Comparison

Juicy Scales vs Riffshed

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

Head to head
About

Juicy Scales

This interactive fretboard tool helps guitar and bass players visualize scales in any key and tuning. Explore note positions, interval numbers, and scale degrees. Includes a metronome and customization options for a personalized learning experience.

Highlights
  • Visualize scales on fretboard
  • Any key and tuning
  • Interval numbers and note names
  • Scale degree descriptions
  • Built-in metronome
  • Customizable appearance
Features
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Juicy Scales is a fretboard reference tool for guitar and bass players of all levels. See any scale across the entire neck in any key, any tuning, instantly. Pick a key, pick a scale, and watch the notes plot themselves across the fretboard. Scroll up and down the neck, isolate individual positions, mute strings you're not using, and toggle between interval numbers and note names inside each dot. Dig deeper with the Now Playing panel; tap your current scale to pull up a description, common chord progressions, and a full scale degree table showing each note's diatonic function, all transposed to your key. Features: 15 scales including pentatonic, blues, all 7 modes, and more Multiple tunings 5 fretboard positions per scale Built-in metronome Customizable wood, color scheme, and click sound Option to choose between guitar and bass

About

Riffshed

This app helps musicians improve their practice by focusing on deliberate repetition and structured work blocks. It includes a metronome, sheet music viewer, and links to music streaming services, all designed to enhance focused instrumental practice.

Highlights
  • Rep-based practice tracking
  • Focus-block timer
  • Built-in metronome
  • Sheet music integration
  • Links to streaming services
  • Curated starter libraries
Features
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Riffshed is a practice journal for jazz musicians, built on the card system. See whether you're actually getting better — or just spending more time with the instrument. THREE PHASES. ONE CARD. Every exercise is a card that moves through three phases — Explore, Integrate, Master — each with its own color and rep counter. You decide when a card is ready to move forward; Riffshed remembers when it did and how long it stayed in each phase. REPS, NOT MINUTES A timer rewards sitting with the instrument. A rep counter rewards doing the work: running a phrase through twelve keys, taking a head clean. Minutes are still tracked — but reps are the unit you optimize. FOCUS BLOCKS A 20/5 focus cycle tuned for instrumental practice: twenty minutes on one card, five minutes of mandatory break. Both intervals are configurable; the open-ended mode drops the clock entirely for jams and lessons. START FROM ANYWHERE (new in 1.1) A Home Screen widget starts a session in one tap and shows today's minutes, your streak and the weekly goal. The live timer follows you to the Lock Screen and the Dynamic Island — pause and finish without unlocking; the session saves itself. Map practice to the Action Button, ask Siri, or add a Control Center switch. A METRONOME YOU'LL ACTUALLY USE Full-screen metronome with pendulum, subdivisions and swing. Configure click and accent per beat and per subdivision: silence the "and" of 2, accent any sixteenth, build polyrhythm grids. EVERYTHING LIVES IN THE CARD Notes, target tempo, separate rep counters per phase, PDF sheet music that opens full-screen (pages flip with a swipe while the metronome keeps playing), and one-tap links out to iReal Pro, YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music and more. SEE A YEAR OF WORK A calendar heatmap of your practice. Tap any day to see what you played, for how long, and which cards moved forward. CURATED LIBRARIES TO START Jazz Piano Fundamentals (67 cards ordered by difficulty) and iReal Pro — Essential Standards (30 standards with deep links) are pre-installed. Build your own libraries, or import a curriculum a teacher shared as a single file. YOUR DATA IS YOURS Fully offline. Full JSON backup including scores. Library export and import in one tap. No account, no ads. Free. Built for daily practice — for iPhone and iPad.

Screenshots

Juicy Scales4 screens
Riffshed4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Riffshed at Free against Juicy Scales's $0.99. Riffshed also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 weeks). Juicy Scales's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (18.5 vs 26.0). On rating, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Riffshed is free to download; Juicy Scales costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Juicy Scales against 5.0 for Riffshed. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Juicy Scales ships an update every 6 weeks, Riffshed every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Juicy Scales versus Riffshed: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJuicy ScalesRiffshed
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings4 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.5 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKage GeogheganAnton Rozhkovskiy

Customer experience

Juicy Scales

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Riffshed

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Juicy Scales

No in-app purchases

None

Riffshed

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Juicy Scales free?
Juicy Scales costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Riffshed free?
Riffshed is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Juicy Scales or Riffshed?
Juicy Scales and Riffshed are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Juicy Scales or Riffshed have ads?
Neither Juicy Scales nor Riffshed shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Juicy Scales or Riffshed?
Juicy Scales ships an update every 6 weeks, and Riffshed every 2 days. Most recently, Juicy Scales was updated on October 8, 2026 and Riffshed on October 9, 2026.

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