Schubert String Quartets vs Essential Grooves
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Schubert String Quartets
Experience classical music with synchronized sheet music that scrolls automatically. Enjoy high-quality recordings of complete string quartets, with features like background playback and adjustable speed.
- Synchronized auto-scrolling sheet music
- Background playback
- AirPrint support
- Adjustable playback speed
- Complete string quartets
- High-quality recordings
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Historic Recording with Flowing Sheet Music SyncScore provides a new way of enjoying classic compositions. You can listen to the music with the score flows in a synchronized timing. Carefully hand-picked, high quality classic recordings. FEATURES - Synchronized auto-scrolling with sheet music. - Background play. - AirPrint support. - Slow down play rate with 0.5X button. ALBUM INFORMATİON Schubert Complete String Quartets Vienna Konzerthaus Quartet - Anton Kamper, 1st violin - Karl Maria Titze, 2nd violin - Erich Weiss, viola - Franz Kvarda, cello 53 tracks 6 hours 19 minutes TRACKS - String Quartet No.1, D.18 - String Quartet No.2, D.32 - String Quartet No.3, D.36 - String Quartet No.4, D.46 - String Quartet No.5, D.68 - String Quartet No.6, D.74 - String Quartet No.7, D.94 - String Quartet No.8, D.112 - String Quartet No.9, D.173 - String Quartet No.10, D.87 - String Quartet No.11, D.353 - String Quartet No.12, D.703 - "Rosamunde" String Quartet No.13, D.804 - "Death and the Maiden" String Quartet No.14, D.810 - String Quartet No.15, D.887
Essential Grooves
This app offers an interactive music listening experience, allowing users to control individual instrument stems. Adjust levels, tempo, and loops to create personalized mixes for singing and playing along. It provides an immersive way to engage with music albums.
- Stem control (mute, solo, pan, fade)
- Tempo control
- Looping functionality
- Lyrics display
- Adjustable instrument levels
- Immersive audio experience
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‘Essential Grooves’ is a MYXSTEM app release, allowing users to completely control the listening experience. The app features mute, solo, pan and fade for each stem along with tempo control, looping and lyrics. By adjusting the levels of each instrument (stem), musicians can build the perfect mix to play- and sing-along. All album-as-an-app releases from MYXSTEM deliver interactive audio to create an immersive musical experience.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Essential Grooves at every 10 months against Schubert String Quartets's every 38 months. Essential Grooves also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 18.0). Schubert String Quartets's advantage is price ($6.99 vs $9.99). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume 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
Schubert String Quartets costs $6.99 and Essential Grooves $9.99 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 — 5.0 for Schubert String Quartets against 5.0 for Essential Grooves. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Schubert String Quartets ships an update every 38 months, Essential Grooves every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Schubert String Quartets | Essential Grooves |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $6.99 — better | $9.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 38 months | Every 10 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 639 MB | 115 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zininworks Inc. | Myxstem |
Customer experience
Schubert String Quartets
Essential Grooves
In-app purchases
Schubert String Quartets
No in-app purchases
Essential Grooves
No in-app purchases
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