Comparison

Touch Notation vs DoReMi Palette

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

Head to head
About

Touch Notation

Create musical scores with intuitive touch gestures. Draw notes, add expressions, and play back your compositions with 30 instrument voices. Export your work in various formats.

Highlights
  • Handwritten notation input
  • 30 built-in instrument voices
  • Tempo and dynamics control
  • Page layout functions
  • Transpose feature
  • Multiple export formats (PDF, SMF, MusicXML)
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Touch Notation is a powerful musical score creation app that allows anyone to enjoy writing music using touch gestures. In Japan, Touch Notation was selected as one of the ‘App Store Best of 2014’ apps, and held the No.1 spot in the iPad Paid App index for music apps for over two weeks. Up until now, musical score creation software has relied upon dragging individual notes from a palette onto staves. By contrast, Touch Notation allows musicians to draw directly onto the score using a finger or touch pen, and have their work immediately appear as beautifully written notation, then played back using the app’s 30 built-in instrument voices. - A wide-range of functions accessible from a cleanly designed, intuitive user interface. - Ability to enter musical expressions for adjusting tempo and dynamics. - Layout functions such as page breaks. - Convenient transpose feature for raising/lowering the pitch of the entire score. - Output scores using Air Print, or save to Dropbox in PDF, SMF, MusicXML, and ScoreMaker formats. Touch Notation allows the following musical symbols to be entered by hand: - Note, Rest (including dotted and double-dotted), Long Rest, Beam, Tuplet (Triplet) - Grace Note - Accidental, Tie, Slur - Accent, Staccato, Tenuto, Fermata - Trill, sfz, Arpeggio, Pedal, Senza - Metronome symbol - Crescendo, Decrescendo - Dynamics symbols (ppp~fff) - Octave symbol - Repeat brackets - Repeat marks (D.C./Fine/D.S./Segno/Coda/to Coda) - Clefs (Treble Clef/Bass Clef/C Clef/Percussion Clef) - Key signature - Time signature - Bar lines (repeat marks) - Abbreviation Lyrics and other musical expressions (‘Dolce’, ‘Tranquillo’, etc.) can be added using text input, while comments and memos can also be written freehand directly onto the score. * Drum notation is supported, but other types such as rhythm notation and tab notation are not supported. * Older devices may experience stuttering when playing complicated scores with many simultaneous notes.

About

DoReMi Palette

Features
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DoReMi Paletteは、ピアノ練習のための譜面ビューアです。MusicXML / MXLの譜面を読み込み、音符と鍵盤を色で対応させながら、読みやすく練習できます。 主な機能: - MusicXML / MXLファイルの読み込み - 音符、休符、調号、拍子、臨時記号、連桁、タイ、スラー、三連符のMVP表示 - Bravura / SMuFLを使った譜面記号表示 - 音符色、五線色、鍵盤色の表示切り替え - カラーパレット編集 - スコアと鍵盤の現在音ハイライト - 再生、停止、前後移動、リセット - 練習モード - テンポ情報の読み込みとBPM調整 - メトロノーム、Tap Tempo、複合拍子MVP対応 - キー選択と譜面表示の移調 - 小節番号表示と小節ジャンプ - ピンチズーム - ライブラリと最近使ったファイル - 対応できないMusicXML要素の診断表示 - 初回使用ガイド 譜面上の音と鍵盤の位置を対応させて確認できるため、読譜に慣れていない段階でも、音の位置関係を見ながら練習できます。キー変更や移調表示にも対応しているため、練習したい調に合わせた確認ができます。 DoReMi Paletteは現在MVP段階のアプリです。出版品質の浄書、すべてのMusicXML記法、複雑な多声部衝突回避、外部MIDI、録音、採点、クラウド同期には対応していません。複雑な反復記号やジャンプ記号は一部のみ対応し、未対応の構造は診断として表示される場合があります。 このアプリは、楽譜制作ソフトではなく、ピアノ練習時に譜面、音、鍵盤の対応を確認するための学習補助ツールです。

Screenshots

Touch Notation4 screens
DoReMi Palette1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: DoReMi Palette at Free against Touch Notation's $9.99. DoReMi Palette also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months). Touch Notation's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). On ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

DoReMi Palette is free to download; Touch Notation costs $9.99 up front. Touch Notation sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. DoReMi Palette asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Touch Notation ships an update every 3 months, DoReMi Palette weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Touch Notation versus DoReMi Palette: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTouch NotationDoReMi Palette
Price$9.99Free — better
Rating2.9 (21 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews44.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings21 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size112 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Yu Takahashi

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Touch Notation

One-time10
  • Sound Set: Piano$0.49
  • Sound Set: Guitar/Bass 1$0.49
  • Sound Set: Strings$0.49
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  • Sound Set: Brass/Woodwind$0.49
  • Sound Set: Bell/Mallet$0.49
  • Sound Set: Vocal/Others$0.49
  • Core MIDI Output$1.99
  • Handwritten Font$1.99
  • Sound Set: Full$2.99
  • Chord Name & Automatic Accompaniment$3.99
None

DoReMi Palette

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Touch Notation free?
Touch Notation costs $9.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is DoReMi Palette free?
DoReMi Palette is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Touch Notation or DoReMi Palette have ads?
Neither Touch Notation nor DoReMi Palette shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Touch Notation or DoReMi Palette?
Touch Notation ships an update every 3 months, and DoReMi Palette weekly. Most recently, Touch Notation was updated on October 15, 2026 and DoReMi Palette on October 11, 2026.

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