Comparison

Senstroke vs Solfa Hands

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

Head to head
About

Senstroke

Learn and play drums with realistic sensations using sensors and a mobile app. Practice rhythms, record sessions, and customize your kit without disturbing others. Ideal for beginners and experienced drummers alike.

Highlights
  • Play drums silently with sensors
  • Interactive rhythm learning
  • Record and export MIDI/audio
  • Customizable drum kit
  • Game and learning modes
  • Play along to favorite tracks
Features
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Turn any surface into a drum kit. Attach the Senstroke sensors to your sticks and your feet, connect them over Bluetooth, and play anywhere in 30 seconds — on a cushion, your leg or a stool. Build your own kit, adjust each sensor, use the metronome, record your sessions and share them. No clutter, no noise, no neighbours to worry about. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Solfa Hands

Features
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Solfa Hands is a sight-reading and sight-singing trainer for music teachers and their students. Reading a score and singing it in tune are one skill, and Kodály hand signs are what joins them: each sign gives an abstract note on the page a shape your body can feel, so pitch stops being guesswork. Solfa Hands puts the notation, the solfege syllable, and the hand sign on screen together, and keeps them together from your first sol–mi to a full major-scale melody. *SIGHT-READ FROM REAL NOTATION Read from a scrolling five-line staff with note heads, rests and barlines, or switch to circles on a simplified staff or the color grid while the reading habit is still forming. Note labels can show solfege, note names, numbers — or nothing at all, once you're ready to read the staff unaided. A piano keyboard lights up alongside the score so every interval you read has a sound attached. *SIGHT-SING WITH YOUR CAMERA CHECKING YOU — NEW Turn on Assessment and sing the score at sight while the app watches your hand signs. The score waits at each note until your sign is right, then sounds it and moves on — so you can't skim past an interval you haven't actually heard. Feedback is specific: a tucked thumb, a finger that should be curled, a hand held at the wrong angle. Recognition runs entirely on your device; no camera video ever leaves your iPhone or iPad. *A FULL KODÁLY READING SEQUENCE About 200 exercises across six stages, ordered the way sight-singing is actually taught: sol–mi first, then la, do and re to complete the pentatonic set, with fa, ti and high do finishing the major scale. Each stage adds exactly one pitch, then widens the intervals, lengthens the phrases and varies the shape — ascending, descending, arch, echo, sequence, and real tunes — so reading difficulty grows one step at a time. *FOR THE CLASSROOM AND FOR HOME • Three score views: staff notation, circles, or grid • Four label modes, for scaffolding reading and then removing it • Tempo from 50 to 240 BPM with a four-beat count-in • Boy and girl singing voices • Rests, one- and two-beat notes, looping playback • Portrait and landscape, iPhone and iPad • English and Chinese *WRITE YOUR OWN READING DRILLS Build a melody note by note and save it to your library — useful for setting the exact interval a student keeps missing. The library keeps the course path and your own songs side by side as readable score thumbnails; one tap loads any of them. Course stages 1 and 2 are free to play. One purchase unlocks playback for every later stage and for your own songs — no subscription, no ads, no account.

Screenshots

Senstroke4 screens
Solfa Hands4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Solfa Hands at none against Senstroke's 3. On price, update cadence, ads 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. Senstroke sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.49 per 7 days. Solfa Hands asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Senstroke ships an update monthly, Solfa Hands every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Senstroke versus Solfa Hands: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSenstrokeSolfa Hands
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews55.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size320 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFreeway team鑫 孟

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Senstroke

Subscriptions3
  • Premium Weekly$4.497 Days
  • Premium Monthly$11.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly$120.991 Year
None

Solfa Hands

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Senstroke free?
Senstroke is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Solfa Hands free?
Solfa Hands is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Senstroke or Solfa Hands have ads?
Neither Senstroke nor Solfa Hands shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Senstroke or Solfa Hands?
Senstroke ships an update monthly, and Solfa Hands every 3 weeks. Most recently, Senstroke was updated on October 24, 2026 and Solfa Hands on October 11, 2026.

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