Fingering vs Fingering Brass
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fingering
Access interactive fingering charts for a wide range of woodwind and brass instruments, including alternate fingerings and trills. Features a piano interface to visualize notes and their notations across various clefs, with transposition options.
- Interactive fingering charts
- Alternate fingerings and trills
- Piano visualization
- Multiple clef support
- Transposition options
- Instrument-specific guides
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“This is a must have app for every music teacher, students and enthusiast.” Immediate access to fingerings (with alternates and trills) for each instrument’s entire playable range. Get fingerings from the written or concert pitch. Support for Key Signatures to more easily find a fingering in the music you're working on. Woodwinds: Piccolo, Concert, Alto and Bass Flutes, Oboe and Cor Anglais, Soprano, Alto, Bass and Contrabass Clarinets, Bassoon and Contrabassoon, Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Baritone Saxophones Brass: F/Bb Double French Horn, A, Bb, C and D Trumpets (Cornet, Flugelhorn), Bb/F Tenorbass and Bb/F/Gb/D Bass Trombones, Euphonium and Baritone, BBb, CC, Eb and F Tubas The 'Piano' instrument simultaneously displays the note names, the locations on the piano, and the musical notations of up to 5 pitches in either Treble, Alto, Tenor or Bass clef. The Notation can be transposed for most all instrumental transpositions. • All woodwinds have trill fingerings for minor 2nd and major 2nd intervals. • Flutes and Saxophones have additional fingerings for minor 3rd and major 3rd trills. • Alto and Tenor Sax include altissimo fingerings up to written F, two octaves above the top line F of the treble clef. • All Woodwinds include visual guides to the key names and locations on the instrument to understand the fingering charts better. • Trombones include position guides for the different valve combinations. Common Clefs for Select Instruments: • Bassoon and Contrabassoon include Treble, Tenor and Bass clefs. • Bb/F Tenorbass Trombone, Bb/F/Gb/D Bass Trombone, Euphonium and Baritone include Treble, Tenor and Bass clefs. • F/Bb Double French Horn, BBb Tuba, CC Tuba, Eb Tuba, and F Tuba include Treble and Bass clefs. Treble clef on the brass instruments follow British Band tradition of being in transposing notation for non-transposing instruments. Affects Bb/F Tenorbass and Bb/F/Gb/D Bass Trombones, Euphonium, Baritone, and BBb, Eb and F Tubas. How to Use: Pick a written note (touch the staff) and have the fingering displayed and concert pitch played. Touch a button and reveal the note on the piano. Play a concert pitch on the piano, and have that pitch's fingering displayed. Touch a button and reveal the transposed note written on the staff. • If there are alternate fingerings available for a note or trill, a button will allow you to navigate through them. • Use the 'Play Note' or 'Play Trill' button to repeatedly hear what's being displayed. • Use the mute button to access the fingerings without hearing the pitches. Selecting a Pitch: Using the Staff (transposed for the current instrument): Simply touch and slide up and down on the staff to select the note, slide to the right or left of the note for sharps and flats. Using the Piano (concert pitch): drag in the area below the keyboard to move the keyboard, touch to play notes, touch & slide to change the pitch. When you glissando up the keyboard, notes will be notated as a raised value (sharps), when you glissando down, notes will be notated as lowered values (flats). Use the up and down arrows to move chromatically up and down without touching the music staff or piano keyboard.
Fingering Brass
Access interactive fingering charts for a wide range of brass instruments, including alternate fingerings. View notes on a piano interface and hear concert pitches. Supports multiple clefs and transpositions for various instruments.
- Interactive fingering charts
- Alternate fingerings
- Piano interface
- Concert pitch playback
- Multiple clef support
- Transposition options
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Immediate access to fingerings (with alternates) for each instrument’s entire playable range. Get fingerings from the written or concert pitch. Support for Key Signatures to more easily find a fingering in the music you're working on. Instruments: F/Bb Double French Horn, A, Bb, C and D Trumpets (Cornet, Flugelhorn), Bb/F Tenorbass and Bb/F/Gb/D Bass Trombones, Euphonium and Baritone, BBb, CC, Eb and F Tubas The 'Piano' instrument simultaneously displays the note names, the locations on the piano, and the musical notations of up to 5 pitches in either Treble, Alto, Tenor or Bass clef. The Notation can be transposed for most all instrumental transpositions. • Trombones include position guides for the different valve combinations. Common Clefs for Select Instruments: • Bb/F Tenorbass Trombone, Bb/F/Gb/D Bass Trombone, Euphonium and Baritone include Treble, Tenor and Bass clefs. • F/Bb Double French Horn, BBb Tuba, CC Tuba, Eb Tuba, and F Tuba include Treble and Bass clefs. Treble clef on the brass instruments follow British Band tradition of being in transposing notation for non-transposing instruments. Affects Bb/F Tenorbass and Bb/F/Gb/D Bass Trombones, Euphonium, Baritone, and BBb, Eb and F Tubas. How to Use: Pick a written note (touch the staff) and have the fingering displayed and concert pitch played. Touch a button and reveal the note on the piano. Play a concert pitch on the piano, and have that pitch's fingering displayed. Touch a button and reveal the transposed note written on the staff. • If there are alternate fingerings available for a note, a button will allow you to navigate through them. • Use the 'Play Note' button to repeatedly hear what's being displayed. • Use the mute button to access the fingerings without hearing the pitches. Selecting a Pitch: Using the Staff (transposed for the current instrument): Simply touch and slide up and down on the staff to select the note, slide to the right or left of the note for sharps and flats. Using the Piano (concert pitch): drag in the area below the keyboard to move the keyboard, touch to play notes, touch & slide to change the pitch. When you glissando up the keyboard, notes will be notated as a raised value (sharps), when you glissando down, notes will be notated as lowered values (flats). Use the up and down arrows to move chromatically up and down without touching the music staff or piano keyboard.
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Verdict
Fingering and Fingering Brass both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 85% of Fingering's written reviews are positive against 17% of Fingering Brass's. Fingering also leads on ratings volume (157 vs 14). Fingering Brass's advantage is price ($1.99 vs $4.99). On rating, update cadence, 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
Fingering costs $4.99 and Fingering Brass $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Fingering against 4.6 for Fingering Brass. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fingering has 157 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 85% of Fingering's written reviews are positive against 17% of Fingering Brass's.
Fingering ships an update every 7 months, Fingering Brass every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fingering | Fingering Brass |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | $1.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (157 ratings) — better | 4.6 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 84.8% of reviews — better | 16.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 157 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 183 MB | 120 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Patrick Q. Kelly | Patrick Q. Kelly |
Customer experience
Fingering
Fingering Brass
Bugs and requests
Fingering
Reported bugs
6 issues- Contra fingerings are wrong after E natural
- Huge battery drain
- Cannot hear saxophone sounds, only piano
- No sound at all
- Sound not working
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- No sound
Requested features
10 requests- Option to switch to light mode
- Create own fingering option with notes
- Fix piccolo fingering chart
- Incorporate extended range fingerings
- Add recorder charts (Baroque and German)
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- Option to see pitch rather than concert pitch
- Include more alternate woodwind fingerings
- Add Eb and F tuba fingerings
- Allow user to choose between transposed or concert pitch display
- Allow user to choose between sounding or muting displayed notes
Fingering Brass
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Fingering
No in-app purchases
Fingering Brass
No in-app purchases
Questions
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