t No Sunshine’, ‘At Last’, ‘Baubles, Bangles & Beads’, ‘Blueberry Hill’, ‘Blues’ (in all keys), ‘Breezin’’, ‘Chameleon’, ‘Down by the Riverside’, ‘Freedom Jazz Dance’, ‘How Long Has This Been Going On?’, ‘Ladies in Mercedes’, ‘On the Street Where You Live’, ‘Second Time Around’, ‘Someone To Watch Over Me’, ‘Summer Knows’, ‘Só Danço Samba’, ‘Too Marvelous for Words’, ‘Who Can I Turn To?’, ‘With a Song in My Heart’… and 80 more. Install Quartet on all of your iOS devices plus your Mac devices (M series only) at no extra cost. Ready to take your jazz standards to another level? Hear more at www.quartetapp.com Featured artists on Quartet Volume 3 Guitar Nigel Price Nigel has recorded with many big-name artists, performing on over 50 albums, most recently Van Morrison’s studio album ‘Keep Me Singing’. A former member of The James Taylor Quartet, Nigel was voted the UK’s ‘Best Guitarist’ in the 2016 British Jazz Awards and is “…probably the most dynamic and gifted guitarist on the British jazz scene today” [All About Jazz]. Trumpet Steve Fishwick Steve has performed and recorded with many leading European jazz musicians including Sir John Dankworth, George Mraz, Dado Moroni, Claus Raibler, Tony Lakatos and the WDR big band. In the USA, Steve has performed and recorded with Anita O' Day, Ron Carter, Jimmy Heath, Peter Erskine, Eric Harland, Scott Hamilton, Herb Geller Saxophones and Flutes Andy Panayi Credits include Shirley Bassey, Jessye Norman, Paul McCartney, Seth MacFarlane, Elaine Paige, Elvis Costello, Georgie Fame, Helen Shapiro, Madeline Bell, Patty Austin, Freddie Hubbard, Wynton Marsalis, Billy Cobham Piano Graham Harvey Credits include Incognito (MD), Stacey Kent, George Benson, M People, Hamish Stuart, The Jones Girls, Philip Bailey, Chaka Khan, The BBC Big Band, Madeline Bell, Jocelyn Brown, Mica Paris, Sir Cliff Richard Bass Geoff Gascoyne Credits include Jamie Cullum (MD), Sting, Van Morrison, Bill Bruford, Mari Wilson, Paloma Faith, Georgie Fame, Gloria Estefan, Guy Barker, Charlie Watts, Benny Golson, Jacqui Dankworth, John Martyn, Eartha Kitt Drums Sebastiaan de Krom Credits include Herbie Hancock, John Scofield, Phil Woods, Dave Holland, Jamie Cullum, Guy Barker, Wynton Marsalis

Screenshots

City Sounds4 screens
Quartet 34 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: City Sounds at Free against Quartet 3's $16.99. City Sounds also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 5) and update cadence (weekly vs monthly). 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

City Sounds is free to download; Quartet 3 costs $16.99 up front. Quartet 3 sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. City Sounds asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

City Sounds ships an update weekly, Quartet 3 monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
City Sounds versus Quartet 3: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCity SoundsQuartet 3
PriceFree — better$16.99
Rating—4.7 (22 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better90.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—22 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB528 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDiem LimitedUK Music Apps Ltd

Customer experience

City Sounds

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Quartet 3

All ratings18 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%

In-app purchases

None

City Sounds

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

Quartet 3

One-time5
  • Upgrade song$0.99
  • Buy 10 tokens$8.99
  • Buy 20 tokens$14.99
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  • Buy 50 tokens$22.99
  • Upgrade all songs$39.99

Questions

Is City Sounds free?
City Sounds is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Quartet 3 free?
Quartet 3 costs $16.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Do City Sounds or Quartet 3 have ads?
Neither City Sounds nor Quartet 3 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, City Sounds or Quartet 3?
City Sounds ships an update weekly, and Quartet 3 monthly. Most recently, City Sounds was updated on October 10, 2026 and Quartet 3 on October 26, 2026.

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