Reviews for iReal Pro: Backing Tracks

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20 reviews

Review by Paul Keeping
β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… (5/5) October 15, 2023

Don’t normally pay premium for music apps, but am really glad to have made the investment. Great for jazz, but also for pop and rock. You can search online via forums, but once you’ve imported to your device you don’t need to be online to view your chord charts. I’m still exploring the potential for […]

Review by Wouter van Dijk
β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… (5/5) May 16, 2024

As a professional guitar and double bass player this has been my and my colleagues’ go to app for many years. Make playlists, transpose them, share them with your combo or the substitute who will be filling in, and just start playing! Writing a new sheet is not the most intuitive thing in the world, […]

Review by Alex Otten
β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜† (4/5) September 16, 2025

This app is good but the new double time feature is backwards. The half time button plays double time and vice versa.

Review by Rajesh Kongari
β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜† (4/5) July 24, 2025

Works well. I have a problem. There is not countdown for pick up notes before the bar. pls look into..

Review by Adnan Abed
β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… (5/5) July 25, 2025

the best app that is really did a progrss in my process of learning guitar. with the lack of a band that I can practice with, this app developed my skills of listening and keeping the rythme Δ…s I play with the drum and other instruments. i highly recommend it.

Review by Rachael Johnson
β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜† (4/5) July 27, 2025

amazing app great for musicians. everyone on the gig uses them. you can send people your setlist in your keys and even write your own compositions in there. The only reason I am not giving it 5β˜† is because you can’t log in and save any playlists. if you lose your phone, you lose all […]

Review by peehh
β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… (5/5) September 4, 2025

Need quick fix. Latest version got bug. If i want to insert text in edit mode, i cannot scroll up. I can only see the bottom part of the page. Helpp UPDATE: IReal Pro team fixed my issue!! Great job guys. i love this app sooooo much!! 5 star!!

Review by Gabe DeChellis
β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜†β˜† (3/5) September 1, 2025

mannn, before this last update it was five stars but yall messed it up. glitches galore. half the time when I press start on the backing track it has 2 backing tracks start at different times and it just sounds like slop. please fix it

Review by Goran Z. Losic
β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… (5/5) September 27, 2025

I had iReal Pro in my old Xiaomi smartphone.. destroyed and I couldn’t find my purchase Data to reinstall App in my new (also Xiaomi) phone. Thanks to Warren help (iReal Pro tech support) my problem was solved with precise instructions in no time ! Thanks again.. and best regards to all iReal Pro users […]

Review by Claude W
β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜† (4/5) September 2, 2025

It’s hilarious that on the description it says “realistic sounding” band. It’s just atrocious 90s MIDI synth, especially the guitars. However, it’s a great practice tool, especially for tricky chord progressions. Recommended.

Review by H C
β˜…β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜† (2/5) September 23, 2025

I liked it for a while but if you want to correct charts in here it’s real klutzy. for some reason it always unpairs my earbuds. No other app does that. Not YouTube or anything like that. Just this one. speaking of YouTube, that’s the app I’ve been going to instead of this one lately. […]

Review by Shen Shih
β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†β˜† (1/5) August 28, 2025

Latest update completely destroyed the usability if the app. It has drag and drop enabled by default (no way to disable it). So if you accidentally rest your finger for a second on a playlist or a song it gets stuck and moves them. Now instead of sliding my playlists downwards to go to the […]

Review by A Google user
β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… (5/5) February 10, 2019

Wonderful app for having a backing track. There are hundreds (or more?) of standards and others that you can improvise with- they’ll play in any key, at any tempo, wlith a great sounding combo in as background (great sounding with decent amplifier/speaker). You can put difficult sections in indefinite loop. The chords you see can […]

Review by Trevor Dennison
β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜†β˜† (3/5) January 4, 2025

Sometimes, I am shocked by the songs that are available in the forums, but way more often, I am disheartened by the absence of VERY popular songs. It doesn’t help that the self-appointed moderators of the forums are constantly policing people for adding more songs. Maybe if they weren’t so critical, I wouldn’t have to […]

Review by David Nauheim
β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… (5/5) May 19, 2024

Took a while for me to fully appreciate this app, but this a great tool for a student of jazz. You can get an accurate chart of any jazz standard, transpose to any key, export a pdf of your chart–you get a back track, change the tempo. I think I have access to 1200 songs. […]

Review by Peter Rubie
β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜† (4/5) June 15, 2024

This is app really helps in reducing the amount of paper music I need to take on a gig sometimes. BUT, take the time to plan a set and make sure the changes to the tunes are correct. lt has its limitations of course, not being able to mark rhythmic accents being one of them. […]

Review by A Google user
β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜† (4/5) February 2, 2020

I love this app. I used it to enter chords from the Rikky Rooksby songwriting book and got addicted. So I can go through the exercises in the book without my computer. It’s my fav chord progression making software. I wish I could audition chords before writing them. Also more playing styles and instruments please!!!! […]

Review by J.R. Royce
β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… (5/5) June 11, 2024

This app is an indispensable part of every practice session. The portable, easy access to 1000+ jazz standards alone is worth the price. But these guys also included a little fake band to back you while you practice the songs. 🀘 You can edit the band by choosing instruments, turning them off and on, and […]

Review by JD HYPNO
β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… (5/5) September 9, 2024

GREAT to have access to such a huge library of user-created arrangements! Searching for songs can be hit-or-miss, and I find it too complex to input my own songs, but I don’t read music and don’t know how to chart, so maybe that’s normal. One-time price reasonable. There’s no way to input melody, but that’s […]

Review by Jan Wallace
β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… (5/5) November 5, 2021

I LOVE this program! Not only can you find thousands of charts to jazz, blues and rock tunes (even share the charts over many different methods), but the practice/play along function is invaluable. Before I purchased this program (at such a reasonable rate!), I was constantly trying to find backing tracks for practicing both vocals […]