Comparison

Teach Note vs Sightreading Exercises

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

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About

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.

Highlights
  • 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)
Features
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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/

About

Sightreading Exercises

Master sight-reading on any instrument with 60 progressive levels and songs. Practice with your real instrument, receive instant feedback, and improve your musical fluency. Supports a wide range of instruments, clefs, and key signatures.

Highlights
  • 60 progressive levels
  • Instrument-specific customization
  • Built-in tuner
  • Supports all modern clefs
  • Wide range of key and time signatures
  • Real instrument input detection
  • Pitch meter for accuracy
Features
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Customized for instruments, including full orchestra settings: Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass, Guitar, Bass, Clarinet (Bb and A), Oboe, Bassoon, Flute, Piccolo, French Horn (double horn setting F / Bb), Trumpet (C / Bb), Saxophone (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Baritone), Trombone (Tenor and Bass), Tuba, Harp. Complete your entire music learning journey by practicing in different modes: Flash Cards, Music Theory, Full Flow Sheet Music, and Practice Real Songs. Features available in all modes: - The app shows sheet music, listens to your playing, and provides feedback. Even on grand stave with multiple notes at a time. This is called polyphonic detection system. - Melodic Randomness: control how random the generated notes are - Hints (instrument-specific) - Keyboard (Piano) - Fingerboard chart (Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass) - Fretboard chart (Guitar, Bass) - Fingering (Clarinet, Flute; more coming soon) - Pitch meter for intonation (Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass, Trombone) - Intonation accuracy check for microtonal instruments: - Green tick: perfect intonation - Yellow tick: Acceptable hit but slightly out of tune - Voice Control: restart the exercise without touching the screen 1. Flash Cards - Levels 1 to 20 (beginner) - Levels 21 to 40 (intermediate) - Levels 41 to 60 (advanced) - Custom levels (12 keys, all accidentals including double-sharp and double-flat) 2. Music Theory - Scales - Major scales (12 keys, up to 3 octaves) - Harmonic minor and melodic minor scales (12 keys, up to 3 octaves) - Chromatic scales (adjustable range) - Chords (up to 3 octaves) - Major Triad, Minor Triad, Major Seventh, Minor Seventh, Dominant Seventh, Diminished Seventh, Augmented Triad, Diminished Triad, Suspended Seventh, Suspended Second, Suspended Fourth, Major Ninth, Minor Ninth, Dominant Ninth, Added Ninth, Major Eleventh, Minor Eleventh, Dominant Eleventh - Rhythms - Note types - Semibreve (Whole) - Minim (Half) - Crotchet (Quarter) - Quaver (Eighth) - Semiquaver (Sixteenth) - Rests - Dotted notes - Triplets - Time signatures 4/4, 2/4, 3/4, 6/4, 3/8, 6/8, 9/8, 12/8 - Intervals - Exercises for faster recognition of any chromatic intervals in any keys - Aural Training - Rhythm & Metre - Melody & Memory - Intervals & Pitch - Chords & Harmony 3. Full Flow Sheet Music (practice sight-reading with real sheet music. Hit the right note, or practice playing in rhythm with the metronome) - Levels 1 to 20 (beginner) - Levels 21 to 40 (intermediate) - Levels 41 to 60 (advanced) - Custom levels (12 keys, 8 time signatures, 10+ note types, all accidentals including double-sharp and double-flat) 4. Practice Real Songs (over 170 famous songs by different composers) - Songs organized by - Albums (13 music books) - Composers (Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Tchaikovsky, Haydn, Schubert, Schumann, Handel, Chopin, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Debussy, Bizet, Brahms, Vivaldi, Johann Strauss, Paganini, Pachelbel, Czerny, Rachmaninoff, Scott Joplin, Clementi, Edvard Grieg, Ravel, Scarlatti, Weber, Sibelius, Saint-Saëns, Verdi, Puccini, Rossini, Erik Satie, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Antonín Dvořák, Edward Elgar, Jules Massenet, Richard Wagner, and more) - Grades (Grade 1 to 7) Tools for day-to-day practice are also available: - Tuners - Full-range chromatic tuner: A0 to C8 - Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass, Guitar, Bass, and tuners for transposing instruments, such as Clarinet, French Horn, Trumpet, and Saxophone - Metronome (classic metronome that lets you adjust BPM by sliding the pendulum weight up and down)

Screenshots

Teach Note4 screens
Sightreading Exercises4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Sightreading Exercises at none against Teach Note's shown. Sightreading Exercises also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 5 weeks) and review sentiment (100% vs 90%). Teach Note's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.4) and monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs paid). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Teach Note sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Sightreading Exercises sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Teach Note holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Teach Note has 196 ratings behind it against 22, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 90% of Teach Note's written reviews are positive against 100% of Sightreading Exercises's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Teach Note ships an update every 5 weeks, Sightreading Exercises every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Teach Note versus Sightreading Exercises: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTeach NoteSightreading Exercises
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (196 ratings) — better4.4 (22 ratings)
Positive reviews90.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings196 — better22
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.615.8 — better
Further details — not scored
Size213 MB334 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer炯龙 吴RC Game

Customer experience

Teach Note

All ratings196 ratings
Positive94.4%
Neutral1.5%
Negative4.1%
Written reviews142 reviews
Positive90.1%
Neutral4.2%
Negative5.6%

Sightreading Exercises

All ratings22 ratings
Positive77.3%
Neutral18.2%
Negative4.5%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Sightreading Exercises

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Teach Note

Subscriptions3
  • 月度会员$2.991 Month
  • 季度会员$9.993 Months
  • 年度会员2 variants$22.991 Year
One-time7
  • 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
1 purchases

Sightreading Exercises

One-time1
  • Buy Full Version$12.99

Questions

Is Teach Note free?
Teach Note is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sightreading Exercises free?
Sightreading Exercises is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Teach Note or Sightreading Exercises?
Teach Note is rated higher. Teach Note averages 4.7 out of 5 from 196 ratings, while Sightreading Exercises averages 4.4 from 22 ratings.
Do Teach Note or Sightreading Exercises have ads?
Teach Note shows ads; Sightreading Exercises does not.
Which is updated more often, Teach Note or Sightreading Exercises?
Teach Note ships an update every 5 weeks, and Sightreading Exercises every 5 days. Most recently, Teach Note was updated on September 28, 2026 and Sightreading Exercises on September 23, 2026.

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