Web-Based Exercises
Tonesavvy.com
For theory practice on the web I like tonesavvy. You could check out their treble clef and bass clef exercises, making scales, and key sigs.
The one downside is that before you get started you often need to seriously tweak the settings to get something that will be useful. It often wants to ask you crazy things that we don't know about.
Teoria.com
Teoria.com is another option for exercises on the web that a student recently clued me into. It looks good!
iPhone and Android
Note Rush
Lately I am obsessed with Note Rush, a clef-reading app that actually listens to you play the notes on any instrument. It is styled for children (with candy colors and what not) but this is actually a great tool for practice - I use it on guitar, to practice grabbing random notes without looking at the fretboard. Currently costs $9.
IOS (iPhone etc.)
Tenuto
If you are willing to spend a few bucks ($5) Tenuto is a good investment. It has clef quizzers and a bunch of other useful things.
Other iOS stuff
Music Tutor (Sight Reading) is a free, ad-supported app that just does clef reading.
Android
Music Tutor (Sight Reading) is a simple, rapid-fire interface that can drill you on your treble and bass-clef notes. It shows a note & you press a button. When you are first getting started you will want to tweak the settings (to turn off bass clef, rule out super high and super low notes, etc.) Free (with ads).
Music Theory Helper by johgru apps has a few decent exercises that ask you to identify key signatures and intervals. To get the useful bits, go deep in the menu and select “exercises.”
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