# MusicCompass Trainer — Read music, train your ear > Read music, train your ear (iPhone/iPad app by Luigi Banfi.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/musiccompass-trainer/id6802723723 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Luigi Banfi](https://appshunter.io/developer/6782624609) - Category: Education, Music - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 150 MB - Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese and 4 more - Released: 2026-08-28 - Data updated: 2026-10-10 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/musiccompass-trainer/id6802723723/reviews.md ## What is MusicCompass Trainer? Music Compass teaches you to read music and to hear it — and then lets you play along with the music you already own. It was built for anyone starting out or starting again: a child working through their first lessons, a teenager in music school, an adult picking up an instrument after twenty years away. The exercises begin with a single note on a staff and go as far as intervals, key signatures and rhythm, one step at a time, and nothing ever asks you to have studied before. WHAT YOU LEARN • The notes on the staff, from the first line to the ledger lines above and below, in treble and bass clef — and a lesson on the C clef • Intervals, by ear and by sight • The circle of fifths, with key signatures, dominants and relative minors • Rhythm: tap what you read and find out how close you were • Scales, chords and progressions in the Harmony Explorer • Your own singing voice, with an analogue needle that shows you when you are in tune and works out your vocal range Every exercise has levels, and a game that turns note reading into something you actually want to keep doing. The app plays each example while it highlights the note on the staff, so what you hear and what you see arrive together. PLAY YOUR OWN MUSIC • A multitrack MIDI player with General MIDI sounds and a mixer for every track: mute the melody and play it yourself, slow the piece down, change its key • Karaoke on audio files — MP3, WAV, M4A — slowed down without dropping in pitch, or transposed without slowing down, with the lyrics scrolling in time • A chord-sheet transposer: open a text file with chords over the words, a MusicXML score or a MIDI file, change key or add a capo, and print it clean • A two-octave virtual piano • Choose the folder where you keep your music once, and from then on your pieces open inside the app with a single tap FOR YOUR TEACHER The app keeps a record of everything you practise and turns it into a one-page PDF: exercises done, accuracy, days practised, your vocal range. Print it or send it to whoever is following your progress. PRIVACY, AND WHAT THAT ACTUALLY MEANS Music Compass works entirely on your device. There is no account to create, no connection required, and nothing about you is collected, stored or sent anywhere — not your recordings, not your results, not your files. The vocal tuner listens through the microphone and nothing leaves the phone. Music Compass does not contain or distribute anyone else's music: it plays the files you already have. The few demonstration pieces included are originals, written for Music Compass. IN YOUR LANGUAGE, WITH YOUR NOTE NAMES Fifteen languages, and note names in the system you were taught: Do-Re-Mi, C-D-E, or the German nomenclature with H. For iPhone and iPad. It also runs on Macs with Apple silicon. WHAT IT COSTS The exercises, the game and the reading lessons are free to try every day, with a handful of practice sessions and file imports included, and the Repertoire turns three of your songs into chord sheets before you have to decide. Two optional packs unlock everything without limits — one for the lessons and exercises, one for the MIDI and audio studio, which is also the one that opens the Repertoire — and a bundle covers both. One payment, no subscription. ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Lessons & Exercises | $2.99 | one-time | | MIDI Studio | $5.99 | one-time | | MusicCompass Complete | $6.99 | one-time | | Add the MIDI Studio | $3.99 | one-time | | Add the lessons | $1.99 | one-time | ## Version history (last 3 releases) ### 1.3 — 2026-09-27 The note game is now called Note Rain; new Credits page; small fixes. ### 1.2 — 2026-09-03 THE REPERTOIRE A song and its chord sheet, in one place. Open a MIDI file and the sheet is already there: the chords over the words, scrolling in time with the music, the one you are playing right now lit up. Pause it, stop it, change key. Mute the melody with the Lead button and sing it yourself. Write on the sheet in your own hand — pen, highlighter, straight lines, and a text box you place over a chord to correct it or add one that was missing. Five colours. What you write stays with the song. Put the sheet on everyone's stand: the other iPhones, iPads and Macs in the room open the same page over the local network, with no internet at all. And your whole repertoire follows you between your own devices through iCloud. Three songs are free to try. The MIDI Studio pack takes the limit away. CHORDS READ PROPERLY Twelve chord shapes, the bass note underneath, and the key of the piece used to settle the cases where two readings are both possible. The chord symbols Yamaha writes inside XF files are now read straight from the file. Passing chords no longer vanish, and the sheet and the strip above the player finally agree on how a chord is spelled — no more A flat on one and G sharp on the other. THE PLAYER SOUNDS LIKE THE FILE Volume, expression, the sustain pedal and pitch bend are all heard now, and a track that changes instrument halfway through changes instrument. There is a reverb with its own control, from completely dry to a full hall. ON iPAD A layout made for the larger screen instead of an enlarged iPhone: the sheet opens wide, lists and controls sit side by side. ALSO • AirPlay in the top right corner of every screen — send the sound to speakers, headphones or an Apple TV • Note names chosen the first time you open the app: Do-Re-Mi, C-D-E, or the German names with H. 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