BandPad vs Composer Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BandPad
This app provides a practice and learning environment for wind instrument musicians. It offers music scores and play-along audio for various instruments, helping users learn and practice with interactive features.
- Music scores for wind instruments
- Play-along audio tracks
- Interactive LiveScore feature
- Note and fingering information
- Index of songs and etudes
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BandPad is a wind instruments practice and learning environment supplying music scores and play-alongs for students, teachers and bands. The application supports: Flute, Recoreder, Clarinet, Saxophone, Trumpet, French Horn, Trombone, Euphonioum and Tuba. The Application contains an index of songs,compositions and etudes (tunes) and corresponding play-along audio files that can be served from your device. BandPad enable you to see musical score (depnding on your screen size) and controlling the corresponding play-anlongs. BandPad featuring LiveScore - An interactive score page. while playing the beat indicator will help you locate your location on the staff. Pressing the score will open an information dialog displaying the note name, note fingering and other helpfull informain.
Composer Pro
Compose music scores with ease using a familiar keyboard layout. This app supports multiple parts, a wide range of instruments, and various musical symbols, making it suitable for both beginners and experienced musicians.
- Keyboard-style note input
- Support for up to 8 parts
- Over 100 instruments
- Variety of music symbols
- Configurable parts and settings
- Instrument transposition
- Export without watermark
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A handy sheet music writer app, make writing sheet music feels like typing notes. Tap on the keys with notation in a familiar keyboard layout. Provide a very easy way to compose music score. Support up to 8 parts, over 100 instruments, variety of music symbols and notations. It is very friendly for rookies while professional enough for experts. --------------------------------- UNLIMITED ACCESS SUBSCRIPTION - Support up to 8 parts - Config parts(add, delete, reorder) - Change key for each part - Change beat type and tempo - Config clef for each staff - Config sound for each part - No watermark image export - No Ads - Support 2nd voice part - Transpose instruments - Change keyboard size - Import data file - Unlock all 100+ instruments - The subscriptions are $9.99 monthly and $49.99 yearly with free trial - Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase - Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period - Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal - Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase - Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that service, where applicable - Terms of use: https://service.notationpad.com/terms_service.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: BandPad at 5.0 against Composer Pro's 4.5. BandPad also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4) and review sentiment (100% vs 72%). Composer Pro's advantage is ratings volume (690 vs 2) and device support. On price 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
Both are free to download. Composer Pro sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days. BandPad asks for nothing beyond the download.
BandPad holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Composer Pro has 690 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of BandPad's written reviews are positive against 72% of Composer Pro's.
| Parameter | BandPad | Composer Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.5 (690 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 71.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 690 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 months |
| Ads | — | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | — | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 161 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Amit Gur | 嵩 张 |
Customer experience
BandPad
Composer Pro
Bugs and requests
BandPad
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Composer Pro
Reported bugs
3 issues- Notes sometimes placed incorrectly
- Measures and compositions randomly deleted
- Inability to restore deleted content
Requested features
5 requests- Add more instruments beyond piano
- Allow changing time signatures and key signatures without subscription
- Improve note editing and placement
- Add export options to save/share compositions
- Provide more music notation tools and dynamics
In-app purchases
BandPad
No in-app purchases
Composer Pro
- Unlimited Access$6.997 Days
- Pro Access$9.991 Month
- Pro Access$49.991 Year
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