Musicca vs MusicTheory.net

Musicca is a free music-learning platform for students, educators, and musicians, available on the web and mobile devices. Exercises cover notes, rhythms, intervals, chords, scales, key signatures, instruments, and genres. Learners can also use virtual piano and guitar tools, a metronome, tuner, chord finder, and scale finder. Points, medals, stars, streaks, and weekly leaderboards add game elements to practice. An account is needed to save exercise progress; registration is available by email, Google, or Facebook. Teachers can create classes to manage students and follow their progress. Musicca says logged-in users do not see ads, while advertising helps keep the service free. Users can disable the leaderboard. For enrolled students, names, email addresses, and exercise progress are shared with their teacher. The service has no app, but its website works on mobile with an internet connection. It offers no offline access or live feedback during practice. Musicca was founded in Denmark in 2019 by Lasse Grubbe. Help articles and company contact are available for support.

MusicTheory.net is a free, ad-free music theory learning site with animated lessons, practice exercises, and reference tools. Lessons address notation, rhythm, scales, intervals, chords, and chord progressions. Online exercises cover identifying and constructing material on the staff, keyboard, and fretboard, as well as ear training. Calculators handle accidentals, intervals, scales, chords, analysis, and twelve-tone matrices; other tools include a tempo tapper and staff paper generator. Teachers can make permanent links to customized exercises and validate exercise verification codes. Students can create signed Progress Reports with codes teachers can verify. Lessons, exercises, and tools can be embedded in other sites using HTML frames or iframes; the FAQ recommends a minimum size of 600 by 600 pixels. The Tenuto app for iPhone and iPad adds 24 exercises, six calculators, customization, Challenge Mode, and offline use. Theory Lessons is an iPhone and iPad app with 39 animated lessons. The website plan includes all site content at free, with no ads.