Comparison

What Note Is This? vs Note Recognizer

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

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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

Note Recognizer

This app analyzes sung or played pitches in real-time, displaying the corresponding note name. It functions as a vocal trainer, song key identifier, and instrument tuner, offering various note naming systems and live notation capabilities.

Highlights
  • Real-time pitch detection
  • Note name identification
  • Instrument tuning
  • Vocal training exercises
  • Live musical notation
  • Multiple note naming systems
Features
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Note Recognizer - App that Assists Music Learning by Detecting and Processing Musical Characteristics from Microphone in Real-Time The Note Recognizer is meant for people who are seriously involved in active music making. The Note Recognizer analyses the pitch frequency that you sing or play, and gives the corresponding note name. Very useful for singers who need to find the right starting note of a song. Or if you want to know the key of a song; sing the tonic, and you get the note name of the key. Also great as a tuner for guitar, or checking your intonation on flute, violin or any instrument. User can choose from different note naming systems such as - Standard (#) - Standard (b) - German (#) - German (b) - Indian Sargam (#) (Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Dha Ni Sa) - Indian Sargam (b) (Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Dha Ni Sa) - Indian Sargam (#) (सा रे गा माँ पा धा नि) - Indian Sargam (b) (सा रे गा माँ पा धा नि) - Do Re Mi (#) - Do Re Mi (b) Now with Live Notation: play your musical idea on an instrument and have it transformed to musical notation. Watch your score grow while playing. This app can be used for vocal training and do you have little or no singing experience or voice training. Voice Training App plays a note or phrase of notes, and you sing to it. This App showing which note you should sing and which pitch you are correctly singing your note names in note recognizer. Note Recognizer Designed in collaboration with The Great And professional singing teacher. For beginners. Train your voice to sing your note names in tune. Pitch training for singers in note recognizer .To expand your vocal and note names by relaxing your voice to increase range and perfection for singers and Learn Singing With This Voice Training You Will See how long you can hold a pitch Develop confidence to perform riffs and runs. This app for those who are seriously involved in active music making and Learn Singing. The note recognizer analyses Very useful for singers who need to find the right starting note of a song. The pitch frequency that you sing a note names or play, and gives the corresponding note name and note recognizer . You can use it also as a tuner for guitar, or checking your intonation on flute, violin, harmonium or other musical instrument.

Screenshots

What Note Is This?4 screens
Note Recognizer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: What Note Is This? at 60% against Note Recognizer's 7%. What Note Is This? also leads on rating (2.7 vs 1.9) and price ($0.99 vs $1.99). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 Note Recognizer $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

What Note Is This? holds the better App Store score, 2.7 against 1.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of What Note Is This?'s written reviews are positive against 7% of Note Recognizer's.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
What Note Is This? versus Note Recognizer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWhat Note Is This?Note Recognizer
Price$0.99 — better$1.99
Rating2.7 (3 ratings) — better1.9 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews — better7.1% of reviews
Number of ratings37 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS7.0 — better12.1
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB14 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperOkeedoke StudiosSuresh Verma

Customer experience

What Note Is This?

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

Note Recognizer

All ratings7 ratings
Positive14.3%
Neutral14.3%
Negative71.4%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive7.1%
Neutral7.1%
Negative85.7%

In-app purchases

None

What Note Is This?

No in-app purchases

None

Note Recognizer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is What Note Is This? free?
What Note Is This? costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Note Recognizer free?
Note Recognizer costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, What Note Is This? or Note Recognizer?
What Note Is This? is rated higher. What Note Is This? averages 2.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Note Recognizer averages 1.9 from 7 ratings.
Do What Note Is This? or Note Recognizer have ads?
Neither What Note Is This? nor Note Recognizer shows ads.

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