Piano Sight Reading vs Sightreading Exercises
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Piano Sight Reading
Master piano sight-reading with this app designed to train all 88 keys across various key signatures. Improve your music reading and ear training skills, whether you're a beginner or looking to enhance your abilities.
- Trains all 88 keys with sharps, naturals, and flats
- Supports both treble and bass clefs
- Customizable practice with key signatures and accidentals
- Progress tracking with informative graphs
- User-friendly GUI design
- Fun learning through game-like practice
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The only sight reading app that can train all 88 keys with sharp, natural, flat in the context of all key signatures. Are you frustrated with reading grand staff piano music? Whether you are new and slow on piano sight reading or just someone who wants to improve on your overall piano sight reading abilities and ear training skills, this is the right app for you. Best app for beginner - "I don't buy a lot apps but I bought this.." - by viki From <25% to 100% - "When I started using this I barely could read music.." - by Mark S Carroll Excellent - "Other reviews have said it all." - by DanEOD Best piano sight reading trainer - "This app is great! I love that it has the grand staff.." - by Jared Hay Main features: 1. user friendly GUI design overcomes the space and efficiency issues existed in most piano simulation apps. 2. learn and practice both treble clef and bass clef notes on 88 keys. 3. custom your practice to any skill level via changing key signatures, accidentals frequency, keyboard range, note selections... Enable/disable sound effect and hint option to train your ear or just let app to guide you. 4. informative graph generated from history practices' statistics records your progress. 5. lots of fun when learning becomes playing games...
Sightreading Exercises
Master sight-reading on any instrument with 60 progressive levels and songs. Practice with your real instrument, receive instant feedback, and improve your musical fluency. Supports a wide range of instruments, clefs, and key signatures.
- 60 progressive levels
- Instrument-specific customization
- Built-in tuner
- Supports all modern clefs
- Wide range of key and time signatures
- Real instrument input detection
- Pitch meter for accuracy
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Customized for instruments, including full orchestra settings: Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass, Guitar, Bass, Clarinet (Bb and A), Oboe, Bassoon, Flute, Piccolo, French Horn (double horn setting F / Bb), Trumpet (C / Bb), Saxophone (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Baritone), Trombone (Tenor and Bass), Tuba, Harp. Complete your entire music learning journey by practicing in different modes: Flash Cards, Music Theory, Full Flow Sheet Music, and Practice Real Songs. Features available in all modes: - The app shows sheet music, listens to your playing, and provides feedback. Even on grand stave with multiple notes at a time. This is called polyphonic detection system. - Melodic Randomness: control how random the generated notes are - Hints (instrument-specific) - Keyboard (Piano) - Fingerboard chart (Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass) - Fretboard chart (Guitar, Bass) - Fingering (Clarinet, Flute; more coming soon) - Pitch meter for intonation (Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass, Trombone) - Intonation accuracy check for microtonal instruments: - Green tick: perfect intonation - Yellow tick: Acceptable hit but slightly out of tune - Voice Control: restart the exercise without touching the screen 1. Flash Cards - Levels 1 to 20 (beginner) - Levels 21 to 40 (intermediate) - Levels 41 to 60 (advanced) - Custom levels (12 keys, all accidentals including double-sharp and double-flat) 2. Music Theory - Scales - Major scales (12 keys, up to 3 octaves) - Harmonic minor and melodic minor scales (12 keys, up to 3 octaves) - Chromatic scales (adjustable range) - Chords (up to 3 octaves) - Major Triad, Minor Triad, Major Seventh, Minor Seventh, Dominant Seventh, Diminished Seventh, Augmented Triad, Diminished Triad, Suspended Seventh, Suspended Second, Suspended Fourth, Major Ninth, Minor Ninth, Dominant Ninth, Added Ninth, Major Eleventh, Minor Eleventh, Dominant Eleventh - Rhythms - Note types - Semibreve (Whole) - Minim (Half) - Crotchet (Quarter) - Quaver (Eighth) - Semiquaver (Sixteenth) - Rests - Dotted notes - Triplets - Time signatures 4/4, 2/4, 3/4, 6/4, 3/8, 6/8, 9/8, 12/8 - Intervals - Exercises for faster recognition of any chromatic intervals in any keys - Aural Training - Rhythm & Metre - Melody & Memory - Intervals & Pitch - Chords & Harmony 3. Full Flow Sheet Music (practice sight-reading with real sheet music. Hit the right note, or practice playing in rhythm with the metronome) - Levels 1 to 20 (beginner) - Levels 21 to 40 (intermediate) - Levels 41 to 60 (advanced) - Custom levels (12 keys, 8 time signatures, 10+ note types, all accidentals including double-sharp and double-flat) 4. Practice Real Songs (over 170 famous songs by different composers) - Songs organized by - Albums (13 music books) - Composers (Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Tchaikovsky, Haydn, Schubert, Schumann, Handel, Chopin, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Debussy, Bizet, Brahms, Vivaldi, Johann Strauss, Paganini, Pachelbel, Czerny, Rachmaninoff, Scott Joplin, Clementi, Edvard Grieg, Ravel, Scarlatti, Weber, Sibelius, Saint-Saëns, Verdi, Puccini, Rossini, Erik Satie, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Antonín Dvořák, Edward Elgar, Jules Massenet, Richard Wagner, and more) - Grades (Grade 1 to 7) Tools for day-to-day practice are also available: - Tuners - Full-range chromatic tuner: A0 to C8 - Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass, Guitar, Bass, and tuners for transposing instruments, such as Clarinet, French Horn, Trumpet, and Saxophone - Metronome (classic metronome that lets you adjust BPM by sliding the pendulum weight up and down)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Sightreading Exercises at every 5 days against Piano Sight Reading's every 2 months. Sightreading Exercises also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 82%). Piano Sight Reading's advantage is monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs paid) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.8). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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
Both are free to download. Piano Sight Reading sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Sightreading Exercises sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Piano Sight Reading against 4.4 for Sightreading Exercises. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 17 and 23 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 82% of Piano Sight Reading's written reviews are positive against 100% of Sightreading Exercises's.
Piano Sight Reading ships an update every 2 months, Sightreading Exercises every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Piano Sight Reading | Sightreading Exercises |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (17 ratings) | 4.4 (23 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 81.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 17 | 23 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.8 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 335 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Super Kiddo Studio | RC Game |
Customer experience
Piano Sight Reading
Sightreading Exercises
In-app purchases
Piano Sight Reading
- Upgrade to Pro$5.99
Sightreading Exercises
- Buy Full Version$12.99
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