NoteRider vs Intonation Training
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NoteRider
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NoteRider is an app to learn and improve your note reading skills. Make progress with exercises designed to develop accuracy, consistency, and confident, hesitation-free reading. With over 350 progressive exercises, you advance step by step, regardless of your level. Clef practice NoteRider allows you to practice with: Treble clef Bass clef C clefs (C1, C2, C3, C4) Baritone clef You can also mix clefs to strengthen your adaptability and improve your reading skills. Targeted training - Progressive and structured exercises - Focus on accuracy - Development of consistency - Reduced hesitation - Faster and more natural reading 4 input modes - Virtual keyboard (like a piano) - Microphone to sing or play an instrument - MIDI connection (cable or Bluetooth) - Note grid for focused visual training Detailed statistics - Results per exercise - Analysis by clef - Identification of frequent mistakes - Global statistics across all clefs - Clear progress tracking Comfortable to use - Compatible with smartphones and tablets - Usable in portrait and landscape modes - Clean and user-friendly interface NoteRider is available for free and lets you try all features. Full access to all exercises is available via an in-app purchase. Unlock everything to enjoy complete training and progress without limits.
Intonation Training
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Intonation Training listens through your microphone and scores your intonation against written music, in time. A tuner shows you that one held note is 12¢ sharp — it can't tell you that you go sharp on the leap into the high register, or flat when you tire at the end of a phrase, or that C#5 has been your problem note for a month. This does. Play the exercise; the app hears every note and shows you which ones you miss. How it works for real practice: • Scored against written music, in time — eight measures on the staff, judged note by note as they pass. You train intonation the way it actually fails: in motion, at tempo, under a pulse — not one held note at a time. • Trouble notes — the exact pitches you miss most, with hit rate and attempt count. "My intonation is shaky" becomes "your C#5 is 61% over 34 attempts." Now practice has a target. • Play and Hear — Play opens the mic and scores you; Hear loops the melody through the speaker with no mic and no judgement, so you can learn how it should sound before you're graded. • Wait for me — stop for a breath and the music freezes until you play again. Silence never turns into a wall of red. • Four strictness levels — Learner ±25¢, Amateur ±15¢, Pro ±10¢, Studio ±5¢. The app grows with you, from "find the pitch at all" to studio-tight. • Brass and woodwind — eleven transpositions plus a bass-clef mode. The staff shows what you read; scoring judges the concert pitch that actually sounds. Trumpet, cornet, horn, the sax family, Bb and A clarinet, bass clarinet, flute, piccolo, oboe and English horn — plus a bass-clef mode for trombone, euphonium, tuba and bassoon. • Built-in tuner — when you just need to tune up, a one-tap chromatic tuner is right there: the nearest note and how many cents sharp or flat, with plain-language feedback. It follows your instrument's transposition and note-name setting, so it names the note you actually read. Track real progress: • Per-exercise stats — attempts, best and average accuracy, current and best streak, fastest clean tempo, and an accuracy-over-time chart. Weeks of practice become a line going up. • Badges to earn, a sample-locked metronome with an optional count-in, and auto-bump tempo that steps up on its own when you play a loop clean. • Practice reminders that ask you back. Read music your way: • Note names in letters (C D E), German (H/B), or solfège (Do Re Mi) — independent of the app's language. • Available in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, Norwegian, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. 735 built-in exercises — major and minor scales, chromatics, pentatonics, blues, whole-tone, diminished, intervals and speed studies — plus import of song and library share codes from Trumpet Trainer, French Horn Trainer and Trombone Trainer. Free to start: • Practise and score 24 built-in exercises free — the 1234 and 1231 patterns in all twelve keys — and listen to any exercise in Hear mode at no cost. • A single one-time unlock opens everything — scoring on all 735 exercises, plus editing, importing share codes, and sharing your own. One purchase, no subscription. A tuner judges one note in isolation. Intonation Training scores a written line, at tempo, and remembers the result per exercise — so progress means something across weeks, not seconds.
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Verdict
NoteRider and Intonation Training are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. NoteRider sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Intonation Training sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
NoteRider ships an update monthly, Intonation Training fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NoteRider | Intonation Training |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Romaric de Perier | Edmund Trujillo |
In-app purchases
NoteRider
- Full Access$5.99
Intonation Training
- Unlock Everything$9.99
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