Note Trainer Lite vs Simple Music Note Workout
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Note Trainer Lite
This app helps users improve their music reading skills with various exercises for notes and chords. It tracks progress and indicates readiness for new lessons, supporting multiple notation systems and input methods.
- Note and chord reading exercises
- Progress tracking and statistics
- Multiple notation systems supported
- Singing or instrument input
- MIDI device input
- Time challenge mode
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This is the LITE version of Note Trainer with 9 exercises. The full version has 30 exercises as well as custom exercises. Note Trainer is designed to help train your ability to read music. It is aimed at beginners, music students, musicians and anyone interested in musical reading. Note Trainer includes exercises reading musical notes and musical chords. When an exercise is complete the users' statistics are saved allowing them to track their progress and easily return to areas that need more training. Note Trainer indicates when a user is ready to move on to the next exercise. Features: - Preset exercises for notes and chords - Note Trainer guides you and instructs when you are ready to continue to new lessons - Note Trainer supports English (B, Bb), German (H, B), and Solfége (Do, Re, Mi) notation - Supports transposing instruments - Answer by singing or playing an instrument (iPhone 5s and newer) - Answer using MIDI device (*), virtual piano or answer buttons - Visual feedback on virtual piano and note view - Statistics - Time challenge mode - Studio sound quality *) Using a MIDI-input device may require an Apple USB Camera Connection Kit
Simple Music Note Workout
Practice note recognition on your instrument with this app. It helps you learn your fretboard or keyboard by identifying notes you play and offering three difficulty levels. Additional music notation and ear training exercises are available.
- Note recognition by ear
- Instrument fretboard/keyboard learning
- Pitch recognition feedback
- Three difficulty levels
- Music notation exercises (in-app purchase)
- Ear training exercises (in-app purchase)
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Simple Music Note Workout lets you practice where your notes are on your instrument, music notation reading, and note recognition by ear. Learn your guitar fretboard or your piano keyboard, with a teacher that’s always available and never tired. The app will pick a note at random and wait for you to play it back on your instrument. Through pitch recognition, it will tell you if it’s the right one, and if not, which note you played. There are 3 levels of difficulty : first one will pick notes among C, E, G. 2nd will pick notes from the C major scale, and 3rd one will pick notes from the chromatic scale. Two exercises (music notation and ear training) are available through an in-app purchase.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Note Trainer Lite at 78% against Simple Music Note Workout's 0%. Note Trainer Lite also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Simple Music Note Workout's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. Simple Music Note Workout sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Note Trainer Lite asks for nothing beyond the download.
Note Trainer Lite holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Note Trainer Lite has 899 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Note Trainer Lite's written reviews are positive against 0% of Simple Music Note Workout's.
Note Trainer Lite ships an update every 3 months, Simple Music Note Workout fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Note Trainer Lite | Simple Music Note Workout |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (899 ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 77.8% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 899 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.1 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | thoor software AB | Guillaume Laurent |
Customer experience
Note Trainer Lite
Simple Music Note Workout
Bugs and requests
Note Trainer Lite
Reported bugs
2 issues- Sound stops playing after app runs in background (iPadOS 18.3.2)
- Microphone note detection is inconsistent and slow
Requested features
5 requests- Add scale training exercises
- Option to filter by treble clef only
- Option to filter by bass clef only
- Exercises combining notes on lines and spaces simultaneously
- Clef-specific practice modes
Simple Music Note Workout
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Note Trainer Lite
No in-app purchases
Simple Music Note Workout
- Music Notation and Ear Training Exercises$0.99
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