Comparison

Learn Your Keys vs The Color Encyclopedia

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

Head to head
About

Learn Your Keys

Master musical keys and scales with this app. It visually shows note positions on a staff and piano keyboard, helping you learn to recognize notes and their corresponding keys. Understand accidentals and practice identifying notes by tapping.

Highlights
  • Master keys and scales
  • View notes on staff
  • See notes on piano keyboard
  • Learn accidentals (sharps/flats)
  • Identify note names
  • Practice note recognition
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Learn Your Keys does one thing—help you master keys and scales! When you started learning to play your instrument you probably played notes in C Major, the simplest scale using the white keys on a piano. Now you’re ready to learn about the other keys, like D Major and F# minor. This app helps you remember the notes in a key, where they appear on a staff (with the appropriate sharp or flat accidental) and what piano keys are used. Tap a note to see where it’s played on a piano. Or tap a piano key to see where the note appears on the staff. You will get used to hearing it so you’ll recognize it in the future. And as you start to learn your keys and scales you can see the actual note names on the staff, not just musical notation.

About

The Color Encyclopedia

Explore and understand the full spectrum of musical notes and their relationships. Hear, visualize, and learn about thousands of unique sound combinations, from familiar scales to entirely new sonic territories. This app offers a comprehensive map of musical space for musicians and enthusiasts.

Highlights
  • Offline access to musical map
  • Listen to any note combination
  • Scale visualizer for instruments
  • Filter and search musical sounds
  • Curated and custom note lists
  • Reactive UI with dynamic background
  • Randomize sounds for discovery
Features
Currently charting
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Every sound available in twelve-tone music - all 2,048 of them, organized into 351 "colors" - playable and searchable wherever you go. This Encyclopedia is a complete map of musical space. Each of the 351 unique families of notes gets an entry: hear it, visualize it, learn its name and how it relates to everything around it. Familiar scales and chords sit alongside thousands more - most musicians have never encountered. You may already know The Color Tree, the special-case sounds whose notes are all adjacent along the circle of fifths, organized from simple to complex and dark to bright. The Encyclopedia contains those 67 sounds - and every other sound there is. Key Features: • Fully offline - the whole map, no connection required • Listen to any color - customizable playback for every set of notes • Scale visualizer - see the notes laid out on your instrument of choice • Filter and search - narrow by scale degree, interval range, and more • Curated and custom lists - browse collections or build your own favorites • Reactive UI - a dynamic sky background that responds to your selections • Randomize - surprise yourself with sounds you've never heard! For composers, improvisers, theorists, sound designers, and anyone who has ever wondered what else is out there.

Screenshots

Learn Your Keys1 screens
The Color Encyclopedia4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Learn Your Keys at Free against The Color Encyclopedia's $9.99. Learn Your Keys also leads on device support (3 vs 1). The Color Encyclopedia's advantage is chart position (#199 vs unranked) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). On rating, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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

Learn Your Keys is free to download; The Color Encyclopedia costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Learn Your Keys against 5.0 for The Color Encyclopedia. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Color Encyclopedia has 6 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.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Learn Your Keys versus The Color Encyclopedia: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLearn Your KeysThe Color Encyclopedia
PriceFree — better$9.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings16 — better
Update frequency—Every 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#199 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size72 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKevin MonahanANDREW SHERON

Customer experience

Learn Your Keys

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

The Color Encyclopedia

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Learn Your Keys

No in-app purchases

None

The Color Encyclopedia

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Learn Your Keys free?
Learn Your Keys is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is The Color Encyclopedia free?
The Color Encyclopedia costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Learn Your Keys or The Color Encyclopedia?
Learn Your Keys and The Color Encyclopedia are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 6 ratings respectively.
Do Learn Your Keys or The Color Encyclopedia have ads?
Neither Learn Your Keys nor The Color Encyclopedia shows ads.

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