Comparison

Music Tutor Plus vs Improvy

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

Head to head
About

Music Tutor Plus

Master sheet music and enhance your sight-reading abilities. Practice identifying musical notes across various clefs with timed or untimed sessions. Review your performance to track progress and correct mistakes.

Highlights
  • Learn sheet music identification
  • Improve speed and accuracy
  • Practice treble, bass, and alto clefs
  • Timed and untimed sessions
  • Mistake review and progress tracking
  • Customizable note practice range
  • MIDI keyboard support
  • Companion Apple Watch app
Features
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Learn to read sheet music and improve your sight-reading skills with Music Tutor. Develop your speed and accuracy in reading sheet music by identifying music notes in timed sessions. Choose to practice with notes in treble, bass and alto clefs in timed or untimed sessions. After each test, you can review your mistakes and see your progress. Other features of Music Tutor include: • Custom Practice Range - Set your own range of notes that you want to practice with. • Supports notes up to 4 ledger lines above or below the staff on any of the clefs. • Notes Reference Charts - For Treble, Bass and Alto clefs. • MIDI Support - Connect your keyboard or digital piano using Lightning to USB Camera Adapter and respond directly from your instrument. • Companion Apple Watch app using which you can practice recognising music notes on the go.

About

Improvy

Features
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You want to improvise without thinking about it. Not scales. Not the licks you already own. The line you actually hear, played the moment you hear it. Your ear is not what is stopping you. You can hear where the phrase wants to go. What stops you is the half second in between: the one where you work out that the note you want is the flat three, while the chord underneath has already moved on. Fluency is not knowledge. It is speed. And speed only comes from repeating exactly the right thing, thousands of times. That is all Improvy is. A degree appears, you tap the note. Two seconds. Again. Until the number, the sound and the note stop being three thoughts and become one. It works in all 12 major keys, and it spells every one of them the way a musician actually writes it. In Eb the flat two is Fb, not E. Most apps quietly get that wrong, and the habit you build on top of it is wrong too. Train it in both directions, because they are two different skills. Number to note. Note to number. Then the one that turns a melody into changes: this note is the sharp eleven, so what is the chord? There is a Daily Challenge every morning, and Pocket Mode runs with the screen off, so a walk counts as practice. This is not for beginners. It is for players who already know the theory and are tired of being a beat behind it. No ads. No account. Pro is a one-time payment. Stop counting. Start playing!

Screenshots

Music Tutor Plus4 screens
Improvy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Improvy at Free against Music Tutor Plus's $2.99. Improvy also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months). Music Tutor Plus's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and chart position (#181 vs unranked). On ads 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

Improvy is free to download; Music Tutor Plus costs $2.99 up front. Improvy sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Music Tutor Plus asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Music Tutor Plus ships an update every 2 months, Improvy every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Music Tutor Plus versus Improvy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMusic Tutor PlusImprovy
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.5 (248 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews82.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings248 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
Best chart rank#181 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB61 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBijoy ThangarajLorenzo Ballestrazzi

Bugs and requests

Music Tutor Plus

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Sound sometimes stops working
  • Ads still present in paid 'Pro' version

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add support for chords and chord recognition
  • Implement a landscape mode with larger keyboard
  • Allow MIDI input from connected instruments
  • Provide more detailed progress tracking and statistics

Improvy

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Music Tutor Plus

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Improvy

One-time2
  • Improvy Pro Creator$14.99
  • Improvy Pro$17.99

Questions

Is Music Tutor Plus free?
Music Tutor Plus costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Improvy free?
Improvy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Music Tutor Plus or Improvy have ads?
Neither Music Tutor Plus nor Improvy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Music Tutor Plus or Improvy?
Music Tutor Plus ships an update every 2 months, and Improvy every 5 days. Most recently, Music Tutor Plus was updated on November 1, 2026 and Improvy on October 31, 2026.

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