FluteGym vs Sight Reader Trainer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FluteGym
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FluteGym brings FSRS, the spaced-repetition scheduler built for memorization, to physical practice. Every exercise, study and piece carries its own memory state. The app models how a passage decays in your hands, brings it back before you lose it, and builds each session around what is going stale. PRACTICE THAT REMEMBERS FOR YOU Rate every repetition as you play. FluteGym schedules the next one from that rating, saves a place for the pieces you pin, and measures the whole level against the date you set. WILL YOU BE READY? Because every repetition is rated, the data underneath is real: a skill profile by category, mastery that rises and falls, trends over time, and insights naming your strongest work, your weakest, and what needs review now. A tuning analysis maps every note you play. Set an exam or audition date and a readiness projection tells you whether you are on pace. A CATALOG YOU DON'T HAVE TO BUILD The scheduler runs on programs we built and maintain: conservatory and exam-board curricula from six countries (Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Argentina, Chile and Colombia), level by level. Alongside them, live orchestra audition postings, refreshed weekly, each excerpt list a paced program of its own. AND THE REST OF YOUR PRACTICE • Metronome, tuner, drone and recorder on the practice screen • Send a plan or share a session as a link • Home-screen widgets and a weekly report • Build your own routines and plan your week on a calendar Offline-first, no ads, no account required. Your practice data stays on your device unless you share it; cloud backup is your choice. FLUTEGYM PRO Try every feature free for 14 days. A Pro subscription (monthly or annual) then unlocks the programs and orchestra auditions, the readiness projection, detailed analytics, tuning analysis and tone readouts, practice segments, changing the plan mid-session, score and recording searches, writing notes, the practice calendar, device-calendar sync, cloud backup, and a planned session every day from the starter routine FluteGym builds for you (one a week without Pro). The core tools stay free: metronome, tuner, drone, recorder, routines you build yourself with no Pro features, reading your notes, and basic progress. Terms of Use: https://flutegym.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://flutegym.com/privacy
Sight Reader Trainer
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Sight reading only improves one way: by reading music you have never seen. Sight Reader Trainer writes a fresh exercise every time you tap Next, for your instrument, in your key, at your level. Play it through, and the app listens and tells you how you did. READ SOMETHING NEW EVERY TIME Every exercise is generated on the spot, so there is nothing to memorise. Pick a key or let the app surprise you with a new one each time. Choose the number of bars, the tempo and how busy the rhythms get. STYLES THAT SOUND LIKE REAL MUSIC Etudes, jazz lines, bebop, blues shuffle, bossa nova, samba, tango, ragtime, ballads, rock, funk, reggae, salsa, modal vamps, baroque sequences, Classical periods, marches, waltzes, klezmer, Balkan dances, Irish reels and jigs. Harmony-based styles show chord symbols and follow real progressions: ii–V–I, 12-bar blues, rhythm changes, So What and more. Technique drills cover scales, thirds, arpeggios, chromatics and long tones, and rhythm reading keeps you on one pitch. HEAR IT, THEN PLAY IT Each take plays back with a count-in, a metronome and the notes themselves, so you can listen first or play along. A look-ahead window reveals the music a few beats before the cursor arrives. TURN ON THE MIC AND GET SCORED Point your phone at your instrument and the app follows your pitch in real time. Notes light up green when you land them. At the end you get a score for pitch, timing and flow, with the tendency behind each: sharp or flat, early or late, where you hesitated. Tap any note afterwards to see how far off it was and hear the pitch it should have been. Choose how strict "in tune" should be, set your reference pitch, and calibrate for your phone's microphone delay. WAIT FOR ME MODE Not ready for tempo yet? The clock waits at each note until you play it, so you can work through a passage at your own pace and still be scored on pitch. PLAY A DUET Turn on Duet, pick a partner from any of the 40 instruments, and the app writes a second part to go with yours, each on its own staff in its own key. The phone plays the partner's line while you read yours. WRITTEN FOR YOUR INSTRUMENT Transposed and in the right clef for 40 instruments: flute, piccolo, oboe, English horn, bassoon, clarinets, every saxophone, trumpet, cornet, flugelhorn, horn, mellophone, alto horn, trombones, euphonium and baritone in either clef, tuba, violin, viola, cello, double bass, soprano, alto, tenor and bass voices, marimba, vibraphone, xylophone and glockenspiel, plus a concert-pitch option for anything else. SAVE, SHARE AND TRACK Save the exercises you want to come back to, and every scored take is kept in that exercise's history so you can watch a hard passage get easier. Share an exercise with a short code so a teacher, student or bandmate can play the exact same notes. Practice trends show your minutes, takes, accuracy and best score by day, week and month, and 29 awards mark the milestones along the way. A built-in tuner and practice reminders round it out. FREE AND PRO Everything you need to practise real sight reading is free: every instrument, etudes, jazz lines, technique drills and rhythm reading, listening and scoring, 3/4 and 4/4 with quarter and eighth-note rhythms, and a few saved exercises. Sight Reader Trainer Pro, yearly with a 7-day free trial or as a one-time lifetime purchase, makes it harder and makes it yours: every style; triplets, syncopation and sixteenths; odd meters; the look-ahead control; custom range limits; duets with any partner instrument; unlimited saved exercises; and the full pitch, timing and flow breakdown. Note names in letters, German (H) or solfège. Available in 11 languages. No account, no ads. Your playing never leaves your phone; the microphone is used only to detect pitch while you play. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.trumpettrainer.com/privacy
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Verdict
FluteGym and Sight Reader Trainer 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. FluteGym sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Sight Reader Trainer sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
FluteGym ships an update every 5 days, Sight Reader Trainer every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FluteGym | Sight Reader Trainer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 85 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Stornelli LLC | Edmund Trujillo |
In-app purchases
FluteGym
- FluteGym Monthly$2.991 Month
- FluteGym Yearly$24.991 Year
Sight Reader Trainer
- Sight Reader Pro Yearly7 Days trial$4.991 Year
- Sight Reader Trainer Pro$9.99





