Ear Cat Lite vs Know Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ear Cat Lite
Develop your musical ear with this game featuring 20 progressively challenging levels. It offers an intuitive approach to recognizing intervals and improving solfege skills. Created with professional musicians and educators, it's designed to be both helpful and entertaining.
- 20 progressive levels
- Interval recognition
- Solfege improvement
- Pitch identification
- Intuitive gameplay
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Ear Cat Lite is a fun game created to develop your musical ear, with 20 levels that get progressively more challenging. From the creators of Melody Cats. (Rhythm Cat, Treble Cat, Bass Cat). An intuitive approach to recognising intervals. Improve your solfege and learn to identify pitches in relation to a tonal center. Helpful and entertaining, Ear Cat has been developed in collaboration with professional musicians and educators.
Know Notes
Develop your musical ear by learning to identify notes and chords by sound. This gamified app makes practicing fun and competitive, allowing you to progress from basic notes to sharps and flats.
- Ear training
- Note recognition
- Chord recognition
- Gamified learning
- Progressive difficulty
- Natural notes, sharps, and flats
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Train Ears, Master Music. Learn to recognize musical notes and chords by their unique sound. Gamified to make learning fun and competitive. Start small, then work your way up to learn every natural note and their sharp/flat.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Know Notes at 4.9 against Ear Cat Lite's 4.4. Know Notes also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 7 months) and review sentiment (96% vs 71%). Ear Cat Lite's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ratings volume and ads 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. Know Notes sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Ear Cat Lite asks for nothing beyond the download.
Know Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 31 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Ear Cat Lite's written reviews are positive against 96% of Know Notes's.
Ear Cat Lite ships an update every 7 months, Know Notes fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ear Cat Lite | Know Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (13 ratings) | 4.9 (31 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | 95.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 | 31 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.1 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 107 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | James Uhart | wylan neely |
Customer experience
Ear Cat Lite
Know Notes
In-app purchases
Ear Cat Lite
No in-app purchases
Know Notes
- Violin Notes$0.99
- Electronic Keyboard Notes$0.99
- Grand Piano Notes$0.99
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- Unlock Violin Instrument$2.99
- Acoustic Guitar (Major Chords)$2.99
- Unlock Acoustic Guitar$3.99
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