Comparison

hEARit! vs Play Fast Notes

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

Head to head
About

hEARit!

Develop your musical ear with this app designed for music students. Practice identifying intervals in various orders, including ascending, descending, and simultaneous. Teachers can utilize a Google Sheet integration to track student scores.

Highlights
  • Interval recognition practice
  • Ascending interval drills
  • Descending interval drills
  • Simultaneous interval drills
  • Teacher score tracking via Google Sheets
Features
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hEARit! provides developing music students with a variety of ways to hear and respond to intervals. Want to hear the notes in ascending order? Descending? At the same time? No problem. Teachers: You can use a google sheet to collect scores!

About

Play Fast Notes

This app helps musicians master difficult musical passages through scientifically-backed practice techniques. It allows users to import sheet music, isolate challenging sections, and apply tools like tempo ladders and rhythmic variations for effective learning. A practice log tracks progress, and an optional one-time purchase unlocks full functionality.

Highlights
  • Import sheet music via photo or PDF
  • Isolate and drill specific passages
  • Tempo Ladder for gradual speed increase
  • Interleaved Click-Up for contextual practice
  • Rep Rotator for random passage cycling
  • Rhythmic Variations for finger dexterity
  • Integrated metronome and recorder
  • Practice log for progress tracking
Features
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Play Fast Notes helps musicians turn the hard passages into the easy ones, using practice techniques backed by how the brain actually learns. Snap a photo of your sheet music or import a PDF, box the exact passage you're drilling, and run it through focused, guided practice tools instead of mindless repetition: • Tempo Ladder: start slow and climb, working for consistency, until you reach performance speed. • Repetition inside an ever-changing context, so the passage holds up under pressure instead of only working in the practice room (Interleaved Click-Up). • Cycle through several spots in random order so your brain works to recall each one, the way a performance demands (Rep Rotator). • Rhythmic Variations: drill a run in many different rhythms to even out your fingers. You apply the rhythms, or the app writes your passage in the rhythms for you. Tools travel with every practice screen: • A real metronome with subdivisions, custom meters, accents, and drum-machine grooves. • A recorder that captures a take and plays it back slowed down and pitch-corrected, so you hear what really happened. • Apple Pencil support, so you can mark up your music right on the page. • Smart timers that nudge you to rotate passages, take micro-breaks, and stand up. Everything you do is saved to a practice log so you can watch your progress over time. No ads. Just focused practice. Your first 30 days are free with everything unlocked. After that you can keep going on the free plan with up to three photo passages, or unlock the whole app, PDF parts included, for one payment of $19.99. No subscription. No renewals. Works on iPhone and iPad. A free account keeps your library backed up and in sync between them.

Screenshots

hEARit!4 screens
Play Fast Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: hEARit! at none against Play Fast Notes's 1. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Play Fast Notes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. hEARit! asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for hEARit! against 5.0 for Play Fast Notes. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
hEARit! versus Play Fast Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterhEARit!Play Fast Notes
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings22
Update frequency—Every 8 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB51 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBrian WisRalph Skiano

Customer experience

hEARit!

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Play Fast Notes

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

hEARit!

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Play Fast Notes

One-time1
  • Practice Pro$19.99

Questions

Is hEARit! free?
hEARit! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Play Fast Notes free?
Play Fast Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, hEARit! or Play Fast Notes?
hEARit! and Play Fast Notes are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do hEARit! or Play Fast Notes have ads?
Neither hEARit! nor Play Fast Notes shows ads.

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