Comparison

Sight Reading Practic vs Solfa Hands

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

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About

Sight Reading Practic

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Sight Reading Practice is a game-style training app that sharpens your ability to read notes on the staff at a glance. Answer each note's German note name before time runs out and boost your reading speed and accuracy. [Features] - 5 difficulty levels (Intro, Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Master) - Supports both treble and bass clef - Time-attack format: answer before the clock runs out - Read multiple notes at once from Intermediate up - Accidentals (sharps and flats) included - Score history and statistics - A tone plays on each correct answer, so you learn by ear too [About the difficulty levels] Intro: treble clef only, white keys only, 10-second limit Beginner: treble/bass clef, white keys only, 8-second limit Intermediate: both clefs, accidentals, up to 2 notes at once, 6-second limit Advanced: both clefs, accidentals, up to 3 notes at once, 5-second limit Master: both clefs, accidentals, up to 4 notes at once, 3-second limit [Perfect for] - Anyone practicing piano, violin, or another instrument - Players who want to sight-read faster in band or orchestra - Anyone learning the basics of music theory - Anyone who wants to read sheet music with ease Each session is graded from S to D, and you can review your past records. Build your sight-reading skills steadily with daily practice!

About

Solfa Hands

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Solfa Hands is a sight-reading and sight-singing trainer for music teachers and their students. Reading a score and singing it in tune are one skill, and Kodály hand signs are what joins them: each sign gives an abstract note on the page a shape your body can feel, so pitch stops being guesswork. Solfa Hands puts the notation, the solfege syllable, and the hand sign on screen together, and keeps them together from your first sol–mi to a full major-scale melody. *SIGHT-READ FROM REAL NOTATION Read from a scrolling five-line staff with note heads, rests and barlines, or switch to circles on a simplified staff or the color grid while the reading habit is still forming. Note labels can show solfege, note names, numbers — or nothing at all, once you're ready to read the staff unaided. A piano keyboard lights up alongside the score so every interval you read has a sound attached. *SIGHT-SING WITH YOUR CAMERA CHECKING YOU — NEW Turn on Assessment and sing the score at sight while the app watches your hand signs. The score waits at each note until your sign is right, then sounds it and moves on — so you can't skim past an interval you haven't actually heard. Feedback is specific: a tucked thumb, a finger that should be curled, a hand held at the wrong angle. Recognition runs entirely on your device; no camera video ever leaves your iPhone or iPad. *A FULL KODÁLY READING SEQUENCE About 200 exercises across six stages, ordered the way sight-singing is actually taught: sol–mi first, then la, do and re to complete the pentatonic set, with fa, ti and high do finishing the major scale. Each stage adds exactly one pitch, then widens the intervals, lengthens the phrases and varies the shape — ascending, descending, arch, echo, sequence, and real tunes — so reading difficulty grows one step at a time. *FOR THE CLASSROOM AND FOR HOME • Three score views: staff notation, circles, or grid • Four label modes, for scaffolding reading and then removing it • Tempo from 50 to 240 BPM with a four-beat count-in • Boy and girl singing voices • Rests, one- and two-beat notes, looping playback • Portrait and landscape, iPhone and iPad • English and Chinese *WRITE YOUR OWN READING DRILLS Build a melody note by note and save it to your library — useful for setting the exact interval a student keeps missing. The library keeps the course path and your own songs side by side as readable score thumbnails; one tap loads any of them. Course stages 1 and 2 are free to play. One purchase unlocks playback for every later stage and for your own songs — no subscription, no ads, no account.

Screenshots

Sight Reading Practic3 screens
Solfa Hands4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Solfa Hands at none against Sight Reading Practic's shown. Solfa Hands also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sight Reading Practic ships an update every 5 weeks, Solfa Hands every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
Sight Reading Practic versus Solfa Hands: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSight Reading PracticSolfa Hands
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMIZOU, CO., LTD.鑫 孟

In-app purchases

None

Sight Reading Practic

No in-app purchases

None

Solfa Hands

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sight Reading Practic free?
Sight Reading Practic is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Solfa Hands free?
Solfa Hands is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Sight Reading Practic or Solfa Hands have ads?
Sight Reading Practic shows ads; Solfa Hands does not.
Which is updated more often, Sight Reading Practic or Solfa Hands?
Sight Reading Practic ships an update every 5 weeks, and Solfa Hands every 3 weeks. Most recently, Sight Reading Practic was updated on September 21, 2026 and Solfa Hands on September 25, 2026.

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