# Melody Ear Training — user reviews > 36 indexed App Store user reviews of Melody Ear Training by 262Hz, rated 4.60/5 from 37 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/melody-ear-training/id353949586/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/melody-ear-training/id353949586.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 31 · 4★ 2 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 2 ## Newest reviews (12 of 36) ### 4/5 — Bonne appli *2017-04-09* Très bonne appli. Il faudrait la faire évoluer de telle manière à ce que les exercices soient de difficulté progressive. Au début avec des intervalles contigus puis progressivement avec de grands intervalles. Il faudrait aussi proposer des accords pour reconnaître des couleurs de son. Enfin, la même chose pour le manche de la guitare serait très intéressant. Voilà pour les développeurs. **Developer response:** Merci beaucoup! Pardonnez-moi, je ne parle pas français ... I recommend using the + and - keyboard range control to set the keyboard to a small range such as "C, D" or "C, D, E" if you're a beginner. You can make the range larger if it's too easy for you – all the way up to 12 notes in a major scale (ex. "C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C, D, E, F, G"). Everyone learns differently, so I've decided to let the users choose how difficult they want the exercises to be. Some people would rather change the scale before changing the keyboard range. Your suggestion for the guitar neck is interesting – personally I've been playing guitar longer than I've been playing piano :) However, touch screens are better suited for a piano interface, and MIDI keyboards make it possible to play this app with a physical keyboard. ### 4/5 — Very good app *2017-02-08, version 3.1.0* App is very well done and levels of difficulty make it easy to progress ### 5/5 — Awesome! *2015-03-09, version 3.0* It's a fun piano game! ### 5/5 — Einfach aber Praxistauglich *2012-01-23, version 2.0* Die App. kann man nur weiterempfehlen. Ideal für den Musikunterricht. ### 5/5 — Ear training *2011-12-30, version 2.0* This is a fantastic app. I am totally envious of people that can play by ear. I can't. I struggle with intervals, keys, pitch, you name it. My guitar doesn't gently weep, it cries hysterically when I pick it up. I've downloaded several ear training apps and these help with interval training and this particular app excels because it makes you focus on snippets of melody - ala play by ear. Whilst for me playing by ear is still a bit of a dream, at least this app shows me exactly where I am having the biggest issue and that is a lot more info than I had in the past. J Atrick ### 4/5 — It's useful *2011-10-06, version 1.1* But I'd like it to use 2 octaves instead of 1. Also, diatonic excercices are only in C Major. We should be able to choose any 15 keys and it should include harmonic, melodic and natural minor. Other than that it' good and fun to use. ### 5/5 — Fantastisch!!! *2011-04-11, version 1.1* Man kann sehr gut Intervalle damit lernen und die Sounds sind sehr gut. Unbedingt zu Empfehlen. Es ist sehr gut. ### 5/5 — This App Is Awesome *2010-11-13, version 0* This app as helped me to get an A in my AMEB music exams. Difficulty levels work really well. Next update u should have compound intervals, a high register and a low register ### 4/5 — Simple yet effective *2010-08-13, version 0* If you are looking to get better at identifying intervals and transcribing melodies by ear, this app is fantastic. Transcribing a whole melody is much harder than identifying a single interval. This app let's you control the length of melody ( up to five notes ). It gives you the first note, and you play the rest on the keyboard. A great exercise to do over and over. Despite the suggestions below, it's a good solid app. A few suggestions for improvement: - Allow users to pick and choose what intervals the melody is composed of. It's nice to get rid of those nasty minor sevenths so you can work on the intervals you care about. The difference in difficulty between diatonic and chromatic is too much. Perhaps allow the user to pick a scale. - Separate the play and next button. I'm frustrated when I can't listen o the pattern once I've played all the keys. - Give the user a chance to get each interval right on the melodies. It's frustrating when you blow the first of five melodies and can't get the remaining ones because of it - Increase the range of notes. It is very tailored to the key of C right now. It's good to practice in a wide range. ### 5/5 — 청음프로그램 *2010-07-08* 간편하고 좋은것같아요 다만 한옥타브안에서만 하는게 아쉽네요 ### 4/5 — Wow! Great update! *2010-06-23, version 0* This is a nice app. Very good for helping you learn intervals. Very slick and nice, and a great price too. The only reason I give it four stars is because I think it could still use a 'chord mode' where it plays two or more notes at the same time. Add that and I'll gladly give it five stars. As-is though it's well worth the buy for anyone who wants to begin learning interval recognition. You just can't complete your knowledge without a chord mode. Thanks for the great app! Keep up the good work! ### 5/5 — Foils a need *2010-06-21, version 0* The latest version makes this a flexible tool. I use it with my students and myself. It's better than the expensive ear trainers. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Escroquerie ! *2014-11-10* L'application se fige dès le premier exercice. Pas de réponse du développeur après l'avoir pourtant contacté via son site ce qui classe cette application dans le groupe des escroqueries à signaler ! **Developer response:** Sorry to hear that you experienced a crash. I released an update in early 2015 that resolved this issue. I do my best to reply to all my emails... feel free to contact me again if you have any issues or questions. ### 1/5 — Who's writing these reviews? *2012-05-29, version 2.0* Well, this guy must have friends writing reviews. No options for speed. No options for modes or minor scales. No ability to correct entries. Only 1 octave. No option for entering answer without sound. No option to replay exercise to analyze weak spots. Max length of "melody" is 5 notes. Always fun to see how many will be exactly the SAME note. Irritating "feedback" option. "Do Re Mi" has many of these options... how is this competitive? Yeah, it's 2 dollars less, but it's 3 dollars more pointless. And how could it come from a Berklee student? Please. A waste of time for a free app. And it isn't free. - KD Jones ### 1/5 — Doesn't work with IOS4? *2010-07-09, version 0* The app isn't producing any sound. I'm assuming this is a compatibility issue. I thought I'd warn potential buyers of this issue. ### 1/5 — Too Basic!!!...lazy app development! *2010-02-17, version 0* Developer needs to expand on this big time!...very poor for a paid app There is no sense of achievement in playing this....it lacks very basic things like best previous score or different level options to gauge progress...in fact there are no options at all..or levels or settings of any kind.......not best pleased with this!.......Can't take this seriously at the mo....Major update please! ### 2/5 — Good idea but needs development *2010-02-16, version 0* This could potentially be very useful, by building on the skills learnt from 'basic' interval trainers. Only white key melodies possible at the moment, which is limitting. Also, as a guitarist a guitar fretboard interface would be more suitable for me. Longer melodies too. Four, five or six notes. The 'encouraging' messages soon become annoying. Promising idea though. ### 3/5 — Decent program, but missing features. *2016-10-09, version 3.1.0* This is an OK program to practice note recognition. Unfortunately, there appears to be no way to reset progress. Ideally, the app also needs to keep track of the questions that are missed and then give those questions again and frequently to reduce the amount of wasted time and improve note memory. ### 3/5 — Useful app *2013-05-27, version 2.0* Nice features. Would like to see selection for type of interval eg ascending only vcb49 ### 3/5 — IPAD - Sound set on loud *2011-09-01, version 1.1* IPAD - Sound is set on loud an when changing IPAD volume it doesn't change the volume of the app. On my other apps the volume changes OK except this one, apart from that looks good. ### 3/5 — Nice but needs improvement *2011-08-04, version 1.1* I think this app will improve one ear to hear when a series of notes is played. Need improvement in the following: auto play next question, option to practice in different keys. ### 4/5 — Good app but stupid message *2019-09-27* Could you stop or gave an option to stop thé congratulations messages, please. It's stupid **Developer response:** Set "Feedback" to "Wrong" if you only want messages for incorrect melodies. Set "Feedback" to "Never" to stop all messages :) You'll only see congratulations messages when "Feedback" is set to "Always". Thanks for the review! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great app for ear training *2020-02-07, version 4.0* I am using this app for some time and it’s addictive. You can practice on different scales and lots of options to choose. ### 5/5 — Fun *2019-05-17* Fun and addictive **Developer response:** :) I agree! ### 5/5 — Simplest and Most Fun *2016-10-21, version 3.1.0* I never write reviews but this app has been a lot of fun and is a pleasure to use. When they say "highly addictive piano game" they mean it, so watch out. I didn't believe them at first, and then my afternoon disappeared. ### 5/5 — Progressif et efficace *2016-06-30* De larges possibilités d'adapter les exercices. Permet de former son oreille et de progresser. **Developer response:** Merci beaucoup! ### 5/5 — Great Ap! *2016-04-13, version 3.1.0* With great elegance and configurability, the app is a nice tool for learning to hear notes better. I love how this app can serve me as a beginner and with the right settings can challenge or stump my wife, who has a much more developed ear. I'll be recommending this app to kids and adults. One small tip: on the screen after submitting be your answer, show both my answer AND the corrected answer, so I can mess around more and try to hear the difference between my answer and the truth. ### 5/5 — 5 stars *2015-11-12, version 3.1.0* Awesome app i love it! ### 5/5 — An amazing ear training tool. *2015-07-20, version 3.1.0* I like how simple and effective it is. It just gives random notes instead of designated ones, you can do this every single day and never get tired of it. Wish they can do a chord version. ### 5/5 — YEEEEAHH!! *2015-03-27, version 3.0.1* It's back and it's better than ever. So happy! Thank you! ### 5/5 — Well done ! *2015-03-25* J'utilise cet app régulièrement, et elle m'aide bien à faire progresser mon oreille musicale. Les options sont judicieuses, le tout est plutôt bien pensé. Et gratuit ! La version mise à jour début 2015 - après une période de blocage de l'app dû à la màj de IOS - est un réel progrès, avec plus de souplesse et de possibilités. N'hésitez pas! **Developer response:** Merci beaucoup! It's great to hear that you appreciate the updates and all the flexibility that the app offers. ### 5/5 — Best ear training app *2015-03-24, version 3.0.1* Best app for ear training. So glad it's back in the store --- *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 2026-08-26.*