Resolve vs upScale Guitar
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Resolve
This app offers a structured video course and a practice tool to develop a direct connection between your ear and your instrument. It generates random chord voicings for you to play along with, enhancing musical instincts and harmonic understanding.
- Integrated video course and practice tool
- Random harmonic voicings
- Harmonic complexity slider
- Train real musical instincts
- Designed for use with your instrument
- Complements functional ear training
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Resolve is a powerful ear training system, developed by Tom Quayle and David Beebee, combining a structured video course with a custom practice tool. The course and practice tool are designed to work together: the videos explain the concepts and exercises, while the practice tool generates the harmonic material you use to train your ear on your instrument. Reactive Ear Training focuses on developing a direct connection between your ear, your fingers, and your instrument. Resolve generates random, non-functional chord voicings for you to react to by playing over each chord using the exercises taught in the inlcuded course. The Harmonic Complexity Slider lets you tailor the sounds to your ability, from simpler, more consonant voicings at lower settings to increasingly complex and dissonant sounds at higher settings. Practicing this way strengthens the connection between your ear, your fingers, and your instrument. Over time, this develops stronger musical instincts and a deeper, intuitive understanding of harmony that maps directly to your instrument and translates to real musical situations. Key Features ‣ Created by Tom Quayle and David Beebee Resolve was developed as a complete Reactive Ear Training system, combining a structured video course with a practice tool designed to work together. ‣ Integrated Video Course and Practice Tool The course explains the method and demonstrates the exercises, while the practice tool generates the harmonic material you react to on your instrument. ‣ Random Harmonic Voicings Generate non-functional chord voicings to react to in real time. This approach strengthens the connection between your ear, your fingers, and your instrument. ‣ Harmonic Complexity Slider Tailor the sounds to your ability, from simpler, more consonant voicings at lower settings to increasingly complex and dissonant sounds at higher settings. ‣ Train Real Musical Instincts Resolve is designed to be used without naming or labelling chords, scales, or intervals. By focusing purely on sound, you learn to respond directly on your instrument. With some familiarity of major and minor sounds, you can begin immediately. ‣ Complements Functional Ear Training Designed to support your ongoing study of harmony, scales, chords, and functional ear training. ‣ Designed for Use With Your Instrument Built for active playing, helping connect what you hear directly to movement on your instrument. Resolve works for: ‣ Guitarists ‣ Bassists ‣ Pianists ‣ Any instrumentalist developing their ear Whether you’re improvising, composing, or learning music by ear, Resolve – Reactive Ear Training helps you develop faster and more reliable musical instincts.
upScale Guitar
Learn music by creating it with an interactive platform that offers infinite scales and chord progression building. Customize your instrument and save your unique patterns for improvisation and composition.
- Discover infinite scales (modes, pentatonics, exotic, symmetric)
- Build unique chord progressions
- Create and save custom patterns
- Customize instrument setup (4-8 strings, custom tuning)
- Built-in metronome
- Random Play for improvisation
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upScale is an interactive music creation platform where learning becomes composing. Discover infinite scales — modes, pentatonics, exotic, and symmetric. Build unique chord progressions. Create and save your own patterns. Customize your instrument setup from 4 to 8 strings with custom tuning options for guitar or bass. Use the built-in metronome and save your rhythmic patterns. Hit Random Play to generate unexpected scales and chord progressions for improvisation exploration. You don't feel like you're studying, you're creating. upScale isn't practice. It's pure creation.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: upScale Guitar at Free against Resolve's $17.99. upScale Guitar also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 86%) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). Resolve's advantage is chart position (#181 vs unranked). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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
upScale Guitar is free to download; Resolve costs $17.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Resolve ships an update every 9 days, upScale Guitar every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Resolve | upScale Guitar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $17.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.5 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #181 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 89 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Trio Software Ltd | Christophe Novalet |
Customer experience
Resolve
upScale Guitar
In-app purchases
Resolve
No in-app purchases
upScale Guitar
No in-app purchases
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