Comparison

Chords Trainer vs Solfa

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Comprehensive chord library
  • Customizable learning options
  • Practice, watch, and game modes
  • Intelligent question generation
  • Real sample sound
  • Chord lookup dictionary
Features
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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

About

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.

Highlights
  • Learn musical notes
  • Read sheet music
  • Supports multiple clefs
  • Train sight-reading
  • Learn tonality and chords
  • Multiple note naming systems
Features
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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

Screenshots

Chords Trainer4 screens
Solfa4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Chords Trainer versus Solfa: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChords TrainerSolfa
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (7 ratings) — better4.6 (801 ratings)
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews — better49.3% of reviews
Number of ratings7801 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.412.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB75 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPlearn LLCAlexey Ovod

Customer experience

Chords Trainer

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral14.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral16.7%
Negative33.3%

Solfa

All ratings801 ratings
Positive89.4%
Neutral4.6%
Negative6.0%
Written reviews134 reviews
Positive49.3%
Neutral17.9%
Negative32.8%

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

None

Chords Trainer

No in-app purchases

None

Solfa

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Chords Trainer free?
Chords Trainer costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Solfa free?
Solfa is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Chords Trainer or Solfa?
Chords Trainer is rated higher. Chords Trainer averages 4.7 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Solfa averages 4.6 from 801 ratings.
Do Chords Trainer or Solfa have ads?
Solfa shows ads; Chords Trainer does not.
Which is updated more often, Chords Trainer or Solfa?
Chords Trainer ships an update every 2 months, and Solfa every 3 weeks. Most recently, Chords Trainer was updated on October 8, 2026 and Solfa on October 17, 2026.

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