Comparison

Ukulele Fretboard Addict Lite vs String Quartet SightRead Tutor

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

Head to head
About

Ukulele Fretboard Addict Lite

Master the ukulele fretboard with this app. Learn notes, chords, and ear training through customizable exercises. Improve your skills in just 5 minutes a day and apply your knowledge to your instrument.

Highlights
  • Fretboard note and chord learning
  • Customizable exercises
  • Ear training
  • Sight reading practice
  • 11 musical key exercises
  • Right and left-handed options
Features
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This app gives you an invaluable tool for mastering the fretboard. Come join over 1,000,000 musicians of all levels and see why they can't stop playing Fretboard Addict for learning & practicing ukulele fretboard notes, chords, soloing, ear training, and sight reading. You will improve your skills by using the app just 5 minutes a day and then applying the knowledge to your real instrument. There is nothing else like this in the app store!!! WE'VE BEEN FEATURED IN: • IK Multimedia IKlip App of the Week • Premier Guitar Magazine • iTunes App Store Top Areas WHAT USERS ARE SAYING: "I am a guitar teacher and this app is great for learning the notes on the strings - able to customize very well for quizzing yourself or your students!!" "This is a well thought out app that is teaching me the fretboard while on vacation from my guitar. The best learning tool that I've yet to encounter for this purpose." CHECK OUT A DEMONSTRATION VIDEO AT: www.guitaraddict.net SIMPLE AND EFFECTIVE ON YOUR IPHONE, IPAD, AND IPOD TOUCH: Easy to use with a method that just works. No fretboard scrolling, real instrument sounds, and you only have to buy once for all of your iOS devices. CREATE YOUR OWN CUSTOM EXERCISES: • Configure the fretboard the way you want it! Simply touch the fretboard to select notes or chords to work on or use the convenient presets • Presets for configuring notes to work on by Key, by String, by Fret, or by Note • Presets for configuring chords to work on by Key, by Inversion, by Strings, by Type, or by Root Note • Learn the fretboard forwards, backwards, randomly, vertically, and horizontally • English (C D E F G A B) or Romance (Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Si) Syllables • Right and Left Handed Options • Smart learning engine that keeps track of your incorrect answers and gives you the best next round • Configure Sharps or Flats • Configure whether the answer is shown, sound is heard, and/or notation is shown when you want to challenge yourself further. LEARN & PRACTICE NOTES: Master fretboard notes intelligently with 11 built in musical key exercises that progress in difficulty or create your own exercises. Learning the fretboard notes is fundamental to understanding chords. LEARN & PRACTICE CHORDS: Master the fundamental triad chords (maj, min, dim, aug) intelligently with 11 built in musical key exercises that progress in difficulty or create your own exercises. Learning triad chords will take your playing to the next level. LEARN & PRACTICE FRETBOARD POSITIONS: Master fretboard movement by practicing and recognizing fretboard note and chord positions. This will give you the confidence and the mental training for playing notes and chords all over the fretboard. LEARN 11 MUSICAL KEYS: Gain an understanding of the circle of fifths and learn the notes & chords in 11 major musical keys. This will help you to pick up and play a song with ease! LEARN & PRACTICE EAR TRAINING: Improve your ability to improvise and play by ear with ear training exercises for notes and chords LEARN & PRACTICE SIGHT READING: Practice reading music notation which will help you sight read and gain an understanding of how pitch relates to the fretboard positions PRACTICE WHAT YOU LEARN: Solo on a responsive fretboard to practice notes, chords, sight reading, and ear training or just relax and create some music MONITOR YOUR PROGRESS: Simple color coded statistics show you where you are strong and weak on the fretboard. This is a great way to know where to adjust your practice routines. THE APP IS LOADED WITH FRETBOARD FUN: •Limited Notes feature is included •Limited Chords feature is included •Full Notes, Chord and Solo features are available as in-app purchases.

About

String Quartet SightRead Tutor

Learn note placement on string instruments with interactive exercises. Practice sight-reading, ear training, and tuning using your device or real instrument. Supports violin, viola, cello, and double bass with customizable practice modes.

Highlights
  • Instrument fingerboard note placement
  • Sight-reading practice
  • Live instrument recognition
  • Integrated chromatic tuner
  • Multiple quiz and practice modes
  • Customizable practice options
  • Support for 7 notation systems
Features
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Learn fast where to play notes ! For Violin, Viola, Cello and Double-bass. With this staff Notes Sight Read Tutor, you will learn where to play notes on your instrument's fingerboard ! • Violin • Viola • Cello • Double bass Make progress even when you are away from your instrument ! You can also play your real instrument and the application detect the played notes ! Integrated chromatic tuner. Details : • Accelerated training : Notes you know less will be asked more often for you to be able to enhance your sight reading speed. • Choice of notes to practice : choose which strings to pratice, positions among 13 possible ones (from open string to 7th position), flat, sharp. • Choice of clefs to use. • Choice of language among 7 notation systems to display the name of the note to play : Solfège-Latin Si, English B, German H, Byzantine Zo, Japanese Ro, Indian (Hindusthani) Ni, Indian (Carnatic) Kakali Ni • Display of count of good and failed notes. Click on it to reset, or let it reset itself each morning. • Realistic sounds sampled from real instruments. • Sound On / Off. The screen flashes on good answers when the sound is muted. • Interface translated : displayed in English, French, Spanish or Korean depending on the langage of the device. Should you need a translation in another langage, contact me. • 3 Quiz modes and 2 additional modes :  Sight-Read Quiz (touch) : Read the staff note, then touch the right spot on the screen's instrument.  Live Sight-Read (Live) : Read the staff note, then play it using your real instrument. (This mode uses your device's microphone)  Ear-Training (touch) : Listen to the played note, then touch the right spot on the screen's instrument. (Click staff to replay note)  Free-Play (touch) : Touch the screen's instrument. The note will be played and displayed on the staff.  Instrument Tuner (Live) : Integrated tuner : play a note using your real instrument, the note will be displayed on the staff. (This mode uses your device's microphone) • Help system :  possible display of the name of the note to play.  Possible display of notes placements on the fingerboard (the name of the note to play is then displayed with the same color as the note placement)  Possible display of an helping staff with every notes of the fingerboard. In-app purchase : • Full version : no limits, all strings and positions are available + a BIG thanks for your support :o) There is no ads in this application. Confidentiality : In this application, audio recording is only used locally on your phone to detect played note pitch, it is never transmitted outside the app. Have fun at play !

Screenshots

Ukulele Fretboard Addict Lite4 screens
String Quartet SightRead Tutor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: String Quartet SightRead Tutor at 3.0 against Ukulele Fretboard Addict Lite's 1.0. String Quartet SightRead Tutor also leads on review sentiment (50% vs 29%) and ratings volume (15 vs 2). Ukulele Fretboard Addict Lite's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Ukulele Fretboard Addict Lite sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and String Quartet SightRead Tutor sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

String Quartet SightRead Tutor holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: String Quartet SightRead Tutor has 15 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of Ukulele Fretboard Addict Lite's written reviews are positive against 50% of String Quartet SightRead Tutor's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ukulele Fretboard Addict Lite ships an update every 2 months, String Quartet SightRead Tutor monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Ukulele Fretboard Addict Lite versus String Quartet SightRead Tutor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUkulele Fretboard Addict LiteString Quartet SightRead Tutor
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (2 ratings)3.0 (15 ratings) — better
Positive reviews29.4% of reviews50.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings215 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.69.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMichael RyleeAlexandre Dupleix

Customer experience

Ukulele Fretboard Addict Lite

All ratings2 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive29.4%
Neutral5.9%
Negative64.7%

String Quartet SightRead Tutor

All ratings15 ratings
Positive46.7%
Neutral13.3%
Negative40.0%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral27.8%
Negative22.2%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Ukulele Fretboard Addict Lite

One-time3
  • Solo Feature$2.99
  • Notes Feature$4.99
  • Chords Feature$4.99
1 purchases

String Quartet SightRead Tutor

One-time1
  • Full version$3.99

Questions

Is Ukulele Fretboard Addict Lite free?
Ukulele Fretboard Addict Lite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is String Quartet SightRead Tutor free?
String Quartet SightRead Tutor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Ukulele Fretboard Addict Lite or String Quartet SightRead Tutor?
String Quartet SightRead Tutor is rated higher. Ukulele Fretboard Addict Lite averages 1.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while String Quartet SightRead Tutor averages 3.0 from 15 ratings.
Do Ukulele Fretboard Addict Lite or String Quartet SightRead Tutor have ads?
Neither Ukulele Fretboard Addict Lite nor String Quartet SightRead Tutor shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ukulele Fretboard Addict Lite or String Quartet SightRead Tutor?
Ukulele Fretboard Addict Lite ships an update every 2 months, and String Quartet SightRead Tutor monthly. Most recently, Ukulele Fretboard Addict Lite was updated on October 11, 2026 and String Quartet SightRead Tutor on October 16, 2026.

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