Little Note vs Name That Key
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Little Note
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Stop relying on trial and error to understand what you hear. PerfectEar turns musical perception into clear, progressive practice. Through focused 10-question lessons, you learn to recognize scale degrees, intervals, and triads—the relationships behind melodies, harmony, and chords. LISTEN. ANSWER. IMPROVE. Each exercise gives you a listening challenge. Choose an answer, get immediate feedback, and build a routine that fits your day. TRAIN WHAT MATTERS • Scale degrees: strengthen your sense of tonal center • Intervals: recognize the distance between notes • Triads: identify chord structures • Timer Mode: challenge your ear against the clock • Immediate feedback after every answer SEE YOUR PROGRESS • Focused 10-question lessons • Daily practice streaks • Levels, XP, and new unlocks • Overall accuracy and daily improvement • Recommended training based on your performance • Progress synced to your account MAKE PRACTICE YOUR OWN Explore 26 instruments, preview each sound, and choose what you hear during your exercises. Unlock more instruments as you progress. PERFECTEAR PREMIUM Unlock intervals, triads, unlimited lives, and full instrument access. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you purchase a subscription. A one-time Lifetime purchase is also available. Terms of Use (EULA): https://perfect-ear-lp-gamma.vercel.app/en/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://perfect-ear-lp-gamma.vercel.app/en/privacy.html
Name That Key
Develop your musical ear by learning to identify song keys and understand music theory. This app offers structured lessons, interactive exercises, and a game to test your skills with real music. It provides tools for tuning, rhythm, and chord analysis.
- Learn to identify song keys
- Interactive music theory lessons
- Real music song game
- Tune by ear exercises
- Metronome with multiple meters
- Circle of Fifths tool
- Chord progression player
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Every song is in a key. Most people can hear it long before they can name it. Name That Key teaches you to name it — and unlike the detection apps, it tells you why. THE PATH — FREE, AND IT NEEDS NOTHING Five stages, in order, each adding one thing to your ear. All of it generated on the device: no account, no connection, no Apple Music. FIND HOME. Four chapters that start with Do, Mi and Sol and end with you picking the tonic out of a phrase with no help at all. From chapter two a real I-IV-V-I cadence sets the key first, the way a band would. IN TUNE. Two notes, one slightly off — which way? Four settings, down to six cents, which is roughly where a section stops sounding like several people. You learn to hear the beating rather than guess. TWO NOTES APART. Every interval from the unison to the octave, each with what it actually sounds like. The minor 2nd is menace. The tritone is unfinished business. ONE NOTE MOVED. Major, natural minor, the five modes, harmonic minor, both pentatonics and the blues scale — eleven in all, each with the records you already know it from. REAL MUSIC. Then you take it to the game. THE KIT SONG KEYS. A thousand recordings, searchable by title, artist or genre. Each gives the key and a written reason — the tuning the band used, the chord that gives it away, the phrase the tonic sits under. Where two answers are defensible, it says so. Works with no connection. TUNE BY EAR. A held reference pitch on any note, across three octaves. Match it by ear, then tap Check me and the microphone tells you how many cents off you were — after you've committed, not before. METRONOME. Seven meters including 5/4 and the compound ones, counted properly: 6/8 is two dotted beats, not six clicks. Three swing feels, downbeat-only mode, tap tempo. CIRCLE OF FIFTHS. Not a poster. Tap a key and hear it, hear its neighbours, hear I-IV-V-I, or walk all twelve fifths the whole way around. CHORD PLAYER. I-IV-V-I, I-V-vi-IV and ii-V-I, in any key. TRANSPOSE. Concert key to written key for the common transposing instruments, and where the capo goes. SING IT BACK. Home plays, you're asked for a degree, and you sing it. The microphone hears whether you found the note — any octave counts. THE GAME A few seconds of a real record. The room names the key. Then you turn it over and find out why. Choose your genres, set the length, and add your own songs when you know a key the app doesn't have. WHAT'S FREE The entire Learn path — every chapter, every stage — free and permanent. The song game is free. The Kit is a membership, and it starts with a free week. MEMBERSHIP Name That Key Membership is an annual subscription, $12.99 per year, free for the first week. Pricing may vary by region and is shown in the app before you buy. The membership unlocks the Kit — exactly the seven tools above: Song keys, Tune by ear, Metronome, Circle of fifths, Chord player, Transpose and Sing it back. Nothing else is behind it. The Learn path, the song game, Scales and Any interval are free and stay free. The free week is available once per Apple Account. Payment is charged at the end of it and renews automatically unless turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://namethatkey.com/privacy APPLE MUSIC The song game streams excerpts from Apple Music and needs an active subscription. Songs are matched to the catalogue when a set is built, so availability can vary by region. The Learn path and every tool in the Kit are synthesized on the device. They work with no Apple Music, no account and no connection.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Name That Key at none against Little Note's shown. Name That Key also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Little Note sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and Name That Key sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $12.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Little Note ships an update every 6 weeks, Name That Key every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Little Note | Name That Key |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 546 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andre Souza | Barry Bernau |
In-app purchases
Little Note
- Special Offer$7.991 Month
- Lifetime$39.99
Name That Key
- Name That Key: Kit Membership7 Days trial$12.991 Year
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