# Hark: Ear Training — Hear notes as scale degrees

> Hear notes as scale degrees (iPhone/iPad app by Ilia Usatov.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hark-ear-training/id6809023239 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Ilia Usatov](https://appshunter.io/developer/1868442271)
- Category: Music, Education
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 10 MB
- Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish
- Released: 2026-09-15
- Data updated: 2026-09-25
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hark-ear-training/id6809023239/reviews.md

## What is Hark?

Hark trains your ear the way musicians actually hear: every note as a degree of the key, not a distance from the note before it.

A cadence — or a drone — puts the tonic in your ear. A note sounds. You answer on a ladder of degrees, with the home note at the bottom like the ground. Then the note walks home, step by step, back to the tonic, so you hear the pull instead of reading about it. That walk is the explanation. There is no lecture.

FOUR KINDS OF TRAINING
• Degrees — one note at a time, from two degrees up to all twelve
• Melodies — short phrases, name every note in order
• Chords in the key — I, IV, V and the rest, heard by function
• Progressions — three and four chords in a row

INSIDE
• A ladder of seven colours: tonic gold, dominant blue, leading tone red
• Notes on a staff, spelled the way the key spells them
• The walk home after every answer
• Hands-free: train with the screen off, on a walk or in the car. The key, the note, a pause for your answer, then the answer spoken aloud.
• Explore: hold any degree in any key and listen. No score, no history.
• Five instruments: piano, guitar, strings, choir, electric piano
• Your map: accuracy by degree and by chord, and what your ear mixes up
• Ten languages, and a ladder labelled with numbers, movable-do syllables or note names — Do–Si, Do–Ti, H and B where they belong

FREE, FOR GOOD
Five degree levels in C major — up to all seven degrees across two octaves — two melody levels, two chord levels, the first progression level, hands-free training, the staff, a week of statistics, and all of Explore: every degree in every key, there to listen to. No daily cap, no timers.

HARK PRO — ONE PURCHASE
Training in all twelve keys, chromatic degrees, minor keys, three octaves, all seven chords with sevenths, progressions, melodies up to five notes, custom drills, and the full map of your ear with four weeks of history.

Paid once. No subscription, nothing renews.

NO ACCOUNT, NO ADS
No sign-up, no ads, no streaks and no nagging. Your training — every answer, every level, the map of your ear — stays on your device. The app sends only a short list of anonymous usage events so we can tell a working app from a broken one; the privacy policy names every one of them.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hark Pro | $19.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.0.2 — 2026-09-19

Housekeeping. When a session is left early, Hark now records whether the sound had started and how long the question had been on screen — so a broken audio session stops looking like a person who lost interest. What you answered and whether it was right still never leave your phone; the privacy policy says exactly what is sent.

### 1.0.1 — 2026-09-17

The home screen now follows the course, not the last level you opened: it always points at the next thing you can actually train. When the free programme is finished it says so and shows what comes next in Pro, instead of quietly offering to repeat an old level. Each kind of training now names the level you are up to.

### 1.0.0 — 2026-09-16

No release notes.

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