Sight Reader Trainer
New music to read, every day
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Fresh sight-reading exercises for 40 instruments, in jazz, blues, classical and more. Turn on the mic and get scored on pitch, timing and flow.
Sight reading only improves one way: by reading music you have never seen. Sight Reader Trainer writes a fresh exercise every time you tap Next, for your instrument, in your key, at your level. Play it through, and the app listens and tells you how you did.
READ SOMETHING NEW EVERY TIME
Every exercise is generated on the spot, so there is nothing to memorise. Pick a key or let the app surprise you with a new one each time. Choose the number of bars, the tempo and how busy the rhythms get.
STYLES THAT SOUND LIKE REAL MUSIC
Etudes, jazz lines, bebop, blues shuffle, bossa nova, samba, tango, ragtime, ballads, rock, funk, reggae, salsa, modal vamps, baroque sequences, Classical periods, marches, waltzes, klezmer, Balkan dances, Irish reels and jigs. Harmony-based styles show chord symbols and follow real progressions: ii–V–I, 12-bar blues, rhythm changes, So What and more. Technique drills cover scales, thirds, arpeggios, chromatics and long tones, and rhythm reading keeps you on one pitch.
HEAR IT, THEN PLAY IT
Each take plays back with a count-in, a metronome and the notes themselves, so you can listen first or play along. Swing styles swing. A look-ahead window reveals the music a few beats before the cursor arrives, the way a real sight reader's eyes work.
TURN ON THE MIC AND GET SCORED
Point your phone at your instrument and the app follows your pitch in real time. Notes light up green when you land them. At the end you get a score for pitch, timing and flow, with the tendency behind each: sharp or flat, early or late, where you hesitated. Tap any note afterwards to see how far off it was and hear the pitch it should have been. Choose how strict "in tune" should be, set your reference pitch, and calibrate for your phone's microphone delay.
WAIT FOR ME MODE
Not ready for tempo yet? The clock waits at each note until you play it, so you can work through a passage at your own pace and still be scored on pitch.
WRITTEN FOR YOUR INSTRUMENT
Transposed and in the right clef for 40 instruments: flute, piccolo, oboe, English horn, bassoon, clarinets, every saxophone, trumpet, cornet, flugelhorn, horn, mellophone, alto horn, trombones, euphonium and baritone in either clef, tuba, violin, viola, cello, double bass, soprano, alto, tenor and bass voices, marimba, vibraphone, xylophone and glockenspiel, plus a concert-pitch option for anything else. Set your own low and high notes so exercises stay inside your comfortable range, or push past it.
SAVE, SHARE AND TRACK
Save the exercises you want to come back to, and every scored take is kept in that exercise's history so you can watch a hard passage get easier. Share an exercise with a short code so a teacher, student or bandmate can play the exact same notes. Practice trends show your minutes, takes, accuracy and best score by day, week and month, and 29 awards mark the milestones along the way. A built-in tuner and practice reminders round it out.
FREE AND PRO
Everything you need to practise real sight reading is free: every instrument, etudes, jazz lines, technique drills and rhythm reading, listening and scoring, 3/4 and 4/4 with quarter and eighth-note rhythms, and a few saved exercises. Sight Reader Trainer Pro, yearly with a 7-day free trial or as a one-time lifetime purchase, makes it harder and makes it yours: every style, from bebop and blues to baroque and Balkan; triplets, syncopation and sixteenths; odd meters like 5/4, 6/8, 7/8, 9/8 and 11/8; the look-ahead control; custom range limits; unlimited saved exercises; and the full pitch, timing and flow breakdown.
Note names in letters, German (H) or solfège. Light and dark themes. Available in 11 languages.
No account, no ads. Your playing never leaves your phone; the microphone is used only to detect pitch while you play.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://www.trumpettrainer.com/privacy
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New in 1.1: three new styles — Irish reels and jigs, ragtime and tango — and klezmer reworked in its own freygish mode with the bulgar rhythm. Exercises now have real tune form: sections repeat with a varied ending (AABA, AABB), and phrases breathe every two or four bars. Richer chords for bossa nova, samba and minor keys (maj9, m9, 13, 7b9). Each style starts at a tempo that suits it. Playback stays in sync over Bluetooth headphones, count-in included. Pro options are now marked with a lock.
The developer, Edmund Trujillo, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
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Information
- Seller
- Edmund Trujillo
- Size
- 89.8 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Sight Reader Pro Yearly $4.99
- Sight Reader Trainer Pro $9.99
- Copyright
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