Fingering Brass vs Brass Notes!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Brass Notes!
Quickly find note positions and fingerings for various brass instruments. Ideal for musicians practicing new notes or transposing music. Access information instantly without needing external resources.
- Note position lookup
- Fingering charts
- Trombone
- Euphonium
- Trumpet
- Tuba
- French horn
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Brass Notes is the app to quickly check the position or fingering of a note while practicing! Instruments included are the trombone, euphonium, trumpet, tuba, and french horn. Also works for other instruments if you need to transpose music or if you're wondering what a note name for a certain note is! Want something more included? Write a review and add something you'd like and we'll try out best! Situation: You are in band practice. You see an odd note that you haven't played before. You don't know how to play it. Answer: You get out your brass notes app and quickly check without the conductor even noticing! Someone else asking what that note is? Tell them! At home practicing and unsure what it is? Don't look it up on the internet or a book, just take out your Brass Notes app! Thanks for all the support!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Brass Notes! at Free against Fingering Brass's $1.99. Brass Notes! also leads on review sentiment (50% vs 17%) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 9 months). Fingering Brass's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 4.0) and chart position (#178 vs unranked). On ratings volume, 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
Brass Notes! is free to download; Fingering Brass costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Fingering Brass holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 23 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 17% of Fingering Brass's written reviews are positive against 50% of Brass Notes!'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Fingering Brass ships an update every 9 months, Brass Notes! every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on August 31, 2026 and June 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fingering Brass | Brass Notes! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (14 ratings) — better | 4.0 (23 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 16.7% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 23 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #178 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 120 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Patrick Q. Kelly | Daniel Sykes-Turner |
Customer experience
Fingering Brass
Brass Notes!
In-app purchases
Fingering Brass
No in-app purchases
Brass Notes!
No in-app purchases
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