# EarMaster - Music Theory — user reviews > 253 indexed App Store user reviews of EarMaster by EarMaster ApS, rated 4.60/5 from 423 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/earmaster-music-theory/id1105030163/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/earmaster-music-theory/id1105030163.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 339 · 4★ 40 · 3★ 14 · 2★ 10 · 1★ 20 ## What do users think of EarMaster? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Excellent for sight reading and vocal singing - 👍 Helpful for improving musicianship and sharpening ears - 💡 Customizable exercises and lessons - 🚀 Systematic and progressive approach - 👍 Covers a wide range of topics (intervals, chords, rhythm, etc.) **Cons** - 🐛 Pitch recognition issues, especially for lower voices - 🐛 Rhythm playback issues on some devices - 💰 Expensive, with in-app purchases required for full access - 🤔 Forced landscape mode on mobile devices **Commonly reported bugs** - Crashes and errors when loading certain exercises - Inconsistent behavior with metronome and rhythm playback - Issues with saving progress and restoring purchased content **Most requested features** - Allow users to specify their vocal range - Add more chord and chord progression options - Implement a jazz-focused curriculum - Improve feedback and error analysis for users - Add support for different tuning systems ## Newest reviews (17 of 253) ### 4/5 — Gute App, jedoch… *2026-07-29* Ich nutze die App, da ich früher fürs Musikstudium Gehörbildung benötigte und mein Gehör ein wenig auffrischen möchte. Ich habe nun nach zwei Jahren einen kleinen Bug entdeckt. Bei Tonleitern in der Sparte Maßgeschneiderte Lektion kann ich manchmal nicht Melodisch Moll auswählen, da die App beim Berühren der Melodisch Moll Taste, die von Äolisch Moll auswählt. ### 2/5 — great content, lousy interface *2026-06-08* Seems to gave a great approach, BUT, I spend mist of my time figuring out how to put in the correct answers through their terrible user interface. The UI needs an entire redevelopment using outside novices. ### 2/5 — Baritones beware *2026-05-23, version 7.9.4* Doesn’t recognize the baritone/Bass notes well at All find something else don’t waste your money ### 4/5 — Unglaublich Gut! Aber… *2026-05-09* Die App ist gefüllt mit Themen, die einen auf die Grundlagen der Gehörbildung schulen und fordern. Jedoch, die Einheiten, bei denen man etwas einsingen kann sind anscheinend nicht optimal für Männerstimmen. Damit die App genau das registriert, was ich singe, muss ich im Falsett singen, sonst schlägt die Tonerkennung aus und meint, ich hätte bspw. eine Quarte drüber gesungen o.Ä.. Das macht die zahlreichen an sich praktischen Einheiten Gesangseinheiten etwas umständlich. Aber das ist bisher der einzige Makel, der mir aufgefallen ist. Alles andere ist Spitze! ### 3/5 — Really good *2026-02-22* I think this app is really good for sight reading and vocal singing just the piano exercises don’t make any noise out of the piano! ### 3/5 — i hate this app *2026-02-12, version 7.9.2* i have to use this app for school and it sucks ### 3/5 — It’s okay… *2026-02-06, version 7.9.2* The overall app is alright, the pitch recognition for lower voices blows… ### 5/5 — Супер *2026-01-12* Понравилось приложение. Купил не жалею. В дополнение к занятиям с преподом развиваю слух, функциональность отличная ### 5/5 — Indispensable *2026-01-11* Oui ni plus ni moins,indispensable au vu des progrès ,10mns par jour ou plus vous facilite l’écoute et facilite votre vie de musicien/ ne .tous les thème sont abordés et de toutes les façons chant dictée on peut moduler la vitesse les clefs tessiture etc , appli faite par des musiciens pour des musiciens ,après avoir acheté les modules je suis passé à l’abonnement qui offre la souplesse de pouvoir changer d’appareil (perso smart phone pc et tablette Mac)et de conserver l’avancée des exercices ,c’est un must. ### 2/5 — Not For Baritones *2026-01-10* The pitch recognition algorithm used in EarMaster is terrible for baritone voice. For one, it maps unpitched vocal transients to pitches, but worse, it misidentifies non-octave vocal harmonics as the sung pitch which obviously results in poor scores for correctly sung notes. Very frustrating. Regarding the Solfege add-on, which i recently purchased, the solution for the pitch identification problem given in the EarMaster forum is to sing every note as “eee…e” (the vowel sound in “key”). While this improves pitch recognition, it breaks the important training association between the solfege symbol (do, re, mi, …) and the scale location of the sung note. It’s like selling someone a bicycle, then telling them it can only be ridden on one street or the chain will fall off. Per the forum, EarMaster has known about this problem for at least a year. Until the pitch recognition algorithm is fixed, beware of EarMaster exercises and add-ons that depend on pitch recognition, particularly if you are a baritone. If the exercise depends only on listening to tones, EarMaster has a deservedly good reputation. ### 4/5 — Good…but… *2026-01-08, version 7.8.2* There’s a difference between weighing a pig and fattening it. The app tells me the % right/wrong but I’d like it a lot better if it gave me more information about exactly what I’m getting wrong. “X% of the time you mistake an interval of a 4th in octave Y for a 5th. You’re probably hearing the higher tone down an octave owing to where octave Y fits in your singing range. Let’s focus on exactly that.” ### 5/5 — . *2026-01-06, version 7.8.2* This is a very well designed music app. ### 3/5 — Mid *2025-12-25* It’s okay not bad and not good ### 5/5 — Rating = 5* *2025-12-22, version 7.8.2* Love it= better than a lot I tried ### 5/5 — Rhythmic sight reading & Melodic sight singing 🙏🏻💕 *2025-12-03, version 7.8.2* The most incredible Rhythm and sight singing app. Super duper helpful get your choir teachers to make it mandatory ### 5/5 — 不错不错 *2025-10-29* 很好，老师推荐的功能挺多的，适合练练耳希望我的练耳成绩能够考的更好！ ### 5/5 — とても良い！ *2025-10-27* とても良いと思う。欲を言えば、間違えやすい所をリストアップしたり、集中して練習できると良い。 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Невозможно оплатить годовую подписку. *2026-01-03* На сайте указана возможность оплаты через Apple Pay, но по факту дается выбор из трех платежных вариантов, которые не работают в России. ### 1/5 — Way too expensive *2025-11-23* There is no reason why these resources are not free now a day. This is very simple programation ### 1/5 — Very confusing set up process *2025-11-11* I’ve signed up, paid for a year and has been confirmed with email but when I go to login I’m not allowed. **Developer response:** Hi, the email confirmation should explain how to log in. Make sure to leave the “School ID” field empty if you didn’t get your login from a school. You are welcome to contact support@earmaster.com if that didn’t help, and we’ll sort this out promptly ### 1/5 — Pretty good *2025-10-10, version 7.8.2* Best of the worst ### 1/5 — Won’t do anything :( *2025-01-12, version 7.6.3* Running iOS 18.3 on an iPhone 15 Pro Max. When I try to open the app, the ONLY thing I see is the splash screen. App is unresponsive to any button presses or screen taps. Already tried reinstalling it, nothing changed. :/ ### 1/5 — 補正(?)が入り、正確さに欠ける *2024-10-17* ビギナーコースの2.2で音を聞いてその通りの声を出すというのがあるが、同じ声を出しても問いとして出される音によって聞き取りの機能に補正が入る。 これではトレーニングにならない **Developer response:** 音がマイクで録音されている場合は、音量が大きすぎることを意味します。ただし、歌の練習をするヘッドホンを使用することをお勧めします、それが最良の結果をもたらすためです(もちろん必須ではありませんが)。それが問題ではなかった場合は、support@earmaster.com のチームに連絡して、この問題を解決できるようにしてください。 ### 1/5 — Would be great if you could choose vocal range! *2023-10-11* As a baritone, the app proved useless as it continually offered me soprano notes to sing. There appears to be no way to specify SATB, which would seem to be a standard requirement for a training app of this nature. Very disappointing. **Developer response:** You can indeed select any vocal range you want in the App's preferences. It's actually the very first section in the preferences, labelled "Vocal Range". Then the exercises will adapt to your voice. But notice that you can also sing tones in any octave and the app will automatically detect that and transpose your answer to the octave of the questions, exactly like you would in situation where you are singing back the notes played by a recorder or a violin. EarMaster is a big app that you can customize and almost any way you want to, just make sure to spend some time exploring what it can. FOr example, you can set it up to do Functional Ear Training by enabling "Scale Degrees" or "Movable- Do Solfege" as tone nomaing option, or set time limits, change keys and clefs, etc. I hope you'll give it another spin, I don't think you will find a more complete app for ear training and sight-singing practice on the App Store! Best wishes from EarMaster ### 1/5 — 購入したコンテント利用できません *2023-08-12* 使用中だったiOS 端末が壊れたので、他のiOSに再インストールしたら購入した有料コンテントが利用できなくなってます。もちろんアカウントは同じです。 **Developer response:** 同じApple IDで購入したコンテンツを読み込むには、アプリ内課金のリスト（ホーム画面右下のショッピングカートのアイコン）を開き、「購入したコンテンツを復元」を押すだけです。 ### 1/5 — Error *2022-08-18, version 1.1.13* I keep getting error and it says audio unitinitialize failed. I paid $5.99 to get the beginner course but can’t use anything. ### 1/5 — Master *2022-06-26* Of disaster **Developer response:** Sorry to hear you didn't like the app. It would be very useful to know exactly what didn't work out ofr you in EarMaster. Maybe we can do something about it :) ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Life changer *2026-08-15, version 7.9.4* My life would have been so much easier if I had access to this when I was a teen. A necessity for any musician. ### 5/5 — 非常棒音准训练软件 *2026-07-25* 课程简单明了，非常直观有效，练了一周后，音准明显增强 ### 5/5 — Self taught *2026-07-14* I played trumpet in 5th and eighth grade, basically could read music, but did not develop an ear. Thirty years later tried again with private lessons and was told I was tone deaf. I have consistently used EarMaster and my ear has dramatically improved. Still on the basic level but my progress is amazing. ### 5/5 — 还不错 *2026-07-02, version 7.9.4* 不错 ### 5/5 — Must have *2026-06-01, version 7.9.4* Easy to understand ### 5/5 — Awesome *2026-03-30, version 7.9.2* Utterly awesome app for helping prep for grades. ### 5/5 — Awesome! *2026-03-07, version 7.9.2* Endless treasure trove for ear training! When I started, I couldn’t even hear a harmonic interval. Now I can hear (simple) chords. Awesome tool, and I only scratched the surface. ### 5/5 — Incredible *2026-02-17, version 7.9.2* Sometimes there’s something wrong, but mostly 97% is right correction ### 5/5 — Plus and minus equals good *2026-02-01, version 7.9.1* It does some things well and some not so much. Overall, it will help improve your hearing ### 5/5 — 无 *2026-01-30* 在自定义音程练习里选择上下行的时候一直闪退怎么回事 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-11.*