Note Names & Pitches vs Poco a Poco
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Note Names & Pitches
Hear pitches for written musical notes or piano keys. Play intervals and chords, and see notation as you play. Ideal for musicians learning to read music across different clefs.
- Hear any written note or piano key
- Play intervals and chords
- Supports multiple clefs (Treble, Alto, Tenor, Bass)
- See notation and note names
- Interactive staff and piano keyboard
- Chromatic up/down movement
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Provides a quick and easy way to hear pitches for any written notes or piano keys you need. Hear intervals and chords with up to 5 notes on the iPhone, 12 notes on the iPad. Support for Key Signatures to more easily find a pitch in the music you're working on. An indispensable tool for a cappella groups, and instrumentalists who often play in ledger lines or alternate clefs. If you don’t read music well and need to learn a melody or harmony part, you can simply match what’s written. (Including the key signatures.) This is exactly what you need if you would like to learn the relationship between notation in various clefs and the piano. • Play the piano and see the notation and note name for what you are playing • Choose between Treble, Alto, Tenor, and Bass clefs • Touch the staff and see and hear the piano keys play Selecting a Pitch: Using the Staff (transposed notation): 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.
Poco a Poco
Improve your music sight-reading with personalized exercises and interactive theory guides. Track your progress and test your skills with daily challenges.
- Personalized practice exercises
- Interactive music theory guides
- Progress tracking (daily, weekly, monthly)
- Daily challenge game
- Sight-reading skill improvement
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PRACTICE Start practicing Notes with Poco a Poco and you will see how your sight reading skills are improving over time. EXERCISES The smart algorithms in Poco a Poco will create specially designed exercises targeted to your skill level. THEORY Learn and refresh your music theory knowledge with interactive guides designed for each kind of exercise. PROGRESS Track your daily, weekly and monthly progress to find how you are improving and what you still need to practice. CHALLENGE Play daily challenge game to see how long you can go without making a single mistake.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Poco a Poco at 5.0 against Note Names & Pitches's 4.6. Poco a Poco also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 77%) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 26.0). Note Names & Pitches's advantage is chart position (#189 vs unranked) and price ($1.99 vs $2.99). On ratings volume, 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
Note Names & Pitches costs $1.99 and Poco a Poco $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Poco a Poco holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 16 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 77% of Note Names & Pitches's written reviews are positive against 100% of Poco a Poco's.
Note Names & Pitches ships an update every 9 months, Poco a Poco every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Note Names & Pitches | Poco a Poco |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (16 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 8 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #189 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Patrick Q. Kelly | Notagram, LLC |
Customer experience
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In-app purchases
Note Names & Pitches
No in-app purchases
Poco a Poco
No in-app purchases
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