Comparison

B Flat vs Solfa

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

Head to head
About

B Flat

Improve your music sheet reading skills with this app. It offers tailored exercises for beginners and advanced users, focusing on speed and accuracy. Track your progress with detailed statistics and enjoy a stress-free learning environment.

Highlights
  • Beginner and professional support
  • Treble and bass clef support
  • Misread notes displayed more often
  • Solomisation support
  • No time limit
  • Sound generator with SoundFonts
  • Extensive statistics
Features
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••• Apple TV version comes free when you purchase this iOS app! ••• The B Flat app will help you learn and improve your music sheet reading skills - whether you are a beginner, music student or professional musician. Beginners will benefit from the integrated wikiHow article for learning sheet music reading and the special exercises for first-time users. Advanced users can significantly increase their sheet music reading speed. Compared to similar apps, B Flat has no timeout. Instead, depending on the needed time, a time bonus will be given. To practice in this way makes learning to read sheet music more enjoyable for beginners and thus they will succeed faster. Advanced users in turn have the incentive to complete the exercise more quickly. B Flat remembers misread notes and will display them more often. This increases the learning effect. The results are clearly presented with statistical charts so the learner will easily recognize their strengths and weaknesses, as well as their progress. B Flat brings its own tone generator based on SoundFonts. It can play displayed notes, as well as user entries. Instruments can be expanded with your own SoundFonts using iTunes File Sharing or iCloud Drive Features : - Suitable for both beginners and professionals - Support for treble and bass clef - Misread notes are displayed more frequently - Support Solomisation (Do, Re, Mi, Fa ...) - No time limit, thus stress-free learning - Support for all key signatures - Sound generators on SoundFont basis. - Extendable with your own SoundFonts - Extensive statistics - Various settings

About

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.

Highlights
  • Learn musical notes
  • Read sheet music
  • Supports multiple clefs
  • Train sight-reading
  • Learn tonality and chords
  • Multiple note naming systems
Features
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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

Screenshots

B Flat4 screens
Solfa4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Solfa at Free against B Flat's $2.99. Solfa also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (789 vs 2). B Flat's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (81% vs 48%). On rating, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Solfa is free to download; B Flat costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for B Flat against 4.6 for Solfa. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Solfa has 789 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 81% of B Flat's written reviews are positive against 48% of Solfa's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

B Flat ships an update every 5 months, Solfa every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
B Flat versus Solfa: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterB FlatSolfa
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.5 (2 ratings)4.6 (789 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.8% of reviews — better47.7% of reviews
Number of ratings2789 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.012.0
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB75 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMAMP GmbHAlexey Ovod

Customer experience

B Flat

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews26 reviews
Positive80.8%
Neutral7.7%
Negative11.5%

Solfa

All ratings789 ratings
Positive89.6%
Neutral4.3%
Negative6.1%
Written reviews130 reviews
Positive47.7%
Neutral18.5%
Negative33.8%

Bugs and requests

B Flat

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

None

B Flat

No in-app purchases

None

Solfa

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is B Flat free?
B Flat costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Solfa free?
Solfa is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, B Flat or Solfa?
Solfa is rated higher. B Flat averages 4.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Solfa averages 4.6 from 789 ratings.
Do B Flat or Solfa have ads?
Solfa shows ads; B Flat does not.
Which is updated more often, B Flat or Solfa?
B Flat ships an update every 5 months, and Solfa every 3 weeks. Most recently, B Flat was updated on September 24, 2026 and Solfa on September 21, 2026.

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