Comparison

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.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Music Note Trainer4 screens
Lyrics View 34 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Music Note Trainer versus Lyrics View 3: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMusic Note TrainerLyrics View 3
Price$2.99 — better$4.99
Rating4.0 (5 ratings)4.3 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews58.8% of reviews — better14.3% of reviews
Number of ratings56 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 19 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB0 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPlearn LLCNikolozi Meladze

Customer experience

Music Note Trainer

All ratings5 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive58.8%
Neutral17.6%
Negative23.5%

Lyrics View 3

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive14.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative85.7%

In-app purchases

None

Music Note Trainer

No in-app purchases

None

Lyrics View 3

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Music Note Trainer free?
Music Note Trainer costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lyrics View 3 free?
Lyrics View 3 costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Music Note Trainer or Lyrics View 3?
Lyrics View 3 is rated higher. Music Note Trainer averages 4.0 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Lyrics View 3 averages 4.3 from 6 ratings.
Do Music Note Trainer or Lyrics View 3 have ads?
Neither Music Note Trainer nor Lyrics View 3 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Music Note Trainer or Lyrics View 3?
Music Note Trainer ships an update every 2 months, and Lyrics View 3 every 19 months. Most recently, Music Note Trainer was updated on October 29, 2026 and Lyrics View 3 on October 24, 2026.

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