CRITICSCALE
Daily music games for nerds
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Nine daily music games, one streak. NEW: HOTWAX — name one artist and claim every hex they fit. Every game now has an archive, so you can replay any past day.
CRITICSCALE — DAILY MUSIC GAMES FOR PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY KNOW MUSIC.
Eight bite-sized games. One streak. A fresh round of every game at local midnight, every night. Free to play forever.
THE EIGHT GAMES
ERAPIN — A 30-second clip plays. Drag the pin along the timeline to the year you think it dropped. Closer is more points.
CHROMEVINYL — An album cover, blurred down to its palette. Identify the artist before the clues sharpen and the score drops.
CRITICWEB — Connect each music fact to the artist who lived it. Build the full web — no second guesses.
VINYLCRACK — Hangman, but vinyl. Guess the artist letter by letter. Eight wrong picks and the record shatters.
FAKEVINYL — Four album covers. One is real. Three are convincing fakes. Five rounds of pure paranoia.
BANDGRID — Sixteen tiles. Four hidden categories of four. Group them all without burning four mistakes.
ORIGINMAP (Pro) — A song plays. Drop a pin on the map where you think the artist is from.
BEATBLITZ — Pick a music prompt. Type as many correct answers as you can before the clock dies. Rare answers buy you more time.
ONE STREAK, EVERY DAY
Play any game on a given day to keep your streak alive. Build it one day at a time, lose it in a missed midnight, defend it with a streak shield.
FRIENDS, NOT FEEDS
Add friends, compare daily scores on the leaderboard, and challenge anyone to a 1v1 head-to-head round. No algorithmic feed, no follower counts, no rage. Just receipts.
NO ADS. NO TRACKING. NO NONSENSE.
We don't run third-party advertising. We don't track you across other apps. We don't sell your data. The app is free; Pro is optional.
PRO
Pro unlocks past challenges (replay any previous day's round), Originmap, Endless Erapin, and a few quality-of-life upgrades. Subscription billed by Apple, cancellable any time from your subscription settings.
QUESTIONS
support@criticscale.com — bugs, account help, anything
privacy@criticscale.com — privacy and data requests
criticscale.com — eight games, one streak, see for yourself
Made for music nerds.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Ratings & Reviews
HOTWAX — a new daily game. A 31-hex board of genres, countries, eras and awards. Name one artist and claim every hex they fit. Chains score more than singles, so the right name can light up half the board.
Archives for HOTWAX and FLIPTRACK. Every daily game now has an archive — browse past days on a calendar and replay any of them.
BEATBLITZ got much bigger. The prompt pool grew from 108 to 907, with over 30,000 accepted answers pulled from real artist catalogues.
VINYLCRACK counts properly now. The letters counter was stuck on the same number all game; it counts down as you reveal the name and shows your lives beside it.
FAKEVINYL is actually solvable. Some rounds showed a fake identical to the real cover. Every cover is now checked to make sure the difference is visible before it can appear.
Vinny has more to say. He no longer repeats himself in the same run, shows up on time in BANDGRID, and stays out of the way of the keyboard.
The developer, CARLOS ANDRES SALAME AROSEMENA, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Location
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- CARLOS ANDRES SALAME AROSEMENA
- Size
- 57.4 MB
- Category
- Trivia
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Contains
User-Generated Content
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- 2,500 Vinyl Stars $9.99
- 1,200 Vinyl Stars $4.99
- 550 Vinyl Stars $2.99
- 100 Vinyl Stars $0.99
- CriticScale Pro (Yearly) $29.99
- CriticScale Pro (Monthly) $4.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Carlos Salame
