Comparison

Note Blaster vs Funny Sound Effects +

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

Head to head
About

Note Blaster

Learn guitar notes on the staff and their fretboard positions through an engaging game. Practice at your own pace, compete globally, and track your personal progress. Designed for all skill levels to make learning fun.

Highlights
  • Learn staff notes
  • Fretboard note placement
  • Practice mode
  • Global leaderboards
  • Private score tracking
  • Engaging game format
Features
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Note Blaster now hears you play. Point your phone at your guitar, pluck the note on screen, and it fires — detected from the real sound of your guitar, not a button tap. Can't get to your instrument? Tap the fretboard instead — both ways always work. You have three lives and must destroy 30 notes per level. Miss too many and it's game over. Note Blaster teaches the notes of the guitar one string at a time, starting with the 1st string (E, F, G) and working across the fretboard until you know it all — while blowing up notes to a bluesy backing track. FEATURES: • NEW — Mic mode: play real notes on a real guitar, the app hears you • Acoustic mode for quiet, unplugged guitars in noisy rooms • Learn step by step, one string at a time • Practice area to study notes before you play • Three difficulty modes: Easy, Intermediate, and Hard • Session Mode — a teacher picks the notes, a student plays a mini-game, results save automatically (built for guitar teachers and their students) • Note Movement — choose Step, Step & Leap, or free Random note order for interval training within a session • Session Scoreboard — every student's practice history at a glance, including which note-movement mode was used • Local high score leaderboard Whether you're teaching yourself or teaching a room full of students, Note Blaster turns learning the fretboard into something you actually want to play. MORE FROM GUITAR EDUCATION • Note Master — read notes on the stave in one minute. • Minute Chords — build clean chord changes against the clock. • Piano Note Blast — learn the notes on the piano. • TunerGed — fast, accurate tuning for guitar and more. • Metro Step — metronome and tempo trainer. Built by a working guitar teacher, for the practice room. gerardgrundy@guitareducation.com

About

Funny Sound Effects +

Access a collection of 80 popular funny sound effects for pranks and jokes. Easily play sounds, set them as ringtones or text message alerts, and enjoy a simple, user-friendly interface.

Highlights
  • 80 high-definition funny sound effects
  • Prank friends with sounds
  • Use as a soundboard
  • Save sounds as ringtones
  • Set sounds as text message alerts
  • Simple and easy-to-use interface
Features
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Funny sound effects features 80 popular funny sound effects at the tap of a button. Simply press the button to hear a funny sound, you can prank your friends or use them as a funny sound board. Funny sound effects includes some of the most downloaded funny sound effect grouped together in one easy to use application. You can also save any sound as a ringtone or funny text message sound. Some of the sounds included are stadium horns, fails sounds, realistic sounds and more! - 80 funny sound effects in high definition - easy to use - simple interface

Screenshots

Note Blaster4 screens
Funny Sound Effects +4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Funny Sound Effects + at Free against Note Blaster's $4.99. Funny Sound Effects + also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.0). Note Blaster's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 11 months). On review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Funny Sound Effects + is free to download; Note Blaster costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Note Blaster ships an update every 3 months, Funny Sound Effects + every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Note Blaster versus Funny Sound Effects +: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNote BlasterFunny Sound Effects +
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating—4.6 (5.4K ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews57.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—5.4K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 11 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidAd-supported — better
Best chart rank#188 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.010.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB38 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperGerard GrundyJason Torres

Customer experience

Note Blaster

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Funny Sound Effects +

All ratings5,413 ratings
Positive88.6%
Neutral5.0%
Negative6.3%
Written reviews226 reviews
Positive57.1%
Neutral5.3%
Negative37.6%

Bugs and requests

Note Blaster

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Funny Sound Effects +

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Sounds not working
  • App crashes
  • Ads blocking screen
  • Incompatible with some devices
  • Requires internet connection to load

Requested features

5 requests
  • More sound effects
  • Ability to save favorites
  • Alphabetical organization of sounds
  • Overlay multiple sounds
  • Add police siren sound

In-app purchases

None

Note Blaster

No in-app purchases

None

Funny Sound Effects +

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Note Blaster free?
Note Blaster costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Funny Sound Effects + free?
Funny Sound Effects + is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Note Blaster or Funny Sound Effects + have ads?
Funny Sound Effects + shows ads; Note Blaster does not.
Which is updated more often, Note Blaster or Funny Sound Effects +?
Note Blaster ships an update every 3 months, and Funny Sound Effects + every 11 months. Most recently, Note Blaster was updated on September 23, 2026 and Funny Sound Effects + on September 28, 2026.

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