Complete Ear Trainer vs Rhythm Learning
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Complete Ear Trainer
Develop your musical ear and music theory knowledge with this comprehensive training app. It offers progressive drills, various sound options, and a gamified learning experience to improve improvisation, composition, and performance skills.
- 150+ progressive drills
- 11 drill types
- 24 intervals, 36 chord types
- Melodic dictations and chord progressions
- Gamified learning with star system
- Custom drill and program creation
- Cloud sync across devices
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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) • 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/
Rhythm Learning
Practice reading musical rhythms from sheet music. This application provides a tool for musicians to hone their sight-reading skills with various rhythmic patterns.
- Practice reading rhythms
- Sheet music integration
- Rhythmic pattern exercises
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This is an app for practicing reading rhythms from sheet music. You can practice 10 times for free.
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Verdict
Complete Ear Trainer and Rhythm Learning both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 85% of Complete Ear Trainer's written reviews are positive against 75% of Rhythm Learning's. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Complete Ear Trainer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Rhythm Learning sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Complete Ear Trainer against 4.7 for Rhythm Learning. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 195 and 323 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 85% of Complete Ear Trainer's written reviews are positive against 75% of Rhythm Learning's.
Complete Ear Trainer ships an update fortnightly, Rhythm Learning every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Complete Ear Trainer | Rhythm Learning |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (195 ratings) | 4.7 (323 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.1% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 195 | 323 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.5 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Binary Guilt | Jumpei Adachi |
Customer experience
Complete Ear Trainer
Rhythm Learning
Bugs and requests
Complete Ear Trainer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Rhythm Learning
Reported bugs
9 issues- No sound after purchasing paid version
- Cannot return after score display
- App freezes/becomes unresponsive
- Cannot play after Level 3 in 4/4 time
- Click sound doesn't start from beat 1
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- Metro sound continues after returning
- App not working on iOS 16.1.2
- App not working after initial install
- Screen doesn't enlarge in landscape mode
Requested features
16 requests- Add sextuplets and 32nd notes
- Simultaneous LH/RH polyrhythms
- Tap length judgment
- Audio delay adjustment
- MIDI support for piano connection
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- Customizable rhythm patterns
- More time signatures
- Smaller screen/more measures setting
- Manual input of ethnic rhythms
- Remove pre-phrase pauses
- Shuffle pattern implementation
- Change color at 100%
- Learning mode with sound/counting
- Add answer check for correct rhythm
- Metronome sound change in bonus mode
- Higher difficulty levels
In-app purchases
Complete Ear Trainer
- Cloud Sync and Web access$0.991 Month
- Cloud Sync and Web access$9.991 Year
- Full Version$6.99
Rhythm Learning
- Paid Version$4.99
Questions
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