Music Note Trainer vs Solfa
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
Solfa
This app is a quiz game designed to help beginners and children learn to read sheet music and identify musical notes. It supports various clefs and note naming systems, making it versatile for different instruments and learning styles.
- Learn musical notes
- Read sheet music
- Supports multiple clefs
- Train sight-reading
- Learn tonality and chords
- Multiple note naming systems
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How to learn notes? How to read sheet music? How to remember note names? "Solfa" helps you learn notes for piano, guitar or singing. "Solfa / Musical Notes" is a quiz game for kids and beginners that helps you learn simple music theory. - train sight-reading - read notes of alto, bass, tenor, treble clef staff - learn tonality and chord names - switch between English, German note names You can use "Solfa" for ear training and basics of solfège. List of musical instruments: - singing - piano - guitar - flute - clarinet Types of musical notations: - C D E F G A B - C D E F G A H - Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Si - До Ре Ми Фа Соль Ля Си - Ντο Ρε Μι Φα Σολ Λα Σι - ハ ニ ホ ヘ ト イ ロ - 다 라 마 바 사 가 나 - स रे ग म प ध नि - ด ร ม ฟ ซ ล ท
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Solfa at Free against Music Note Trainer's $2.99. Solfa also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (801 vs 5). Music Note Trainer's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (59% vs 49%). On in-app purchases 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
Solfa is free to download; Music Note Trainer costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Solfa holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Solfa has 801 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 59% of Music Note Trainer's written reviews are positive against 49% of Solfa'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, Solfa every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Music Note Trainer | Solfa |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.0 (5 ratings) | 4.6 (801 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 58.8% of reviews — better | 49.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 801 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 75 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Plearn LLC | Alexey Ovod |
Customer experience
Music Note Trainer
Solfa
Bugs and requests
Music Note Trainer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Solfa
Reported bugs
4 issues- Displaying notes outside instrument range
- Incorrectly identifying notes
- Sound not working
- Unable to advance past first screen
Requested features
6 requests- Option to remove note names
- Thicker lines for guitar frets
- Sight reading component
- Mezzo soprano, baritone clefs
- Ability to choose number of notes per round
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- Purchasable ad-free version
In-app purchases
Music Note Trainer
No in-app purchases
Solfa
No in-app purchases
