ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6 vs ClassIn
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6
This app offers interactive challenges to enhance musical listening skills, specifically designed for ABRSM aural tests from Grade 6 to 8. It helps users improve musical memory, sight-singing, and the recognition of various musical elements like chords, modulations, and stylistic features.
- Interactive aural challenges
- Musical memory exercises
- Sight-singing practice
- Chord and cadence recognition
- Music style and character identification
- Progress tracking
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The OFFICIAL ABRSM Aural Trainer contains interactive challenges to help develop your music aural skills (listening skills). Anyone can use it, but it is designed around ABRSM’s aural tests for Grades 6 to 8. The app can be used in any order, however often you like, on your own or with your teacher. Use ABRSM Aural Trainer to: • Exercise your musical memory (remember how music sounds and be able to repeat it). • Develop your confidence and accuracy at sight-singing (reading and singing the music you see). • Improve your recognition of cadences, chords and modulations. • Learn to describe texture, structure, dynamics, articulation, tempo and tonality. • Practise identifying the features in music that make-up its style and character. • Develop the skills to know when a piece of music was written. The app covers the following ABRSM aural test content: • Melodic Repetition • Sight-singing • Cadences • Chords • Modulations • Musical Features • Rhythmic Repetition • Metre All exercises are fully interactive. Each one gives you the opportunity to repeat the question, or to compare your response to the correct answer and hear the music again . The app also features supporting tools including a cadence trainer, progress tracker and guides to the aural tests in ABRSM graded music exams. Many exercises are automatically marked by the application. Self-review and critical listening are also key to successful development of the musical ear, which is why the app provides tools for you to review and evaluate your performance against sample responses in all cases. Your progress is logged whenever you use the app, so you can always see at a glance the areas you might want to revisit.
ClassIn
This integrated platform supports online and offline teaching, offering live classrooms, a learning management system, and a personal learning environment. It facilitates hybrid learning solutions, collaborative tools, and personalized learning pathways for educators and learners worldwide.
- Online live classrooms
- Offline smart classrooms
- Learning Management System (LMS)
- Personal Learning Environment (PLE)
- Collaborative blackboard
- Virtual experiments
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Welcome to ClassIn and embrace the new era of lifelong learning! ClassIn, developed by Empower Education Online (EEO) for eight years, is an integrated teaching platform encompassing online live classrooms, offline smart classrooms, an LMS learning management system, and a PLE personal learning environment. ClassIn adheres to the essence of education, releasing the charm of teaching and learning, and cultivating independent and self-disciplined lifelong learners. As of now, ClassIn has been favored by educators and learners across the globe: · 150 countries · 2 million educators · 30 million learners · 20,000 K12 schools, higher education institutions, and enterprises. ClassIn effectively assists K12 schools, universities and enterprises with achieving high quality online, offline, hybrid, and intelligent teaching; ClassIn facilitates educators in creating a course system, knowledge space, learning community, and evaluation data that focus on learners; further, ClassIn enables teachers to enrich courses and teaching, and enhance students' core literacy and lifelong learning ability. Hybrid Learning Solutions ClassIn is widely praised for its comprehensive online and offline teaching solutions. It offers a seamless experience for up to 2000 people to attend online live classes, with 50 people's audio and video being displayed simultaneously. Furthermore, it provides a host of features, including collaborative blackboard, collaborative documents, group teaching and virtual experiments, to replicate the feeling of an offline environment. With its state-of-the-art intelligent teaching system, ClassIn provides an easy and efficient learning experience for both online and offline teaching. Learning Management System (LMS) ClassIn offers a comprehensive learning platform for traditional teaching activities, such as classrooms, homework, discussions, and assessments, to help students construct their own learning pathway. Moreover, with collaborative documents and internet communication, ClassIn promotes project-based, cooperative and inquiry-based learning, enabling students to practice and enhance their creativity, communication, and collaboration skills. Personal Learning Environment (PLE) ClassIn enables personalized and lifelong learning. In the era of internet and artificial intelligence, knowledge is iterating rapidly and is no longer centered in schools or libraries, but dispersed in society and networks, which requires learners to take the initiative to learn and pursue lifelong learning. ClassIn will continuously upgrade the PLE personal learning environment to build a lifelong learning system and cultivate self-disciplined lifelong learners. More to Explore on www.classin.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: ClassIn at Free against ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6's $7.99. ClassIn also leads on rating (3.6 vs 3.0) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 4 months). ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10). On ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
ClassIn is free to download; ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6 costs $7.99 up front. ClassIn sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6 asks for nothing beyond the download.
ClassIn holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ClassIn has 1K ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 22% of ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6's written reviews are positive against 51% of ClassIn's.
ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6 ships an update every 4 months, ClassIn every 9 days. Both last shipped on November 12, 2026.
| Parameter | ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6 | ClassIn |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $7.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.0 (9 ratings) | 3.6 (1K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 21.7% of reviews | 50.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9 | 1K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 363 MB | 340 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (Publishing) Limited | EEO Education Ltd. |
Customer experience
ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6
ClassIn
Bugs and requests
ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
ClassIn
Reported bugs
4 issues- Frequent crashes and freezes
- Issues with file uploads and downloads
- Microphone and camera problems
- Incompatibility with certain devices
Requested features
4 requests- Add autosave feature
- Improve screen sharing capabilities
- Enhance mobile app compatibility
- Provide better language support
In-app purchases
ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6
No in-app purchases
ClassIn
- Purchase 1 additional lesson$0.99
- Purchase 2 additional lesson$1.99
- Purchase 4 additional lesson$2.99
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- Purchase 16 additional lesson$12.99
- Pro Edition$14.99
- Purchase 18 additional lesson$14.99
- Purchase 17 additional lesson$14.99
- Purchase 19 additional lesson$14.99
- Monthly Edition$17.99
- Purchase 20 additional lesson$17.99
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