Comparison

Fingering vs SaxoFun

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Interactive fingering charts
  • Alternate fingerings and trills
  • Piano visualization
  • Multiple clef support
  • Transposition options
  • Instrument-specific guides
Currently charting
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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.

About

SaxoFun

This application aids beginner alto and baritone saxophonists with their initial practice sessions. It offers a variety of musical accompaniments and exercises focused on specific notes and fingerings, with an integrated fingering table and note playback.

Highlights
  • 40+ accompaniments in various styles
  • Exercises per fingering/note
  • Combined note/fingering exercises
  • Play-along or listen-only guide track
  • Fingering table for notes
  • Note playback on key press
Features
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This app helps the beginning alto saxophonist with his first practising. This app contains around 40 different accompaniments in different styles: classical, jazzy, with saxophone quartet, duets, etc, etc. You have excersis per fingering/note. On the left side of the screen is a saxophone. You can tap one of the keys which will make the excersie per key visible. Plus you have extra excersises which combine the notes/fingerings. You can play with the guide track or listen along to the guide track with the saxophone part. It also has a fingering table of the notes used in the excercises. Plus you can listen to the notes when you press them. All excercises have the fingering of the notes above them. This app is meant for the beginner on the ALTO of BARITON saxophone.

Screenshots

Fingering4 screens
SaxoFun3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Fingering at 85% against SaxoFun's 0%. Fingering also leads on monetization model (free vs paid) and update cadence (every 7 months vs every 37 months). SaxoFun's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.1 vs 26.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Fingering costs $4.99 and SaxoFun $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fingering ships an update every 7 months, SaxoFun every 37 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Fingering versus SaxoFun: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFingeringSaxoFun
Price$4.99$4.99
Rating4.8 (157 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews84.8% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings157 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 7 months — betterEvery 37 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
Best chart rank#182 — better—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.013.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size183 MB58 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPatrick Q. KellyH Hubeek

Customer experience

Fingering

All ratings157 ratings
Positive94.9%
Neutral1.3%
Negative3.8%
Written reviews33 reviews
Positive84.8%
Neutral3.0%
Negative12.1%

SaxoFun

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

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)
Show 5 more
  • 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

SaxoFun

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Fingering

No in-app purchases

None

SaxoFun

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fingering free?
Fingering costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is SaxoFun free?
SaxoFun costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Fingering or SaxoFun have ads?
Neither Fingering nor SaxoFun shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fingering or SaxoFun?
Fingering ships an update every 7 months, and SaxoFun every 37 months. Most recently, Fingering was updated on October 29, 2026 and SaxoFun on October 23, 2026.

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