FretStudio vs Practice More
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FretStudio
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FretStudio turns music into a language you can actually speak. Notes are the letters. Chords are the words. Progressions and melodies are your sentences. And songs are the stories you tell. FretStudio is one place to learn that language, practice it, and perform it. LEARN Structured tracks take you from your first note to full songs — built for real beginners, including short fingers and the barre-chord wall we all hit. Clear, step-by-step, no theory dumped on you before you need it. PLAY A practice studio built for progress: load any song, sync a backing track, slow the tempo without changing pitch, loop a tricky section, and watch the chord chart scroll in time. Automatic key and tempo detection does the setup for you. PERFORM Everything you need on stage. Build setlists, run a distraction-free teleprompter that scrolls with the music, rehearse a song, then take the whole set live. BRING YOUR OWN SONGS Import from ChordPro, OnSong, plain text, and more. Your library syncs to your own Dropbox or Google Drive, so your songs are yours and follow you everywhere. BUILT TO BE SEEN CLEARLY Every status and cue uses color and symbol — never color alone — so the app stays readable if you're color-blind. Free to start. Upgrade any time for the full learning path, unlimited songs, cloud sync, and the complete performance toolkit. Free, no account required FretStudio is free to use with 5 songs — the full app, not a demo. Import your own songs, practise, perform with the teleprompter, use gig mode, build lessons, transpose, and export. All of it works without creating an account. FretStudio Pro — 250 songs, unlimited setlists, and your library synced across every device through your own Dropbox or Google Drive. FretStudio Premium — Unlimited songs, plus teaching tools, student links, and community. FretStudio Lifetime — Premium forever, one payment. Create an account only when you want your library on more than one device. Your songs stay yours — export everything, anytime, on any plan. Music is a language. Come tell your story. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Practice More
This comprehensive music practice tool offers a precise metronome, accurate tuner, and a recording studio. It also includes a journal to track practice sessions and a feature to import and manipulate audio/video files.
- Rock-solid metronome with custom time signatures and drum grooves
- Sub-cent accurate strobe tuner with adjustable reference pitch
- Play-along and recording studio with speed/pitch adjustment
- Import and loop audio/video files
- Practice journal to log sessions and track progress
- Support for Guitar Pro files and chord charts
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Practice More is a complete practice room for musicians: a rock-solid metronome, a sub-cent tuner, a play-along and recording studio, and a journal that remembers every session. One app, built by a working guitar teacher. THE METRONOME A native audio engine schedules every click on an absolute sample timeline, so it never drifts and never wobbles. • Any time signature — pick a preset or type your own • Subdivisions from eighths to sixteenth triplets, drawn as real engraved notes • Swing, from dead straight to fully shuffled • Four-level accents you edit as a histogram • Drum grooves — rock, funk, blues, swing, dance — for when a bare click isn't enough • A tempo trainer that steps or ramps you up, bar by bar • Practice timer, tap tempo, and a spoken count-in that stays in time even at fast tempos THE TUNER • Sub-cent accuracy from real pitch detection, not a rough estimate • A strobe that behaves like a real strobe tuner, plus a graduated LED meter • Adjustable reference pitch, and an instrument mode for a clean plugged-in signal PLAY ALONG AND RECORD • Import any audio or video file, or open one straight from Files • Slow it down to half speed without changing the pitch — or shift the pitch without changing the speed • Loop a section, drop markers, and drill the hard bar until it's yours • Record over the top, in sync: the latency is measured on your device, not guessed • Overdub, mix and export SCORES • Guitar Pro files and chord charts, with playback, a mixer and per-track control • Tap the score to move the playhead, drag across it to set a loop THE JOURNAL • Every session logged: the piece, the tempo, how long you played • Tempo-over-time charts, so you can see the progress you can't feel • Recordings, scores and backing tracks filed with the song they belong to Practice More runs entirely on your device. No account, no sign-up, and it works with the Wi-Fi off. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
FretStudio and Practice More are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | FretStudio | Practice More |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 108 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | FretStudio LLC | Nicola Pastori |
In-app purchases
FretStudio
No in-app purchases
Practice More
No in-app purchases
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