Scale Wizard vs ModeWise
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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. Understand Modes Using the Circle of Fifths, Scale Wizard explains how chord progressions suggest a mode and highlights the notes that make each mode sound distinct. Learn how modes relate to chords, keys and tonal centres. Chord Library, Tuner & Metronome Integrated tools to help improve your practicing. 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 and additional content 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.
ModeWise
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ModeWise helps guitarists understand modes, scales and fretboard patterns visually. Choose a key and mode, then see the notes laid out across a standard-tuned 24-fret guitar. Explore the full neck, focus on a smaller fretboard area, switch between note names and scale degrees, and hear playable notes with built-in practice playback. Whether you are learning modes for the first time or trying to connect theory to the fretboard, ModeWise gives you a clear, practical way to see what is happening under your fingers. Features: • Explore all core diatonic modes • Visualise major and minor pentatonic scales • See notes across the full 24-fret neck • Focus on smaller fretboard regions for practice • Switch between note names and scale degrees • Highlight root notes clearly • Add pentatonic blue notes • Use extended pattern and three-notes-per-string options • Practise focused patterns with playback • Adjust BPM, subdivision and repeat settings • Use a clean, focused interface built for guitar practice ModeWise is designed to make the fretboard feel less mysterious. Instead of memorising disconnected boxes, you can see how modes, roots, intervals and patterns relate to each other across the neck. Start with a key. Pick a mode. See it. Hear it. Practise it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ModeWise at none against Scale Wizard's 2. ModeWise also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 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
Both are free to download. Scale Wizard sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. ModeWise asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Scale Wizard | ModeWise |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.5 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wizard Apps Ltd | Proffyn LTD |
In-app purchases
Scale Wizard
- PRO access (monthly)$3.991 Month
- PRO access (annual)$34.991 Year
ModeWise
No in-app purchases









