Comparison

Sightreading Exercises vs Clarinet Notes & Tablatures

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

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About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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)

About

Clarinet Notes & Tablatures

Learn and practice clarinet with a vast collection of sheet music, notes, and interactive training. Features include melody import, real-time scoring via microphone, adjustable playback speed, and printing options. Unlock all content and remove ads with a subscription.

Highlights
  • Over 150 melodies
  • Import custom music XML files
  • Interactive microphone training
  • Adjustable playback speed
  • Custom transposition
  • Printable sheet music
  • Bookmark favorite melodies
Features
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Collection of sheet music with notes, tablatures, and interactive training for clarinets. This application helps to learn and practice playing popular traditional melodies on your clarinet. Try it now, for free! Application features: - Selection of clarinet kind; - Over 150 melodies to learn and practice; - Allows to import additional melodies from your own, local Music XML files (.mxl, .musicxml, .xml); - Interactive training modes (recognition via the microphone of the music you play on a real world clarinet, and scoring it against the music sheet); - It can play every melody displaying the progress in the music sheet; - Optional countdown before melody playback; - Tuneable playback speed (tempo); - Allows custom transposition of melodies; - Allows to print out music sheets; - Allows to bookmark favorite melodies. ADVERTISEMENTS & SUBSCRIPTIONS By default, this application is supported by advertisements, and only a handful of melodies are accessible for free. Paid application subscriptions available in the in-app store unlock all melodies, and remove all advertisements. The profit from subscriptions supports application maintenance and further development, including bug fixes, new features, and new melodies. USER SUPPORT Any comments, ideas, suggestions are welcome to support@music-tabs.com TERMS OF USE: https://clarinet.music-tabs.com/legal-info

Screenshots

Sightreading Exercises4 screens
Clarinet Notes & Tablatures4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Clarinet Notes & Tablatures at 5.0 against Sightreading Exercises's 4.4. Clarinet Notes & Tablatures also leads on monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs paid). Sightreading Exercises's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 5 days vs monthly). On price, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Sightreading Exercises sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Clarinet Notes & Tablatures sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Clarinet Notes & Tablatures holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sightreading Exercises has 22 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sightreading Exercises ships an update every 5 days, Clarinet Notes & Tablatures monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Sightreading Exercises versus Clarinet Notes & Tablatures: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSightreading ExercisesClarinet Notes & Tablatures
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (22 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings22 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterMonthly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.8 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size334 MB108 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRC GameSergey Pogodin

Customer experience

Sightreading Exercises

All ratings22 ratings
Positive77.3%
Neutral18.2%
Negative4.5%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Clarinet Notes & Tablatures

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Sightreading Exercises

One-time1
  • Buy Full Version$12.99
4 purchases

Clarinet Notes & Tablatures

Subscriptions4
  • 1-month subscription$2.991 Month
  • 3-months subscription$7.993 Months
  • 6-months subscription$12.996 Months
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  • 1-year subscription$17.991 Year

Questions

Is Sightreading Exercises free?
Sightreading Exercises is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Clarinet Notes & Tablatures free?
Clarinet Notes & Tablatures is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Sightreading Exercises or Clarinet Notes & Tablatures?
Clarinet Notes & Tablatures is rated higher. Sightreading Exercises averages 4.4 out of 5 from 22 ratings, while Clarinet Notes & Tablatures averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Sightreading Exercises or Clarinet Notes & Tablatures have ads?
Clarinet Notes & Tablatures shows ads; Sightreading Exercises does not.
Which is updated more often, Sightreading Exercises or Clarinet Notes & Tablatures?
Sightreading Exercises ships an update every 5 days, and Clarinet Notes & Tablatures monthly. Most recently, Sightreading Exercises was updated on September 23, 2026 and Clarinet Notes & Tablatures on September 20, 2026.

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