Teach Note vs Piano 101
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Teach Note
Enhance your musical abilities with this app designed to improve staff notation reading and music theory knowledge. It offers structured courses, extensive practice exercises, and helpful tools to boost your sight-reading speed and understanding of musical concepts.
- 30+ sight-reading and music theory courses
- 400+ sight-reading exercises
- Intelligent error-correction practice
- Multiple practice modes (built-in piano, MIDI/Bluetooth)
- Support for multiple clefs
- Includes common musical tools (metronome, chord lookup)
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Over 4,800 5-Star Reviews, recommended by more and more students! An essential App for learning staff notation, music theory basics, and improving sight-reading speed! Staff notation is a fundamental skill for piano learning and music entry. Mastering staff notation and music theory enables you to read, play, and learn more excellent musical works. Join the "Teach Note" family and efficiently enhance your staff notation skills with 200,000 students! = Features = - Over 30 sight-reading and music theory courses across 4 assessment stages. Exclusively recorded with concise content, paired with an intelligent error-correction practice system, to easily grasp sight-reading and music theory fundamentals. - Over 400 sight-reading exercises to comprehensively train your sight-reading ability. Through scientifically designed intensive training, continuously improve sight-reading speed for flexible application in practice. Supports multiple clefs and customized training for weak areas! - Multiple practice modes. During leisure time outdoors, use the built-in piano to practice sight-reading anytime, anywhere; at home, connect to your piano via Bluetooth/MIDI for combined training! - Covers courses on staff notation basics, note recognition, intervals, chords, and mode theory. - Collects commonly used tools and resources, understanding your needs better than other sight-reading and music theory apps. Includes: blank staff paper, common musical terms, metronome, tempo tester, chord lookup, scale lookup, etc. Whether it's a hobby or a dream, only action turns it into reality. Join us and achieve your extraordinary musical dreams together! Attached Service Agreement: https://musiclearn.cn/2019/09/20/MustrTermOfUse/
Piano 101
Learn to play piano with a vast library of pop and classical songs. Follow numbered musical notation on each key to play along. Record your performances and explore a guided playing experience.
- Large song collection
- Numbered musical notation
- Guided playing with blue key
- Performance recording
- Pop and classical music
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【LOTS OF SONGS】 Piano-101 has a large collection of pop and classical music, and the Blue key will lead your playing. 【Musical Notation】 Each key has a stave and a numbered musical notation. you can play a wonderful music by watching the notation. 【Recording】 Recording function can record your performance at any time. 【自动续费VIP订阅 - VIP年订阅说明】 订阅周期：1年（连续包年产品） 订阅价格：¥35.00/年 付款：用户确认购买并付款后记入iTunes账户 续订：苹果iTunes账户会在订阅到期前24小时内扣费，扣费成功后订阅顺延一个周期 取消续订：如需取消续订，请在当前订阅周期到期前24小时以前，手动在iTunes/Apple ID设置管理中关闭自动续订功能 会员服务协议：https://jl18272716-3.icoc.bz/col.jsp?id=104 用户隐私协议：https://jl18272716-3.icoc.bz/col.jsp?id=105 会员自动续费服务协议：https://jl18272716-3.icoc.bz/col.jsp?id=101
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Teach Note at free with in-app purchases against Piano 101's subscription. Teach Note also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.4) and review sentiment (90% vs 77%). Piano 101's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Teach Note sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Piano 101 sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Teach Note holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 198 and 219 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 90% of Teach Note's written reviews are positive against 77% of Piano 101's.
Teach Note ships an update every 5 weeks, Piano 101 weekly. Both last shipped on October 26, 2026.
| Parameter | Teach Note | Piano 101 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (198 ratings) — better | 4.4 (219 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 90.2% of reviews — better | 77.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 198 | 219 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 213 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 炯龙 吴 | 逢 刘 |
Customer experience
Teach Note
Piano 101
User reviews
Teach Note
From 198 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 User-friendly interface, easy to learn
- 📚 Comprehensive and well-structured curriculum
- 🎯 Effective for beginners and self-learners
- ✅ Clear and simple explanations
- 🔄 Unlimited practice exercises
Room to improve
- 💵 Paywall for premium content
- 🔊 Video tutorials lack audio on some devices
- 📺 Limited free content before requiring subscription
- 🎯 Requires 5-star review to unlock some features
- 📱 Occasional app crashes and stability issues
Piano 101
From 219 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Good for learning piano
- 👍 Great for beginners
- 👍 Simple and practical
- 👍 Good for practicing music theory
- 👍 Nice interface
Room to improve
- 👎 Limited song selection
- 👎 Some songs require payment
- 👎 Can be difficult to read for non-Chinese speakers
- 👎 Occasional freezing
- 👎 Inconsistent prompts for reviews
Bugs and requests
Teach Note
Reported bugs
6 issues- App crashes when accessing membership/subscription features
- Video tutorials have no sound on iPad
- Bluetooth MIDI connection not working despite pairing
- VIP recovery/restore purchase causes crashes
- App crashes after recent updates
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- Membership activation fails
Requested features
6 requests- More free practice content
- Ad-supported free tier alternative
- Wider keyboard interface
- Bluetooth MIDI connectivity improvements
- Additional features and functionality
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- Reduced pricing for premium subscription
Piano 101
Reported bugs
4 issues- App freezes on consecutive taps
- No beat/rhythm
- Floating snowflakes when playing piano
- Inconsistent prompts for reviews
Requested features
6 requests- Add Bluetooth connectivity
- Add English version
- Option to adjust size
- Improve rhythm/beat feature
- More free songs
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- Option to play freely without forced songs
In-app purchases
Teach Note
- 月度会员$2.991 Month
- 季度会员$9.993 Months
- 年度会员2 variants$22.991 Year
- 高级识谱训练包2$0.99
- 初级识谱训练包$0.99
- 练耳训练包$1.99
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- 音符识谱训练包$1.99
- 高级识谱训练包$2.99
- 去除广告$3.99
- 终身会员$39.99
Piano 101
- VIP Yearly Access7 Days trial$4.991 Year
- VIP$7.99
