Comparison

Standard Tags vs FixM4A

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

Head to head
About

Standard Tags

Access and view tags and sheet music from the barbershoptags.com database. This utility app provides a streamlined way to explore musical resources.

Highlights
  • View tags
  • View sheet music
  • Access barbershoptags.com database
  • Cloud backup subscription
Features
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Standard Tags puts the entire BarbershopTags.com catalog in your pocket and keeps it there, signal or no signal. On first launch it downloads a complete local copy of the database. It's under 10 MB. From then on every search runs on your own device, instantly. The app only reaches the internet to fetch sheet music or a learning track you haven't opened before, and once you've viewed a tag its sheet music is cached for good. Rehearsal in a church basement, a hotel ballroom with four bars of signal, an afterglow in a parking lot; the app does not care. SEARCH AND SING • Full-catalog search that works with no connection • Filter by tag type and number of parts; sort by popularity, rating, newest, or relevance • Sheet music, learning tracks, and videos for the tags that have them • A real pitch pipe built in; hold to sound the key, swipe to change it, swipe sideways for sharps and flats • Tags with no written key show an estimated key, and you can swipe to the right one and submit a correction for the community • Rate tags and sort by your own ratings ORGANIZE YOUR REPERTOIRE • Star the tags you keep coming back to • Build unlimited lists; convention prep, chapter favorites, quartet repertoire, the four you can actually ring at midnight • Pin the lists you use most for one-tap access • Publish a list for every Standard Tags user to find, and save other people's lists for offline use SHARE A TAG ANYWHERE • Send a tag file that opens straight to the tag with the sheet music already attached, no database round trip, no waiting • Share a link that opens directly in the app, or show a QR code for someone to scan • If they don't have Standard Tags, the link takes them to BarbershopTags.com or their app store instead SING TOGETHER • Tag Circles: start a circle, share the code, and everyone's app follows the same queue and the same active tag in real time. Decide whether only the host or the whole circle can change tags. Pool everyone's favorites into one shared list to find what the group already knows. • Tag Roulette: a real-time multiplayer game. The host picks the pool, players join with a four-letter code, and everyone lands on the same random tag at the same moment. Vote to finish or skip, set a timer for speed rounds, and let the app assign each singer a part. FOLLOW AND KEEP SCORE • Follow arrangers and get a notification when they post something new • 82 achievements across 11 series, from your first tag to the genuinely obscure • Personal stats: what you've viewed, played, shared and rated • A Year in Review recap of your singing year FREE, WITH AN OPTIONAL SUBSCRIPTION Standard Tags is free, and an account is optional. Search, lists, sheet music, the pitch pipe and sharing all work without one. The optional subscription adds cloud backup and sync across your devices, so a lost or replaced phone never means starting over, plus a high-speed sheet music mirror that takes over automatically when BarbershopTags.com is slow to answer. It is priced to cover server costs. Publishing a list publicly is a separate one-time purchase that keeps the public collection curated. Available in English, Spanish, German and Swedish. Built for barbershoppers: quartets, choruses, woodshedders, and anyone who has ever stopped a conversation to ring a chord.

About

FixM4A

This utility tool aims to recover unplayable M4A audio files corrupted by truncation or damage. It extracts and converts available data from damaged files to restore them. Users select the corrupted file and a similar good file to initiate the repair process.

Highlights
  • Repair truncated M4A files
  • Recover corrupted audio
  • Extract data from damaged files
  • Convert restored audio
  • User-friendly repair process
Features
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This tool attempts to repair M4A audio files that are unplayable due to accidental truncation and corruption.  It extracts and converts as much data as possible from the damaged audio to restore it. ⊙ How to use: 1. Select the 'Truncated M4A Audio' file. 2. Select a similar, good M4A audio file. 3. Click the 'Convert' button to begin the repair process.

Screenshots

Standard Tags4 screens
FixM4A2 screens

Verdict

The call

Standard Tags and FixM4A are too close to call on the numbers: across 8 compared parameters — price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

Both are free to download. Standard Tags sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and FixM4A sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Standard Tags ships an update weekly, FixM4A every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Standard Tags versus FixM4A: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStandard TagsFixM4A
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMike NelsonNewkline Co., Ltd.

Customer experience

Standard Tags

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

FixM4A

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Standard Tags

Subscriptions1
  • Standard Tags Cloud Backup$1.991 Month
One-time1
  • Standard Tags Curated Upload$1.99
1 purchases

FixM4A

One-time1
  • Fix M4A$3.99

Questions

Is Standard Tags free?
Standard Tags is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is FixM4A free?
FixM4A is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Standard Tags or FixM4A have ads?
Neither Standard Tags nor FixM4A shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Standard Tags or FixM4A?
Standard Tags ships an update weekly, and FixM4A every 4 days. Most recently, Standard Tags was updated on September 17, 2026 and FixM4A on September 19, 2026.

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