Speedy Note vs Solfa
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Speedy Note
Learn to read the Treble Clef through an interactive and competitive game. Suitable for all ages and skill levels, this app offers six levels of mastery and tracks your progress. It features MIDI compatibility and high-quality piano sounds for an immersive learning experience.
- Interactive Treble Clef learning game
- Six mastery levels
- Score tracking for self-competition
- MIDI instrument compatibility
- High-quality piano sounds
- Alphabetic and Solfege notation options
- Silent practice mode
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Speedy Note: Treble Clef teaches you to read the Treble Clef (G Clef) in an interactive, fun and competitive game environment. Great for beginners to advanced, children or adults. Master the six levels and you have mastered the Treble Clef! Compete with yourself or with your friends. Speedy Note tracks your scores and lets you know how you are doing. Speedy Note also allows you to learn at your own pace – you decide the level of difficulty and when to advance to more difficult levels. Speedy Note: Treble Clef is very intuitive. It only takes a few moments to learn how to use (even for young children). FEATURES: Speedy Note is MIDI compatible. You can use your midi instrument to play the game and learn the notes. (Requires a MIDI interface connected through the lightening port or a Bluetooth LE MIDI device.) CD quality piano sounds. Can be used silently allowing you to practice learning notes anywhere, any time. (No need to turn down or off your device’s volume.) You can learn both alphabetic notation (A, B, C, D, E, F, G) and/or Solfege notation (Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Si).
Solfa
This app is a quiz game designed to help beginners and children learn to read sheet music and identify musical notes. It supports various clefs and note naming systems, making it versatile for different instruments and learning styles.
- Learn musical notes
- Read sheet music
- Supports multiple clefs
- Train sight-reading
- Learn tonality and chords
- Multiple note naming systems
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How to learn notes? How to read sheet music? How to remember note names? "Solfa" helps you learn notes for piano, guitar or singing. "Solfa / Musical Notes" is a quiz game for kids and beginners that helps you learn simple music theory. - train sight-reading - read notes of alto, bass, tenor, treble clef staff - learn tonality and chord names - switch between English, German note names You can use "Solfa" for ear training and basics of solfège. List of musical instruments: - singing - piano - guitar - flute - clarinet Types of musical notations: - C D E F G A B - C D E F G A H - Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Si - До Ре Ми Фа Соль Ля Си - Ντο Ρε Μι Φα Σολ Λα Σι - ハ ニ ホ ヘ ト イ ロ - 다 라 마 바 사 가 나 - स रे ग म प ध नि - ด ร ม ฟ ซ ล ท
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Solfa at Free against Speedy Note's $1.99. Solfa also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.5) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 16 months). Speedy Note's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (67% vs 49%). On in-app purchases and device support 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
Solfa is free to download; Speedy Note costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Solfa holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Solfa has 801 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Speedy Note's written reviews are positive against 49% of Solfa's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Speedy Note ships an update every 16 months, Solfa every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 13, 2026.
| Parameter | Speedy Note | Solfa |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.5 (2 ratings) | 4.6 (801 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 49.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 801 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 16 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.5 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 75 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brian Hughes | Alexey Ovod |
Customer experience
Speedy Note
Solfa
Bugs and requests
Speedy Note
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Solfa
Reported bugs
4 issues- Displaying notes outside instrument range
- Incorrectly identifying notes
- Sound not working
- Unable to advance past first screen
Requested features
6 requests- Option to remove note names
- Thicker lines for guitar frets
- Sight reading component
- Mezzo soprano, baritone clefs
- Ability to choose number of notes per round
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- Purchasable ad-free version
In-app purchases
Speedy Note
No in-app purchases
Solfa
No in-app purchases








