SessionBand Blues 1 vs iPracticePro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SessionBand Blues 1
Create professional Blues music with a unique chord-based loop app. Easily build full tracks in various Blues styles using loops recorded by top session musicians, even without musical experience.
- Chord-based loop creation
- 15 classic Blues styles
- Royalty-free music
- Auto-transpose
- Automated mixing
- One-touch live recording
- Audiobus compatibility
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Create professional Blues tracks to your own chords in minutes with the award-winning SessionBand app - the world’s only chord-based loop app. For Blues musicians and songwriters, this unique app is the ultimate tool for jamming and writing, with full and complete Blues tracks just minutes away! It's also simple enough for non-musicians to create their own great-sounding, royalty-free music with. “Remarkably polished“ Forbes “Extraordinarily useful“ Jamie Cullum “Create like a master“ Engadget With over 16,000 stunning, chord-based Blues loops (included) individually recorded by 4 of the world's very best session musicians, SessionBand Blues instantly converts the chords you select into great sounding audio – wherever you are and whatever your ability. There are 15 different classic Blues styles included. Every single loop carefully engineered so you can instantly create your own tracks in those styles: from a slow Bonamassa 12/8 and a Muddy Waters shuffle, through various ballads, Texas and Blue Line shuffles all the way to uptempo Delta blues and Bluegrass. And there's a host of pro features like auto-transpose, automated mixing, one-touch live recording, and Audiobus compatibility - allowing you to seamlessly export our unique content into other top music apps like Garageband. It has never been easier or quicker to create your own studio quality music even if you can't play a note! If you love Blues – you will love SessionBand Blues! A Top 10 paid music app in 66 countries since launch. Hear exactly how SessionBand Blues sounds by watching the video at sessionbandapp.com The fastest way to create studio-quality Blues music... • Simply pick one of 15 awesome Blues styles • Choose your chords • Stretch or shorten loops in seconds • Build up a full track in minutes • Instantly hear your track across the other playing styles and tempos • Auto-transpose your entire track (not electronic pitch shift!) • Mix your track (manual or automated) • Adjust track tempo (+/- 15%) • Record direct to audio • Copy straight to other music apps • Share with the world! Get 4 of the world's top session musicians playing on your tracks... • Drums – Geoff Dugmore (Rod Stewart, Tina Turner, Taj Mahal, Newton Faulkner, Richard Ashcroft, Leona Lewis, Jimmy Page, Robbie Williams, Dido, Natalie Imbruglia, Steve Winwood...) • Guitars – Adam Goldsmith (Brian May, Meat Loaf, Robbie Williams, Elton John, Will Young, Ronan Keating, Beverley Knight, Gloria Estefan...) • Bass – Geoff Gascoyne (Sting, Georgie Fame, Van Morrison, Bill Bruford, Gloria Estefan, Jamie Cullum...) • Keyboards – Tom Cawley (Jack DeJohnette, Charlie Watts, Stacey Kent, Andrea Bocelli, Peter Gabriel...) Anyone can create and release professional Blues tracks with SessionBand... • No musical experience required • Simple, intuitive interface allows easy chord/loop selection and manipulation • Audition loops as you go • Build a full track in minutes with all-new 'Track Builder' • Highly educational and great fun Create great sounding real Blues music on the move... • All loops reside within the downloaded app • No internet access required once the app is downloaded • Create studio-quality music absolutely anywhere! Detailed Product Information • 15 Blues styles in tempo order: Slow 12/8; Slow Shuffle; Slow Blues Rock; Medium Shuffle; Blues Rock Ballad; Slow 6/4; 70s Medium Blues Rock; Texas Shuffle; Funky Blues; Medium 6/4; Blues Line Shuffle; Rock n Roll; Fast Shuffle; Mississippi Blues; Bluegrass • Tempos from 60bpm to 180bpm • 10 chord variations for every root note in all 15 styles: 6; 7; 7(b9); 9; 7(#9); maj7; m7(b5); m9; m7; maj 'stop' • Each of the 15 styles includes 15 alternative drum grooves and drum fills in addition to the 'main' drum pattern for that style • The exclusive musical content in this app is not duplicated in any of the other SessionBand apps • All loops are offered royalty-free and can be used freely in your own works
iPracticePro
This app offers a comprehensive suite of tools for musicians, including a chromatic tuner, extensive chord library, and customizable metronome. Practice scales, intervals, and complex chord progressions with adjustable tempos and time signatures. Explore fingering charts and reed adjustment information for wind instruments.
- Chromatic tuner with adjustable frequencies
- Extensive chord library with over 45 types
- Customizable metronome with adjustable BPM and time signatures
- Chord progression practice with over 50 progressions
- Pad for creating custom intervals and chords
- Saxophone fingering charts and reed adjustment info
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•Drones• The first part of the app allows you to play all chromatic notes in tunings from 432Hz to 444Hz in many different sounds. The notes sound continuously and it´s a perfect way to practice intervals, chords and scales. You also have the possibility to play the notes randomly in an adjustable period of time. The app supports quarter tones if you´ve chosen expert mode. Sounds: organ, piano, electric piano, strings, guitar, double bass, bassoon, clarinet, oboe, flute and sine •Chords• The chord section contains 5 chords in standard mode more than 45 chords in expert mode. The metronome allows you to practice in tempos from 30bpm up to 300bpm. It can be set to different time signatures like 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 7/4, 9/4, 11/4, 13/4. You can also select or deselect the downbeats and offbeats separately. You can listen and play to all chords in all twelve keys, see which notes are the chord notes and scale notes and read information about the chord and the corresponding scale. In addition to that, all chords can also be played randomly. You can choose to just randomly change the root or the root and the chord type. The app lets you filter the chords, which allows you to only randomly play the chords of for example the modes of melodic minor or harmonic minor. 45+ Chords: ▵7, 7, -7, ø7, o7, 5 69, ▵7#11, ▵7#5, ▵7#5(11), ▵7#9, ▵7#9b13 7sus4, 7susb9, 7#11, 7#5, 7b913, 7b9b13, 7b13, 7alt -6, -▵7, -▵7b13, -7b13, -7b9, -7#11, -∆7#11, phryg, ø713, o7b2b11 major, major/3, major/5, major/b9, major/9, major/b3, major/11, major/#11, major/b13, major/13, major/7, major/▵7 minor, minor/b3, minor/5 augmented, diminished Sounds: electric piano, piano, organ and strings •Progressions• In this section you can practice more than 50 chord progressions in all twelve keys. The metronome, with all its setting options, is also included in this section. The volume of the root note, third and septime or rather the tensions is adjustable. If you press one of the two random buttons, the app picks a random root or a random progression and root. 50+ progressions: II-7 V7 I▵7, II-7 V7alt I▵7, II-7 bII7#11 I▵7, II-7 V7b913 I▵7, II-7 V7b9b13 I▵7, II-7 V7susb9 I▵7 IIø7 V7 I-, Coltrane Changes and so on…see full list on my website. Sounds: electric piano, piano, organ and strings •Pad• Using the pad you can put together your own intervals and chords. You have four octaves and five sounds to choose from, with which you can select up to five tones. The tones can sound both simultaneously and one after the other. The metronome, with all its setting options, is also included in this section. You can choose out of these sounds: electric piano, piano, organ, strings and sine •Fingerings for saxophone and reed adjustment for saxophone and clarinet• There are fingering charts about standard fingerings, false fingerings, altissimo and quarter tones and information about reed adjustment of sides, table, tip, shoulder and heart. If you don´t play the saxophone, you can hide this part of the app. •Features• * Stealth Mode (Ear Training Mode). You can use stealth mode in drones, chords and progressions. This will hide the currently played chords and display them afterwards. * A practice timer that informs you when your set practice time has expired. * Landscape mode. * Light- and dark appearance (Night Shift). * You can set if you play a C, Bb, oder Eb Instrument. * Are you an advanced player? The expert mode offers you additional information which could be confusing to unexperienced musicians. If you have no idea what C▵7#5 means or if you have never heard of quarter tones you probably should choose the standard mode. * All sounds can be played from 432Hz to 444Hz.
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Verdict
SessionBand Blues 1 and iPracticePro both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 87% of iPracticePro's written reviews are positive against 54% of SessionBand Blues 1's. iPracticePro also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 5 months) and price ($5.99 vs $8.99). SessionBand Blues 1's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On rating, 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
SessionBand Blues 1 costs $8.99 and iPracticePro $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for SessionBand Blues 1 against 4.7 for iPracticePro. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iPracticePro has 242 ratings behind it against 32, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 54% of SessionBand Blues 1's written reviews are positive against 87% of iPracticePro's.
SessionBand Blues 1 ships an update every 5 months, iPracticePro every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SessionBand Blues 1 | iPracticePro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $8.99 | $5.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (32 ratings) | 4.7 (242 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 53.8% of reviews | 87.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 32 | 242 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 891 MB | 170 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | UK Music Apps Ltd | Steffen Weber |
Customer experience
SessionBand Blues 1
iPracticePro
User reviews
SessionBand Blues 1
From 32 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great sound quality
- 👍 Useful for practice and jamming
- 👍 Easy to use for beginners
- 👍 Good for sketching arrangements
- 👍 Creates professional sounding tracks
Room to improve
- 👎 Limited chord types (missing sus, dim, natural minor/major)
- 👎 Poor editing controls
- 👎 Synchronization issues when exporting
- 👎 Some styles lack organ track
- 👎 Organ track sometimes too high
iPracticePro
From 242 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great practice tool
- 💡 Fantastic ear training
- 💡 Useful for improvisation
- 👍 Easy to use
- 👍 Versatile for various instruments
Room to improve
- 🐛 Does not run in the background
- 🐛 Limited sound quality
- 🐛 Cannot limit roots and progressions simultaneously
- 🐛 Basic sound quality
- 🐛 No metronome in drone section
Bugs and requests
SessionBand Blues 1
Reported bugs
15 issues- Synchronization issues when exporting to GarageBand/FL Studio
- App does not work with Audiobus 3 on iOS 15
- Cannot be integrated into Cubasis
- App doesn't work in background
- Glitchy audio in multiple purchased apps
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- Major bug: cannot change tracks without leaving the app
- App stops working (100% probability)
- Drums sound dreadful when tempo is changed
- App lags and has distorted noises with external sound card
- App crashes when trying to edit tracks
- Audiobus won't initialize and is disabled
- Guitar soloing on segments that cannot be turned off
- App crashes on launch
- Major tempo issue: settings inaccessible after tempo change
- App crashes when trying to use it
Requested features
20 requests- Import individual loops easily into other DAWs
- Clarification on copyright for covers/parodies
- More chord types (sus, dim, natural minor/major)
- Ability to transpose organ track down
- Improved keyboard chord voicings
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- Dark mode option
- More styles and genre packs
- Ability to export single tracks
- Add a play/stop button to the edit screen
- More flexibility in rhythm instrument choices
- Option to mute guitar soloing on segments
- Fix tempo change issues with drums
- Add more blues styles with authentic blues sounds
- Improve UI and responsiveness
- Add an undo button
- Update interface to retina display
- More control over loop modulation
- Separate instruments for better control
- Fix scrolling chord sync issues
- More DAW compatibility for wave export
iPracticePro
Reported bugs
2 issues- App closes on its own after about 30 seconds
- Cannot limit roots and progression at the same time
Requested features
10 requests- Display notes of a chord when improvising
- Ability to create own chord progressions
- Random tempo oscillation with tweakable parameters
- Add sax voices
- Cover more than an octave
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- Add a metronome for drones
- Keep audio playing in the background
- Progress tracking with gamification
- Drones cycle down the scale
- Drone scale made of selected notes
In-app purchases
SessionBand Blues 1
No in-app purchases
iPracticePro
No in-app purchases
Questions
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