Last updated on November 19th, 2025 at 06:51 pm
NoteGrid – Play Music By Ear – Music Game Review
NoteGrid – Play Music By Ear is a Music/Music/Puzzle game from Wimbo Inc., first launched in 12th September 2023.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 447+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes NoteGrid – Play Music By Ear Stand Out
NoteGrid (formerly Wimbo) is a music matching game for anyone interested in making music. Earn coins when you recreate songs and beats using our super simple sequencer for beginners. Solve the daily musical puzzles by making songs or modifying beats and melodies. Develop your musical ear by deciphering melodies in our 100 levels.
WHAT THE H*CK IS NOTEGRID?
• A music game. You listen to melodies and beats and recreate them on the grid.
• Free, with ads. Yep, ads suck, but it keeps the game free for everyone.
• An easy music grid sequencer to make your own music even if you don't play an instrument, don't know how to compose music or know any music theory.
• The daily challenges are tiny fragments of beats and/or melodies and your goal is to complete the melody or beat by adding to it. Kinda like musical ad libs.
• The easiest (and most fun) way to train your ear and music skills by playing our 99+ levels.
• Are you seriously still reading? Stop it. Just download it. It's free.
WHAT NOTEGRID IS NOT:
• NoteGrid is NOT a fancy DAW (music production app) like Ableton Live, Logic Pro X, FL Studio, Pro Tools.
• NoteGrid is NOT for recording audio, mixing music or learning an instrument.
• NoteGrid is NOT an app for finding recipes. It just isn't. Don't ask.
WHY NOTEGRID
Team NoteGrid consists of just 2 peeps: Luis and Andrés. We're on a mission to make music-making so easy, any idiot could do it. We also want to make it so fun, that you'd be an idiot not to use it. Apparently, we have a thing for idiots. This app is far from perfect, but we listen to 100% of the feedback we receive and we're adding cool stuff and fixing un-cool stuff every day to reach our goals. We launch updates at least once a week. So, always let us know what you like, what you'd like and what you dislike. Maybe at some point you can tell us "Why NoteGrid".
Make your first beats and melodies FOR FREE. SOME ADS.
EASY MUSIC MAKER
• We made the simplest little grid sequencer so that any idiot could make cool-sounding music. Imagine what you could do.
• Unlock more instruments as you progress
DEVELOP YOUR MUSICAL EAR
• Ear training made fun.
• Listen to a melody and re-create it on the grid. It's harder than it sounds.
DAILY CHALLENGES
The Daily Challenges are basically like Musical Ad Libs. You'll start off with a simple melody or beat on the grid. Build on the existing melody and create something unique of your own. It's so easy, you'll be able to make music that sounds awesome before even knowing what a chord, scale or interval is. You don't need to know how to play any instruments either. You'll also get points for completing these challenges and listening to what others did.
CREATE HEAD-BOBBING BEATS
• Experiment and let your creativity flow as you produce everything from scratch.
• It's so easy, your grandma could do it. (no offense, grandma)
• Try different percussion sounds and unlock more instruments as you advance.
COMMUNITY
• Connect with music makers like you and share your creations in the Jukebox.
• Get feedback on your tracks
• Show off your musical creativity
You may purchase an auto-renewing subscription through an In-App Purchase.
• Wimbo Pro Auto-renewable subscription
• 1 month ($4.99) durations
• Your subscription will be charged to your Apple account at confirmation of purchase and will automatically renew (at the duration selected) unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.
• Current subscription may not be cancelled during the active subscription period; however, you can manage your subscription and/or turn off auto-renewal by visiting your Apple Account Settings after purchase
• Privacy policy and terms of use:
https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/62771850
https://www.iubenda.com/terms-and-conditions/62771850
This Music game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, NoteGrid – Play Music By Ear is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 3rd June 2025
Recent improvements include:
• 100 MUSIC MATCH levels
• COMPETE WITH OTHERS to make the best song of the day
Download & Availability
NoteGrid – Play Music By Ear is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get NoteGrid – Play Music By Ear on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Heya you two! Great job on everything, even us being the special person we are can use this app for good tunes. :3.
We love how you can play fun mini games where you have to guess the notes that were supposed to be in the melody! We also love how we can switch to Major or Minor on the scale.
We wish you can have unlimited hearts without having to buy anything.
Not only can you create music, but you also complete levels to unlock more skills! And there are no ads! Absolutely zero! Check if you dont believe us! We swear you wont regret it.
Good music app and the best one we have used yet.
It could be better if everything didnt cost so much.
Our tweenaged son has played with this app everyday since we installed it. It's a combination of music creation app and game, with daily challenges for subscribed users. There's a tiny bit if a learning curve at first — we think they renamed a part of the app at some point so we had trouble understanding one of the daily challenges in the beginning — but it's pretty straightforward otherwise. Our son loves the competition of the leaderboard, too. You can do a LOT with the free tier but the cost of the pro subscription is reasonable so we're seriously considering it.
This game is very good! It has ads, but you can do a $20.00 one time purchase and you are good to go with 20,000 coins!!!! We would totally recommend this music making productive game, maybe even for your career possibly. Wimbo did an amazing job we 1,000,000,000,000% (1 trillion percent) love this. Thank you Wimbo.
The game is so fun we love making beats.
The thing is awesome. We love making cool things unes that go well if you want to listen to non lyrical music. Wimbo has it.
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As we first created our username and got to create our first music, we discovered that we have to create music to create more better music, you earn coins to unlock more things to make your music better than your first. We would definitely give this app a try.
Very fun had lots of stuff to add onto your beats and you have the ability to listen to others songs that are Meade and review them.
The good stuff is because its a good music game with a jukebox and nice instruments! June 2024: NEW UPDATE? MORE INSTRUMENTS? YAY! NEW CHALLENGES? YAY! 6 SAVE SLOTS? SO BAD! DELETED MY OLD ACCOUNT? SO BAD. We used this for 6 months and now this? Why do you have to do this.
Pretty fun and simpler than any other 5 stars.
The workshop was so confusing. We just got this game. It was so happy to have it but now Im just confused about the game. Specially the works we understand.
We download the app because we seen the ad on TikTok but it took a while for us to get past the sign in screen but now its not letting us get past the tutorial the collect coins button goes away but the message just stays there please fix this.
Wimbo is a great app for creativity and it is so much fun to use.
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OMG we cannot describe how good it is! We would like the feature to sing on your music! OMG THE BEST.
Lets start off simple, first we like how you have to practice first to do any fancy stuff with the things and all that to actually organize it. Second, the beats and everything all so good and there are alot of them for many many different genres. Third its just very simple to use for some simple music, we mean you can make some good music with this but thats even better.
So we mean this app is great but like we think yall should add left and right buttons to the tempo, then it would most likely help an umpteen (a lot) amount of people and make this the easiest music making app, easier than medly.
We love this game. We mean, we love being able to play this. Its fun and stuff. We love being able to make a song using this app. The bad part is that every time we go into journey, we do a level, one particular level we cannot get pass because there is no beat, and says one note is wrong. And it said it for all of the notes there in the column. We watched two ads and still it said it was wrong.
If you like easy music making apps, like chrome music lab, then this it for you! You earn coins by completing the journey! Super fun.
This feels like chrome music lab but pay to win If you want a good music app either use chrome music lab or bandlab.
It's really good and we like people's songs and we hope you like ours by the way our favorite song of ours is the song u need by us.
OMG!!!! We have never ever created our own music before, but this is the PERFECT app to teach you how to do it!! If you are creative, then we definitely would recommend this because you can literally do anything on it from scratch! It is good for adults and children over the age of six ( personally ). You get to earn coins by doing fun challenges e.g. Fill in the blanks for the notes. With the coins that you earn, you can upgrade you music e.g. Speed, tempo, length, sounds, so on! Ive only had this game for an hour and we have already made three new songs #LOVETHEM!!! There are NO ADS and NO GLITCHES either! Perfect. You can also have access to other peoples songs if you please. Overall, we basically cant stop bobbing our head when Im creating our own music! A-MA-ZING! Love it :-) Thanks Good luck.
Its so fun to use, we showed our music to our friends and they were legit partying. Its so cool and when the please rate us thing popped up we were like FIVE STARS so like yeah five stars would definitely recommend. ESPECIALLY for beginners. And see what you can make.
We would give this a ten out of ten.
Sorry, devs, but this takes too long to grind.
Great app for training your ear to identify notes and melodies. The challenges are pretty good too.
We were always curious about music and this was a perfect intro to making our own music. Super user friendly.
Loved how simple it is to make our own music and great for teaching our kids.
Am enjoying ourselves with our own beats. Cool app.
Very easy to make cool music following the tutorial.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 6.4.2
- Size: 170.31 MB
- iOS: 14.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Wimbo Inc.
Last updated: 3rd June 2025 | Genre: Music, Music | Developer: Wimbo Inc.