Note Names & Pitches vs Thelonious
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.
Thelonious
This app simplifies music theory with visual aids for keys, chords, and scales. It helps users understand harmony and apply concepts to real playing, including guitar-specific features.
- Visual layouts for keys, chords, and scales
- Diatonic chord and key relationship study
- Chord progressions and harmonic movement
- Guitar mode charts
- CAGED system material
- Relative minor and dominant chord learning
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Thelonious is a music theory app designed to help you understand keys, chords, scales, and harmony through clear, visual layouts. Explore major keys, review scale notes, and study diatonic chords in a format built for both learning and quick reference. Thelonious connects theory to real playing with chord progressions, guitar mode charts, and CAGED system material. Use Thelonious to: • Explore major keys and their scale notes • Understand diatonic chords and key relationships • Learn relative minor and dominant chords • Study chord progressions and harmonic movement • View guitar modes and CAGED chord charts Whether you’re learning the fundamentals or deepening your understanding of harmony, Thelonious makes music theory easier to read, understand, and apply.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Thelonious at Free against Note Names & Pitches's $1.99. Thelonious also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). Note Names & Pitches's advantage is ratings volume (16 vs 1). On 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
Thelonious is free to download; Note Names & Pitches costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Thelonious holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Note Names & Pitches has 16 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Note Names & Pitches | Thelonious |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (16 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Patrick Q. Kelly | Robert Natale |
In-app purchases
Note Names & Pitches
No in-app purchases
Thelonious
No in-app purchases
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