Comparison

ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6 vs Practice Space

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

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.

Highlights
  • Interactive aural challenges
  • Musical memory exercises
  • Sight-singing practice
  • Chord and cadence recognition
  • Music style and character identification
  • Progress tracking
Features
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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.

About

Practice Space

This app helps students set and track practice goals with engaging rewards. Earn points and gems to customize your experience with avatars and backgrounds. It's designed to make practice dynamic and motivating for learners of all levels.

Highlights
  • Create weekly practice goals
  • Track goal completion
  • Earn practice points and gems
  • Customize with avatars and backgrounds
  • View daily practice tasks
  • Join practice point leaderboards
  • Receive awards and badges
Features
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Practice Space is the world's most engaging practice app, and it's free to use! Students can create detailed practice goals, track the completion of their goals and win fun awards along the way. Completing practice tasks and other goals, earns you practice points and gems, which can be used in the app's store to spice up your app with cool avatars, backgrounds, and in-app "power-ups". Some cool features: Create weekly practice goals with videos, and notes for each piece, technique or theory item you are working on. You can input these items as a "Lesson" on your own or with your teacher. Practicers can see their daily practice tasks, notes on each item and any videos of you or your teacher playing in the app. See how consistently you've reached your past practice goals, and join the practice point leaderboard. Earn gems, badges and other awards throughout your practice sessions. Our in-app shop allows you to use the gems you earn to reward yourself with a little fun after putting in the practice. Come join us in our Practice Space for FREE!

Screenshots

ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 64 screens
Practice Space4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Practice Space at Free against ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6's $7.99. Practice Space also leads on rating (3.9 vs 3.0) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Practice Space is free to download; ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6 costs $7.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Practice Space holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Practice Space has 183 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6's written reviews are positive against 49% of Practice Space's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6 ships an update every 4 months, Practice Space every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6 versus Practice Space: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6Practice Space
Price$7.99Free — better
Rating3.0 (9 ratings)3.9 (183 ratings) — better
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews48.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings9183 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size363 MB58 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThe Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (Publishing) LimitedPractice Space, LLC

Customer experience

ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6

All ratings9 ratings
Positive44.4%
Neutral11.1%
Negative44.4%
Written reviews40 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral35.0%
Negative40.0%

Practice Space

All ratings181 ratings
Positive71.8%
Neutral5.5%
Negative22.7%
Written reviews47 reviews
Positive48.9%
Neutral6.4%
Negative44.7%

Bugs and requests

ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Practice Space

Reported bugs

18 issues
  • Streak freeze does not activate
  • Forgot password email not sending
  • App crashes immediately upon opening on iPad
  • App takes forever to load and is glitchy
  • Practice timer stops at goal when outside app
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  • App crashes and loses practice sessions
  • Practice times/dates cannot be edited
  • App doesn't save practice if not manually stopped
  • App doesn't recognize streak by practice date
  • Practice days don't match streak days
  • App cuts off practice at 5 mins with 'error'
  • Practice session restarted
  • App does not track practice days correctly
  • Points reset after app version update
  • App crashes after login on older iOS devices
  • Cannot go back to press complete after finishing practice
  • Practice timer stops when switching apps
  • App crashes when saving practice session

Requested features

11 requests
  • Long-term practice graphs (bar/line)
  • More instrument options (violin, flute)
  • Download digital sheet music
  • Spanish language option
  • Ability for teachers to fix practice times
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  • Ability for teachers to add missed practices
  • Message system for teacher feedback
  • Tap tempo feature for metronome
  • Ability to type in specific BPM for metronome
  • Option to disable practice timer pausing when leaving app
  • Ability to group chat with a few people

In-app purchases

None

ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6

No in-app purchases

None

Practice Space

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6 free?
ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6 costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Practice Space free?
Practice Space is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6 or Practice Space?
Practice Space is rated higher. ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6 averages 3.0 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while Practice Space averages 3.9 from 183 ratings.
Do ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6 or Practice Space have ads?
Neither ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6 nor Practice Space shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6 or Practice Space?
ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6 ships an update every 4 months, and Practice Space every 3 weeks. Most recently, ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6 was updated on November 6, 2026 and Practice Space on November 2, 2026.

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