Comparison

LyricsNote vs Check1.2

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

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About

LyricsNote

Features
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LyricsNote is a note-taking app that lets you record and manage lyrics and chords together. You can intuitively place chords in sync with your lyrics, allowing you to write and compose smoothly without interrupting your creative flow. What you can do with LyricsNote ・Edit song titles and lyrics ・Tap above the lyrics to freely choose where to add chords ・Enter chords easily using suggestions and symbols ・Tap existing chords to edit them ・Press and hold chords to delete or fine-tune their position ・Set and manage capo settings for each song ・Automatically save all edits on your device ※You can also check how to set chords in the in-app guide. Recommended for ・Songwriters who want to organize lyrics and chords together while working on a song ・Musicians who want to quickly prepare lyrics and chords for singing with a guitar

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Check1.2

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Check1.2 finds the frequencies most likely to feed back, in Hz. Before the show, you cannot tell which frequency to pull down. The iPhone microphone is all you need. No measuring instrument, no external microphone. The Full version is a one-time purchase. It is not a subscription. FREE AND FULL - Stereo recording: free is 5 minutes a take, 2 saved. Full records a whole show in one take and keeps as many as you like. - Monitor check results: free keeps 3. Full keeps as many as you like, compares with your last visit to the same venue, and keeps what you changed. - Normalize: free works on takes up to 5 minutes. Full works on longer takes too. - Ear training quiz: free is Beginner, 6 bands from 250 Hz to 8 kHz, 2 sets a day. Full adds Advanced, 21 bands from 63 Hz to 16 kHz, and unlimited sets. - A/B comparison: free is Pop. Full has four genres. Deleting a recording or a result does not give the slot back. Use Restore Purchases on a new phone. Analyzer, Spectrogram, Monitor check, voice registration, Metronome, Tuner and Speaker check are free. No account needed. For people learning PA, people doing the PA on the day at a small venue with no dedicated engineer, and people training new PA staff at a live house. FEATURES - Stereo recording, no compressor and no limiter. - Metronome with a volume slider and a beat-1 accent you can turn on or off. - Tuner. Press a note name to hear it as a sine tone. - Speaker check. - The screen stays on while you check. MONITOR CHECK (BEFORE THE SHOW) From 15 seconds of ambient sound and your voice, it lists the bands most likely to feed back, as a number and a word, like "about 250 Hz (muddy)". While recording, a green, yellow or red lamp warns you when feedback is close. Hum and hiss are reported in words too. Register your voice and it also reports muddy (200-500 Hz), boomy low end (63-125 Hz), harsh (2-5 kHz) and sibilance (5-8 kHz). A tone that stays after your voice stops is close to feedback. It listens 3 seconds to tell it from reverberation. Results stay on your iPhone with the venue name and a note, so you can compare next time. What you do next is the real work. Turn the level down. Move the speakers or the microphone. If it still feeds back, cut the band you found with EQ, a little at a time. ANALYZER (DURING THE SHOW) 50 Hz to 18,000 Hz, about 11.7 Hz steps, redrawn about 23 times a second. - Green line: the sound now. White: Peak Hold. Orange dashed: the strong band. - A tone that stands out from its neighbours and keeps doing so gets a solid red line. Musical notes are told apart by their harmonics and get no red line. - Drag the screen to read the frequency there. Pick an instrument (All, Drums, Bass, Guitar, Vocals, Piano) for notes written for it. - If the waveform goes flat on top, it tells you it is clipping. - Press a note name for a sine tone, to check a speaker or a band. FREQUENCY QUIZ Name the frequency of a sine tone, or compare a band track with and without EQ and name the band that changed. With headphones and Advanced (full version), 63 Hz and 125 Hz join in. HOW TO USE 1. Monitor Check measures the ambient sound levels for 15 seconds. 2. Record your voice. 3. Press "See results" and wait 3 seconds without speaking. 4. Read the bands most likely to feed back, and what to do next. 5. Fix the level and the speaker and microphone directions. PRIVACY Recording, analysis, voice registration, results and venue notes stay on your iPhone. The app never sends them anywhere. The only network use is Apple's in-app purchase. No ads, no tracking. NOTES This app is not a measuring instrument. Start quiet and raise the level slowly. Stereo recording works on supported models only; others record in mono, and the app tells you first. Below 150 Hz the iPhone microphone cannot measure accurately, so feedback detection is off there; the Analyzer still draws it. dB is not calibrated, so this is not a sound level meter.

Screenshots

LyricsNote3 screens
Check1.24 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LyricsNote at none against Check1.2's 1. Check1.2's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 9 days) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.1). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Check1.2 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. LyricsNote asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LyricsNote ships an update every 9 days, Check1.2 daily. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
LyricsNote versus Check1.2: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLyricsNoteCheck1.2
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.117.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTAISEI NISHIDaisuke Kawaue

In-app purchases

None

LyricsNote

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Check1.2

One-time1
  • Full version$6.99

Questions

Is LyricsNote free?
LyricsNote is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Check1.2 free?
Check1.2 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do LyricsNote or Check1.2 have ads?
Neither LyricsNote nor Check1.2 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, LyricsNote or Check1.2?
LyricsNote ships an update every 9 days, and Check1.2 daily. Most recently, LyricsNote was updated on September 9, 2026 and Check1.2 on September 10, 2026.

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