Comparison

Guido vs Syllabus Planner

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

Head to head
About

Guido

Learn to read music notes step by step with this interactive application. It gradually unlocks new notes as you master them, tracks your progress with an experience system, and offers motivational features like daily goals and unlockable successes. Practice by playing notes on your piano, with the app listening via your device's microphone.

Highlights
  • Step-by-step note learning
  • Progress tracking with experience system
  • Daily goal setting and achievements
  • Adaptive difficulty
  • Piano note recognition via microphone
  • Focus on weak notes
Features
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The advantages of Guido: - Guido will help you learn to read music notes step by step: - You start by learning with only two notes. - When you master the first two notes, the application unlocks a new one. - And so on until you have unlocked all the available notes. - The application monitors your progress: - Thanks to an experience system, the application will not unlock new notes until the previous ones are correctly assimilated. - A correctly read note increases your experience. - An incorrectly deciphered note reduces it. - When you have enough experience, a new note is unlocked. - If you lose some, a note will lock again so that you can strengthen your foundations. - Guido motivates you: - You have the possibility to set a daily objective. - Chain up the most consecutive days in a row! - Some successes are to be unlocked (50 notes in a row...). - Unlock them all! - Guido is easy to use and intelligent: - No complex settings required. - The application adapts the difficulty according to your level. - The application has been designed to allow you to practice as soon as the application is launched. - Guido calculates the scores for which you have difficulties and displays them more often. - Play the notes directly on your piano: - What is the point of learning to read notes if you can't find them on your piano to play them? - Guido listens to your piano through the microphone of your device. - Guido has an interface that allows you to find the notes on your piano. - Continue your progress: - Break your records (number of notes in 10 seconds, number of notes in a row). - Correct your weaknesses: - Guido's algorithm focuses on the notes for which you have the most difficulty. - Support in english : - Do you have a problem, a question, a suggestion for functionality? Guido support can be contacted from the application. Solfeggio allows you to read the notes of piano scores. When you master note reading you can use the unlimited and free resources available on the internet (downloadable scores) or read the score collection of your favorite composers. This will allow you to no longer be dependent on youtube applications or videos to learn how to play the song you want to play.

About

Syllabus Planner

Features
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Not another planner. A plan that rebuilds itself. Tell it which exams you have, which books they cover, and how many hours a week you actually get. Syllabus Planner works backwards from your exam dates and tells you what to study today: which pages, from which subject, for how long. Skip a day? The plan redraws. Move faster than expected? It redraws too. You never start over because life got in the way. UPLOAD THE SYLLABUS, DON'T RETYPE IT A photo or a PDF of the course outline: it picks out subjects, exam dates, credits and chapters. Then it asks you to confirm each one — nothing is created behind your back. The reading happens on your device, and the document never leaves it. WHEN YOU FALL BEHIND IT SAYS SO, AND OFFERS THREE WAYS BACK Spread the backlog across every day left, clear it in the next few days, or keep your days as they are. Each with the real before-and-after numbers, not a pep talk. FOCUS A timer for the study session, with pause. On stop it logs the minutes you actually spent — and that is what teaches the app your real pace, instead of trusting the estimates you gave it on day one. THE DAY, NOT THE SEMESTER Today's screen answers one question: what do I do now. The calendar and the countdown for every exam are there, one step behind. A TUTOR THAT KNOWS YOUR PLAN Connect an AI model with your own key and it can quiz you, explain a topic, or reshape your day when you only have an hour. If it proposes a change to the plan, you apply it with one tap: it never touches anything on its own. ON IPHONE, IPAD AND MAC The same app, shaped for each screen — and the same plan. What you tick off on the Mac in the morning is already there on your phone in the afternoon. WHERE YOUR DATA LIVES On your device, and in your own iCloud. Exams, material and logged hours follow you across iPhone, iPad and Mac: they stay under your Apple Account, never pass through a server of ours, and we cannot read them. No account to create, no ads, no tracking. The tutor stays off until you connect a model yourself, and notifications and calendar stay off until you switch them on. Syllabus Planner is free for one exam. For as many as you like, the full plan unlocks by semester, by year, or once, for good. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://nicolomarinangeli.github.io/syllabusplanner/privacy/

Screenshots

Guido4 screens
Syllabus Planner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Syllabus Planner at Free against Guido's $1.99. Syllabus Planner also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 3 weeks). Guido's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). On 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

Syllabus Planner is free to download; Guido costs $1.99 up front. Syllabus Planner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per 6 months. Guido asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Guido ships an update every 3 weeks, Syllabus Planner daily. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Guido versus Syllabus Planner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGuidoSyllabus Planner
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating2.8 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews55.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS11.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size82 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYannis RICHARDNicolo Marinangeli

In-app purchases

None

Guido

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Syllabus Planner

Subscriptions2
  • Six months$8.996 Months
  • Yearly7 Days trial$12.991 Year
One-time1
  • Forever$34.99

Questions

Is Guido free?
Guido costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Syllabus Planner free?
Syllabus Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Guido or Syllabus Planner have ads?
Neither Guido nor Syllabus Planner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Guido or Syllabus Planner?
Guido ships an update every 3 weeks, and Syllabus Planner daily. Most recently, Guido was updated on October 17, 2026 and Syllabus Planner on October 7, 2026.

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