Comparison

Sisco's Guitar Trainer AR vs RiffAlly Loop

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

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About

Sisco's Guitar Trainer AR

Learn guitar scales, modes, and improvisation with an intuitive, visual system. This app uses augmented reality to help you physically practice scale shapes, building muscle memory and fretboard confidence without rote memorization.

Highlights
  • Learn scales and modes visually
  • Augmented reality hand interaction
  • Develop improvisation skills
  • Pattern recognition training
  • Fretboard movement understanding
  • Distraction-free learning environment
Features
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You know some chords? Ready to solo? Start here! Sisco’s Guitar Fretboard Trainer is a modern guitar learning system designed to help players understand scales, fretboard movement, modes, improvisation, and soloing in a faster and more intuitive way. Instead of relying on static diagrams and endless memorization, the app trains players to recognize movable patterns and understand how those shapes connect across the guitar. The system focuses on pentatonic positions, diatonic modes, roots, chord degrees, and visual fretboard recognition to help guitarists develop stronger improvisation skills and real fretboard confidence. By simplifying the learning process into visual movement and pattern memory, players naturally begin understanding how scales function in different keys and musical situations. Interactive training modes help reinforce scale recognition, tonal centers, root movement, and harmonic relationships while building muscle memory through repetition and practice. The experience is intentionally clean and distraction-free so players can focus on developing instinctive fretboard awareness instead of relying on note memorization alone. The app also introduces an original augmented reality training system that allows players to physically finger virtual scale shapes onscreen using live hand interaction. This creates a unique connection between visual learning, finger memory, and physical playing technique unlike traditional guitar lesson apps. Whether you play blues, rock, jazz, metal, acoustic, lead guitar, or modern improvisation styles, Sisco’s Guitar Fretboard Trainer offers a fresh and highly visual approach to learning guitar scales, fretboard patterns, and soloing.

About

RiffAlly Loop

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Your playing. On repeat. Turn your own playing into a backing loop you can play along with. RiffAlly Loop brings a pedal-inspired recording workflow to your iPhone—no foot pedal required. PLAY FIRST. KEEP THE BARS YOU WANT. Choose Record & Select, set or tap your tempo, and pick a time signature. Listen to one bar of count-in, then start playing. Finish your phrase and tap Stop & select during the following bar. Loop initially selects bar 1 through the last complete bar, leaving out the unfinished final bar. If the selection is right, tap Use & Play once to start looping. Want a different section? Adjust the start and end on the pedal's waveform, preview if you like, then Use & Play. Change selection lets you revisit the original take. Made a mistake? New loop leaves an unaccepted take in one tap. When editing an accepted loop, Back to loop keeps your previous selection. OR LET LOOP STOP FOR YOU. In Fixed bars, choose 1–64 bars before you start. Loop counts you in, records the chosen length, and starts playback automatically. Quick choices include 4, 8 and 12 bars for familiar practice lengths. MAKE THE PEDAL YOURS. • Set 40–240 BPM or tap your tempo. • Choose 4/4, 3/4, 2/4, 6/8, 9/8 or 12/8, separately from loop length. • Follow audible clicks and a prominent beat-and-bar counter. • Pick from ten recording-click sounds, with a distinct count-in cue. • Pause, then restart from the beginning of your loop. • Adjust loop volume and personalize the pedal finish and display. • Find practical instructions and troubleshooting in Help. RECORD ON IPHONE. PLAY ALONG. Count-in and recording use the built-in iPhone microphone and speaker. Recording clicks may become part of your loop. Completed loops can play through the iPhone or a selected compatible Bluetooth media speaker. Bluetooth is not used for live guidance or microphone input. Isolated headphone clicks, wired-headphone playback and AirPlay are not supported. Loop uses your chosen tempo and time signature to place bar boundaries; it does not analyze notes or correct your timing. Silence and sustained notes within the selected bars are preserved. Tap the main beats: quarter notes in /4 meters, dotted-quarter notes in compound /8 meters. Keep Loop in the foreground while practicing. Record & Select has no preset bar cap, but storage and interruptions limit recording. It retains the current finalized original and selection on your iPhone, including an undismissed draft—not a multi-loop library. Fixed bars loops are session-only. Clearing or replacing a take removes its retained copy. There is no export, overdubbing or background recording. RiffAlly does not upload your recordings. No RiffAlly account is required. Optional one-time tips support development and unlock no features.

Screenshots

Sisco's Guitar Trainer AR4 screens
RiffAlly Loop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: RiffAlly Loop at none against Sisco's Guitar Trainer AR's shown. RiffAlly Loop also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Sisco's Guitar Trainer AR sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and RiffAlly Loop sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sisco's Guitar Trainer AR ships an update every 3 weeks, RiffAlly Loop every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Sisco's Guitar Trainer AR versus RiffAlly Loop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSisco's Guitar Trainer ARRiffAlly Loop
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size109 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWade SiscoFernando Lanner Cardoso

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Sisco's Guitar Trainer AR

One-time1
  • Unlock Full Version$7.99
3 purchases

RiffAlly Loop

One-time3
  • Small tip$1.99
  • Supporter tip$4.99
  • Generous tip$9.99

Questions

Is Sisco's Guitar Trainer AR free?
Sisco's Guitar Trainer AR is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is RiffAlly Loop free?
RiffAlly Loop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Sisco's Guitar Trainer AR or RiffAlly Loop have ads?
Sisco's Guitar Trainer AR shows ads; RiffAlly Loop does not.
Which is updated more often, Sisco's Guitar Trainer AR or RiffAlly Loop?
Sisco's Guitar Trainer AR ships an update every 3 weeks, and RiffAlly Loop every 9 days. Most recently, Sisco's Guitar Trainer AR was updated on October 16, 2026 and RiffAlly Loop on October 7, 2026.

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