Comparison

SCOUT vs TempoScope

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

Head to head
About

SCOUT

Features
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SCOUT hears the music around you and tells you what it is. Point your phone at a speaker, a DJ booth or a rehearsal room and SCOUT locks onto the KEY and TEMPO in a few seconds — on a Camelot wheel built for harmonic mixing, with sharp or flat spelling, tuning offset and a confidence readout so you know when to trust it. When key and tempo are both sure, SCOUT tells you it has locked. Tap tempo when you'd rather count it yourself. Everything is analysed on the device: no account, no ads, no recording, nothing uploaded. FREE, FOREVER • Live key & BPM from the microphone • Camelot / sharp / flat display, tuning readout, confidence • Tap tempo, half/double time, HOLD and COPY SCOUT PRO — one payment, no subscription • CHORDS: the chord playing right now, including sevenths, sixths, sus and slash chords • PROGRESSION: the chords as they come, named as Roman numerals against the key (vi–IV–I–V) • LOG: every detection you've made, ready to copy into your set notes • +FILE: analyse any track from Files or iCloud for the definitive key, BPM and progression — then hear it play while the scope follows it live Built by Echelon Audio, makers of the SCOUT plugin for the studio. Same detector, in your pocket.

About

TempoScope

Features
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Hold your phone up to the music and it finds the tempo and key in real time. Drop in an audio file and it pulls tempo, key, and the chord progression in one pass. ■ Free · Live detection — tempo (BPM) and key from the microphone, as it plays · Delay and reverb times — milliseconds worked out from the detected BPM. Straight, dotted, triplet · The whole metronome — 30-300 BPM, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 6/8, 12/8 · Bar maps — lay out a song that changes tempo or meter partway through and play it straight through. Section looping included · Six sounds — electronic beep, tick-tock, wood block, cowbell, claves, rimshot · Subdivisions — eighths, triplets, sixteenths, swing eighths, dotted eighth + sixteenth, sextuplets, 3:2 polyrhythm · 59 drum style presets with a pattern grid · Haptic beats (iPhone) · Background playback — keeps clicking while you read a score or with the screen locked · Record to MIDI — record your playing to the click and it writes the notes down as a piano roll (iPhone and iPad, reference only) ■ Pro (one-time lifetime purchase, not a subscription) · Full-song analysis — free covers the first 60 seconds · Save and revisit your analyses · Setlist — put your songs in show order and on stage you only press Next. Tempo, meter, and drum pattern all switch together. Practice mode lets you save the tempo you settle on straight back to the song. · Playback detection — leave it listening and it finds where songs change, splitting them into a list. Saving the song playing right now by hand is free for the first three · Export MIDI — save a Record to MIDI result as a MIDI file, ready to drop into your DAW ■ About accuracy Measured against 13 tracks with known answers: tempo was right on 13, key on 12. That is a small sample, so treat it as a guide. Chord detection is well below that and is a reference aid only — it goes wrong most often on ballads with dense harmony. Check it yourself with the free 60 seconds before you decide. Record to MIDI is a reference aid too. In one test — 14 bars of a straight 8-beat drum groove, recorded at a live venue with an iPhone on the music stand — it got the kick and snare right in 13 of 14 bars and caught 43 of 56 hi-hat hits. Recording and viewing the result are free, so try it on your own playing first. ■ No internet needed All analysis runs on your device. No account, no server, no ads. Audio from the microphone never leaves your device. The only recording kept is the last one you make yourself in Record to MIDI, and it stays on your device too. ■ Made for · Sound engineers who need a song's tempo fast, on site · Mixing engineers who need delay and reverb times that match the BPM · Performers who change tempo song by song through a set · Drummers practising triplets and polyrhythms

Screenshots

SCOUT3 screens
TempoScope4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: SCOUT at 16.0 against TempoScope's 18.0. 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. SCOUT sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and TempoScope sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
SCOUT versus TempoScope: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSCOUTTempoScope
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEchelon AudioHYO SEOP LEE

In-app purchases

1 purchases

SCOUT

One-time1
  • SCOUT Pro$4.99
1 purchases

TempoScope

One-time1
  • TempoScope Pro$2.99

Questions

Is SCOUT free?
SCOUT is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TempoScope free?
TempoScope is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do SCOUT or TempoScope have ads?
Neither SCOUT nor TempoScope shows ads.

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