Comparison

ICAN Radio vs Fretone

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

Head to head
About

ICAN Radio

Features
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ICAN App - A service of All Classical Radio. The ICAN App allows you to listen to the ICAN stream live, pause and rewind the live audio, and view the program schedule all at once! You can explore the Playlists from the day and previous days, On Demand content, search through stories, and wake up to ICAN with the alarm clock! Live Streaming • DVR-like controls (pause, rewind, and fast forward). You can pause the live stream to have a conversation and pick up right where you left off! Or rewind to catch a comment or piece you just missed! • Listen to ICAN even while traveling! Start the app and your favorite station starts playing – no clicks to start listening. • An integrated program schedules allows you to see the schedules for all of your favorite programs. • Listen to ICAN in the background while browsing the web or catching up on your emails! On Demand • Easy to access past programs in the Menu by selecting ‘On Demand’. Additional features • Easily share stories and programs with family and friends via the “Share” button. • A built in Sleep Timer and Alarm Clock allows you to go to sleep and wake up to your favorite programs from ICAN. The ICAN App is a service of All Classical Radio brought to you by the people at All Classical Public Media and Public Media Apps. We work to provide our valued listeners with great solutions to find what you want, when you want it, and where you want it. Please support ICAN and All Classical Public Media by becoming a member today! https://icanradio.org/ http://www.publicmediaapps.com

About

Fretone

This app provides six essential tools for guitar practice, including a tuner, metronome, chord library, fingerstyle trainer, fretboard trainer, and song library. It focuses on practical functionality without subscriptions or gamified elements, designed for musicians who want focused practice.

Highlights
  • Real-time pitch detection tuner
  • Accurate metronome with various time signatures
  • Chord library with verified fingerings
  • Fingerstyle pattern trainer
  • Fretboard note identification trainer
  • Accurate song riff transcriptions
Features
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Fretone is a practice companion for guitar — six focused tools, no subscription, no streaks or badges nagging you to keep a habit alive. Just the instruments you actually reach for between practice sessions. CHORDS — CHORD LIBRARY Every common chord — majors, minors, sevenths, sus2/sus4, add9 — with real, hand-verified fingerings, not algorithmically nearest-fret guesses. Browse by key, see a chord's family and the chords commonly played alongside it, and switch between alternate fretboard positions for the same chord. DRILLS — FRETBOARD EXPLORER Explore the fretboard note by note, or drill chord changes against a real strum pattern (down-up, pop-rock, reggae skank, and more) at your own tempo. METRONOME A clean, accurate metronome with every time signature you'd actually use, swing subdivisions, and a tempo that's remembered the next time you open it. FINGERSTYLE — FINGERSTYLE TRAINER Learn and practice fingerstyle patterns with a hand diagram that shows exactly which finger plucks which string, in real time. Build your own patterns in the custom editor, chain several chords into a full fingerpicking sequence, or start from patterns you already know. REFERENCE — FRETBOARD REFERENCE Pick a note, a scale, a CAGED shape, or a key on the circle of fifths, and see every place it lives across the whole neck light up at once — pentatonic and full scales, all seven modes, triads, and seventh chords, tap any fret to hear it. The lookup a player actually reaches for mid-practice, not a quiz. TUNER Real-time pitch detection powered by an on-device neural pitch model, with a steady needle, per-string tuned marks, and a glow when every string is done. Works with 6- and 12-string guitars, bass, and ukulele. Works for any tuning your instrument uses, with a capo control that shifts what counts as "in tune" without changing which string you're touching. No accounts. No ads. No streaks. Just an instrument's worth of tools, built by a guitarist who wanted them to exist.

Screenshots

ICAN Radio4 screens
Fretone4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: ICAN Radio at 14.0 against Fretone's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
ICAN Radio versus Fretone: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterICAN RadioFretone
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—4 — better
Update frequency—Every 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB44 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAll Classical Public Media, Inc.Sandeep Koirala

In-app purchases

None

ICAN Radio

No in-app purchases

None

Fretone

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ICAN Radio free?
ICAN Radio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Fretone free?
Fretone is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ICAN Radio or Fretone have ads?
Neither ICAN Radio nor Fretone shows ads.

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