Comparison

Perfect Pitch vs elementary music

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

elementary music

Features
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This is an introduction to music and music theory.  Learn about basic notes and sounds of different musical instruments. We all learn differently. Sometimes rapid sensory input is just too much for some people. This is designed with a calmer pace in mind.  It's never too late to learn something new.  Keep learning. If you like this app, please check out our other apps and stickers by searching under “Sigma Sky, LLC” in the Apple App Store. No ads. No in-app purchase. No subscriptions.

Screenshots

Perfect Pitch4 screens
elementary music4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Perfect Pitch at Free against elementary music's $0.99. Perfect Pitch also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 38 months). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

Perfect Pitch is free to download; elementary music costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Perfect Pitch ships an update every 10 days, elementary music every 38 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Perfect Pitch versus elementary music: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPerfect Pitchelementary music
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.4 (72 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews64.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings72 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 38 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.6
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperErudite Apps LLCSigma Sky, LLC

In-app purchases

None

Perfect Pitch

No in-app purchases

None

elementary music

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Perfect Pitch free?
Perfect Pitch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is elementary music free?
elementary music costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Perfect Pitch or elementary music have ads?
Neither Perfect Pitch nor elementary music shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Perfect Pitch or elementary music?
Perfect Pitch ships an update every 10 days, and elementary music every 38 months. Most recently, Perfect Pitch was updated on October 24, 2026 and elementary music on October 30, 2026.

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