Comparison

Complete Ear Trainer vs Aural Wiz Plus

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

Head to head
About

Complete Ear Trainer

Enhance your musical abilities with comprehensive ear training exercises. Master intervals, chords, and scales through gamified lessons and custom programs. Ideal for musicians seeking to improve improvisation, composition, and performance.

Highlights
  • 150+ progressive drills
  • 11 drill types
  • Customizable drills and programs
  • Gamified learning with star system
  • Multiple sound banks
  • Theory cards for concept introduction
  • Cloud sync across devices
Features
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The ultimate ear training app for musicians. Develop your relative pitch to the full by improving your aural skills and your music theory knowledge. This will better many aspects of your life as a musician, be it regarding improvisation, composition, arrangement, interpretation, singing, or playing in a band. Designed like a video game and with strong pedagogical concepts in mind, this app will make you truly master each interval, chord, scale, etc. before taking you to the next one. Features • 150+ progressive drills arranged over 4 levels / 28 chapters • 11 drill types, 24 intervals, 36 chord types, chord inversions, 28 scale types, melodic dictations, chord progressions • Easy mode: 50+ progressive drills arranged over 12 chapters especially designed for beginners • Play a selection of 21 drills in arcade mode • 5 octaves of actual recorded grand piano sounds • 7 additional sound banks are available, all with actual recorded sounds: vintage piano, Rhodes piano, electric guitar, harpsichord, concert harp, strings and pizzicato strings • In each chapter, a theory card will introduce you to the concepts you will need to know • No need to know how to read music on a staff • Designed like a video game: earn 3 stars in each drill of a chapter to unlock the next one. Or will you be able to obtain perfect 5-star scores? • Don't want to follow the preestablished path of progression? Create and save your own custom drills and rehearse them at your own convenience • Create full custom training programs and invite friends or students to join them. If for example you're a teacher you can create custom programs for your students, add drills every week and view their scores on private leaderboards • Never lose any progress: cloud sync across your various devices • 25 achievements to unlock • Worldwide leaderboards (global, per level, per chapter, easy mode, arcade mode) • Global statistics to track your progress • Nice and clean user interface with 2 display themes: light and dark • Designed by a musician and music teacher with a Royal Conservatory master's degree Full Version • Download the app and try out the first chapter of each mode for free • One-time in-app purchase to unlock the full version on all your devices Having a problem? Got a suggestion? You can reach us at hello@completeeartrainer.com Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Aural Wiz Plus

Enhance your musical ear by learning to identify intervals, scales, chords, and cadences. This app offers two modes: Learn to hear and understand different musical elements, and Practice to test your recognition skills through melodic and harmonic patterns.

Highlights
  • Interval recognition
  • Scale identification
  • Chord training
  • Cadence learning
  • Learn mode
  • Practice mode
Features
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Learn to recognize intervals, scales, chords, ​and cadences with Aural Wiz. Whether you are a music student preparing for aural tests as part of your formal musical training or a musician just working towards improving your aural skills, Aural Wiz would be an indispensable companion for you. You can use Aural Wiz in two modes - Learn and Practice. In Learn mode, you can play back an interval, scale, chord or a cadence to understand how it sounds. In Practice mode, a melodic or harmonic pattern will be played and you'll be asked to identify the interval, scale, chord or cadence. Practicing this way has been a proven way to improve your aural skills. Make Aural Wiz part of your daily aural improvisation routine.

Screenshots

Complete Ear Trainer4 screens
Aural Wiz Plus4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Complete Ear Trainer at Free against Aural Wiz Plus's $4.99. Complete Ear Trainer also leads on review sentiment (85% vs 48%) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). Aural Wiz Plus's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.5). On rating, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Complete Ear Trainer is free to download; Aural Wiz Plus costs $4.99 up front. Complete Ear Trainer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Aural Wiz Plus asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Complete Ear Trainer against 4.7 for Aural Wiz Plus. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 203 and 134 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 85% of Complete Ear Trainer's written reviews are positive against 48% of Aural Wiz Plus's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Complete Ear Trainer ships an update every 2 weeks, Aural Wiz Plus monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Complete Ear Trainer versus Aural Wiz Plus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterComplete Ear TrainerAural Wiz Plus
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating4.7 (203 ratings)4.7 (134 ratings) — better
Positive reviews85.1% of reviews — better47.8% of reviews
Number of ratings203 — better134
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.512.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size68 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBinary GuiltBijoy Thangaraj

Customer experience

Complete Ear Trainer

All ratings203 ratings
Positive93.1%
Neutral2.0%
Negative4.9%
Written reviews174 reviews
Positive85.1%
Neutral7.5%
Negative7.5%

Aural Wiz Plus

All ratings131 ratings
Positive91.6%
Neutral6.1%
Negative2.3%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive47.8%
Neutral26.1%
Negative26.1%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Complete Ear Trainer

Subscriptions2
  • Cloud Sync and Web access$0.991 Month
  • Cloud Sync and Web access$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Full Version$6.99
None

Aural Wiz Plus

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Complete Ear Trainer free?
Complete Ear Trainer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Aural Wiz Plus free?
Aural Wiz Plus costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Complete Ear Trainer or Aural Wiz Plus?
Aural Wiz Plus is rated higher. Complete Ear Trainer averages 4.7 out of 5 from 203 ratings, while Aural Wiz Plus averages 4.7 from 134 ratings.
Do Complete Ear Trainer or Aural Wiz Plus have ads?
Neither Complete Ear Trainer nor Aural Wiz Plus shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Complete Ear Trainer or Aural Wiz Plus?
Complete Ear Trainer ships an update every 2 weeks, and Aural Wiz Plus monthly. Most recently, Complete Ear Trainer was updated on November 9, 2026 and Aural Wiz Plus on November 6, 2026.

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