Comparison

Staventabs vs Song Wizard

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

Head to head
About

Staventabs

Compose and edit musical scores and tablature with a user-friendly interface. Create new pieces from scratch or templates, input notes intuitively, and enhance your compositions with advanced editing tools. Practice your songs with playback and metronome features, and manage your projects seamlessly.

Highlights
  • Score and tablature editing
  • Intuitive note input
  • Virtual piano and fingerboard
  • Instrument previews
  • Playback and metronome
  • AI-powered scale suggestions
  • MIDI and MusicXML import/export
Features
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A simple notation and tab editor, Staventabs could become your indispensable helper in music creation. Use smart and convenient tools of Staventabs for composing and improving scores on your iPad or iPhone. Get inspired by viewing majestic classics scores or practicing good old jazz. Easily edit sheet music and tablature with user friendly interface like never before. Share musical inspiration with your band using Staventabs files. Create music • Start your new score from the scratch or with one of the two dozen templates² • Enter notes with intuitive instrument-independent interface or virtual Piano Keyboard • Explore and edit your score with sophisticated Piano Roll and Drums Editor • Choose from 22 groups of the instruments (keyboards, guitars, strings, drums, percussions, etc.)² listening their preview fragments • Use context-sensitive selection for bars, chords and tracks • Modify notes with dots, tuplets and ties • Make your music alive with lyrics • Customize clefs, key signatures and time signatures for bars • Change dynamics • Switch between enharmonic equivalents of the notes • Use customizable voices • Setup tunings with the large value of presets • Navigate around the score with Tracks board • Easily copy, paste and remove selected areas • Switch fast between tablature and stave inputs • Edit tabs with easy-to-use numeric keypad or virtual Fingerboard • Input notes by Staff Positions • Set the visibility for instrument parts in the score • Edit title and information about creators • Select and customize horizontal, vertical or page layout for your score • Use Scientific or Helmholtz pitch notation when entering notes • Add repeat signs and volta brackets • Don’t worry about losing data thanks to auto-saving • Connect your MIDI devices to Staventabs Practice your songs • Play the whole composition or selected fragment • Customize metronome clicking and countdown • Change track’s audio properties on-the-fly • Loop the playback of the desired part Improve compositions • Mark non-playable objects with "Highlight issues" • Use the "Starred scales" AI to determine the chromatic scales most similar to the selected area • Adjust the semitones of the selected area notes to the chromatic scale • Customize the chromatic scale for adjustment³ • Diminish, augment and subdivide note values • Transpose pitches by semitones Manage projects • Browse your projects with convenient file manager • Store your compositions in iCloud Drive and keep them up-to-date across all your iOS devices • Create new projects and duplicate existing (up to three editable projects in free version)¹ • Listen to preview fragments of the scores directly from the files menu • Open SNT, MIDI, MusicXML, Compressed MusicXML (MXL), Guitar Pro (GPX, GP5, GP4, GP3) and Karaoke (KAR) files • Edit MIDI, MusicXML, MXL, Guitar Pro and Karaoke files¹ • Organize your files from a desktop computer using iTunes or iCloud Drive • Open files from Mail and other applications (Dropbox, Box, etc.) • Convert files between supported formats¹ Share your brand-new hits with friends • Email your scores and tabs right from Staventabs • Print your score¹ • Export to PDF and MPEG-4 AAC¹ Features marked with superscript numbers are available via the corresponding in-app purchases: ¹ Unlimited Projects ² Additional Instruments ³ Advanced Composing

About

Song Wizard

Easily create original songs with automatic composition tools. Customize song structure, melody, lyrics, and accompaniment. Integrate with other music apps for advanced production.

Highlights
  • Automatic song composition
  • Flexible song editing
  • Chord progression generation
  • Melody editing tools
  • Accompaniment options
  • Inter-app audio integration
Features
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Automatic song generation, flexible song editing. - SONG COMPOSITION (verse1, verse2, chorus,...) - SONG PROPERTIES (key, tonality, time signature, tempo, genre...) - CHORD PROGRESSION (automatic chord progression) - MELODY (upward, downward, horizontal, u-shaped, n-shaped, wavy, and free editing) - LYRICS - ACCOMPANIMENT (various keyboards, bass, and drums pattern) - INTER-APP AUDIO (using instrument app as your sound, recording & mixing your song with DAW app)

Screenshots

Staventabs4 screens
Song Wizard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Staventabs at none against Song Wizard's shown. Staventabs also leads on review sentiment (65% vs 45%) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Song Wizard's advantage is rating (4.3 vs 3.8) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.4). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Staventabs sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Song Wizard sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Song Wizard holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 71 and 24 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 65% of Staventabs's written reviews are positive against 45% of Song Wizard's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Staventabs ships an update every 3 weeks, Song Wizard every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Staventabs versus Song Wizard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStaventabsSong Wizard
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (71 ratings)4.3 (24 ratings) — better
Positive reviews64.9% of reviews — better45.5% of reviews
Number of ratings71 — better24
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.412.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size128 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIvan KorovinAmoriyA

Customer experience

Staventabs

All ratings71 ratings
Positive66.2%
Neutral11.3%
Negative22.5%
Written reviews228 reviews
Positive64.9%
Neutral12.3%
Negative22.8%

Song Wizard

All ratings24 ratings
Positive79.2%
Neutral8.3%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews22 reviews
Positive45.5%
Neutral18.2%
Negative36.4%

Bugs and requests

Staventabs

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Imported MIDI files lose instrument assignments
  • Disappearing projects after updates
  • Inability to adjust note lengths in piano roll
  • Metronome not audible over instrument playback

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add support for grace notes and ornaments
  • Implement repeat/coda symbols
  • Allow custom font and layout options
  • Integrate MIDI input and output
  • Improve chord recognition accuracy

Song Wizard

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Staventabs

One-time3
  • Advanced composing$9.99
  • Unlimited projects$10.99
  • Additional instruments$10.99
1 purchases

Song Wizard

One-time1
  • Song Wizard Pro$2.99

Questions

Is Staventabs free?
Staventabs is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Song Wizard free?
Song Wizard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Staventabs or Song Wizard?
Song Wizard is rated higher. Staventabs averages 3.8 out of 5 from 71 ratings, while Song Wizard averages 4.3 from 24 ratings.
Do Staventabs or Song Wizard have ads?
Song Wizard shows ads; Staventabs does not.
Which is updated more often, Staventabs or Song Wizard?
Staventabs ships an update every 3 weeks, and Song Wizard every 2 months. Most recently, Staventabs was updated on November 1, 2026 and Song Wizard on November 2, 2026.

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