Comparison

What Note Is This? vs What’s My Note?

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

Head to head
About

What Note Is This?

This app helps users learn to read music notes through interactive practice and quizzes. It offers customizable modes, progress tracking with achievements, and is suitable for all ages. Learn notes on the go with a universal design.

Highlights
  • Practice mode with flashcards
  • 10-note quizzes
  • Customizable clef and difficulty
  • Achievement stickers
  • Universal design for all devices
  • Beginner mode for sharps and flats
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"If you have always wanted to be able to read music or you are studying an instrument, this is a very helpful and worthwhile app. It makes learning to read notes a lot more interesting!" - PadGadget.com "What Note Is This? is an ingenious app. After only a few sessions I have regained much of my long-lost music reading skills from my formal music lessons as a child." - AppsForHomeschooling.com Check out the video on our website! *** Learn notes in practice mode! *** Flick your way through endless flashcards of notes. A shadow note shows the note you played, and the lights on the piano turn green when you press the correct key. *** Challenge yourself to a quiz! *** Take 10-note quizzes with fast-paced auto-card-flicking action! Lights turn red and green to show your accuracy. *** Adaptable learning environment! *** Need to focus on bass clef? No problem! Not ready for sharps and flats? Stick with the “beginner” mode. Big letters on the keys bothering you? Turn them off. They don’t mind. *** Things to achieve! *** Collect stickers for your accomplishments! Can you identify 10 notes in less than 20 seconds? Can you identify every sharp and flat during a quiz? We’ll reward your tenacity with digital stickers. *** For all ages! *** Easy enough for children, but even easier enough for adults. Spend 20 minutes a day with this app, and I guarantee you’ll have spent 20 minutes with this app. *** Universal and optimized for all devices! *** Want to learn your notes on the go? Not ready to hand the iPad over to the kids? Now, get the same great experience on your iPhone and iPod Touch devices, including fancy retina displays and the extra fancy iPhone 5 display! *** Much, much more - wait, no, that’s about it. *** Have a suggestion or question? Head over to our website and shoot us an email. If you have a great idea, we might just throw it in later. For the kids.

About

What’s My Note?

Hear the pitches in your sheet music by touching notes in an image. Ideal for vocalists who struggle with reading music, this app allows you to learn and repeat individual notes and intervals from scanned or imported sheet music. It's designed specifically for vocal parts in choral and vocal ensembles.

Highlights
  • Scan sheet music with camera
  • Import JPG, PNG, or PDF
  • Touch notes to hear pitch
  • Repeat single notes and intervals
  • OCR feature for any device
Features
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An app for choral singers who don't read music well. Snap a photo or import JPG, PNG or PDF. Touch notes in the image to hear the pitch. Not for instrumental parts - see details below. Whether you sing in a choir, or a barbershop quartet, or other vocal group, What's My Note lets you hear and learn the pitches in your sheet music. You can repeat single notes or intervals as many times as you like. Use What's My Note? to read published choral music - the kind used by high school choruses, church choirs, musical theater, and barbershop quartets. If you are not sure that What's My Note? will read your music, e-mail us a photo, and we'll let you know. For a demo, please view the video on our website. (What's My Note DOES NOT play scores from start to finish, does not play more than one voice at a time, does not interpret rhythms, does not recognize or play piano or instrumental parts. Hand-written manuscripts and most forms of popular music probably won't work.) You can import PDFs and JPEGs, and use What's My Note's OCR feature on any device. To photograph music, What's My Note? requires an 8 megapixel camera, available on these models (or later): iPhone 4s, iPod Touch 6th Generation, iPad Pro, iPad Air 2, iPad Mini 4.

Screenshots

What Note Is This?4 screens
What’s My Note?1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: What’s My Note? at 4.3 against What Note Is This?'s 2.7. What’s My Note? also leads on ratings volume (222 vs 3). What Note Is This?'s advantage is price ($0.99 vs $4.99) and review sentiment (60% vs 45%). On update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

What Note Is This? costs $0.99 and What’s My Note? $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

What’s My Note? holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: What’s My Note? has 222 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 60% of What Note Is This?'s written reviews are positive against 45% of What’s My Note?'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

What Note Is This? ships an update every 2 months, What’s My Note? every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
What Note Is This? versus What’s My Note?: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWhat Note Is This?What’s My Note?
Price$0.99 — better$4.99
Rating2.7 (3 ratings)4.3 (222 ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews — better44.9% of reviews
Number of ratings3222 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS7.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOkeedoke StudiosWhat's My Note, Inc.

Customer experience

What Note Is This?

All ratings3 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative30.0%

What’s My Note?

All ratings218 ratings
Positive83.0%
Neutral1.8%
Negative15.1%
Written reviews49 reviews
Positive44.9%
Neutral4.1%
Negative51.0%

Bugs and requests

What Note Is This?

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

What’s My Note?

Reported bugs

9 issues
  • App crashes or freezes
  • Scores disappear after reloading
  • Scanning sheet music not working correctly
  • New update introduced bugs
  • Notes not being read accurately
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  • Scores being erased randomly
  • Camera not having enough pixels
  • App not playing notes automatically
  • Issues with notes not playing on new pages after turning

Requested features

9 requests
  • Import digital sheet music
  • Import PDF files
  • Easier and less time-consuming import process
  • Show note details (e.g., F, C, B flat) when holding a note
  • Ability to import PDFs from Dropbox/email
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  • Upload PDFs or images of sheet music
  • Annotate pages
  • Sync music across devices
  • Upload option for .pdf and .mus files

In-app purchases

None

What Note Is This?

No in-app purchases

None

What’s My Note?

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is What Note Is This? free?
What Note Is This? costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is What’s My Note? free?
What’s My Note? costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, What Note Is This? or What’s My Note??
What’s My Note? is rated higher. What Note Is This? averages 2.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while What’s My Note? averages 4.3 from 222 ratings.
Do What Note Is This? or What’s My Note? have ads?
Neither What Note Is This? nor What’s My Note? shows ads.
Which is updated more often, What Note Is This? or What’s My Note??
What Note Is This? ships an update every 2 months, and What’s My Note? every 4 months. Most recently, What Note Is This? was updated on October 22, 2026 and What’s My Note? on October 24, 2026.

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