Comparison

Tone vs Scale Wizard

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

Head to head
About

Tone

Features
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Quickly and easily access full control of your Laney PRISM-MINI device. Select and edit presets, parameters and access the app controlled drum-machine. Key Features: • Connect to your Laney PRISM-MINI via Bluetooth. • Tweak, adjust and control your sound. • Edit, Save, Import and Export your own tone presets. • Import your own IRs. • Play along with the built in drum machine.

About

Scale Wizard

This app helps guitarists understand the fretboard by visualizing connections between chords, scales, and keys. It offers guided practice, live feedback, and music theory resources to improve playing and improvisation skills.

Highlights
  • Fretboard visualization of chords and scales
  • Live chord and key detection
  • Guided practice routines with feedback
  • CAGED system mapping
  • Music theory and video resources
  • Built-in tuner and metronome
Features
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Scale Wizard helps guitar players understand how chords, scales and keys connect across the fretboard. Practice chords and scales with live feedback to improve your playing. Learn how CAGED shapes connect chords to scales for better note targeting. Understand modes and dive deeper with relevant music theory and curated videos. Use live chord and key detection to see what fits the music you are playing. Guided Practice Choose from a range of guided practice routines covering basic chords, scales and advancing to CAGED. Get live feedback on your playing and track your progress. Explore a comprehensive guitar chord library. View chord tones, scale notes and related patterns together, making it easier to understand how chords fit within scales, modes and keys. Improve Chord Note Targeting Learn how specific scale notes relate to chords in a key. Scale Wizard highlights the important chord tones inside scale patterns, helping you create more melodic solos and target stronger notes over chord changes. Master the Fretboard with CAGED See how major and minor CAGED chord shapes fit with scale patterns across the full length of the fretboard. Use CAGED to connect chords, scales and arpeggios into one visual map of the neck. Detect Chords and Keys from Music Use your device’s microphone to detect chords and identify the key of music around you. See matching scales and chord tones across the fretboard so you can play along, practise ideas and improvise with more confidence. Explore Scales & Modes Start with the major and minor pentatonic scales, then explore an extensive library of scales and modes. Discover how individual intervals create distinctive sounds and which chords are commonly played with each scale. Using the Circle of Fifths, Scale Wizard shows how chord progressions suggest different modes, highlighting the notes that give each its unique character. Understand how scales, chords, keys and tonal centres all connect. Chord Library, Tuner & Metronome Integrated tools to help improve your practicing. Songbook Keep everything you need to practise your songs in one place. Recognise what’s playing, save your notes, key and useful links, then quickly bring them back the next time you play. Music Theory & Video Resources Understand the why behind what you play. Each topic includes music theory at Beginner and Intermediate level, curated video resources and progress tracking, so you can build real musical knowledge at your own pace. Free to Start Download and use Scale Wizard for free — packed with features for beginner and intermediate players alike. PRO is a one-time purchase that unlocks more guided practice routines, additional content and full Songbook access for those who want to go deeper. Purchases can be restored. Support URL https://scale-wizard.com Copyright © 2026 Wizard Apps Ltd. All rights reserved.

Screenshots

Tone4 screens
Scale Wizard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tone at none against Scale Wizard's 3. Tone also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.5). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Scale Wizard sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Tone asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Tone versus Scale Wizard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterToneScale Wizard
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.8 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—5 — better
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better18.5
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB48 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHeadstock Distribution LTDWizard Apps Ltd

In-app purchases

None

Tone

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Scale Wizard

Subscriptions2
  • PRO access (monthly)$3.991 Month
  • PRO access (annual)$34.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime PRO$24.99

Questions

Is Tone free?
Tone is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Scale Wizard free?
Scale Wizard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Tone or Scale Wizard have ads?
Neither Tone nor Scale Wizard shows ads.

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