The MT Pit vs goodtags
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The MT Pit
Access a vast library of instrumental backing tracks for musicals, featuring full orchestrations. Perfect for auditions, rehearsals, and live performances, these high-quality recordings provide a professional substitute for a live orchestra.
- Instrumental backing tracks for musicals
- Full orchestration available
- Library of expanding titles
- Live recorded tracks
- Industry elite musicians
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The MT Pit provides instrumental backing tracks for musicals. Gain access to an ever expanding library of titles, which contain the full orchestration (songs, overture, underscores). Use your device to play tracks for your auditions, rehearsal, but most importantly, your performance. All tracks are recorded live, with industry elite musicians, giving you the best substitute to a full orchestra.
goodtags
Access and organize a vast library of community-generated barbershop song snippets. Play learning tracks, watch videos, and find specific tags with an interactive interface.
- Organize favorites by label
- Navigate lists in sheet music view
- Play starting note for tags
- Find tags by ID
- Play learning tracks
- Watch learning videos
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Goodtags provides a rich interactive interface to the library of community-generated barbershop tags, or song snippets, from the barbershoptags.com database. Features: - Store favorites on your device, and organize them by label - Navigate lists without leaving the sheet music view - Play the starting note for a tag - Find tags by id - Play learning tracks - Watch learning videos
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: goodtags at 89% against The MT Pit's 35%. goodtags also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.2). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
goodtags holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 29 and 19 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 35% of The MT Pit's written reviews are positive against 89% of goodtags's.
The MT Pit ships an update every 3 months, goodtags every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 15, 2026 and August 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The MT Pit | goodtags |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (29 ratings) | 4.7 (19 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 35.0% of reviews | 88.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 19 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TheMTPit, LLC. | Kenji Matsuoka |
Customer experience
The MT Pit
goodtags
In-app purchases
The MT Pit
No in-app purchases
goodtags
No in-app purchases
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