Read Notes vs Solfegissimo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Read Notes
Enhance your musical abilities with interactive games focused on sight-reading, ear training, and chord recognition. Practice essential music theory concepts and improve your performance on any instrument with daily exercises and challenges.
- Sight reading practice with multiple clefs
- Ear training for notes, intervals, and chords
- Chord recognition and virtual keyboard
- 100-song library with challenges
- Progress tracking and leaderboards
- Multiple difficulty levels and practice modes
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Read music for the instrument you play. Clefs, written ranges and answer screens adapt to the selected instrument. Depending on the instrument, answer with an on-screen keyboard, fretboard, string and position choices, note names or rhythm taps. Compare your answer with the right note and practice the notes you missed. Keep your existing quests, drills, pieces and progress. You can continue piano practice without choosing your instrument again. Start with 67 free songs from a library of 150. Optional one-time Premium unlocks the other 83 songs, removes ads and removes heart limits. No subscription.
Solfegissimo
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Learn to read music and enjoy it. Take in the notes one by one in the lessons, then train on the exercises and earn stars to open the levels that follow. THE LESSONS: UNDERSTAND BEFORE YOU PRACTISE Six short illustrated lessons lay the groundwork, to read before playing and to revisit whenever you like: the staff, the treble clef, the bass clef, how to find a note, note values, and several notes played at once. Every new note is introduced before the exercise that uses it: shown alone on the staff, named, and located on the keyboard using the groups of black keys as landmarks. A beginner then knows where it sits under their fingers, not just what it is called. THE EXERCISES: READING IN TIME 34 exercises, across two clefs. The playhead moves, the metronome ticks if you want it, and you play each note as it passes. The octave has to be right — that is what really teaches reading, rather than guessing a name. Four families follow one another: - Note reading, one note at a time - Two notes in a row, the intervals - Two notes together, written one above the other - Chords, three notes at a time The treble clef runs from G-A up to the top of the staff, then comes the bass clef. Both meet on middle C, the bridge from one clef to the other. STARS OPEN WHAT COMES NEXT Every round shows the notes you hit, missed and got wrong. The more accurate you are, the more stars you earn, up to three — and a completed exercise opens the next one. Nothing is timed, and everything can be replayed as often as you like. FOUR WAYS TO ANSWER - The on-screen piano keyboard - Note-name buttons, in Do Re Mi or C D E - A MIDI piano connected over USB - The microphone, which detects the pitch from your instrument's actual sound Nothing is mandatory: everything can be completed on the on-screen keyboard alone, with no instrument. COMING BACK EVERY DAY A daily streak is kept just by showing up, and a quiet reminder rings at the time you choose — never on days you have already played. The progress report shows exercises completed, stars earned, average accuracy and flawless rounds, then the detail grouped by clef. EVERYTHING IS ADJUSTABLE French or international note naming, interface in French or English, adjustable tempo, metronome, note timbre and sound effects. OFFLINE, NO ACCOUNT Everything works without a connection. No sign-up, no ads, no personal data sent. Your progress stays on your device. PRICING The first seven exercises are free. A single purchase unlocks the rest of the treble clef and the whole bass clef, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. One payment, no subscription, Family Sharing included.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Solfegissimo at none against Read Notes's shown. Read Notes's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.0). On price, 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. Read Notes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Solfegissimo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Read Notes | Solfegissimo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | minjae Lee | Gerald Jakubczak |
In-app purchases
Read Notes
- Remove Ads$7.99
Solfegissimo
- All exercises$4.99









