Note Hitter Lite vs Clarinet Practice Partner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Note Hitter Lite
Improve your music sight-reading skills with interactive challenges. Learn note recognition and test your ability to play from a score using your own instrument. Progress through increasingly difficult levels and master various scales and keys.
- Sight-reading challenges
- Note recognition flashcards
- Play along with your instrument
- Progressive difficulty
- Supports multiple users and instruments
- Customizable exercises
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A selection of challenges specifically designed to improve your sight reading. Play the right notes and try to beat your best score. Note Hitter contains flash cards to teach note recognition and games to test your ability to sight read from a score. Each challenge contains notes from a particular scale or arpeggio. Use your own instrument to play the right notes as they appear. When you hit the right pitch the note will pop. As you improve the games get faster and more challenging using more notes from scales with more sharps or flats. You will learn a lot and have fun at the same time. How far can you go? From a gentle start Note Hitter builds up to 3 octaves at tempos of up to 180 bpm with notes chosen from 6 types of exercise and all tonics. That keeps even the best musicians busy! Once you have earned a feature you can go for the next one or deselect it to concentrate on a particular configuration until you're ready. Note Hitter Lite enables you to play the first level of Note Hitter. Can you hit every note even in the hardest keys? Note Hitter supports multiple users and multiple instruments per user. There is also a feature to change the transposition of the written notes (not available in Note Hitter Lite). Instruments supported include Voice (Note Hitter Voice may be a better choice for vocalists), Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Clarinet, Flute, Oboe, Saxophone, Bassoon, Recorder, Trumpet, Cornet, Trombone and Horn.
Clarinet Practice Partner
Enhance your clarinet practice with musical accompaniments and isolated parts. This app helps you learn exam pieces, improve technique, and play along with virtual partners at your own pace. Access a variety of exam syllabi through in-app purchases.
- Practice with piano accompaniment
- Isolate clarinet part
- Play along with duo ensemble recordings
- Adjust tempo
- Loop specific sections
- Access new exam syllabi
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The OFFICIAL ABRSM Clarinet Practice Partner is a simple way to make practising pieces for your exams more musical, enjoyable and fun. Now featuring duo pieces from the NEW 2026 ABRSM Clarinet Exam Pieces books for Grades 1-7! Use Clarinet Practice Partner to practise with the piano accompaniment, the clarinet part in isolation, or the duo ensemble recording. The app will help you to: • Become familiar with the accompaniment and understand how the solo line fits with the piano part for more secure performances. • Make practice more musical and enjoyable by having a virtual clarinet partner to play along with. • Slow down or speed up the music to a tempo that suits you, for slow careful practice. • Listen closely to the clarinet in isolation to hear every detail of the expert performance. • Set loops to repeat parts of your piece if you need to focus on one section. • Improve your control and general technique, helping you to become a more fluent performer. • Learn to memorise your music for more secure performances. Clarinet Practice Partner comes with one example piece from Grade 2 of the NEW 2022 ABRSM Clarinet Exam Pieces book. In app you can purchase: Individual pieces • Any duo piece from the 2026 onwards ABRSM Clarinet Exam Pieces books for Grades 1–7. • Any piece (duo or solo) from the 2022 onwards ABRSM Clarinet Exam Pieces books for Grades 1–7. • Any duo piece from the 2018–2021 ABRSM Clarinet Exam Pieces books for Grades 1–7. Grade selections • All duo pieces from the 2026 onwards ABRSM Clarinet Pieces books for Grades 1-7. • All 9 pieces (duo and solo) from the 2022 onwards ABRSM Clarinet Exam Pieces books for Grades 1–7. • All 6 duo pieces from the 2018 - 2021 ABRSM Clarinet Exam Pieces books for Grades 1-7.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Note Hitter Lite at 73% against Clarinet Practice Partner's 25%. Note Hitter Lite also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 4 months). Clarinet Practice Partner's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Note Hitter Lite sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Clarinet Practice Partner sells 19 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Note Hitter Lite holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Note Hitter Lite's written reviews are positive against 25% of Clarinet Practice Partner's.
Note Hitter Lite ships an update every 6 weeks, Clarinet Practice Partner every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Note Hitter Lite | Clarinet Practice Partner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) — better | 2.8 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 72.7% of reviews — better | 25.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Richard Williams | The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (Publishing) Limited |
Customer experience
Note Hitter Lite
Clarinet Practice Partner
In-app purchases
Note Hitter Lite
- Transposition feature$0.99
- Enable all game elements$0.99
- Note Hitter Full Version$1.99
Clarinet Practice Partner
- Grade 1 A1 - Daisy Bell$1.99
- Grade 4 A2 - Fantasy Piece$1.99
- Grade 4 A3 - Choson Kale Mazel Tov$1.99
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- Grade 6 B3 - Blue Moon$1.99
- Grade 7 C1 - Valdemosa$1.99
- Grade 7 C2 - Allegro molto$1.99
- Grade 7 A2 - Allegro$1.99
- Grade 7 B2 - Allegretto$1.99
- Grade 1 B3 - Little Brown Jug$1.99
- Grade 1 Selection$7.99
- Grade 4 Selection$7.99
- Grade 5 Selection$7.99
- Grade 6 Selection$7.99
- Grade 7 Selection$7.99
- Grade 1 Selection 2022 onwards$8.99
- Grade 3 Selection 2022 onwards$8.99
- Grade 7 Selection 2022 onwards$8.99
- Grade 4 Selection 2022 onwards$8.99
- Grade 6 Selection 2022 onwards$8.99
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