# Tonestep — Ear training, properly graded

> Ear training, properly graded (iPhone/iPad app by Yugansh Jain.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tonestep/id6808862412 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Yugansh Jain](https://appshunter.io/developer/1896114042)
- Category: Education, Music
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 4 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-10-23
- Data updated: 2026-10-25

## What is Tonestep?

Most ear training apps hand you thirteen intervals and tell you to memorise them.
That is why most people quit in the first week.

Tonestep starts somewhere else: teaching you to hear where a note sits inside a
key. It is the skill that actually transfers to playing by ear, and everything
else is built on top of it.

A CURRICULUM, NOT A PILE OF DRILLS

112 stages across 11 chapters, in a deliberate order — from finding the tonic,
through the perfect intervals, major versus minor, the triad family, the seven
scale degrees, modes, seventh chords, cadences, and finally Free Field, where
there is no key centre, the root is random, and the clock is running.

Difficulty does not just mean "more items". Tonestep measures how easily two
sounds are confused, so a stage asking you to separate a perfect fifth from a
perfect fourth is correctly harder than one mixing a fifth with a minor second —
even though both have two options.

FIFTEEN TRAINING MODULES

Intervals, chords, scales, functional ear, chord progressions, chord inversions,
rhythm, melodic dictation, note identification, relative pitch, absolute pitch,
interval comparison, error detection, jazz chords, and singing practice with live
pitch detection through your microphone.

IT REMEMBERS WHAT YOU FIND HARD

Every answer feeds a spaced repetition engine that schedules the things you keep
missing to come back exactly when you are about to forget them. Your daily
session is built from what you are weakest at, not from a random shuffle.

PLAY ALONG ON PIANO

Connect a MIDI keyboard, or use the on-screen one, and play through a piece while
Tonestep judges your timing note by note.

BUILT FOR PRACTICE, NOT FOR ATTENTION

No ads. No feed. No interruptions in the middle of a listening exercise. Streaks,
XP and achievements are there to get you to come back tomorrow, and nothing else.

YOUR DATA STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE

Practice history never leaves your phone. Microphone audio is analysed live on
device to detect pitch, and is never recorded, stored or uploaded.

FREE AND PRO

The first seven chapters — 70 stages — are free, a complete arc from your first
tonic to modes and pentatonics. Tonestep Pro unlocks the remaining chapters, all
fifteen modules, spaced repetition across everything, and full analytics.


Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://yuganshjain.github.io/tonestep-web/privacy.html

Tonestep Pro subscription options:
• Monthly — $4.99/month
• Annual — $29.99/year

Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Tonestep Pro — Monthly | $4.99 | per month |
| Tonestep Pro — Annual | $29.99 | per year |


## Is Tonestep safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Tonestep.

## Is Tonestep legit?

Tonestep appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Tonestep is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0 — 2026-10-23

No release notes.

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