Comparison

KnowYourNeck vs ShedSpace

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

Head to head
About

KnowYourNeck

Explore the interconnectedness of musical scales and arpeggios on a guitar fretboard. Visualize chord tones, target notes, and practice with visual overlays for backing tracks. Offers tools for learning intervals, scales, and chords, with advanced features for Pro users.

Highlights
  • Overlay multiple arpeggios
  • Identify target notes between chords
  • Play along with visual fretboard overlay
  • Visualize intervals and scales
  • Display chord voicings and inversions
  • Real-time pitch detection
Features
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Most guitar apps show you one scale or arpeggio at a time. KnowYourNeck shows you how everything connects. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT • Multi Arp — Overlay up to three arpeggios simultaneously. See the chord tones for an entire progression on the neck at once, so you can practice connecting lines and navigating changes instead of just memorizing isolated shapes. • Target Notes — Identify which notes are safe landing points between chord changes. Overlaying a scale against an arpeggio shows you exactly which degrees work as target notes when you land on a new chord — the key to sounding musical instead of mechanical. • Play Along with Visual Overlay — Practice with backing tracks while the fretboard changes with every chord in your progression. A preview shows the upcoming scale or arpeggio before the change hits, so you can prepare your line in advance. Available in Jazz, Blues, Rock, Funk, Bossa, and Drone styles. EVERYTHING ELSE YOU GET • Intervals — Visualize the distance between any two notes across all six strings. • Scales — Every common scale and mode mapped across the full neck with color-coded degrees. • Chords — Triads, Drop 2, Drop 3, and Shell voicings with every inversion drawn as a grip across the neck. • Lick Builder (Pro) — Tap out note sequences on the fretboard and save your lines. • Quiz Mode (Pro) — Test intervals, chord tones, and scale mastery with detailed accuracy and speed stats. • Pitch Detection — Play a note and the app identifies it on the neck in real time. • Zen Mode — Full-screen fretboard with no chrome, for focused practice. BUILT FOR LEARNING Toggle note names or scale degrees. Switch sharps and flats. Show or hide open strings. Chromatic color mode to spot patterns fast. Whether you're working on your first pentatonic or learning to navigate a jazz progression, KnowYourNeck shows you the neck the way it actually works — as a connected system, not a collection of boxes. Free to explore. Upgrade to Pro for the Lick Builder, Quiz Mode, and Play Along.

About

ShedSpace

This app provides musicians with a practice toolkit, including a metronome, a drone for intonation practice, and a real drummer for playing along. It offers customizable tempos, time signatures, and drum grooves, all synchronized to a single clock.

Highlights
  • Real drummer grooves
  • Customizable metronome
  • Drone in any key
  • Tempo ramp and gap trainer
  • Chord progressions
  • Background playback
  • iCloud sync
Features
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ShedSpace is a practice room in your pocket: a metronome, a drone, and a drummer, all on one clock. Set a tempo and everything follows it. Start the drone under the click to work on intonation, or start the drummer and play along with a real kit at the tempo you need. A REAL DRUMMER, AT YOUR TEMPO Pocket plays grooves recorded for ShedSpace by a real drummer on a real kit. Rock, funk, pop, and latin feels, with more on the way. Each groove was recorded at several tempos, and the drums keep their pitch and feel wherever you set the ruler. Filter by style, mark favourites, and switch grooves while you play. A METRONOME THAT DOES THE WORK Tempo from 20 to 300, by ruler, keypad, or tap. Forty time signatures with the beat length honoured. Accents you tap per beat. Six subdivisions drawn as notation: quarter, eighths, triplets, shuffle, sixteenths, and sixteenth swing. A tempo ramp that raises the tempo every few bars. A gap trainer that drops the click for whole bars so you have to keep time yourself. A practice timer with a count-in. A DRONE IN ANY KEY A sustained note or chord in seven characters, from clean to organ. Single notes, fifths, triads, sevenths, sus chords, and more. Changes: cycle through keys automatically or play a chord progression on the shared clock, from built-in progressions or your own custom progressions. EVERYTHING TOGETHER One clock. Start any tool from any tab and the others fall in on the one. A mixer sets how loud each tool sits, and an output picker sends the sound to AirPlay or Bluetooth from inside the app. Plays in the background with lock screen controls. On iPad, a console layout puts all three tools on one screen. Presets and your own progressions sync through iCloud between iPhone, iPad, and Mac. TWO WAYS TO PAY Subscribe for a year at a time, or buy it once and keep it for good. Both include everything, and new grooves arrive as they are recorded. Try it free for seven days, with no card and no account. Terms of Use: https://shedspaceapp.com/mobile-terms/ Privacy Policy: https://shedspaceapp.com/mobile-privacy/

Screenshots

KnowYourNeck4 screens
ShedSpace4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: ShedSpace at every 5 days against KnowYourNeck's every 11 days. ShedSpace also leads on ratings volume (14 vs 3). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. KnowYourNeck sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and ShedSpace sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for KnowYourNeck against 5.0 for ShedSpace. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 14 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

KnowYourNeck ships an update every 11 days, ShedSpace every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
KnowYourNeck versus ShedSpace: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKnowYourNeckShedSpace
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (14 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings314 — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.416.4
Further details — not scored
Size79 MB61 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAdam RhodesSprung Interactive

Customer experience

KnowYourNeck

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

ShedSpace

All ratings14 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

KnowYourNeck

Subscriptions2
  • KnowYourNeck Pro$4.991 Month
  • KnowYourNeck Pro$49.991 Year
2 purchases

ShedSpace

Subscriptions1
  • ShedSpace Yearly$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • ShedSpace Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is KnowYourNeck free?
KnowYourNeck is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ShedSpace free?
ShedSpace is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, KnowYourNeck or ShedSpace?
KnowYourNeck and ShedSpace are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 14 ratings respectively.
Do KnowYourNeck or ShedSpace have ads?
Neither KnowYourNeck nor ShedSpace shows ads.
Which is updated more often, KnowYourNeck or ShedSpace?
KnowYourNeck ships an update every 11 days, and ShedSpace every 5 days. Most recently, KnowYourNeck was updated on October 31, 2026 and ShedSpace on October 31, 2026.

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