Comparison

ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6 vs MuseCool

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

MuseCool

Features
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Designed as a lessons, payments, and events manager, MuseCool helps make the musical journey of students, parents, and tutors more convenient. MuseCool includes The Muse, a subscription-based feature providing lesson-specific insights, progress tracking, and personalised practice support. The Muse Insights – Monthly Subscription Lesson summaries, music lesson analytics, progress tracking with charts, and personalised views. The Muse Insights & Games – Monthly Subscription Everything in The Muse Insights, plus tailored practice games and music learning exercises. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription at any time in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://musecool.com/privacy-policy/

Screenshots

ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 64 screens
MuseCool4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: MuseCool at Free against ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6's $7.99. MuseCool also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 4 months). ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3). On ads, 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

MuseCool is free to download; ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6 costs $7.99 up front. MuseCool sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6 asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6 ships an update every 4 months, MuseCool weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6 versus MuseCool: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6MuseCool
Price$7.99Free — better
Rating3.0 (9 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size363 MB134 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThe Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (Publishing) LimitedMuseCool

In-app purchases

None

ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

MuseCool

Subscriptions3
  • The Muse Insights Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Muse Insights Monthly14 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • The Muse Monthly14 Days trial$6.991 Month

Questions

Is ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6 free?
ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6 costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is MuseCool free?
MuseCool is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6 or MuseCool have ads?
Neither ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6 nor MuseCool shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6 or MuseCool?
ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6 ships an update every 4 months, and MuseCool weekly. Most recently, ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6 was updated on November 6, 2026 and MuseCool on November 4, 2026.

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