Comparison

Staventabs vs DrillStudioViewer

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

DrillStudioViewer

View marching band drill storyboards created with Drill Studio. This viewer allows real-time checking of movement direction, stride length, and individual performer actions in 3D. Playback can be synchronized with sound sources and adjusted by tempo.

Highlights
  • 3D realistic reproduction
  • Playback sync with sound source
  • Adjustable tempo playback
  • Display trajectory and stride length
  • Tracking display with zoom
  • Swap storyboard top/bottom
Features
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This is a viewer application that can read dsm files created by App "Drill Studio" for creating drill storyboards for marching bands. This app has no editing features. By uploading the dsm file (DrillStudio file) created in advance by the storyboard creator to the server and entering the information into the app, you can download and load it into the app. You can check the movement direction from your own point, the stride length, etc. in real time, and you can check the movement of the individual. ・Realistic reproduction in 3D display ・Play back in sync with the sound source ・Specify the tempo and play ・Play at the tapped tempo ・Display trajectory, stride length, direction of travel, etc. ・Swap the top and bottom of the storyboard ・Tracking display even when enlarged Equipped with various functions that are useful for various exercises.

Screenshots

Staventabs4 screens
DrillStudioViewer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DrillStudioViewer at none against Staventabs's 3. DrillStudioViewer also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.4). Staventabs's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months) and review sentiment (65% vs 43%). On price, ads and device support 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. DrillStudioViewer asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Staventabs ships an update every 3 weeks, DrillStudioViewer every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 13, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Staventabs versus DrillStudioViewer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStaventabsDrillStudioViewer
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (70 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews64.8% of reviews — better42.9% of reviews
Number of ratings70 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.413.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size121 MB173 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperIvan KorovinShinya Hattori

Customer experience

Staventabs

All ratings70 ratings
Positive65.7%
Neutral11.4%
Negative22.9%
Written reviews227 reviews
Positive64.8%
Neutral12.3%
Negative22.9%

DrillStudioViewer

Written reviews7 reviews
Positive42.9%
Neutral14.3%
Negative42.9%

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

DrillStudioViewer

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
None

DrillStudioViewer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Staventabs free?
Staventabs is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DrillStudioViewer free?
DrillStudioViewer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Staventabs or DrillStudioViewer have ads?
Neither Staventabs nor DrillStudioViewer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Staventabs or DrillStudioViewer?
Staventabs ships an update every 3 weeks, and DrillStudioViewer every 5 months. Most recently, Staventabs was updated on September 13, 2026 and DrillStudioViewer on September 9, 2026.

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