BandPad vs SimpleTone
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.
SimpleTone
This application provides a straightforward virtual tuning fork. Simply select your desired pitch to tune your instrument. It aims to offer a no-nonsense, ad-free experience for musicians.
- Virtual tuning fork
- Pitch selection
- Ad-free experience
- Simple interface
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It's a virtual tuning fork. Select the pitch you want to tune to. That's it. I got tired of all the BS tuning apps that have ads and purchases built in. C'mon, we're better than this.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: SimpleTone at 2 against BandPad's —. BandPad's advantage is iOS requirement (6.0 vs 26.1). On price, rating, ratings volume and in-app purchases 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. 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 BandPad against 5.0 for SimpleTone. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | BandPad | SimpleTone |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Ads | — | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | — | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 26.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Amit Gur | Evan Brass |
Customer experience
BandPad
SimpleTone
In-app purchases
BandPad
No in-app purchases
SimpleTone
No in-app purchases
