Beat Blocks vs dadodeca
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Beat Blocks
This app offers a fun and interactive rhythm training experience for musicians. It features three distinct visualization modes to help users master timing and sight-reading, with a custom rhythm editor for advanced practice.
- Three unique rhythm visualization modes
- Custom rhythm editor (premium)
- Curated rhythm benchmarks
- Professional metronome
- One-time unlock for lifetime access
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Beat Blocks is an interactive rhythm practice app built for players at every level. See the beat, build your own patterns, play along, and strengthen your timing with multiple ways to visualize rhythm. 4 Unique Visualization Modes: - Beat Blocks Mode: The signature dot-grid view. Notes and rests become clear geometric blocks, making rhythm structure easy to see and feel. - Circles Mode: Each beat becomes a colorful circle divided into slices for its subdivisions, then lights up in time as the rhythm plays. - Staff Mode: Practice with standard musical notation and connect your rhythm training to real-world sight-reading. - Jianpu (Numbered) Mode: A clean numbered-notation view for players who prefer Jianpu. Key Features: - Custom Rhythm Editor: Build and save your own rhythms in 4/4, 3/4, and 6/8. Create eighth-note patterns, triplets, dotted rhythms, syncopations, rests, and multi-measure exercises. - Expanded 6/8 Practice: Explore a dedicated set of 6/8 rhythm patterns designed for compound-meter training. - Course & Starter Library: Practice with ready-made rhythm groups, from basic pulse control to more advanced subdivision and syncopation. - Loop & Tap-Along: Loop any rhythm to internalize it, or test your timing with tap-along scoring and per-beat feedback. - Professional Metronome: Use high-quality sounds, count-in, tempo control, visual pulse, and flexible loop playback to keep practice precise. - Share & Import: Export custom rhythms as text and import rhythms created in Beat Blocks, including existing 4/4 exercises from earlier versions. - One-Time Unlock: Start with free practice content, then unlock full course and custom-rhythm playback with a one-time purchase. No subscription. No ads. Whether you are building a steady foundation or practicing complex meters, Beat Blocks turns rhythm training into a visual, creative, hands-on experience. See it. Build it. Feel it. Master the beat.
dadodeca
This app uses a virtual twelve-sided die to create randomized musical practice prompts. It offers various modes to train ear, sight-reading, and music theory skills for musicians of all levels. Practice gaps instead of comfort zones with audio-visual feedback.
- Randomized practice prompts
- Pitch and note recognition
- Key signature identification
- Scale and interval training
- Chord identification
- Rhythm training
- Circle of fifths navigation
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Roll the die. Train your ear, your eyes, and your musical mind. dadodeca is a twelve-sided musical die — one face for every note in the chromatic scale. Every roll is a practice prompt: a pitch to name, an interval to hear, a scale to build, a chord to identify. Random by design, so you train every corner of musicianship instead of drifting back to the keys your hands already know. FOR MUSICIANS, STUDENTS, TEACHERS, AND FAMILIES Whether you're a working musician sharpening your ear, a student building sight-reading fluency, a teacher running lesson warm-ups, or a parent practicing alongside your child — dadodeca meets you at your level and grows with you. NINE MODES. ONE DIE. • BASIC (free) — Roll and hear any of the 12 notes. Warm-ups, improvisation prompts, or a tactile chromatic instrument you can simply play. • PITCH RECOGNITION — Hear a note. Name it. The foundation of every ear-training program, drilled across all 12 pitches. • NOTE RECOGNITION — Each roll picks a key signature and a note within it. Read it on the staff, tap to reveal. Treble and bass clefs. • KEY SIGNATURE RECOGNITION — See a key signature, name the key. All 24 majors and minors, in random order. • SCALE TRAINING — Roll a tonic, choose a scale type, and watch the pentapiano light up each note with solfège as it plays. Toggle the interval overlay to see why every scale sounds the way it does. • INTERVAL TRAINING — Two dice, two notes. Hear them melodically, then together. Control ascending or descending with a swipe. Two-finger swipe rolls both at once. • CHORD RECOGNITION — Roll a root and a quality. Identify the chord by ear, with all three notation conventions — symbol, abbreviated (maj7), and full name (Major 7) — shown at once. • CIRCLE OF FIFTHS — Navigate the map of music theory itself. Watch each step add or remove an accidental in real time. • RHYTHM TRAINING — Roll a rhythm, read it in real notation, and tap it back in time with the metronome. Difficulty levels from steady quarters to dotted rhythms. Plus a random shuffle — swipe the gear and let dadodeca pick your next drill. WHY IT WORKS Musicians practice what they already know. dadodeca takes that choice out of your hands — the die lands where it lands, and you practice the gap, not the comfort zone. Music educators call it interleaved practice; it's one of the best-supported techniques in skill-acquisition research. Every mode pairs audio with visuals, so you hear it, see it, and connect the two. REAL SOUND, REAL NOTATION Sampled piano audio. Professionally engraved music notation. A die you can spin, flick, and roll with realistic physics. FREE TO START Basic mode is free forever — no account, no signup. Unlock all training modes with dadodeca+: $2.99/month or a one-time lifetime purchase. Every future mode is included, and more are in development: Chord Progressions, Cadence Recognition, and Inversions. From Max and the Magic — playful, beautiful, rigorous tools for people who love music. Privacy: no accounts, no tracking, no ads. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: dadodeca at 5.0 against Beat Blocks's 4.0. dadodeca also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1). Beat Blocks's advantage is ratings volume (47 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. Beat Blocks sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. dadodeca asks for nothing beyond the download.
dadodeca holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Beat Blocks has 47 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Beat Blocks ships an update weekly, dadodeca fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Beat Blocks | dadodeca |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (47 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 21.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 47 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 鑫 孟 | Max and the Magic |
Customer experience
Beat Blocks
dadodeca
In-app purchases
Beat Blocks
- Full Access$9.99
dadodeca
No in-app purchases









