Piano Notes Pro vs Music Intervals Trainer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Piano Notes Pro
This app helps users learn and practice reading piano music notes. It offers various modes, including a teaching mode and engaging game modes, to improve sight-reading skills. It's suitable for both beginners and experienced players looking to enhance their musical understanding.
- Full 88-key keyboard range
- Teaching and game modes
- Adjustable note range
- Multiple quiz types
- Support for all key signatures
- Tutor mode for beginners
- Colored keys as hints
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The Best Music Note Trainer on iPad "Great tutor for piano beginners !!" -- Zara56Mount, United States "Just checked out the tutor function and with enough practice I will be learning how to read notes! Yay! This is awesome, thanks!" -- Luucylu, United States "Great app. I use it for teaching piano every day. The kids love it. The updates have been thorough and often." -- r.constanzo, United Kingdom "Really good app and great value! Bought it for my 10 year old daughter who is learning the piano, but I have found it really useful myself and I've been playing for years." -- Eagle-20, United Kingdom "Amazing. One of the best self learning apps I've used." -- Yasin Bashir, United Kindom "It actually makes it addictive to learn. Every time you finish a session you just know you can do better. Great app!" -- music_dude, United States "I've been a piano teacher for many years and wished such a tool would have been on the market 20 years ago - would have saved lots of frustrated hours of repetitions..... Wonderful app to learn and train the notes and their names and where to find them on the piano." -- Carla12345, Germany ------------------------------ Whether you are a piano student looking for apps to help you on learning music notes, or you are a piano teacher who need a trainer app to help you in teaching classes, Piano Notes Pro is definitely what you need. With a wide range of level control, Piano Notes Pro is not only an interesting game for experienced piano players, but is also a great music note tutor for piano students. It certainly can help you learn and practice music notes effectively on your iPad. Piano Notes Pro is widely used and recommended by many piano teachers. It is the only professional choice for iPad! ------------------------------ FEATURES: - Full Keyboard Range: Cover all 88 keys of a piano. - Teaching Mode: Tap a key to show its note and pitch name. - Game Mode: Practice your sight-reading skill with games. - Adjustable Range: Your practice can be focused on particular notes by setting note range. - Quiz Types: 4 quiz types including Random, Ascending, Descending and Chords let you practice in different ways. Additional quiz types are available via in-app purchase. - All Key Signatures: 15 key signatures for treble stave and bass stave. - Help Modes: 3 help modes, including a Tutor mode for beginners. - Colored Keys: In game mode, colors can be applied as hints. This is especially helpful for beginners and kids. - Pitch Name Labels: White keys can be marked with their pitch names, 4 naming conventions provided. - Multiple Notes: Unlike other similar apps showing only one note at a time, Piano Notes Pro shows multiple notes simultaneously in game mode. This is very important for improving sight-reading speed. - Game Length Control: Each game quizzes you with up to 10 pages of notes. Both number of notes and number of pages are adjustable. - Achievements: Improve your skill with fun by gaining achievements. - Progress Report: Scores of all key-signatures of both clefs are clearly listed in a table. - Keyboard Size Control: You can adjust the keyboard size to fit your need. 3 different sizes are available. - Multiple User Profiles: With up to 40 user profiles, you can share the app with your friends or family members. This feature is also very useful for piano teachers to keep track of students' progress. - Gorgeous Sound: High-quality, real and beautiful piano sound. - MIDI Input: Support MIDI input with CoreMIDI (via Apple Camera Connection Kit and USB [to host] port on keyboard). ------------------------------ IMPORTANT NOTICE !! - Please disable 3-finger gesture in iOS Settings while playing chords. ------------------------------ App preview music by http://instrumentalsfree.com
Music Intervals Trainer
Enhance your musical ear and reading skills with this app. It offers various modes to practice recognizing intervals by ear, reading them on a score, and even singing or playing them accurately. Customize your learning to focus on specific intervals and question types.
- Ear training for melodies
- Music reading interval identification
- Singing and instrument pitch accuracy
- Piano key interval recognition
- Practice, View, and Game modes
- Customizable learning range
- Intelligent questioning based on performance
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Interval is the fundamental part of music structures, since all melodies or harmonies can be considered as a sequence or layering of intervals. This app is to help improve your ability of interval recognition. More specifically, you can develop the following skills: • Ear Training When you hear a melody, you’ll be able to recognize the intervals by ears. This will improve your sense of relative pitch which is a powerful skill for any musician to have. • Music Reading When you read the music score, you’ll be able to identify the intervals between notes quickly. This will help improve the speed of your music reading. • Singing The app can detect the voice of your singing or the sound of your instrument playing through the microphone. This can help you sing/play intervals accurately. • Piano Playing If you are learning piano or keyboard, this app can help you identify the intervals between any pair of keys. This is very useful for chords and scales recognition, and it can even benefit your improvisation. • Music Transcription and Intonation The ability to name and reproduce musical intervals, is also an important part of music transcription and musical intonation. To help you acquire all the powerful skills mentioned above, the app provides the following features: • Practice Mode You learn at your own pace simply by answering the question, and if you are wrong, the correct answer will be shown for the duration of your choice. • View Mode You don’t need to do anything but watching, the questions and answers will be shown automatically after the delay of your choice. Good for lazy people like me. :) • Game Mode In this exciting countdown mode, you can challenge yourself and earn as many coins, medals, and trophies as you can. • Search Mode This mode allows you to look up the intervals you don’t know. • Learning Range Customization You can filter the intervals to learn by interval quality or number. This is extremely useful when you want to focus on certain interval types or differentiate the similar ones such as Major Third and Minor Third. • Question/Answer Approaches Customization You can customize the question and answer approaches flexibly, which allows you to do Reversal Learning. For example, to practice reading intervals, while you can answer the interval name based on the music notes you see, you can also do it reversely: answer the music notes based on the interval name you see. This is an effective way to memorize. • Intelligent Questioning Each question is generated intelligently based on the statistical information of your performance for each interval, so yes, the app enjoys attacking your weaknesses, but to make you stronger! :)
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Verdict
Piano Notes Pro and Music Intervals Trainer both sit at 3.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 86% of Piano Notes Pro's written reviews are positive against 13% of Music Intervals Trainer's. Piano Notes Pro also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (16 vs 2). Music Intervals Trainer's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating and ads 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
Piano Notes Pro costs $2.99 and Music Intervals Trainer $2.99 up front. Piano Notes Pro sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Music Intervals Trainer asks for nothing beyond the download.
Music Intervals Trainer holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Piano Notes Pro has 16 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 86% of Piano Notes Pro's written reviews are positive against 13% of Music Intervals Trainer's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Piano Notes Pro ships an update every 2 months, Music Intervals Trainer every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Piano Notes Pro | Music Intervals Trainer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | $2.99 |
| Rating | 3.8 (16 ratings) | 4.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.5% of reviews — better | 12.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Patrick Chan | Plearn LLC |
Customer experience
Piano Notes Pro
Music Intervals Trainer
Bugs and requests
Piano Notes Pro
Reported bugs
2 issues- No sound output on some devices
- Occasional freezing or crashing
Requested features
5 requests- Display notes per second metric
- Ability to display both treble and bass clefs simultaneously
- Option to record and play back user's performance
- Inclusion of actual musical pieces to practice sight reading
- Tracking of weak notes to focus practice on problem areas
Music Intervals Trainer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Piano Notes Pro
- 3 Quiz Types, Interval Finder & Scale Marks$0.99
Music Intervals Trainer
No in-app purchases
Questions
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