Comparison

SaxoFun vs Music Note Trainer

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

Head to head
About

SaxoFun

This application aids beginner alto and baritone saxophonists with their initial practice sessions. It offers a variety of musical accompaniments and exercises focused on specific notes and fingerings, with an integrated fingering table and note playback.

Highlights
  • 40+ accompaniments in various styles
  • Exercises per fingering/note
  • Combined note/fingering exercises
  • Play-along or listen-only guide track
  • Fingering table for notes
  • Note playback on key press
Features
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This app helps the beginning alto saxophonist with his first practising. This app contains around 40 different accompaniments in different styles: classical, jazzy, with saxophone quartet, duets, etc, etc. You have excersis per fingering/note. On the left side of the screen is a saxophone. You can tap one of the keys which will make the excersie per key visible. Plus you have extra excersises which combine the notes/fingerings. You can play with the guide track or listen along to the guide track with the saxophone part. It also has a fingering table of the notes used in the excercises. Plus you can listen to the notes when you press them. All excercises have the fingering of the notes above them. This app is meant for the beginner on the ALTO of BARITON saxophone.

About

Music Note Trainer

Enhance your music skills with this app that bridges the gap between musical notation, keyboard layouts, and auditory recognition. It offers various training modes and real-time feedback to improve sight-reading, ear training, and music theory comprehension.

Highlights
  • Real-time pitch detection via microphone
  • MIDI instrument support
  • Virtual 88-key keyboard
  • 20 question/answer modes
  • Customizable learning targets
  • Progress statistics and intelligent question generation
  • Studio sound quality
Features
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This app is to train our conversion among grand staff, piano keyboard, note name (C, D, E...), solfège (Do, Re, Mi...), Curwen hand sign, and sound (pitch), which can benefit our sight-reading, sight-singing, ear training, composition, music theory study, etc. Main Features: • Support real instruments by accurate real-time pitch detection through the microphone of your iPhone/iPad • Support MIDI connection to your instruments • Virtual keyboard supports full 88 keys • 20 question/answer modes for you to choose (E.g., you can learn sight-reading reversely - see a piano key first and find the corresponding note in the staff, which is so-called Reversal Learning) • Allow you to search the music notes among different approaches • Scientific Pitch Notation (SPN) adopted to reinforce keyboard orientation (I.e., you have to identify the octave of a note instead of its letter name only) • Three training modes: view only, practice, and exam • Adjustable time challenging mode and manual mode to next question • Customize your learning target based on keyboard range, notes filter, and accidentals • Statistics for each note to track your progress • Question generated intelligently based on your progress statistics for each note • Support swipe or flick gesture to input accidentals in the staff • Studio sound quality

Screenshots

SaxoFun3 screens
Music Note Trainer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Music Note Trainer at 59% against SaxoFun's 0%. Music Note Trainer also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 37 months) and price ($2.99 vs $4.99). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

SaxoFun costs $4.99 and Music Note Trainer $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SaxoFun ships an update every 37 months, Music Note Trainer every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
SaxoFun versus Music Note Trainer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSaxoFunMusic Note Trainer
Price$4.99$2.99 — better
Rating—4.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews58.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—5 — better
Update frequencyEvery 37 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.19.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperH HubeekPlearn LLC

Customer experience

SaxoFun

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Music Note Trainer

All ratings5 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive58.8%
Neutral17.6%
Negative23.5%

In-app purchases

None

SaxoFun

No in-app purchases

None

Music Note Trainer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SaxoFun free?
SaxoFun costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Music Note Trainer free?
Music Note Trainer costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do SaxoFun or Music Note Trainer have ads?
Neither SaxoFun nor Music Note Trainer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SaxoFun or Music Note Trainer?
SaxoFun ships an update every 37 months, and Music Note Trainer every 2 months. Most recently, SaxoFun was updated on November 1, 2026 and Music Note Trainer on November 1, 2026.

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