MusiClock vs Complete Rhythm Trainer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MusiClock
This app simplifies music theory and scales for guitar and piano players. It helps users practice improvisation, soloing, and jamming with interactive tools and backing tracks. Learn scales and transpose to different keys instantly, even without prior music theory knowledge.
- Scale charts for guitar
- Interactive piano
- 8 different scales
- Professional backing tracks
- Instant key transposition
- Jamming and soloing practice
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*** Featured by Apple in "Best New Apps" *** *** #1 Paid Music App in 9 countries *** *** #1 Prize in Expressing Category, Interaction Awards 2017, New York *** WHAT GLOBAL APP REVIEWERS SAY ABOUT MUSICLOCK: “This app is pure genius, and in my 20 years of playing music I have never seen anything like it.” - apptreasurehunter.com "Apple loves this music app. You will too." - MacLife "This is incredibly useful, it teaches you how to play in all the different keys and scales... Super duper idea, fabulous for jamming and great for learning as well.. brilliant" - thesoundtestroom "If you want to teach improvisation to students of any age, this is a wonderful app" - techinmusiced.com "Slice of genius – Musiclock nails making music theory and scales far more approachable, providing a helping first step for total beginners, and a useful resource tool for musicians to dip into" - TapSmart "The key to making music that sounds good (–) is rooted in first finding (and playing) all those correct notes. MusiClock can definitely help in this regard" - iPhoneLife "As a rock and blues guitar player whose idea of relaxation is just having a good noodle, Musiclock is a pleasure to use. It can give your practice sessions a little bit of structure but without it feeling like a classroom music theory session" - musicappblog.com ------ *The ultimate scale tool & jam buddy for guitar and piano players* MusiClock is an easy-to-use improvisation tool that makes it dead easy to practice scales, jamming and soloing with a guitar or piano. Our award-winning approach helps you to hit all the right notes so that you can get jamming within seconds without any prior music theory training. REVOLUTIONARY LOGIC MusiClock transforms the complexity of different notes, scales and keys into a simple and powerful jam tool.The beautifully simple MusiClock enables you to jam with piano or guitar right away without prior knowledge of music theory. With the help of the revolutionary design, you can master all the scales you need for jamming in no time. Practice and expand your playing skills easily to more challenging keys – just rotate the wheel and you can transpose your jam instantly to any key. PLAY THE LEADS WITH PROFESSIONAL BACKING TRACKS Practice and play along with professional backing tracks. MusiClock features multiple tunes from various genres. Choose your favorite from pop, rock, heavy metal and more. Start playing leads with your favorite musical style in seconds. SPICE UP YOUR GROOVE Create new melodies by mixing different scales and backing tracks together. How would those delicious blues licks merge with heavy metal? What about mashing up bepop melodies with pop? However you choose to explore your creativity, MusiClock takes your jamming to the next level. FEATURES - Over 1000 easy-to-read guitar charts (require iOS 8 or higher!) - Interactive piano - 8 scales: Major, Natural Minor, Major Pentatonic, Minor, Pentatonic, Melodic Minor, Harmonic Minor, Blues, Dominant Bepop - 12 different keys for every scale and backing track - Professional backing tracks (pop, rock, blues, metal, jazz, dance, classical) - Staff showing notes and scales - Intuitive & beautifully simple design Follow us on - Facebook www.facebook.com/mymusiclock - Twitter https://twitter.com/mymusiclock - Instagram https://instagram.com/musiclock/ - Website www.getmusiclock.com FEEDBACK What was your jamming experience like? Let us know! Feel free to send us any questions/feedback at hello@mymusiclock.com.
Complete Rhythm Trainer
Master musical rhythm with this comprehensive training app. It offers progressive drills, diverse rhythm exercises, and interactive modes designed to make learning enjoyable. Track your progress and compete with others.
- 252 progressive drills
- Multiple time signatures and note values
- 5 drill types (imitation, reading, dictation)
- Arcade and polyrhythm modes
- Custom drill creation
- Teacher-student program features
- Cloud sync
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The ultimate rhythm training app for musicians. Learn to read, recognize, tap and write rhythms from simplest to most advanced. Rhythm is one of the most important aspects of music and one that every musician should become proficient with. Designed like a video game and with strong pedagogical concepts in mind, this app will make you master rhythm while rendering the learning process enjoyable. Features • 252 progressive drills arranged over 4 levels / 30 chapters • Extensive content: from simple time signatures to compound and asymmetric time signatures, from half notes and quarter notes to thirty-second notes, triplets, swing eighths, double dotted notes, quintuplets, ... • 5 drill types: rhythm imitation drills, rhythm reading drills, rhythm dictations, two-voice reading drills and two-voice dictations • Play a selection of 11 drills in arcade mode • Play and practice polyrhythms in a dedicated polyrhythm section • Most of the drills are randomly generated, enabling you to practice the studied rhythms as many times as needed • 23 instrument sound banks with actual recorded sounds: piano, guitar, pizzicato violin, conga, bongo, djembe, darabuka, woodblock, ... • Designed like a video game: earn 3 stars in each drill of a chapter to complete it. Or will you be able to obtain perfect 5-star scores? • Don't want to follow the preestablished path of progression? Create and save your own custom drills and rehearse them at your own convenience • Create full custom training programs and invite friends or students to join them. If for example you're a teacher you can create custom programs for your students, add drills every week and view their scores on private leaderboards • Never lose any progress: cloud sync across your various devices • 25 achievements to unlock • Leaderboards to compare arcade mode scores with other players worldwide • Nice and clean user interface with 2 display themes: light and dark • 4 sheet music display styles: modern, classic, handwritten and jazz • Designed by a musician and music teacher with a Royal Conservatory master's degree Full Version • Download the app and try out the first two chapters for free • One-time in-app purchase to unlock the full version on all your devices Having a problem? Got a suggestion? You can reach us at hello@completerhythmtrainer.com Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Complete Rhythm Trainer at Free against MusiClock's $8.99. Complete Rhythm Trainer also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.6) and review sentiment (88% vs 59%). MusiClock's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (7.1 vs 17.5). On 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
Complete Rhythm Trainer is free to download; MusiClock costs $8.99 up front. Complete Rhythm Trainer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. MusiClock asks for nothing beyond the download.
Complete Rhythm Trainer holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 31 and 105 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 59% of MusiClock's written reviews are positive against 88% of Complete Rhythm Trainer's.
MusiClock ships an update every 5 weeks, Complete Rhythm Trainer every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MusiClock | Complete Rhythm Trainer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $8.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.6 (31 ratings) | 4.7 (105 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 59.5% of reviews | 88.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 31 | 105 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 7.1 — better | 17.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 102 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | perTunes Oy | Binary Guilt |
Customer experience
MusiClock
Complete Rhythm Trainer
In-app purchases
MusiClock
No in-app purchases
Complete Rhythm Trainer
- Cloud Sync and Web access$0.991 Month
- Cloud Sync and Web access$9.991 Year
- Full Version$6.99
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