Singalong Solfege vs Tone Hole
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/
Tone Hole
A musical game where players match tones to corresponding holes. It features different rounds, from color-assisted matching to challenging sound-only levels that test auditory memory.
- Tone matching gameplay
- Color and sound matching
- Sound-only practice rounds
- Challenging silent outer holes
- Auditory memory training
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Sink the tone to the hole whose sound matches. Drag it or touch the matching hole. WARM-UP ROUND: Use color and sound to make the match. PRACTICE ROUND: Sound only. CHALLENGE ROUND: Outer holes are silent. You have to internalize their tones!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Tone Hole at 5.0 against Singalong Solfege's 4.5. Tone Hole also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 76%). Singalong Solfege's advantage is ratings volume (29 vs 3). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Singalong Solfege sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Tone Hole sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Tone Hole 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 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 76% of Singalong Solfege's written reviews are positive against 100% of Tone Hole's.
Singalong Solfege ships an update monthly, Tone Hole every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Singalong Solfege | Tone Hole |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (29 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| 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 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 370 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | YASUHIRO SEKINE | Listen Up Games |
Customer experience
Singalong Solfege
Tone Hole
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
Tone Hole
- Tone Hole Full Game$1.99
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