Tenuto

Tenuto

Theory exercises and tools

652 ratings
352 reviews
#6 in paid Music
📚 Education
🎵 Music
$4.99

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  • Released
  • Updated
  • August 30, 2011
  • April 28, 2026
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Enhance your musicality with a comprehensive suite of 24 customizable theory exercises and six essential musical calculators. Practice note and chord identification, ear training, and construct musical elements. Tools include accidentals, intervals, scales, chords, analysis symbols, and twelve-tone matrices.

✓24 customizable theory exercises
✓Note and chord identification
✓Ear training for intervals and scales
✓Musical construction exercises
✓Accidental calculator
✓Interval calculator
✓Chord calculator
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What's New in Tenuto

5.1

April 28, 2026

- Updates the app icon used in Dark, Clear, or Tinted modes. - Fixes several layout and drawing issues when running as a Windowed App. - Fixes an extremely rare crash when Challenge Mode is enabled.

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Charts

Top Paid

📈 6+1

Music

This app rose +1 position in Music chart.

Last updated on October 12, 2026.

Top Paid

📈 47+5

Global

This app rose +5 positions in Global chart.

Last updated on October 12, 2026.

User reviews

Decently structured

It’s pretty good, I wish it had an option to see the note in written form than press the corresponding fret. Overall I like the app

Practice makes perfect

I highly recommend Tenuto for beginners. Its game-like exercises make learning fun while repetition and instant feedback reinforce memory and build faster note recognition.

Love

Love this app. Plz make chord identification mode available with grand staff (option of 1 or 2 notes in bass)

1 sentence review.

1 sentence: Absolutely great CENTRALIZED hub for training your ear and instant recognition.

A few more sentences: I've never written a review before and I probably won't again. For context I am a serious young professional pianist and use this app for about an hour a day where I have set up to do a certain amount of time on each of the exercisespp. This app is simply amazing for REFINING great aural and "flash card" like skills (such as note recognition including those on less frequently used clefs such as alto tenor bass soprano etc). This app WILL NOT teach you teach you these skills but after a few piano lessons or you learn your scales online you're pretty much ready to greatly benefit from this app if you are looking to become amazing with these skills. Don't bother with the app if you don't really care to improve your aural or instant recognition of certain topics as this is what the app is centered on. (It also has some guitar fretboard items that I'm not familiar with there usefulness).

Highly reccomend this app for 5$ it's a steal.

Last as a note to the developers: The app is great but please add the ability to pin exercises or at least hide categories or exercises that the user may choose. Please of course be sure that these settings persist from session to session!

Thank you so much!
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Good app

Love this for music studies, thanks! Please add more features in the future!

Developer apps

User experience

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Reported Bugs

5 issues

Sound cuts out

Bug

Unresponsive at times

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Freezes up

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Doesn't work well for guitar

Bug

Incorrect chord/key associations

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Requested Features

20 requests

Cadences and inversions for ear training

Feature

Chord progressions for ear training

Feature

Melodic and harmonic minor modes for scale recognition

Feature

6th, 9th, 11th and 13th chord extensions for chord recognition

Feature

Melodic dictation

Feature

Rhythm exercises

Feature

Fretboard reverse identification

Feature

Chord inversions for chord identification

Feature

Scales written on staff using various clefs

Feature

Rhythm, melodic, and harmonic dictation exercises

Feature

Part writing exercises

Feature

Exercises for form, cadences, etc.

Feature

MIDI support

Feature

Autoplay function

Feature

Ability to input notes/chords on fretboard

Feature

Chord progression ear training

Feature

Inversion options for chord and interval identification

Feature

Melodic and harmonic minor scale identification

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Extended chord identification

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Rhythmic dictation

Feature

FAQ

What does Tenuto do?

Tenuto is a music theory application that offers 24 customizable exercises designed to improve musicality. It includes tools for identifying notes, intervals, scales, and chords, as well as ear training modules. The app also features six musical calculators for accidentals, intervals, scales, chords, analysis symbols, and twelve-tone matrices.

What are the key features of Tenuto?

Key features include a variety of identification exercises (notes, key signatures, intervals, scales, chords) on staff, keyboard, and fretboard. It also offers construction exercises for these musical elements, ear training modules for listening comprehension, and six specialized calculators for musical analysis and computation.

How much does Tenuto cost?

Based on the provided information, Tenuto is a paid application. There are no mentions of in-app purchases or advertisements, indicating a one-time purchase model for full access to all features.

What kind of musical concepts can I learn with Tenuto?

You can learn to identify and construct notes, key signatures, intervals, scales, and chords. The app also supports ear training for these elements and provides calculators for accidentals, intervals, scales, chords, analysis symbols, and twelve-tone matrices, covering a broad range of music theory topics.

Who is Tenuto designed for?

Tenuto is designed for anyone looking to enhance their musical understanding and skills. This includes music students, aspiring composers, and practicing musicians who want to strengthen their theoretical knowledge, ear training abilities, and compositional tools.