What’s My Note? vs goodtags
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
What’s My Note?
Hear the pitches in your sheet music by touching notes in an image. Ideal for vocalists who struggle with reading music, this app allows you to learn and repeat individual notes and intervals from scanned or imported sheet music. It's designed specifically for vocal parts in choral and vocal ensembles.
- Scan sheet music with camera
- Import JPG, PNG, or PDF
- Touch notes to hear pitch
- Repeat single notes and intervals
- OCR feature for any device
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An app for choral singers who don't read music well. Snap a photo or import JPG, PNG or PDF. Touch notes in the image to hear the pitch. Not for instrumental parts - see details below. Whether you sing in a choir, or a barbershop quartet, or other vocal group, What's My Note lets you hear and learn the pitches in your sheet music. You can repeat single notes or intervals as many times as you like. Use What's My Note? to read published choral music - the kind used by high school choruses, church choirs, musical theater, and barbershop quartets. If you are not sure that What's My Note? will read your music, e-mail us a photo, and we'll let you know. For a demo, please view the video on our website. (What's My Note DOES NOT play scores from start to finish, does not play more than one voice at a time, does not interpret rhythms, does not recognize or play piano or instrumental parts. Hand-written manuscripts and most forms of popular music probably won't work.) You can import PDFs and JPEGs, and use What's My Note's OCR feature on any device. To photograph music, What's My Note? requires an 8 megapixel camera, available on these models (or later): iPhone 4s, iPod Touch 6th Generation, iPad Pro, iPad Air 2, iPad Mini 4.
goodtags
Access and organize a vast library of community-generated barbershop song snippets. Play learning tracks, watch videos, and find specific tags with an interactive interface.
- Organize favorites by label
- Navigate lists in sheet music view
- Play starting note for tags
- Find tags by ID
- Play learning tracks
- Watch learning videos
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Goodtags provides a rich interactive interface to the library of community-generated barbershop tags, or song snippets, from the barbershoptags.com database. Features: - Store favorites on your device, and organize them by label - Navigate lists without leaving the sheet music view - Play the starting note for a tag - Find tags by id - Play learning tracks - Watch learning videos
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: goodtags at Free against What’s My Note?'s $4.99. goodtags also leads on review sentiment (89% vs 45%) and rating (4.8 vs 4.3). What’s My Note?'s advantage is ratings volume (223 vs 20) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.4). On update cadence, 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
goodtags is free to download; What’s My Note? costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
goodtags holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: What’s My Note? has 223 ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 45% of What’s My Note?'s written reviews are positive against 89% of goodtags's.
What’s My Note? ships an update every 4 months, goodtags every 5 months. Both last shipped on November 2, 2026.
| Parameter | What’s My Note? | goodtags |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (223 ratings) | 4.8 (20 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 44.9% of reviews | 88.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 223 — better | 20 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | What's My Note, Inc. | Kenji Matsuoka |
Customer experience
What’s My Note?
goodtags
Bugs and requests
What’s My Note?
Reported bugs
9 issues- App crashes or freezes
- Scores disappear after reloading
- Scanning sheet music not working correctly
- New update introduced bugs
- Notes not being read accurately
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- Scores being erased randomly
- Camera not having enough pixels
- App not playing notes automatically
- Issues with notes not playing on new pages after turning
Requested features
9 requests- Import digital sheet music
- Import PDF files
- Easier and less time-consuming import process
- Show note details (e.g., F, C, B flat) when holding a note
- Ability to import PDFs from Dropbox/email
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- Upload PDFs or images of sheet music
- Annotate pages
- Sync music across devices
- Upload option for .pdf and .mus files
goodtags
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
What’s My Note?
No in-app purchases
goodtags
No in-app purchases
Questions
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