Comparison

Guide Track vs Beatly Pro

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

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About

Guide Track

This tool helps musicians quickly create precise guide tracks for recording. It allows users to input song structure, chords, and beat styles to generate smart click tracks, chord charts, and even basic drum and bass lines.

Highlights
  • Create precise guide tracks
  • Input song structure, chords, and beat styles
  • Generate smart click tracks
  • Create chord sheets
  • Automated bass track
  • Over 35 stock drum patterns
  • Supports Inter-app audio and Audiobus 2
Features
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From the US Store: Songwriter's pre-production tool extraordinaire ! ***** by Mythmongrel - Version - 1.2.0 - Oct 31, 2014 The best app for easily laying out the form of a composition. It's does exactly what it's meant to do and it keeps getting better. Highly recommend it. Accept No Substitutes. ***** by Focusking - Version - 1.2.0 - Oct 9, 2014 Get this app, and you are in for a pleasant surprise; it's versatile, it's multi-purpose, and it knocks the competition out of the game. And, unlike other developers, this dev responds promptly, and positively. Are you a songwriter, electronic composer or are you in a band? Do you record your music and sometimes have trouble getting started or laying down tracks to record on top of? If the answer to either of these questions is yes then you owe it to yourself to own Guide Track! Guide Track is the primary go-to tool when you want to quickly create a precise guide track for recording when you know the song structure and the style. Simply enter in the time signature (which you can change at any time during the song), which chords (or rests) for how many beats and the beat style—Guide Track does the rest for you! Use inter-app audio or AudioBus 2 or save your track to file and you are ready to start recording for real with a perfect smart click track and guide chords, drums and bass. Save hours of messing around and get to what matters—your creativity. Once done you can mute the guide track to reveal your perfectly structured recording. It's like a sculptor using a mold when casting, except instead of bronze, you end up with perfectly structured music. You may want to even keep your guide track in there or record one of the parts such as bass or arpeggios as a real track, especially if you use a professional synth via MIDI out. You can also use Guide Track to print out chord sheets for your band or to capture song ideas or for recording aid. Features • Records stereo WAV file that can be copied and pasted, saved to Dropbox or emailed • Supports Inter-app recording and Audiobus 2 • Saves 5-track Type 1 MIDI files • Direct output to any MIDI device • All major chord families covered with chord inversions with choice of accidentals • Independent automated bass track with separate octave and sound controls • Change bass note to any desired value for a given chord change • Over 35 stock drum patterns • Click and Count-in • Add lyrics to your score • 128 GM Sounds on two different synths • Several chord play styles including 6 arpeggio patterns • Instant chord sheet which can be printed or emailed as PDF • Add various rests or chords as needed • Transpose songs any time • Time signatures that readjust beat structures for you • Preview chords before inserting • Undo and Redo • Automate changes to tempo, time signature, volume, play style and more during playback • Define up to 6 reusable named sections for ultra fast song creation • Innovative section navigator helps you move around your song • Rearrange or insert chords, rests or sections • Looping playback

About

Beatly Pro

Generate unlimited original looped music in various genres. Features include a powerful piano roll, chord progression builder, and stem exporting. Ideal for creators needing unique soundtracks.

Highlights
  • Unlimited original looped music generation
  • Multiple genre styles (rap, lo-fi, chiptune, cinematic, dance)
  • Advanced piano roll with undo and pattern editor
  • Chord progression builder
  • Export to MIDI and render stems
  • Sample recorder and import
  • Audiobus and Ableton Link sync support
Features
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Beatly Pro is a generative music studio for moments when you want to create but need a spark. Generate rap-inspired, lo-fi, chiptune, cinematic, and dance instrumentals, then shape them into your own tracks with hands-on arranging, editing, mixing, and export tools. Beatly Pro is not an AI music generator. It creates music on your device from curated patterns, musical rules, and controlled randomness—no prompts, cloud generation, or trained AI models. Style-aware melodies follow the harmony and develop across the arrangement, while varied instrument levels and effects give each new track its own balance and character. Whether you need quick inspiration, a backing track, or fresh material for a larger production, Beatly Pro takes you from the first generated idea to a finished track. FEATURES • Generate as many new musical ideas as you like • Create and arrange up to 8 bars of music • Build tracks across up to 7 mixer channels • Edit notes in a flexible piano roll with undo, velocity controls, copy and paste, per-beat transposition, a chord-aware keyboard lock, and reusable custom patterns • Build your own chord progressions and change the key or chord of individual beats • Regenerate one instrument part while keeping the rest of your track • Let Song Mode arrange the generated bars for you • Set the key and tempo, or let Beatly choose them • Mix every channel with volume, solo, mute, low-pass filtering, resonance, decimation, reverb, delay, and compression • Record your own samples or import WAV and AIFF audio • Import SF2 SoundFont banks • Drag and drop WAV samples and SF2 sound banks • Save and recall drum-kit presets • Import a four-beat region from a MIDI file into the piano roll, with optional transposition • Export the complete track as MIDI or create separate MIDI files for each instrument • Render a WAV mix, individual stems, or a seamless loop of the active mix • Record a live performance to WAV • Send MIDI with configurable channel assignments and drum-note mappings • Connect through Audiobus with the full audio mix and separate MIDI outputs for drums and each instrument group • Synchronize tempo and transport with Ableton Link • Save your tracks and return to them later WHO IS BEATLY PRO FOR? Beatly Pro is made for producers, composers, singers, artists, filmmakers, game developers, content creators, practicing musicians, and anyone curious about generative music. HOW DOES IT WORK? Open Beatly Pro and tap Play. The app chooses instruments, tempo, key, and musical patterns, then creates up to 8 bars—32 beats—of instrumental music. Tap Next whenever you want a different idea. Every generated track is yours to shape. Rearrange or repeat its bars, change the tempo or key, swap sounds, adjust the mix, regenerate one instrument, or open the piano roll and edit the notes yourself. Choose from five styles: Default, Lo-fi, Chiptune, Cinematic, and Dance. Default is well suited to rap-inspired beats, while every style brings its own instruments and musical character. For more control, use the chord progression builder to define the harmony, or create custom bar patterns that Beatly can use in future tracks. You can also change the key or chord of any beat, and Beatly will transpose its notes to match. When your track is ready, save it, export it as MIDI, record your performance, render a WAV mix, create stems, or export a seamless loop for use in another project. You can also connect Beatly Pro to your studio through MIDI, Audiobus, or Ableton Link. CAN I USE MY OWN SOUNDS? Yes. Record a sample inside the app, import a WAV or AIFF file, or load an SF2 SoundFont bank. Samples tuned to C will usually give you the most predictable melodic results. Enjoying Beatly Pro? A rating or review on the App Store means a great deal. You can also support future development through the optional tip jar.

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Beatly Pro at 4.5 against Guide Track's 3.9. Beatly Pro also leads on review sentiment (82% vs 50%) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Guide Track's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.6). On price, ads 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

Guide Track costs $4.99 and Beatly Pro $4.99 up front. Beatly Pro sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Guide Track asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Beatly Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 38 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Guide Track's written reviews are positive against 82% of Beatly Pro's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Guide Track ships an update every 2 months, Beatly Pro every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Guide Track versus Beatly Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGuide TrackBeatly Pro
Price$4.99$4.99
Rating3.9 (8 ratings)4.5 (38 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews82.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings838 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB80 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTechné MediaAntonin Charvat

Customer experience

Guide Track

All ratings8 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Beatly Pro

All ratings37 ratings
Positive89.2%
Neutral2.7%
Negative8.1%
Written reviews28 reviews
Positive82.1%
Neutral7.1%
Negative10.7%

In-app purchases

None

Guide Track

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Beatly Pro

One-time2
  • Small tip$1.99
  • Large tip$3.99

Questions

Is Guide Track free?
Guide Track costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Beatly Pro free?
Beatly Pro costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Guide Track or Beatly Pro?
Beatly Pro is rated higher. Guide Track averages 3.9 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while Beatly Pro averages 4.5 from 38 ratings.
Do Guide Track or Beatly Pro have ads?
Neither Guide Track nor Beatly Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Guide Track or Beatly Pro?
Guide Track ships an update every 2 months, and Beatly Pro every 3 weeks. Most recently, Guide Track was updated on October 26, 2026 and Beatly Pro on October 24, 2026.

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