Learn Notes vs Basic Pitch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Learn Notes
This music education tool helps users learn to read musical notes. It offers customizable settings for range and accidentals, making it adaptable for various learning needs. Practice reading music and improve your sight-reading skills with this focused utility.
- Adjustable note range
- Selectable accidentals
- Music note reading practice
- Sight-reading improvement
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Learn to read sheet music in a few minutes a day. Four game modes — match a staff note to a piano key, name a note, find the name for a highlighted key, or guess notes by ear from a chosen scale. Ear Training plays single notes, intervals, or 3-note phrases. The adaptive picker drills the notes you miss most often, building real skill instead of luck. Per-note statistics for every game, day-streak tracking, today's score on the home screen. Choose Timed mode to race the clock and reach Game Center leaderboards, or Practice mode for relaxed learning without a timer. Treble and bass clef, sharps and flats — all configurable. Results and progress sync across all your devices through iCloud. No ads, no subscription.
Basic Pitch
This app makes music education engaging for all skill levels. It offers a gamified approach to ear training and sight-singing, essential skills for musicians. Learn to identify pitches, intervals, scales, chords, and rhythms through interactive exercises.
- Gamified music education
- Ear training exercises
- Sight-singing practice
- Learn music theory concepts
- Identify pitches and intervals
- Chord and rhythm recognition
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Basic Pitch builds internal pitch awareness through simple, game-like listening, matching, and singing.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Basic Pitch at 5.0 against Learn Notes's 3.3. Basic Pitch also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). Learn Notes's advantage is review sentiment (76% vs 67%) and price ($0.99 vs $1.99). On ratings volume, update cadence, ads and monetization model 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
Learn Notes costs $0.99 and Basic Pitch $1.99 up front. Learn Notes sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Basic Pitch asks for nothing beyond the download.
Basic Pitch holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 11 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 76% of Learn Notes's written reviews are positive against 67% of Basic Pitch's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Learn Notes ships an update every 6 weeks, Basic Pitch every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on September 29, 2026.
| Parameter | Learn Notes | Basic Pitch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 3.3 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.5% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alexander Омelchuk | Carlos DeSoto |
Customer experience
Learn Notes
Basic Pitch
In-app purchases
Learn Notes
- Add Bass Clef$0.99
- Guess notes by Ear$0.99
Basic Pitch
No in-app purchases
