Solfa vs Chopinate!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Learn musical notes
- Read sheet music
- Supports multiple clefs
- Train sight-reading
- Learn tonality and chords
- Multiple note naming systems
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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
Chopinate!
This app helps beginners practice reading piano sheet music with interactive exercises. It tracks your progress with charts to identify strengths and weaknesses, and offers a competitive element with global leaderboards and achievements. A special 'Perfect Pitch' mode is available for advanced users.
- Practice reading piano sheet music
- Analyze note-reading records with charts
- Discover strengths and weaknesses
- Compete with players worldwide
- Unlock achievements
- Perfect Pitch mode
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- Practice reading piano sheet music. - Analyze your note-reading records with charts and discover your strengths and weaknesses. - Compete with players worldwide and unlock achievements. 【The Story Behind the App】 I started learning piano in my 30s, and as a beginner, reading music notes was quite difficult for me. I walked into my local piano academy knowing nothing, and the teacher drew a circle on the staff paper to help me read sheet music quickly and accurately. This app, “Chopinate!”, was inspired by that simple yet effective method. The app’s name is a compound word formed by adding the suffix “-ate” to the pianist Chopin. It reflects the app’s philosophy: “I will help you play Chopin.” If you have any issues or suggestions, please leave a review on the App Store. Thanks!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Chopinate! at 100% against Solfa's 48%. Chopinate! also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.8 vs 4.6). Solfa's advantage is ratings volume (789 vs 4) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Chopinate! holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Solfa has 789 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 48% of Solfa's written reviews are positive against 100% of Chopinate!'s.
Solfa ships an update every 3 weeks, Chopinate! every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Solfa | Chopinate! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (789 ratings) | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 47.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 789 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alexey Ovod | Jaeho Yoo |
Customer experience
Solfa
Chopinate!
Bugs and 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
Chopinate!
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Solfa
No in-app purchases
Chopinate!
No in-app purchases
