Singalong Solfege vs SolFa Hand
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Singalong Solfege
Enhance your musical abilities with this comprehensive ear training and sight-singing application. Practice pitch accuracy, rhythm, and music reading with a vast library of melodies and instrumental accompaniment.
- Sight-singing and instrumental reading training
- Guide vocals and piano accompaniment
- Over 290 curated melodies
- Support for SATB voices
- Transposing instrument support
- Printable PDF sheet music (premium)
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Singalong Solfège is a complete training app for sight-singing and instrumental reading, featuring guide vocals, piano accompaniment, and over 300 curated melodies to build pitch accuracy, rhythm, and music reading skills. Intro through Lv. 3 are fully free — including slow tempo playback, PDF and MP3 downloads. Includes solfège etudes by Nikolay Ladukhin and Giuseppe Concone, plus classical works by composers like Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Fauré, and Debussy. Choose between Fixed-Do and Movable-Do, with Chromatic and Non-chromatic syllable options. Supports Treble, Alto, Tenor, and Bass clefs, plus B-flat transposed scores available for download. Ideal for singers and instrumentalists alike — improve intonation, rhythm, and sight-reading. Premium Features (available with subscription): - Unlock Lv. 4 and above, plus extra classical pieces Works on all iOS devices. Optimized for iOS 16.6 or later. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
SolFa Hand
Learn and practice solfège hand signs with real-time feedback. The app uses your device's camera to detect hand positions, displaying the corresponding tone syllable and singing it to you. Explore various modes to practice scales, melodies, and even play with others.
- Real-time hand sign detection
- Solfège tone syllable singing
- Major scale practice
- Customizable melody following
- Multi-hand detection
- Performance recording and sharing
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Using this app, you can learn and practice Solfège hand signs. In its basic mode, the app presents hand signs for the tones of the major scale. Using the front camera the app captures your hand and finger positions and detects the hand signs you show. The app shows the related tone syllable (do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti) and sings it to you, so you know when you get the hand sign right. When your hand sign matches the presented hand sign, the hand sign of the next note of the major scale is shown. With some practice you will be able to easily relate hand signs, tone syllables and pitch heights. There are many in-app-purchase configuration options which you can play with. Try before you buy. Move: Choose a key and show detected hand signs as note names. For C-Major: C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C. For F-Major: F, G, A, Bb, C, D, E, F. Follow: Choose from scale patterns or enter a custom melody. The app presents hand signs for each note and you follow. See: Choose front or back camera and what is displayed when hand signs are detected. Hear: Choose what sounds are generated for detected hand signs: syllables, instrument sounds, MIDI output, single or dual Shepard-like tones. Detect: Choose the number of hands (up to 8) that can be detected at the same time. So you can play with others. Film: Record and share your performance. Note: We recommend a recent device (iPhone X or up) for fluent hand sign detection.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SolFa Hand at 5.0 against Singalong Solfege's 4.5. SolFa Hand also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.6). Singalong Solfege's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 8 months) and ratings volume (29 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Singalong Solfege sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and SolFa Hand sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
SolFa Hand holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Singalong Solfege has 29 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Singalong Solfege ships an update monthly, SolFa Hand every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Singalong Solfege | SolFa Hand |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (29 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 332 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | YASUHIRO SEKINE | Dr. Garbers Softwareentwicklung |
Customer experience
Singalong Solfege
SolFa Hand
In-app purchases
Singalong Solfege
- Monthly Subscription$4.991 Month
- Solfege Yearly Subscription$49.991 Year
- Enable Slow Tempo$0.99
- Unlock Melodies$5.99
- Saving printable pdfs$11.99
SolFa Hand
- Move Options$0.99
- Follow Options$0.99
- See Options$0.99
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- Hear Options$0.99
- Detect Options$0.99
- Film Options$0.99
- All Options$3.99
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