Music Note Trainer vs Lyrics View 3
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Music Note Trainer
Enhance your music skills with this app that bridges the gap between musical notation, keyboard layouts, and auditory recognition. It offers various training modes and real-time feedback to improve sight-reading, ear training, and music theory comprehension.
- Real-time pitch detection via microphone
- MIDI instrument support
- Virtual 88-key keyboard
- 20 question/answer modes
- Customizable learning targets
- Progress statistics and intelligent question generation
- Studio sound quality
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This app is to train our conversion among grand staff, piano keyboard, note name (C, D, E...), solfège (Do, Re, Mi...), Curwen hand sign, and sound (pitch), which can benefit our sight-reading, sight-singing, ear training, composition, music theory study, etc. Main Features: • Support real instruments by accurate real-time pitch detection through the microphone of your iPhone/iPad • Support MIDI connection to your instruments • Virtual keyboard supports full 88 keys • 20 question/answer modes for you to choose (E.g., you can learn sight-reading reversely - see a piano key first and find the corresponding note in the staff, which is so-called Reversal Learning) • Allow you to search the music notes among different approaches • Scientific Pitch Notation (SPN) adopted to reinforce keyboard orientation (I.e., you have to identify the octave of a note instead of its letter name only) • Three training modes: view only, practice, and exam • Adjustable time challenging mode and manual mode to next question • Customize your learning target based on keyboard range, notes filter, and accidentals • Statistics for each note to track your progress • Question generated intelligently based on your progress statistics for each note • Support swipe or flick gesture to input accidentals in the staff • Studio sound quality
Lyrics View 3
This app provides a clean interface for viewing song lyrics, designed for professional and karaoke singers. It allows customization of text size, font, and color, and integrates with the device's music player. Lyrics are loaded from song file tags, requiring proper music collection tagging.
- Clean and minimal interface
- Customizable theme picker (color, font, size, alignment)
- Full iPad multitasking support
- Music player control
- Song queueing
- Loads lyrics from song file tags
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Lyrics View 3 Focus on the lyrics This is version 3 of the popular Lyrics View app. It has been fully rewritten from scratch to support all modern iOS devices. It is used by professional and karaoke singers around the world. The clean and minimal interface lets you focus on the song lyrics played by the iOS music app. IMPORTANT: Please review the Lyrics View description carefully before making the purchase. Lyrics View can be used in any orientation on iPhone and fully supports iPad multitasking. With the built-in theme picker, you can change the colour scheme, font, text size and alignment for the best experience. You can easily control the music player and queue songs from within the app. Note that the app doesn’t come with any lyrics, nor does it download them from the internet. You need to ensure that your music collection is tagged properly. This means it doesn't support displaying lyrics for songs streamed from services like Apple Music or Spotify. Lyrics View loads lyrics from the song file tags. You can easily edit them using the iTunes or Music application on your desktop computer. For more information and any support queries please visit the product website.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Music Note Trainer at 59% against Lyrics View 3's 14%. Music Note Trainer also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 19 months) and price ($2.99 vs $4.99). Lyrics View 3's advantage is rating (4.3 vs 4.0). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Music Note Trainer costs $2.99 and Lyrics View 3 $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Lyrics View 3 holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 6 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 59% of Music Note Trainer's written reviews are positive against 14% of Lyrics View 3's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Music Note Trainer ships an update every 2 months, Lyrics View 3 every 19 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Music Note Trainer | Lyrics View 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.0 (5 ratings) | 4.3 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 58.8% of reviews — better | 14.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 19 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 0 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Plearn LLC | Nikolozi Meladze |
Customer experience
Music Note Trainer
Lyrics View 3
In-app purchases
Music Note Trainer
No in-app purchases
Lyrics View 3
No in-app purchases
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