Instant Backing Track vs ShedSpace
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Instant Backing Track
Generate dynamic backing tracks from your chord progressions instantly. Practice improvisation and musical exploration with flexible rhythmic variations and full control over tempo, key, and chords. Includes structured lessons for skill development.
- Instant backing track generation from chord progressions
- Full control over tempo, key, and chords
- Dynamic rhythmic and arrangement variations
- Built for improvisation and soloing
- Structured lessons for skill development
- Transpose progressions into new keys and modes
- Customize tone and instrumentation
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Instant Backing Track turns your chord progression into a dynamic backing track so you can start practicing immediately. Focus on playing instead of setup, with instant generation that gets you into the groove in seconds. Take full control of your practice session. Adjust tempo, key, and chord progression at any time to match your goals and skill level. Unlike static loop-based tracks, Instant Backing Track creates flexible rhythmic and arrangement variations that keep your practice musical and engaging while staying grounded in your chosen harmony. This does not use AI, it a hand tuned music generator. Designed for guitar improvisation and solo practice, but useful for any melodic instrument. Features: - Instantly generate backing tracks from any chord progression - Full control over tempo, key, and chords - Dynamic rhythmic and arrangement variation for more natural practice - Built for improvisation, soloing, and musical exploration - Includes structured lessons for interval-based soloing and fretboard familiarity - Transpose progressions into new keys and modes to explore different sounds - Customize tone and instrumentation to match your preferred vibe
ShedSpace
This app provides musicians with a practice toolkit, including a metronome, a drone for intonation practice, and a real drummer for playing along. It offers customizable tempos, time signatures, and drum grooves, all synchronized to a single clock.
- Real drummer grooves
- Customizable metronome
- Drone in any key
- Tempo ramp and gap trainer
- Chord progressions
- Background playback
- iCloud sync
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ShedSpace is a practice room in your pocket: a metronome, a drone, and a drummer, all on one clock. Set a tempo and everything follows it. Start the drone under the click to work on intonation, or start the drummer and play along with a real kit at the tempo you need. A REAL DRUMMER, AT YOUR TEMPO Pocket plays grooves recorded for ShedSpace by a real drummer on a real kit. Rock, funk, pop, and latin feels, with more on the way. Each groove was recorded at several tempos, and the drums keep their pitch and feel wherever you set the ruler. Filter by style, mark favourites, and switch grooves while you play. A METRONOME THAT DOES THE WORK Tempo from 20 to 300, by ruler, keypad, or tap. Forty time signatures with the beat length honoured. Accents you tap per beat. Six subdivisions drawn as notation: quarter, eighths, triplets, shuffle, sixteenths, and sixteenth swing. A tempo ramp that raises the tempo every few bars. A gap trainer that drops the click for whole bars so you have to keep time yourself. A practice timer with a count-in. A DRONE IN ANY KEY A sustained note or chord in seven characters, from clean to organ. Single notes, fifths, triads, sevenths, sus chords, and more. Changes: cycle through keys automatically or play a chord progression on the shared clock, from built-in progressions or your own custom progressions. EVERYTHING TOGETHER One clock. Start any tool from any tab and the others fall in on the one. A mixer sets how loud each tool sits, and an output picker sends the sound to AirPlay or Bluetooth from inside the app. Plays in the background with lock screen controls. On iPad, a console layout puts all three tools on one screen. Presets and your own progressions sync through iCloud between iPhone, iPad, and Mac. TWO WAYS TO PAY Subscribe for a year at a time, or buy it once and keep it for good. Both include everything, and new grooves arrive as they are recorded. Try it free for seven days, with no card and no account. Terms of Use: https://shedspaceapp.com/mobile-terms/ Privacy Policy: https://shedspaceapp.com/mobile-privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: ShedSpace at 15 against Instant Backing Track's 1. Instant Backing Track's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 days). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Instant Backing Track sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and ShedSpace sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Instant Backing Track against 5.0 for ShedSpace. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ShedSpace has 15 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Instant Backing Track ships an update every 2 days, ShedSpace every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Instant Backing Track | ShedSpace |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (15 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 76 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Salmiakki Studios LLC | Sprung Interactive |
Customer experience
Instant Backing Track
ShedSpace
In-app purchases
Instant Backing Track
- Unlock Full Version$17.99
ShedSpace
- ShedSpace Yearly$9.991 Year
- ShedSpace Lifetime$29.99
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