Tenuto vs Solfege Trainer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tenuto
Enhance your musicality with a comprehensive suite of 24 customizable theory exercises and six essential musical calculators. Practice note and chord identification, ear training, and construct musical elements. Tools include accidentals, intervals, scales, chords, analysis symbols, and twelve-tone matrices.
- 24 customizable theory exercises
- Note and chord identification
- Ear training for intervals and scales
- Musical construction exercises
- Accidental calculator
- Interval calculator
- Chord calculator
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Tenuto is a collection of 24 highly-customizable exercises designed to enhance your musicality. From recognizing chords on a keyboard to identifying intervals by ear, it has an exercise for you. Tenuto also includes six musical calculators for accidentals, intervals, scales, chords, analysis symbols, and twelve-tone matrices. A short description of the exercises and calculators follows. –––––– • Note Identification • Key Signature Identification • Interval Identification • Scale Identification • Chord Identification Tap the button corresponding to the written staff line. For example: if shown a C, E, and G with a sharp; tap the "Augmented Triad" button. –––––– • Note Construction • Key Signature Construction • Interval Construction • Scale Construction • Chord Construction Construct the specified label by moving notes and/or adding accidentals. For example: if shown a C and an "Augmented 4th" label, move the second note to F and add a sharp. –––––– • Keyboard Reverse Identification Tap the piano key corresponding to the written note on the staff. While similar to Note Identification, this exercise uses a piano keyboard rather than note name buttons. • Keyboard Note Identification • Keyboard Interval Identification • Keyboard Scale Identification • Keyboard Chord Identification Tap the button corresponding to the highlighted piano key(s). If the C and G keys are highlighted, tap the "P5" (Perfect 5th) button. –––––– • Fretboard Note Identification • Fretboard Interval Identification • Fretboard Scale Identification • Fretboard Chord Identification Tap the button corresponding to the marked fretboard position(s). If the 2nd fret of the D string is marked, tap the "E" button. –––––– • Keyboard Ear Training • Note Ear Training Listen to the played reference and question notes. Select the piano key or note button corresponding to the question note. • Interval Ear Training • Scale Ear Training • Chord Ear Training Tap the button corresponding to the played notes. If E and F are played, tap the "Minor 2nd" button. –––––– • Accidental Calculator Display the accidental for a note and key. • Interval Calculator Display the interval for a note, type, and key. • Chord Calculator Display the scale for a tonic and scale type. • Chord Calculator Display the chord for a note, type, and key. • Analysis Calculator Display the chord for a symbol and key. • Matrix Calculator Display the twelve-tone matrix for a specified tone row.
Solfege Trainer
This app helps you improve your musical ear and sight-singing abilities. It tracks your pitch in real-time, displaying solfege syllables and note names. Get instant feedback to correct your singing and become a better musician.
- Real-time pitch accuracy tracking
- Movable and Fixed Do solfege support
- Customizable solfege syllables
- Sheet music capture and saving
- Integrated piano keyboard
- Singing recording for playback
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Do you want to read and sing music at first sight? Do you want to improve your pitch accuracy and practice solfege any time? If yes, this app is your perfect assistant. As you sing, it can track your pitch and display the solfege syllable (Do, Re, Mi, …) and also the note name (C, D, E, …) in real time. The instant feedback can help you correct yourself when you sing out of tune. When you are training your singing, you are also training your ears, because sight-singing and ear training go hand in hand. This is the smartest, most motivating and especially most efficient way to become a better musician. Main Features: • Visually check your pitch accuracy in real time • Support both “Movable Do” and “Fixed Do” solfege • Customize the solfege syllables based on your own habit • Take pictures of the sheet music you can found easily from Internet or books and save them in the app to practice conveniently • Piano keyboard is included to remind yourself of the correct pitch • To evaluate yourself, you can record your singing for playback • More features are coming…
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Tenuto at 94% against Solfege Trainer's 43%. Tenuto also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.4) and ratings volume (665 vs 5). Solfege Trainer's advantage is price ($2.99 vs $4.99) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.8). On update cadence, 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
Tenuto costs $4.99 and Solfege Trainer $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Tenuto holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tenuto has 665 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 94% of Tenuto's written reviews are positive against 43% of Solfege Trainer's.
Tenuto ships an update every 3 months, Solfege Trainer every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tenuto | Solfege Trainer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | $2.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (665 ratings) — better | 3.4 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 94.1% of reviews — better | 42.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 665 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #5 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.8 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | musictheory.net | Plearn LLC |
Customer experience
Tenuto
Solfege Trainer
Bugs and requests
Tenuto
Reported bugs
5 issues- Sound cuts out
- Unresponsive at times
- Freezes up
- Doesn't work well for guitar
- Incorrect chord/key associations
Requested features
20 requests- Cadences and inversions for ear training
- Chord progressions for ear training
- Melodic and harmonic minor modes for scale recognition
- 6th, 9th, 11th and 13th chord extensions for chord recognition
- Melodic dictation
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- Rhythm exercises
- Fretboard reverse identification
- Chord inversions for chord identification
- Scales written on staff using various clefs
- Rhythm, melodic, and harmonic dictation exercises
- Part writing exercises
- Exercises for form, cadences, etc.
- MIDI support
- Autoplay function
- Ability to input notes/chords on fretboard
- Chord progression ear training
- Inversion options for chord and interval identification
- Melodic and harmonic minor scale identification
- Extended chord identification
- Rhythmic dictation
Solfege Trainer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Tenuto
No in-app purchases
Solfege Trainer
No in-app purchases
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