Soloist Sight Reading Trainer vs EarSprout

Sight reading should feel musical, and feedback should tell the truth. Soloist Sight Reading helps practising musicians build reliable reading fluency with focused staff drills and source-identified public-domain excerpts. Play through the microphone or connect a wired or Bluetooth MIDI keyboard. Both inputs use the same note-and-timing grading. If the evidence is unclear, Soloist says it could not hear enough to grade instead of inventing a wrong note. READ EVERY CLEF • Treble, bass, alto, tenor and grand staff, with ledger lines, key signatures and intervals. • Solfege and German note names, plus landmark hints you can turn off as fluency grows. • Play-or-sing drills listen on your device: play the written note on your instrument, sing it, or use a MIDI keyboard. Any octave counts. READ RHYTHM FROM REAL NOTATION • Quarters, halves, whole notes, dotted notes, eighths, sixteenths, triplets and rests, in 4/4 and 3/4. • Name the count, hear the bar, then tap it back and see whether you were early, on time or late. BUILD A READING SCORE • Take a short escalating assessment with one 100–999 score and a progress curve. • Preview an exam-style excerpt, then complete one honest take. • Use vanishing notation to train your eyes to read ahead of the playhead. • Bring exact note and rhythm errors back on an adaptive review schedule. FREE EVERY DAY, PAY ONCE FOR PRO The free tier includes an ongoing daily drill: landmark notes, note naming, key signatures and rhythm. It is not a countdown trial. Soloist Sight Pro Lifetime is one purchase with no subscription. It unlocks Reading Score assessments, Exam Mode, adaptive mastery review, every drill family, custom studio drills and teacher reports. The price comes from the App Store for your region, and Restore Purchases is always available. PRIVATE PRACTICE Listening and MIDI interpretation run on your device. Practice audio and MIDI performances are not recorded or uploaded. No ads, no account, and no sale of personal data. Terms of Use: https://playsoloist.com/terms

EarSprout is a free ear trainer built for musicians who want to actually hear music, not just read about it. Train pitch recognition, all 12 intervals, chord quality, chord progressions, and scales — from beginner-friendly majors and minors to advanced modes, whole tone, and chromatic runs. A live Voice Tuner shows your pitch in real time with an analog needle gauge, and two singing drills (Sing Intervals, Melody Echo) build active recall most ear-training apps skip entirely. No accounts. No ads. No subscriptions. The core app — ear training, intervals, chord quality, basic scales, and the tuner — is free forever. EarSprout Pro is a single one-time purchase that unlocks 7th chords, advanced scales, and the voice-based drills. Includes a dedicated Kids Mode: solfège notes become animal friends, with pitch-direction and singing games that reward practice with stars — parent gate included so kids can't wander into settings or purchases on their own. All audio is synthesized and analyzed entirely on your device. Nothing is recorded, stored, or sent anywhere. FEATURES - Ear Training — name the note, with adjustable octave ranges - Intervals — all 12, in melodic, harmonic, or random playback - Chords — triad/7th quality ID plus 6 common progressions - Scales — majors, minors, pentatonics, blues, plus advanced modes - Voice Tuner — real-time pitch with a needle gauge - Sing Intervals & Melody Echo — sing back what you hear - Kids Mode — animal-note games for young learners - Piano, guitar, violin, or pure tone playback - Light and dark themes Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/