Comparison

Absolute Pitch vs GuitarPT

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

Head to head
About

Absolute Pitch

Train your musical ear by playing notes on a virtual piano instead of just tapping buttons. Offers multiple training modes, including note recall, sequence playback, and a unique "Note Rain" game. Features daily puzzles and a persistent scoreboard that tracks your progress without decay.

Highlights
  • Play notes on a virtual piano
  • Four distinct training modes
  • Daily pitch puzzles
  • Persistent twelve-light scoreboard
  • Supports twenty-one languages
  • Customizable note naming systems
Features
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Here you don't tap a button labelled C#. You play the note. That is not a cosmetic detail. Picking the right answer out of twelve is a quiz. Finding the note on a keyboard is an act — the same act a musician performs, with the same uncertainty and the same payoff when it lands. FOUR WAYS TO TRAIN 1 note — hear a note, play it back. The original app's mode, unchanged in spirit. 3 notes — hear a sequence, play it back in order. Run and record in the header, exactly as they were. Ear — which note was that? Between questions a few seconds of unrelated tones play, so the previous note is not still sitting in memory and the answer has to come from recognition rather than from comparison. It is uncomfortable, and that is the entire point. Once four notes are in play, the note you hear may also be an octave higher or lower. The answer is still the same key. Note Rain — notes fall toward the keyboard. Play the piece in time, build a run, and hear the accompaniment grow with the multiplier. See the notes, or switch them off and find them by ear. DAILY PITCH One puzzle a day, the same for everyone, three notes and five guesses. A grid to share when you solve it. No account, no nagging notifications. TWELVE LIGHTS Your progress is twelve lights, one per note. They come on when a note is reliable, and they never go out — nothing decays because you were away for a week. HONEST ABOUT WHAT THIS IS Absolute pitch in adults is contested. In published training studies roughly one in five to one in three committed adults reached criterion, and the average was about seven of twelve pitch classes after some twenty-one hours of practice. This app does not promise more than that. What it does promise is that the training is built on what was actually measured: masked intervals, feedback half a second after the answer, and pitch class rather than pitch height. TWENTY-ONE LANGUAGES, AND YOUR COUNTRY'S SONGS FIRST The interface comes in twenty-one languages and switches with one tap inside the app, not three screens deep in Settings. Note naming is a separate choice: H or B, do-re-mi or C-D-E. And the Note Rain repertoire follows your language, so the tunes you grew up with are at the top of the list. NO SUBSCRIPTION, NO CURRENCY Every mode, the whole daily puzzle, all languages and all accessibility are included. No subscription, no currency, no lives to buy, nothing that disappears if you stop playing. BUILT TO BE PLAYED Landscape on iPhone, because seven white keys in portrait put the black keys under Apple's 44-point floor. Real piano geometry — the black keys are not evenly spaced, because they are not on a piano. Polyphonic, so two fingers give two notes. Works with a MIDI keyboard, by cable or over Bluetooth. VoiceOver on every key. H or B, do-re-mi or C-D-E: four naming systems, because in Sweden the note is called H and an app that says B has taught the wrong name for two notes out of twelve.

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GuitarPT

Features
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Practice your next favorite song at half speed, bar by bar. GuitarPT turns any track into your personal practice room. Load an MP3, M4A or video file, and GuitarPT automatically detects BPM and chords — entirely on-device, no server, no internet required. Set markers, define loop sections, drop the tempo to 50%, transpose without pitch artifacts. Once the part sits, kick the speed back up. No setup, no fuss. Need a chord chart? Build a leadsheet in the built-in editor using a gesture-driven circle-of-fifths key picker, a smart chord palette and a clean section layout. Play it back with piano, bass and drums across 8 styles — rock, jazz swing, bossa nova, funk and more. Or snap a photo of a handwritten chart and have it digitised via OCR. On stage? Performance mode shows large chord displays with live highlighting of the current chord. Multiple devices? With iCloud sync your songs, markers, leadsheets and setlists are everywhere — iPhone, iPad, all in sync. PLAYER • Audio and video player with an interactive waveform • Time-stretching from 25% to 150% — without pitch artifacts • Pitch shifting of ±12 semitones, independent of tempo • One-touch marker grab and drag • Up to 3 loop sections per song CHORD ANALYSIS (fully offline) • Automatic BPM and chord detection with 145 chord types • Slash chord detection (Am/C, G/B …) • Confidence indicator per chord • Enharmonic notation based on key (Ab instead of G#) • Re-analyze with a single tap LEADSHEET CREATOR • Circle-of-fifths key picker with swipe gesture • Section structure (Intro, Verse, Chorus, Bridge, Solo, Outro) • Playback with piano, bass and drums across 8 styles • Performance mode with a large chord display • Photo import via OCR (OpenAI Vision) • Export/import as .guitarpt.json or .zip LIBRARY • Songs, leadsheets, projects and setlists • Song-leadsheet linking • Recording with live waveform • Band-folder import from shared iCloud folders • Search, sorting and drag-to-reorder iCLOUD SYNC • Songs, markers, loops, leadsheets, setlists and photos automatically synced • Audio, video and image files via iCloud Drive • Download-on-demand • Sync log and storage overview in Settings PRIVACY All audio analysis runs on your device. No account required, no trackers, no data sent anywhere. The OpenAI API key is optional and only used for the photo import. Available in English and German. --- Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://guitarpt.app/datenschutz.html The Pro subscription (6.99 EUR/month) auto-renews at the end of each billing period unless cancelled at least 24 hours before in App Store settings. Manage subscriptions: https://apps.apple.com/account/subscriptions

Screenshots

Absolute Pitch3 screens
GuitarPT4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Absolute Pitch at none against GuitarPT's 3. Absolute Pitch also leads on price ($0.99 vs $3.99). GuitarPT's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Absolute Pitch costs $0.99 and GuitarPT $3.99 up front. GuitarPT sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Absolute Pitch asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Absolute Pitch ships an update monthly, GuitarPT every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Absolute Pitch versus GuitarPT: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAbsolute PitchGuitarPT
Price$0.99 — better$3.99
Rating4.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB186 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperApps by Alex ABThorsten Juettner

In-app purchases

None

Absolute Pitch

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

GuitarPT

Subscriptions1
  • GuitarPT Pro$5.991 Month
One-time2
  • 30 Cloud Analyses$3.99
  • 150 Cloud Analyses$12.99

Questions

Is Absolute Pitch free?
Absolute Pitch costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is GuitarPT free?
GuitarPT costs $3.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Do Absolute Pitch or GuitarPT have ads?
Neither Absolute Pitch nor GuitarPT shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Absolute Pitch or GuitarPT?
Absolute Pitch ships an update monthly, and GuitarPT every 2 weeks. Most recently, Absolute Pitch was updated on November 2, 2026 and GuitarPT on October 25, 2026.

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