StringMaster Pro vs Solitvde Reverb
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
StringMaster Pro
This advanced music app helps musicians of all levels learn and master fretted instruments. It offers tools for chords, scales, songwriting, and includes a tuner and fretboard learning system. Supports a wide range of instruments and integrates with wireless Fretlight Guitars.
- Chord building and detection
- Fretboard learning system
- Advanced songwriting tools
- Chromatic tuner and metronome
- Instrument comparison
- MIDI output
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Introducing StringMaster Pro – the pinnacle of advanced music applications for iPad and Mac, tailored for musicians ranging from relative beginners to seasoned guitarists & other fretted instrument musicians. The StringMaster family has five versions catering to diverse needs with StringMaster Pro seamlessly integrating all features, making it the ultimate companion for any fretted instrument including wireless Fretlight Guitars. Unlock a world of possibilities with support for chords, chord tones, scales, and songwriting, backed by a chromatic tuner, fretboard learning, instrument comparison, and more. The StringMaster family boasts over 150,000 users and having held the #1 Music App position in 34 countries. StringMaster Pro supports an array of instruments, from acoustic and electric guitars to bass guitars, banjos, mandolins, ukuleles, pianos, and even balalaikas. Dive into a rich sound library with distortion, reverb, or piano options for any instrument. Whether you're a guitarist, bassist, or multi-instrumentalist, StringMaster Pro has you covered. Key features include chord building and detection, a comprehensive fretboard learning system, advanced songwriting tools, and flexible alternate tuning and capo support for any instrument in any orientation. StringMaster 4 introduces piano keyboard support, allowing seamless mapping of guitar chords to the piano keyboard. Explore the robust capabilities of StringMaster Pro: * Play and discover chords and fingering with natural tones. * Display and play scales, including scale runs up the fretboard. * Visualize chord notes, suggested fingering, and Chord Tones. * Utilize the unique Note Finding capability to learn notes and their relative positions on the fretboard. * Benefit from the integrated Chromatic Tuner and Metronome, playable in the background. * Leverage StringMaster's chord-naming algorithms based on finger positions. * Unleash your creativity with the Song Writer, recommending chord progressions and facilitating songwriting. * Master instruments by comparing chords, patterns, and fingerings across a variety of instruments. * Output MIDI from played notes and play along with MIDI tracks from the built-in library. Experience the next level of musical exploration and education with StringMaster Pro – where versatility meets excellence. Join the global community of musicians who have made StringMaster their go-to app for musical innovation. Download StringMaster Pro now and elevate your musical journey to new heights! Note: Fretlight Ready™ designates that an app can send its data over Bluetooth to a Fretlight® guitar and light its fretboard. To learn more about Fretlight guitars go to www.fretlight.com This Application is developed and maintained by Great Apptitude, an independent app developer for use with the Fretlight Guitar. Optek Music Systems, the owner of the Fretlight Guitar brand, accepts no responsibility for the development, maintenance or support for this Application.
Solitvde Reverb
This app offers a unique modulating shimmer reverb effect with a streamlined signal path designed for efficient CPU usage. It features granular pitch-shifting for a glassy shimmer and modulation-safe controls for expressive sound design. Explore deep sonic textures with syncable LFOs and an envelope follower.
- Modulating shimmer reverb AUv3
- Granular pitch-shifting
- Modulation-safe controls
- Tempo-syncable LFOs
- Envelope follower
- Eight-line feedback delay network
- Factory and user presets
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Solitvde is a modulating shimmer reverb AUv3. We've packed early reflections, a diffusion engine, a modulation tank and a feedback delay network into one streamlined signal path, all tuned to run light on CPU. Inside the recirculating tank, a few granular pitch-shifting lines give a glassy, climbing shimmer. It's built around one principle: tweaking a parameter never introduces a click or a pop. Every control is modulation-safe from the get-go, which opens up a whole second range of expression and modulation to explore. Two tempo-syncable LFOs, a random source, and an envelope follower tracking the input can route to almost any control, so the space and time of the reverb fold in on themselves to give us solitude, at long last. FEATURES - Eight-line feedback delay network: Size, Density, and a true RT60 Decay in seconds. - Recirculating octave and fifth shimmer voices. - Two-pole tail damping that can roll off the high end. - Freeze as an amount, rather than a toggle, to hold the tail indefinitely. - Multimode filter (low-pass, high-pass, band-pass) in multiple signal placements, plus a low cut to prevent rumble accumulating. - Pre-delay, early reflections, stereo width, and mix controls. - Modulation matrix: two LFOs, a random source, and an envelope follower, routable to almost any control. Assign a source on a fader. LFOs sync to host tempo. - Factory presets to start from, plus the option to save your own. COMPATIBILITY (macOS) Runs standalone and as an AUv3 audio unit. Compatible with Logic Pro, Ableton Live, GarageBand, and any host that supports AUv3 effects on macOS 14 or later. COMPATIBILITY (iOS) Runs standalone and as an AUv3 audio unit. Compatible with GarageBand, AUM, Cubasis, and any host that supports AUv3 effects on iOS 17 or later. — Timothy J. Barraclough / Horse Parade
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Solitvde Reverb at $6.99 against StringMaster Pro's $14.99. Solitvde Reverb also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 months). StringMaster Pro's advantage is ratings volume (20 vs 3) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
StringMaster Pro costs $14.99 and Solitvde Reverb $6.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Solitvde Reverb holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: StringMaster Pro has 20 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
StringMaster Pro ships an update every 3 months, Solitvde Reverb every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | StringMaster Pro | Solitvde Reverb |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $14.99 | $6.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.5 (20 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 171 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Great Apptitude Pty Ltd | Flora Creative Ltd. |
Customer experience
StringMaster Pro
Solitvde Reverb
In-app purchases
StringMaster Pro
No in-app purchases
Solitvde Reverb
No in-app purchases
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