Comparison

Solio vs Note Names

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

Head to head
About

Solio

Features
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Master reading music notes with NoteFlow! - FEATURES: β€’ Learn notes on Treble and Bass clefs β€’ Multiple game modes: Practice, Timed Challenge, Streak β€’ Piano keyboard or button input β€’ Track your progress with detailed statistics β€’ Identify your weak notes and improve β€’ Adjustable difficulty levels β€’ Metronome support for rhythm practice Perfect for beginners learning to read sheet music, music students, or anyone wanting to improve their sight-reading skills!Master reading music notes with NoteFlow! - FEATURES: β€’ Learn notes on Treble and Bass clefs β€’ Multiple game modes: Practice, Timed Challenge, Streak β€’ Piano keyboard or button input β€’ Track your progress with detailed statistics β€’ Identify your weak notes and improve β€’ Adjustable difficulty levels β€’ Metronome support for rhythm practice Perfect for beginners learning to read sheet music, music students, or anyone wanting to improve their sight-reading skills!

About

Note Names

Easily identify notes on sheet music by photographing a page. The app overlays note names, allowing you to print or share the annotated music. It also offers playback and MIDI export.

Highlights
  • Photograph sheet music pages
  • Automatic note name overlay
  • Printable PDF export
  • Sheet music playback
  • MIDI file export
  • Support for transposing instruments
  • Customizable note spelling (CDE/DoReMi)
Features
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Music is meant to be played. But at the beginning, most of the practice hour goes somewhere else β€” working out which note is which, counting up from middle C, losing your place, starting the bar again. This app hands that hour back. Photograph a page of your own sheet music, and every note comes back with its name printed right above it β€” C D E F G, or Do Re Mi if that's how you learned. Print it, put it on the stand, and play. And the reading? It comes with the playing. It always has. WHY PEOPLE USE IT β€’ You're learning piano as an adult, and you know the piece faster than you can read it β€’ You sit with your kid at practice and can't read the music yourself β€’ You picked your instrument back up after twenty years β€’ You joined a choir or a community band and want to keep up at rehearsal IT WORKS ON YOUR MUSIC Not a retyped version of the song β€” your actual page, with the names added. The layout, the fingerings, your teacher's pencil marks: all still there. THREE STEPS 1. Photograph the page β€” just fit the whole page in the frame 2. Crop it (a finger in the shot? erase it) 3. Done. Every note named, ready to print or share as a PDF HEAR THE PAGE, TOO Once the names are on, tap play. It follows the note lengths and rests it read, so you can get a feel for how the piece goes. Drag the red line to start from anywhere on the page, or loop a single staff until the hard bar sits right. NAMES FOR YOUR INSTRUMENT Transposing instruments are supported β€” in B-flat, in E-flat, in F and more. Read the names as they sit on your part, or as they sound in concert pitch. Switch any time in Settings. PICK YOUR SPELLING C D E F G (letter names) Β· Do Re Mi (solfΓ¨ge) Β· γƒ‰γƒ¬γƒŸ (Japanese katakana). Change it any time in Settings. WHEN IT GETS ONE WRONG, YOU FIX IT Tap the note and pick the right name. Add a note it missed. Delete a mark that wasn't a note. Add a whole staff it didn't find. It takes seconds β€” and it beats penciling in every note by hand. YOUR MUSIC NEVER LEAVES YOUR PHONE Everything runs on your device. No account, no upload, no server. It works in airplane mode. PAY ONCE. NO SUBSCRIPTION. Try it free: 5 scans, one photo each, with the first 2 staves named β€” enough to see how it does on your own music before you spend anything. Full Version, one payment: unlimited scans, any number of pages, every staff named. A NOTE ON ACCURACY This is built for printed sheet music. Handwritten scores aren't supported, and faint printing, heavy shadows or a curled page will cost you accuracy. Anything it gets wrong you can fix in the app in a few taps.

Screenshots

Solio4 screens
Note Names4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Solio at none against Note Names's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Note Names sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Solio asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference Β· 7 level
Solio versus Note Names: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSolioNote Names
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviewsβ€”50.0% of reviews
Update frequencyβ€”Every 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo β€” betterYes
Monetizationβ€”Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad β€” better
Requires iOS17.617.0 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size6 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNoam KorenTETSUYA SAKAI

In-app purchases

None

Solio

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Note Names

One-time1
  • VersiΓ³n completa$8.99

Questions

Is Solio free?
Solio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Note Names free?
Note Names is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Solio or Note Names have ads?
Neither Solio nor Note Names shows ads.

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