Comparison

BandPad vs Composer Pro

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

Screenshots

BandPad1 screens
Composer Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
BandPad versus Composer Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBandPadComposer Pro
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.5 (690 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better71.5% of reviews
Number of ratings2690 — better
Update frequency—Every 2 months
Ads—No
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterSubscription
Devices—iPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS6.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB161 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAmit Gur嵩 张

Customer experience

BandPad

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Composer Pro

All ratings685 ratings
Positive86.4%
Neutral5.5%
Negative8.0%
Written reviews260 reviews
Positive71.5%
Neutral7.7%
Negative20.8%

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

None

BandPad

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Composer Pro

Subscriptions4
  • Unlimited Access$6.997 Days
  • Pro Access$9.991 Month
  • Pro Access$49.991 Year
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  • Pro Access7 Days trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is BandPad free?
BandPad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Composer Pro free?
Composer Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, BandPad or Composer Pro?
BandPad is rated higher. BandPad averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Composer Pro averages 4.5 from 690 ratings.

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