Comparison

Song Round vs CRITICSCALE

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

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About

Song Round

Test your music knowledge by guessing song titles, artists, and release years from short audio clips. Compete with friends or on a global leaderboard in various game modes. Features over 3,000 songs from the 1960s to today.

Highlights
  • Guess song title, artist, or release year
  • Over 3,000 songs from 1960s-2020s
  • Daily Challenge with global leaderboard
  • Customizable Practice mode
  • Real-time Multiplayer (same-room/remote)
  • Available in 21 languages
  • No account required
Features
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Song Round is the ultimate music guessing game for music lovers of all ages. Listen to a short clip and guess the song title, artist name, or release year before time runs out. With over 3,000 songs spanning from the 1960s to today, every round is a fresh challenge. HOW TO PLAY • Listen to a music clip • Choose the correct answer from four options • The faster you guess, the more points you earn THREE GAME MODES • Daily Challenge - A new set of 10 rounds every day. Compare your score on the global leaderboard. Share your results with friends. • Practice - Customize your session with your preferred game type, decade, difficulty, and number of rounds. • Multiplayer - Host a game, share the PIN, and compete with friends in the same room or remotely. THREE WAYS TO GUESS • Guess the Song - Name that tune from the clip • Guess the Artist - Identify who performs the song • Guess the Year - Pin down when the song was released FEATURES • 3,000+ songs across pop, rock, hip-hop, R&B, and more • Songs from the 1960s through the 2020s • Adjustable year range, difficulty, and time limits • Real-time multiplayer with same-room and remote modes • Daily global leaderboard • Beautiful dark theme with intuitive controls • Available in 21 languages • No account required - jump right in PERFECT FOR • Music trivia nights • Parties and gatherings • Road trips • Testing your music knowledge solo • Settling debates about who knows music best Song Round is free to play with no ads. How well do you know your music?

About

CRITICSCALE

Engage in daily music trivia challenges with eight distinct mini-games. Test your knowledge of music history, artists, and albums to maintain a daily streak and compete with friends. Offers a Pro version for expanded features.

Highlights
  • Eight bite-sized music trivia games
  • Daily streak challenges
  • Leaderboards and head-to-head play
  • Album cover identification
  • Music fact connection game
  • Artist origin guessing
  • Pro version with extra features
Features
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CRITICSCALE — DAILY MUSIC GAMES FOR PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY KNOW MUSIC. Eight bite-sized games. One streak. A fresh round of every game at local midnight, every night. Free to play forever. THE EIGHT GAMES ERAPIN — A 30-second clip plays. Drag the pin along the timeline to the year you think it dropped. Closer is more points. CHROMEVINYL — An album cover, blurred down to its palette. Identify the artist before the clues sharpen and the score drops. CRITICWEB — Connect each music fact to the artist who lived it. Build the full web — no second guesses. VINYLCRACK — Hangman, but vinyl. Guess the artist letter by letter. Eight wrong picks and the record shatters. FAKEVINYL — Four album covers. One is real. Three are convincing fakes. Five rounds of pure paranoia. BANDGRID — Sixteen tiles. Four hidden categories of four. Group them all without burning four mistakes. ORIGINMAP (Pro) — A song plays. Drop a pin on the map where you think the artist is from. BEATBLITZ — Pick a music prompt. Type as many correct answers as you can before the clock dies. Rare answers buy you more time. ONE STREAK, EVERY DAY Play any game on a given day to keep your streak alive. Build it one day at a time, lose it in a missed midnight, defend it with a streak shield. FRIENDS, NOT FEEDS Add friends, compare daily scores on the leaderboard, and challenge anyone to a 1v1 head-to-head round. No algorithmic feed, no follower counts, no rage. Just receipts. NO ADS. NO TRACKING. NO NONSENSE. We don't run third-party advertising. We don't track you across other apps. We don't sell your data. The app is free; Pro is optional. PRO Pro unlocks past challenges (replay any previous day's round), Originmap, Endless Erapin, and a few quality-of-life upgrades. Subscription billed by Apple, cancellable any time from your subscription settings. QUESTIONS support@criticscale.com — bugs, account help, anything privacy@criticscale.com — privacy and data requests criticscale.com — eight games, one streak, see for yourself Made for music nerds. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Song Round4 screens
CRITICSCALE4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Song Round at none against CRITICSCALE's 6. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. CRITICSCALE sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Song Round asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Song Round against 5.0 for CRITICSCALE. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Song Round versus CRITICSCALE: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSong RoundCRITICSCALE
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequency—Every 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB55 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperOnClick Solutions LtdCARLOS ANDRES SALAME AROSEMENA

Customer experience

Song Round

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

CRITICSCALE

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Song Round

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

CRITICSCALE

Subscriptions2
  • CriticScale Pro (Monthly)7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • CriticScale Pro (Yearly)7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time4
  • 100 Vinyl Stars$0.99
  • 550 Vinyl Stars$2.99
  • 1,200 Vinyl Stars$4.99
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  • 2,500 Vinyl Stars$9.99

Questions

Is Song Round free?
Song Round is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CRITICSCALE free?
CRITICSCALE is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Song Round or CRITICSCALE?
Song Round and CRITICSCALE are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Song Round or CRITICSCALE have ads?
Neither Song Round nor CRITICSCALE shows ads.

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