Sight Reading App Staff, Rhythm & Note Naming Drills

Soloist Sight Reading grades every note you play on-device — no ads, no account, and audio never leaves your iPhone.

Read the staff like a language.

Your playing never leaves your device: listening, transcription, and grading run on-device. No account, no ads, no trackers.

Sight reading is the other half of musicianship. Soloist drills note naming, clefs, key signatures, ledger lines, and grand-staff reading with adaptive spaced repetition — plus rhythm tapping and optional play-or-sing checks.

From zero to fluent

Note naming to grand staff, one adaptive step at a time.

Rhythm you can tap

Tap rhythms against a real count-in and see exactly where you drift.

Adaptive drills

Spaced repetition resurfaces what you miss, not what you already know.

How honest grading works

Listen.
Play your take and Soloist Sight Reading captures it through the microphone, processing everything on your device. Audio is never uploaded — our backend has no audio endpoints at all.
Measure.
The engine locates each note you played — its pitch, its timing, its onset — and compares it against the score, note by note.
Report.
You see which notes rang true, which didn't, and what to loop next — drills built from your actual rough spots. An unclear take is left ungraded, never turned into a confident mistake.

Questions

Who is it for?

Anyone who plays from notation — it's instrument-agnostic staff and rhythm training.

Does it listen to me play?

Only if you choose — play/sing checks are optional; drills work fully without the mic.

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Free on the App Store

Get note-by-note feedback — free on iPhone.

Soloist Sight Reading is free to download and genuinely playable without paying — here is exactly what stays free, and what Soloist Pro adds.

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