Comparison

Guitar Licks vs RiffAlly Loop

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

Head to head
About

Guitar Licks

Features
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Guitar Licks helps you learn, edit, and build guitar phrases on your phone or tablet. Browse tabs in the feed and save the ones you want to practice. Lock a range, slow it down, and work the lick until it sticks. Open the editor to reshape what you’re playing β€” transpose, adjust motifs, change meter, and fine-tune feel with tools built for phrase work. Need new material? Use the generators for scales, motifs, riffs, and arpeggios. You choose the musical settings; the app builds from there, and you can keep editing. Also included: tuner, metronome, scale shapes, chord search, Guitar DSP, and more. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://panom.app/gleprivacy

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 iPhoneβ€”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. β€’ Set 40–240 BPM or tap your tempo. β€’ Choose 4/4, 3/4, 2/4, 6/8, 9/8 or 12/8, separately from loop length. β€’ Follow audible clicks and a prominent beat-and-bar counter. β€’ Pick from ten recording-click sounds, with a distinct count-in cue. β€’ Pause, then restart from the beginning of your loop. β€’ Adjust loop volume and personalize the pedal finish and display. β€’ 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 draftβ€”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

Guitar Licks4 screens
RiffAlly Loop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Guitar Licks at 3 against RiffAlly Loop's 1. Guitar Licks also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Guitar Licks sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month and RiffAlly Loop sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 4 level
Guitar Licks versus RiffAlly Loop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGuitar LicksRiffAlly Loop
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyβ€”Every 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod β€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 β€” better17.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size40 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYusuf Emre KARAYELFernando Lanner Cardoso

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Guitar Licks

Subscriptions1
  • Guitar Lick Exercises Pro7 Days trial$4.991 Month
3 purchases

RiffAlly Loop

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

Questions

Is Guitar Licks free?
Guitar Licks 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 Guitar Licks or RiffAlly Loop have ads?
Neither Guitar Licks nor RiffAlly Loop shows ads.

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