Chords Trainer vs Solfa
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chords Trainer
Learn to recognize and play musical chords quickly. This app offers a comprehensive chord dictionary and practice modes, including games, to enhance your music learning journey. Improve your understanding of chords represented by symbols, notes, or keyboard layouts.
- Comprehensive chord library
- Customizable learning options
- Practice, watch, and game modes
- Intelligent question generation
- Real sample sound
- Chord lookup dictionary
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This app is to help us get familiar with all kinds of chords so that we are able to recognize or play them as quick as possible, no matter they are represented by chord symbols, music notes in the stave, or keyboard keys. Improving this ability will definitely benefit all aspects of our music learning. Also, the app can be used as a dictionary to look up chords. Main Features: • Cover almost all chords we can encounter • Allow to customize the learning by chords' roots, forms, quality, inversion, and voicing (open or closed position, doubling) • Practice mode to learn at our own pace • Watch mode to learn by watching the "chords movie" • Game mode to challenge ourselves and have fun by winning high score, trophies, and medals • Search mode to loop up chords • Questions generated intelligently based on your performance • Intuitive interface • Studio quality real sample sound
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 Chords Trainer's $2.99. Solfa also leads on ratings volume (801 vs 7) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Chords Trainer's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On rating, review sentiment, 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; Chords Trainer costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Chords Trainer against 4.6 for Solfa. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Solfa has 801 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 50% and 49% positive.
Chords 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 | Chords Trainer | Solfa |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (7 ratings) — better | 4.6 (801 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 49.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 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 | 12.4 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 75 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Plearn LLC | Alexey Ovod |
Customer experience
Chords Trainer
Solfa
Bugs and requests
Chords 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
Chords Trainer
No in-app purchases
Solfa
No in-app purchases









