Know Notes vs Music Sight Learning Skills
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.
Music Sight Learning Skills
Learn to read music by identifying piano keys and notes on the staff. This game offers an authentic piano keyboard with real sounds and progressively challenging levels. Choose to read music using Solfège or the music alphabet.
- Play notes across the staff
- Identify piano keys
- Authentic piano keyboard with real sounds
- Progressively complex levels
- Solfège or music alphabet reading options
- PPMS Note Reading Ready
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In the Music Sight Learning Skills app, you will play notes across the staff. Winning a level means you correctly identified the piano keys. This app includes a fun and authentic piano keyboard that uses real piano sounds. As you learn more notes and keys, the game will get progressively more complex. Players have a choice of reading in Solfège or the music alphabet. PPMS Note Reading Ready.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Music Sight Learning Skills at none against Know Notes's 6. Music Sight Learning Skills also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.0). Know Notes's advantage is ratings volume (31 vs 3). On price, rating, update cadence 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. Music Sight Learning Skills asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Know Notes against 5.0 for Music Sight Learning Skills. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Know Notes has 31 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Know Notes ships an update fortnightly, Music Sight Learning Skills every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Know Notes | Music Sight Learning Skills |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (31 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 95.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| 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 | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | wylan neely | Sharon Shaheed |
Customer experience
Know Notes
Music Sight Learning Skills
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
Music Sight Learning Skills
No in-app purchases
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