Perfect Pitch vs Guess the Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Perfect Pitch
Develop perfect pitch by associating musical notes with colors and haptic feedback. This app uses cognitive psychology principles to create a synesthetic learning experience, helping you identify and recreate musical notes without a reference tone.
- Associate pitches with custom colors
- Haptic feedback for natural notes and sharps/flats
- Train with built-in melodies, songs, and scales
- Circle of Fifths visualization
- Organize practice songs in a library
- Modify training settings for each song
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LEARN VIA SYNESTHESIA. Train to gain the coveted ability of perfect pitch through synesthetic associations. Perfect Pitch is designed to capitalize on both your implicit and explicit color-tone associations. SENSORY PERFECT PITCH. Absolute pitch, the ability to identify and re-create musical notes without a reference tone, may be developed and enhanced by associating pitches with other sensory stimulations, such as color and haptic feedback (specialized device vibrations). Based on cognitive psychology, Perfect Pitch allows you to associate haptics & custom colors with each musical pitch and train yourself using songs, creating a cross-sensory experience known as synesthesia. FEATURES THAT GUIDE MASTERY. • Play pitches & songs while associated colors illuminate • Train using fifteen built-in melodies, songs, & scales • Colors and pitches are presented in the Circle of Fifths • Choose custom color associations that feel right to YOU • Soft haptics for natural notes; rigid haptics for sharps/flats • Playback Settings allow training modifications for each song • Organize the set & order of songs to practice from the Library DEVELOPED AT GEORGIA TECH. Perfect Pitch was originally developed by students at the Georgia Institute of Technology while working with ubiquitous computing researchers. However, this app is not affiliated with the Institute.
Guess the Notes
Train your ear to identify musical notes played on a guitar. The app offers three difficulty levels, providing increasing numbers of choices as you progress. Track your performance with visible correct and incorrect answer counts.
- Guitar note recognition
- Three difficulty levels
- Multiple choice answers
- Performance tracking
- Beginner, Intermediate, Expert modes
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Use "Guess the Notes" to train your ears to recognize the notes played on a guitar You'll be able to choose between 3 difficulty levels. In the Beginner level, for every note played, you'll be presented with 2 choices of note names and you'll have to choose between those. For Intermediate level, you get 4 choices and for Expert 6 notes. You will also be able to see the total correct and incorrect answers on top of the screen! Have fun!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Perfect Pitch at 67 against Guess the Notes's 3. Perfect Pitch also leads on review sentiment (65% vs 50%). Guess the Notes's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.4) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.6). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Guess the Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Perfect Pitch has 67 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 65% of Perfect Pitch's written reviews are positive against 50% of Guess the Notes's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Perfect Pitch ships an update every 10 days, Guess the Notes every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Perfect Pitch | Guess the Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (67 ratings) | 4.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.7% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 67 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 145 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Erudite Apps LLC | Pixolity AB (Apps) |
Customer experience
Perfect Pitch
Guess the Notes
In-app purchases
Perfect Pitch
No in-app purchases
Guess the Notes
No in-app purchases


