Piano Sight Reading Trainer vs Sightreading Exercises
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Piano Sight Reading Trainer
Learn to read sheet music and enhance your note identification speed and accuracy. This app offers a comprehensive tutorial and customizable practice settings for all skill levels. Track your progress with detailed statistics and engage in friendly competition with other users.
- Sheet music reading tutorial
- Note identification practice
- Customizable practice settings
- Performance statistics
- Competitive leaderboards
- Multiple instrument options
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The best way to learn how to read sheet music! Whether you're a beginner or an expert, this app helps you read notes faster and more accurately. Features: • Learn the basics with a built-in tutorial • Answer with the piano or note letters • Customize your practice settings • Track your scores, streaks, and progress • Compete on the global leaderboard • Beautiful themes to choose from
Sightreading Exercises
Master sight-reading on any instrument with 60 progressive levels and songs. Practice with your real instrument, receive instant feedback, and improve your musical fluency. Supports a wide range of instruments, clefs, and key signatures.
- 60 progressive levels
- Instrument-specific customization
- Built-in tuner
- Supports all modern clefs
- Wide range of key and time signatures
- Real instrument input detection
- Pitch meter for accuracy
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Customized for instruments, including full orchestra settings: Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass, Guitar, Bass, Clarinet (Bb and A), Oboe, Bassoon, Flute, Piccolo, French Horn (double horn setting F / Bb), Trumpet (C / Bb), Saxophone (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Baritone), Trombone (Tenor and Bass), Tuba, Harp. Complete your entire music learning journey by practicing in different modes: Flash Cards, Music Theory, Full Flow Sheet Music, and Practice Real Songs. Features available in all modes: - The app shows sheet music, listens to your playing, and provides feedback. Even on grand stave with multiple notes at a time. This is called polyphonic detection system. - Melodic Randomness: control how random the generated notes are - Hints (instrument-specific) - Keyboard (Piano) - Fingerboard chart (Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass) - Fretboard chart (Guitar, Bass) - Fingering (Clarinet, Flute; more coming soon) - Pitch meter for intonation (Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass, Trombone) - Intonation accuracy check for microtonal instruments: - Green tick: perfect intonation - Yellow tick: Acceptable hit but slightly out of tune - Voice Control: restart the exercise without touching the screen 1. Flash Cards - Levels 1 to 20 (beginner) - Levels 21 to 40 (intermediate) - Levels 41 to 60 (advanced) - Custom levels (12 keys, all accidentals including double-sharp and double-flat) 2. Music Theory - Scales - Major scales (12 keys, up to 3 octaves) - Harmonic minor and melodic minor scales (12 keys, up to 3 octaves) - Chromatic scales (adjustable range) - Chords (up to 3 octaves) - Major Triad, Minor Triad, Major Seventh, Minor Seventh, Dominant Seventh, Diminished Seventh, Augmented Triad, Diminished Triad, Suspended Seventh, Suspended Second, Suspended Fourth, Major Ninth, Minor Ninth, Dominant Ninth, Added Ninth, Major Eleventh, Minor Eleventh, Dominant Eleventh - Rhythms - Note types - Semibreve (Whole) - Minim (Half) - Crotchet (Quarter) - Quaver (Eighth) - Semiquaver (Sixteenth) - Rests - Dotted notes - Triplets - Time signatures 4/4, 2/4, 3/4, 6/4, 3/8, 6/8, 9/8, 12/8 - Intervals - Exercises for faster recognition of any chromatic intervals in any keys - Aural Training - Rhythm & Metre - Melody & Memory - Intervals & Pitch - Chords & Harmony 3. Full Flow Sheet Music (practice sight-reading with real sheet music. Hit the right note, or practice playing in rhythm with the metronome) - Levels 1 to 20 (beginner) - Levels 21 to 40 (intermediate) - Levels 41 to 60 (advanced) - Custom levels (12 keys, 8 time signatures, 10+ note types, all accidentals including double-sharp and double-flat) 4. Practice Real Songs (over 170 famous songs by different composers) - Songs organized by - Albums (13 music books) - Composers (Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Tchaikovsky, Haydn, Schubert, Schumann, Handel, Chopin, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Debussy, Bizet, Brahms, Vivaldi, Johann Strauss, Paganini, Pachelbel, Czerny, Rachmaninoff, Scott Joplin, Clementi, Edvard Grieg, Ravel, Scarlatti, Weber, Sibelius, Saint-Saëns, Verdi, Puccini, Rossini, Erik Satie, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Antonín Dvořák, Edward Elgar, Jules Massenet, Richard Wagner, and more) - Grades (Grade 1 to 7) Tools for day-to-day practice are also available: - Tuners - Full-range chromatic tuner: A0 to C8 - Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass, Guitar, Bass, and tuners for transposing instruments, such as Clarinet, French Horn, Trumpet, and Saxophone - Metronome (classic metronome that lets you adjust BPM by sliding the pendulum weight up and down)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Sightreading Exercises at every 5 days against Piano Sight Reading Trainer's every 3 weeks. Piano Sight Reading Trainer's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.4) and monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs paid). On price, review sentiment, 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. Piano Sight Reading Trainer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Sightreading Exercises sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Piano Sight Reading Trainer holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 99 and 23 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Piano Sight Reading Trainer ships an update every 3 weeks, Sightreading Exercises every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Piano Sight Reading Trainer | Sightreading Exercises |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (99 ratings) — better | 4.4 (23 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 99 — better | 23 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 15.8 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 335 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Derek Dawson | RC Game |
Customer experience
Piano Sight Reading Trainer
Sightreading Exercises
In-app purchases
Piano Sight Reading Trainer
- Ad Free Version$2.99
Sightreading Exercises
- Buy Full Version$12.99
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