Comparison

bandzo vs 来音制谱

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

Head to head
About

bandzo

Practice music like a professional with high-quality play-along tracks. This app offers thousands of digital sheet music pieces synced with backing music for various instruments, allowing you to adjust tempo and loop sections for focused practice.

Highlights
  • Professionally recorded play-along tracks
  • Adjustable tempo for practice
  • Touch and play functionality
  • Customizable repeat sections
  • Automatic page turning
  • Extensive music repertoire
Features
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bandzo is an accompaniment app that takes you directly to the stage! It helps beginning music students to practice like a professional player in a concert setting. bandzo provides professionally recorded play-along tracks that simulates the awesomeness of band play feeling. With this amazing app, you can now have your own dedicated personal rock band or symphonic orchestra to practice with you anytime and anywhere. More than one million music students are using this wonderful tool for their practicing. It contains thousands of digital sheet music sync with backing music for piano, violin, guitar, drum and more of other instruments. Key Features: 1. High Quality Music Play-Along: professionally recorded backing for you to practice your instrument with. 2. Adjustable Playing Tempo: This allows you to slow down the music track up to 50% and remain the same audio quality. (Device requirement: iPhone 5, iPad 2 and iOS8 and above.) 3. Touch and Play: No matter which page or bar you are at, just touch the screen and the music will play instantly from there. It is simple and handy! 4. Customized Repeat Section: Using the touch function, you can set the repeat sings to practice a extract music sentence in loop. 5. Page Turning: The page automatically turns for you at the end of each page, and even at repeat signs. 6. All the music in our repertoire are copyrighted and is licensed by the original owner. 7. Our full repertoire ranges from classical music, jazz, movie songs, to popular music. Awarded: * 1st prize of SEAMAC 2014 Asia Pacific App Challenge among 27 competitors from 9 countries * 2014 Asia Smartphone App Contest Creativity Lifestyle Certificate of Merit * 1st prize of 2013 Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship competition

About

来音制谱

Easily create and edit professional music scores for various instruments. Convert paper music to digital scores using AI camera recognition. Play back your compositions to preview and refine your work.

Highlights
  • Easy keyboard input for notes
  • AI camera recognition for paper scores
  • Multi-part score editing
  • Support for various notation elements
  • Playback of created scores
  • Export to PDF, MusicXML, and images
Features
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This is an easy-to-use music score making software designed for music lovers and professional musicians. Simple keyboard input method, you can generate music scores by tapping the required notes. You can also quickly generate intelligent music scores through AI camera recognition function, and support the conversion of five-line music scores to simplified music scores. [Strong music score editing ability] You can create and edit music scores for piano, guitar, guzheng, violin, ukulele, vocal music, etc., support multi-part custom music score editing, five-line music score/simplified music score/six-line music score/singing music score/four-line music score input. Supports the input of elements such as lyrics, fingering, bars, lines, ornaments, playing methods, dynamics, and notations, so that you can easily create wonderful music works. [Smart photo recognition] If you have paper music scores, you don’t need to write them yourself. Just open "Laiyin Music Score" and choose to take a photo and upload it to generate AI digital music scores, which is more convenient for daily use and carrying. [Music score can be played] Supports the music score playback function. After editing the music score, you can directly play and listen to your work, which will help you better preview and modify your work and greatly improve your creation efficiency. [Easy and efficient operation] The self-developed scientific and efficient keyboard input method has a concise and clear layout of various notes and symbols. It is easy to operate and easy to get started, making it easier for you to create music scores and doubling your efficiency. [Exportable for sharing] Supports export to PDF, MusicXML, Laiyin music scores, pictures and other formats, allowing you to save and share your works to Laiyin apps or other music software at any time. --------- Privacy Policy:https://base.quthing.com/base/agreement/privacy.html?appPackage=editscore_ios&appChannel=AppStore User Agreement:https://base.quthing.com/base/agreement/user.html?appPackage=editscore_ios&appChannel=AppStore Membership Agreement:https://base.quthing.com/base/agreement/vip.html?appPackage=editscore_ios&appChannel=AppStore

Screenshots

bandzo3 screens
来音制谱4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: 来音制谱 at 4.8 against bandzo's 3.7. 来音制谱 also leads on review sentiment (94% vs 71%) and ratings volume (191 vs 3). bandzo's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Both are free to download. bandzo sells 9 one-off in-app purchases and 来音制谱 sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

来音制谱 holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: 来音制谱 has 191 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of bandzo's written reviews are positive against 94% of 来音制谱's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

bandzo ships an update every 3 weeks, 来音制谱 weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
bandzo versus 来音制谱: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameterbandzo来音制谱
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (3 ratings)4.8 (191 ratings) — better
Positive reviews71.4% of reviews94.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3191 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size68 MB263 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer可來音樂股份有限公司北京夕航科技有限公司

Customer experience

bandzo

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative28.6%

来音制谱

All ratings190 ratings
Positive97.4%
Neutral0.5%
Negative2.1%
Written reviews100 reviews
Positive94.0%
Neutral1.0%
Negative5.0%

In-app purchases

9 purchases

bandzo

One-time9
  • music item (1 Credits)$0.99
  • music item (2 Credits)$1.99
  • music item (3 Credits)$2.99
Show 6 more
  • music item (8 Credits)$7.99
  • 11 Credits2 variants$9.99
  • music item (15 Credits)$14.99
  • 29 Credits$24.99
  • 60 Credits$49.99
  • One year VIP$59.99
7 purchases

来音制谱

Subscriptions2
  • 来音制谱-月会员2 variants$4.991 Month
  • 来音制谱-年会员2 variants$39.991 Year
One-time5
  • 来音制谱转谱券$1.99
  • 转谱券$3.99
  • 1个月会员$5.99
Show 2 more
  • 来音制谱转谱券$7.99
  • 来音制谱转谱券$13.99

Questions

Is bandzo free?
bandzo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is 来音制谱 free?
来音制谱 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, bandzo or 来音制谱?
来音制谱 is rated higher. bandzo averages 3.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while 来音制谱 averages 4.8 from 191 ratings.
Do bandzo or 来音制谱 have ads?
Neither bandzo nor 来音制谱 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, bandzo or 来音制谱?
bandzo ships an update every 3 weeks, and 来音制谱 weekly. Most recently, bandzo was updated on October 23, 2026 and 来音制谱 on October 30, 2026.

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