Comparison

Sight Reading Factory vs MT Pit Pro

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Sight Reading Factory

Instantly compose unlimited sight-reading music exercises for any instrument. Customize difficulty and levels to suit musicians of all ages and abilities. Includes classroom management for educators to assign and assess student performance.

Highlights
  • Unlimited sight-reading material
  • On-demand music composition
  • Customizable difficulty levels
  • Supports all instruments
  • Classroom management
  • Assignment creation and grading
Features
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Sight Reading Factory makes practicing the important skill of sight reading quick, easy, effective and fun! This app composes music instantly and on-demand, providing musicians with a virtually unlimited supply of sight reading material. There are multiple levels of difficulty and the exercises can even be customized exactly to the needs of the musician. Sight Reading Factory is very versatile and can be used by musicians of all ages and abilities including music educators, music students, casual musicians and even professional musicians. Sight reading exercises can be generated for piano, guitar, voice, woodwinds, brass, strings, percussion and even full ensembles. Teachers and students can also use the built-in classroom management and assignments feature for assessment. Teachers can organize students into classes/groups and create assignments for them. Students complete assignments by generating a sight reading exercise and recording themselves performing the exercise. The assignment can then be submitted back to the teacher to grade and leave feedback.

About

MT Pit Pro

Access a vast library of live-recorded instrumental backing tracks for musicals. This app allows you to control tempo, key, create vamps, and navigate measures in real-time for auditions, rehearsals, and performances.

Highlights
  • Extensive library of musical titles
  • Full orchestration including songs and overtures
  • Live-recorded tracks by professional musicians
  • Adjustable tempo and key
  • Create custom vamps
  • Real-time measure navigation
Features
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The MT Pit provides instrumental backing tracks for musicals. Gain access to an ever expanding library of titles, which contain the full orchestration (songs, overture, underscores). Use your device to play tracks for your auditions, rehearsal, but most importantly, your performance. All tracks are recorded live, with industry elite musicians, giving you the best substitute to a full orchestra. With the MT Pit Pro app you can change tempo, key, create vamps, and easily jump to any measure. Follow the music as measures are listed in real time. Get authorization from your organization to use all these features!

Screenshots

Sight Reading Factory4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: MT Pit Pro at 5.0 against Sight Reading Factory's 2.7. Sight Reading Factory's advantage is ratings volume (391 vs 1) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 9 months). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

MT Pit Pro holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sight Reading Factory has 391 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sight Reading Factory ships an update every 2 months, MT Pit Pro every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Sight Reading Factory versus MT Pit Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSight Reading FactoryMT Pit Pro
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.7 (391 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews32.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings391 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 9 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGraceNotes LLCTheMTPit

Customer experience

Sight Reading Factory

All ratings371 ratings
Positive39.9%
Neutral5.7%
Negative54.4%
Written reviews123 reviews
Positive32.5%
Neutral6.5%
Negative61.0%

MT Pit Pro

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Sight Reading Factory

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes or has rendering errors on older iOS versions
  • Unable to create account within the app
  • Inconsistent behavior when selecting certain options

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add more advanced sight reading options (e.g. modulations, accidentals)
  • Implement wrong note detection and feedback
  • Allow recording and reviewing of practice sessions
  • Add more instrument options beyond piano

MT Pit Pro

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Sight Reading Factory

No in-app purchases

None

MT Pit Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sight Reading Factory free?
Sight Reading Factory is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is MT Pit Pro free?
MT Pit Pro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Sight Reading Factory or MT Pit Pro?
MT Pit Pro is rated higher. Sight Reading Factory averages 2.7 out of 5 from 391 ratings, while MT Pit Pro averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Sight Reading Factory or MT Pit Pro have ads?
Neither Sight Reading Factory nor MT Pit Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sight Reading Factory or MT Pit Pro?
Sight Reading Factory ships an update every 2 months, and MT Pit Pro every 9 months. Most recently, Sight Reading Factory was updated on November 2, 2026 and MT Pit Pro on November 3, 2026.

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