Comparison

Touch Notation vs ハノン日和

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

ハノン日和

Features
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ハノンを、もっと気軽に毎日の習慣に。 「ハノン日和」は、毎日ハノンを練習するためのアプリです。 練習する調は、ランダムにも、ハノンの楽譜どおりにも選べます。 音大・音高受験に向けた基礎練習や、入試前の調性確認にも活用できます。 長調・短調・全調・個別指定に対応。調号のヒントや楽譜を確認しながら、スケールとカデンツを練習できます。 1. ランダム順・ハノンの楽譜順の練習に対応 2. 長調・短調・全調・個別指定に対応 3. 調号のヒントと楽譜を表示 4. 練習後の評価を保存 5. リスト・カレンダー・グラフで履歴を確認 6. メトロノームのテンポ・拍子・アクセント・音色を調整 7. メトロノームのバックグラウンド再生に対応 練習後は評価を記録し、これまでの取り組みをリスト・カレンダー・グラフで振り返れます。苦手な調や練習の積み重ねを見える形で確認できます。 メトロノームでは、テンポ・拍子・アクセント・音色を調整できます。バックグラウンド再生にも対応しています。 毎日のハノン練習を、受験に向けた基礎固めにもつなげていきましょう。

Screenshots

Touch Notation4 screens
ハノン日和4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ハノン日和 at Free against Touch Notation's $9.99. ハノン日和 also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 months). Touch Notation's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and device support (3 vs 1).

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

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Touch Notation ships an update every 3 months, ハノン日和 every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Touch Notation versus ハノン日和: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTouch Notationハノン日和
Price$9.99Free — better
Rating2.9 (21 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews44.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings21 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS11.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size112 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Holy Inc

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

ハノン日和

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Touch Notation free?
Touch Notation costs $9.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is ハノン日和 free?
ハノン日和 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Touch Notation or ハノン日和 have ads?
ハノン日和 shows ads; Touch Notation does not.
Which is updated more often, Touch Notation or ハノン日和?
Touch Notation ships an update every 3 months, and ハノン日和 every 5 days. Most recently, Touch Notation was updated on October 11, 2026 and ハノン日和 on October 8, 2026.

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