Know Notes vs NEC Nadia
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Know Notes
Develop your musical ear by learning to identify notes and chords by sound. This gamified app makes practicing fun and competitive, allowing you to progress from basic notes to sharps and flats.
- Ear training
- Note recognition
- Chord recognition
- Gamified learning
- Progressive difficulty
- Natural notes, sharps, and flats
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Train Ears, Master Music. Learn to recognize musical notes and chords by their unique sound. Gamified to make learning fun and competitive. Start small, then work your way up to learn every natural note and their sharp/flat.
NEC Nadia
Engage with music through interactive puzzles. Tap, trace, and build patterns to develop listening skills and unlock a world of composers and collectibles. Enjoy short, timed levels that challenge rhythmic accuracy and melodic recall.
- Tactile music puzzles
- Rhythmic accuracy training
- Melody tracking and recall
- Scale-degree navigation
- Chord and interval construction
- Unlockable composer content
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Nadia is a music game that blends tactile puzzles with real listening skills. Tap, trace, and build musical patterns as you explore a world of composers and unlock new content through high-scoring runs. Across a growing set of mini-games, you’ll practice: - Rhythmic accuracy (beat, downbeat, subdivisions) - Melody tracking and recall - Scale-degree navigation - Identifying texture and chord changes - Constructing intervals and chords with drag-and-drop tiles Levels are short, timed, and scored. Earn stars to unlock composers, artifacts, paintings, and stickerbook pages. Each composer offers a unique ability that adds strategy and encourages replay as you push for higher scores.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Know Notes at 4.9 against NEC Nadia's 4.3. Know Notes also leads on ratings volume (31 vs 6). NEC Nadia's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, review sentiment and ads 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. Know Notes sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. NEC Nadia asks for nothing beyond the download.
Know Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Know Notes has 31 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 96% of Know Notes's written reviews are positive against 100% of NEC Nadia's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
| Parameter | Know Notes | NEC Nadia |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (31 ratings) — better | 4.3 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 95.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 107 MB | 208 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | wylan neely | Brand Foundry (Pty) Ltd |
Customer experience
Know Notes
NEC Nadia
In-app purchases
Know Notes
- Violin Notes$0.99
- Electronic Keyboard Notes$0.99
- Grand Piano Notes$0.99
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- Unlock Violin Instrument$2.99
- Acoustic Guitar (Major Chords)$2.99
- Unlock Acoustic Guitar$3.99
NEC Nadia
No in-app purchases
