FretPulse vs Practimo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FretPulse
This app generates personalized daily guitar practice routines, tracks your progress with real-time BPM tracking, and guides you through exercises with scrolling notation and a built-in metronome. It offers a growing library of exercises and allows for custom routine creation.
- Personalized daily practice routines
- Auto-generated practice plans
- Speed trainer with BPM progression
- Real-time scrolling notation
- Built-in metronome
- Track BPM progress per exercise
- Customizable routines and playlists
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FretPulse auto-generates your daily practice routine, tracks your BPM progress exercise by exercise, and guides you through every drill with real-time scrolling notation. Built for guitarists who practice with intention. Stop winging it. Start getting better. PERSONALIZED DAILY ROUTINES FretPulse builds a fresh practice plan based on your skill level, focus areas, and session length — Mechanics & Dexterity, Lead Articulation, Rhythm & Groove, or Fretboard Navigation. Your routine refreshes on a schedule you control (1–7 days) so you're never grinding the same thing. SPEED TRAINER BUILT IN Set a start BPM, a target BPM, and an increment. FretPulse walks you up to tempo automatically — the same way serious musicians build speed. No separate app needed. REAL-TIME NOTATION & METRONOME Every exercise plays back with a scrolling staff and a live playhead so you always know where you are. Built-in metronome with Always On and Count-In modes. Independent volume for both click and guitar. TRACK BPM MASTERY PER EXERCISE FretPulse remembers your working tempo and personal-best BPM for every single exercise. Rate your effort after each session and your progress updates automatically — so you can see exactly how far you've come. GROWING EXERCISE LIBRARY Hundreds of exercises across Alternate Picking, Legato, Sweep Picking, String Bending, Strumming, Scales, Chords, Tapping, and more — organized by technique and difficulty. New exercises added regularly. CUSTOM ROUTINES & PRE-BUILT PLAYLISTS Build your own practice playlists from the full library. Drag to reorder, set per-exercise durations, and return to them any time. Or start from a pre-built routine and clone it to make it your own. DRILL ANY SECTION Loop a specific measure range to isolate exactly what needs work. Set work/rest intervals so your hands recover between rounds. No restarting the whole exercise just to hit one section. STREAKS & FOCUS ANALYTICS See your practice streak, total time by category, technique breakdown charts, and recent personal bests — all in one dashboard view. FREE TO TRY Jump in with a full-featured demo — no account, no credit card. Upgrade to FretPulse Premium to unlock the complete exercise library, unlimited custom routines, cloud sync, and full progress tracking. FretPulse is free to download. Full access to all features requires asubscription ($9.99/month or $99.99/year.) Terms of Service: https://fretpulse.io/terms
Practimo
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Practicing but not progressing? Practimo turns scattered notes and timers into one guided daily routine — so you always know what to work on, and you can hear yourself improve. • Build a routine by dragging focus items — technique, scales, a song, sight-reading — into the order you want • Hit Start and follow a guided session: per-item timer, metronome, and quick notes, all in one place • Record before/after clips and compare them weeks apart — real proof you're getting better • Rotation surfaces what you've been neglecting, so practice never goes stale • Track your streak and weekly minutes • A genuinely complete metronome (subdivisions, accents, visual + haptic beat) and a chromatic tuner with standard & alternate guitar tunings — free, ad-free, forever Practimo Pro is a one-time unlock — no subscription: unlimited routines, unlimited recordings, and your full 12-week progress view. You own it. Works for any instrument, guitar-first. No account required, and your practice data stays on your device. Terms of Use: https://practimo.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://practimo.app/privacy
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Verdict
FretPulse and Practimo are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. FretPulse sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Practimo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
FretPulse ships an update every 4 days, Practimo every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FretPulse | Practimo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 6 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | FretPulse LLC | Aner Sarid |
In-app purchases
FretPulse
- FretPulse Premium$9.991 Month
- FretPulse Premium$99.991 Year
Practimo
- Practimo Pro$19.99
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