HAM Test Prep vs Saxophone Sight Reading
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HAM Test Prep
Prepare for your Amateur Radio General license exam with a comprehensive question pool and practice tests. Review FCC rules, track your proficiency, and customize your study sessions. Includes features for vision-impaired users and dark mode support.
- General question pool access
- Practice exams
- Proficiency tracking
- Immediate feedback option
- View FCC rule text
- Zoomable figures
- Accessibility options
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Includes the General Question Pool effective July 1, 2023! Not sure if you want to buy? Try out the "Lite" version of this app! Upgrade your HAM license from Technician to General! With the elimination of the Morse Code requirement, there is no reason not to upgrade your license to gain additional privileges! Amateur Radio License exams are composed of questions from a pool. Use this application prior to taking your exam to review and practice all possible questions. Then, test your knowledge with practice exams! After completing your first practice exam, the question pool screen will display your proficiency in each question group for all practice exams you have completed. You may choose to receive immediate feedback on right and wrong answers when taking a practice test. On practice tests, questions in a group will not be repeated until all of them have been used. Some questions require you to review associated Figures. These figures may be zoomed and panned on iPhone/iPod touch. FCC rule text is viewable within the application. All sections can be browsed from the main screen. Additionally, for questions where rule sections have been identified, the rule text can be viewed on the question screen when studying the question pool or reviewing test results. An in-progress practice test can be resumed if you exit the test or the application. Current General question pool is valid through June 30, 2027. Versions of this application for both the Technician and Extra license classes are also available. This app has these additional features: • Accessibility option for vision-impaired users to exclude questions with figures • Dark mode support • Portrait and Landscape support on iPad • Swipe gestures to navigate between questions • Tap on answer to select it • Double-tap or use pinch gesture to zoom Figures on iPhone and iPod touch • Buttons to skip to next/previous wrong answer in test results • ARRL question number displayed on practice tests • Configurable Test Settings • Optional randomizing of test answers • Optional auto-advance during test
Saxophone Sight Reading
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Learn to read and play notes easily on your instrument. Learn to hear the notes when you see them on the staff and be able to play them by hearing their sound in your head. This builds upon our revolutionary method of learning instruments by ear, allowing you to become musically literate in the way that is much more effective as is done through imagining sounds that you are going to play when you see a note - not mere mechanical playing. And all that without too much thinking - you just will learn to sight-read and play with our app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: HAM Test Prep at $1.99 against Saxophone Sight Reading's $12.99. HAM Test Prep also leads on chart position (#199 vs unranked). Saxophone Sight Reading's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.5). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
HAM Test Prep costs $1.99 and Saxophone Sight Reading $12.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
HAM Test Prep ships an update every 6 months, Saxophone Sight Reading every 4 months. Both last shipped on October 12, 2026.
| Parameter | HAM Test Prep | Saxophone Sight Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 — better | $12.99 |
| Rating | 4.9 (575 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 96.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 575 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Best chart rank | #199 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 182 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Patrick J Maloney LLC | Oleg Sokolov |
Bugs and requests
HAM Test Prep
Reported bugs
2 issues- Occasional app crashes or freezes
- Inconsistent behavior between iPhone and iPad versions
Requested features
2 requests- Add randomize answers option for practice tests
- Improve progress tracking and reset functionality in study sections
Saxophone Sight Reading
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
HAM Test Prep
No in-app purchases
Saxophone Sight Reading
No in-app purchases
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