Comparison

Practice Journal vs Notch

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

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Practice Journal

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The practice journal musicians have been waiting for. Tempo turns every practice session into a structured, measurable, and motivating experience. Whether you are a beginner learning your first scales or a conservatory student preparing for auditions, Tempo helps you practice smarter - not just longer. --- HOW IT WORKS --- Start a session, choose your segments (warmup, technique, repertoire, sight-reading, cooldown), and let Tempo guide you through a focused practice. Every session is logged. Every minute counts. --- FEATURES --- PRACTICE SESSIONS - Segment timer: structure sessions into warmup, technique, repertoire, sight-reading, and cooldown - Session presets: jump straight into a Balanced or Quick Session (free), or customize your own (Pro) - Notes per segment: log what you worked on while it is fresh REPERTOIRE TRACKER - Build and manage your active repertoire list - Mark pieces as learning, polishing, or performance-ready - Track which pieces you practiced and how recently (free: up to 5 pieces; unlimited with Pro) METRONOME - Tap tempo detection - All standard time signatures: 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 6/8, and more - Visual beat indicator so you can follow along without watching the screen - BPM range from 20 to 300 CHROMATIC TUNER - Real-time pitch detection via microphone - Accurate to within 1 cent - Works for all instruments: strings, winds, brass, piano, voice STREAK AND STATS - Daily practice streak tracker with calendar view - Monthly totals: total time, sessions completed, segments practiced - See your longest streaks and consistency score at a glance AI PRACTICE COACH (Pro) - Analyzes your session history and gives personalized coaching advice - Identifies weak areas and suggests where to focus next - Powered by Grok AI - runs in the cloud, no setup needed ADVANCED STATS (Pro) - Tempo progression charts: see how your metronome speeds improve over time - Key coverage heatmap: visualize which keys and modes you practice most - Export session history as CSV --- FREE vs PRO --- Free: - Unlimited practice sessions and timer - 2 session presets (Balanced, Quick Session) - Metronome and chromatic tuner - Streak tracking and monthly stats - Repertoire tracker: up to 5 pieces Pro (monthly or yearly subscription): - Everything in Free, plus: - 6 session presets + unlimited custom presets - Unlimited repertoire pieces - AI Practice Coach - Tempo progression charts - Key coverage heatmap - CSV export --- SUBSCRIPTION INFO --- Tempo Pro is available as a monthly or yearly subscription. The yearly plan includes a 50% introductory offer for new subscribers. Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription at any time in your Apple ID account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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Notch

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์•…๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊พธ์ค€ํžˆ ์—ฐ์Šตํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€๋ฐ, ๋ง‰์ƒ ์•‰์œผ๋ฉด "์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋ญ ํ•˜์ง€?"๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ง‰ํžˆ์…จ๋‚˜์š”? Notch๋Š” ํ˜„์žฌ ๊ณก๊ณผ ์Šคํ‚ฌ์„ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ์˜ค๋Š˜์˜ ๋ฃจํ‹ด์„ ์ž๋™์œผ๋กœ ์ค€๋น„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํƒ€์ด๋จธ๋ฅผ ์ผœ๊ณ  ํ•ญ๋ชฉ์„ ํ•˜๋‚˜์”ฉ ์™„๋ฃŒํ•˜๊ธฐ๋งŒ ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋ฃจํ‹ด ์•…๊ธฐ, ์‹ค๋ ฅ, ์—ฐ์Šต ์ค‘์ธ ๊ณก๊ณผ ์Šคํ‚ฌ์„ ์ž…๋ ฅํ•˜๋ฉด ์›Œ๋ฐ์—…ยท์Šคํ‚ฌยท๊ณก ์—ฐ์Šต์œผ๋กœ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ๋œ ๋ฃจํ‹ด์ด ์ž๋™์œผ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•ญ๋ชฉ์„ ์ง์ ‘ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ยท์ˆ˜์ •ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์ˆœ์„œ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๊ฟ€ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํƒ€์ด๋จธ์™€ ๋ฉ”ํŠธ๋กœ๋†ˆ ํ•ญ๋ชฉ๋งˆ๋‹ค ๊ฐœ๋ณ„ ํƒ€์ด๋จธ๋ฅผ ๋Œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ๋‚ด์žฅ ๋ฉ”ํŠธ๋กœ๋†ˆ์œผ๋กœ BPM์„ ๋งž์ถฅ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฐ์Šต์ด ๋๋‚˜๋ฉด ๊ทธ๋‚ ์˜ ๋ฉ”๋ชจ๋ฅผ ๋‚จ๊ธธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฐ์† ๊ธฐ๋ก๊ณผ ๋ชฉํ‘œ ์ผ์ผ ๋ชฉํ‘œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ์„ค์ •ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋งค์ผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•˜๋ฉด ์—ฐ์† ๊ธฐ๋ก์ด ์Œ“์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ถˆ๊ฝƒ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๋ฅผ ์บก์ฒ˜ํ•ด ๊ณต์œ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผ๊ฐ„ ๋ฆฌํฌํŠธ ์š”์ผ๋ณ„ ์—ฐ์Šต ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๊ทธ๋ž˜ํ”„, ์›”๊ฐ„ ๋‹ฌ๋ ฅ, ๋‚ ์งœ๋ณ„ ๋ฃจํ‹ด ์ƒ์„ธ๋ฅผ ํ•œ๋ˆˆ์— ํ™•์ธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฆฌํฌํŠธ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๋ฅผ ์ €์žฅํ•ด SNS์— ๊ณต์œ ํ•  ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•Œ๋ฆผ ์—ฐ์Šต ๋ฆฌ๋งˆ์ธ๋”, ์›”์š”์ผ ๋ชฉํ‘œ ์•Œ๋ฆผ, ์ฃผ๊ฐ„ ๋ฆฌํฌํŠธ ์•Œ๋ฆผ์„ ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ์— ๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐœ์ธ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ๋ณดํ˜ธ ํšŒ์›๊ฐ€์ž…์ด ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ชจ๋“  ์—ฐ์Šต ๊ธฐ๋ก์€ ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ ์•ˆ์—๋งŒ ์ €์žฅ๋˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ด‘๊ณ ๋‚˜ ๋ถ„์„ SDK๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๋ฅผ ์ถ”์ ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋กœ์ปฌ ๋ฐฑ์—…์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์ง์ ‘ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Screenshots

Practice Journal4 screens
Notch4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Notch at none against Practice Journal's 3. Notch also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Practice Journal sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Notch asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Practice Journal ships an update every 2 months, Notch every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
Practice Journal versus Notch: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPractice JournalNotch
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS1815.1 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size3 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKarol Jaworskihayoung jang

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Practice Journal

Subscriptions3
  • Tempo Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Tempo Pro Yearly1 Year trial$39.991 Year
  • Tempo Pro Yearly$39.991 Year
None

Notch

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Practice Journal free?
Practice Journal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Notch free?
Notch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Practice Journal or Notch have ads?
Neither Practice Journal nor Notch shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Practice Journal or Notch?
Practice Journal ships an update every 2 months, and Notch every 3 days. Most recently, Practice Journal was updated on October 7, 2026 and Notch on September 24, 2026.

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