Comparison

Complete Ear Trainer vs Intervals

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

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.

Highlights
  • 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
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) • 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

Intervals

This app helps you learn and practice identifying musical intervals and notes by ear. It offers customizable exercises with various instruments and difficulty levels to improve your relative and perfect pitch.

Highlights
  • Learn musical intervals
  • Practice ear training
  • Select intervals and notes
  • Choose musical instruments (piano, guitar)
  • Adjust octave
  • Train relative and perfect pitch
  • Difficulty levels
Features
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Do you want to learn musical intervals? Do you want to practice your ear training? With the help of our application, you can try ear training for musical intervals. At the beginning of classes, you can choose the musical intervals and notes that you want to study. After that, you can select and adjust the musical instrument and octave. In the basic version of the app, you can choose to practice piano or guitar. You will be able to train relative pitch and perfect pitch by guessing musical intervals and notes. To achieve good results, you have to complete ear training exercises and practice solfeggio regularly. If you practice regularly, you will gradually learn how to guess notes and musical intervals by ear. You can study from scratch and improve your skills. Classes are divided into difficulty levels. It will be easy for you to choose the level that suits you. To achieve success in the development of aural skills, first you need to learn how to identify simple musical intervals by ear. Then you can start studying more complex musical intervals for different root notes. Practice piano and guitar regularly, train your aural skills every day and everything will work out.

Screenshots

Complete Ear Trainer4 screens
Intervals4 screens

Verdict

The call

Complete Ear Trainer and Intervals both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 85% of Complete Ear Trainer's written reviews are positive against 0% of Intervals's. Complete Ear Trainer also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 10 months). Intervals's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.5). On price, rating 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

Both are free to download. Complete Ear Trainer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Intervals 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 4.8 for Intervals. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Complete Ear Trainer has 199 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 85% of Complete Ear Trainer's written reviews are positive against 0% of Intervals's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Complete Ear Trainer ships an update fortnightly, Intervals every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Complete Ear Trainer versus Intervals: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterComplete Ear TrainerIntervals
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (199 ratings)4.8 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews85.1% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings199 — better4
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 10 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.512.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size78 MB54 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBinary GuiltDmitry Zaika

Customer experience

Complete Ear Trainer

All ratings199 ratings
Positive93.5%
Neutral2.0%
Negative4.5%
Written reviews174 reviews
Positive85.1%
Neutral7.5%
Negative7.5%

Intervals

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

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

Intervals

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Complete Ear Trainer free?
Complete Ear Trainer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Intervals free?
Intervals is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Complete Ear Trainer or Intervals?
Intervals is rated higher. Complete Ear Trainer averages 4.7 out of 5 from 199 ratings, while Intervals averages 4.8 from 4 ratings.
Do Complete Ear Trainer or Intervals have ads?
Intervals shows ads; Complete Ear Trainer does not.
Which is updated more often, Complete Ear Trainer or Intervals?
Complete Ear Trainer ships an update fortnightly, and Intervals every 10 months. Most recently, Complete Ear Trainer was updated on October 13, 2026 and Intervals on October 5, 2026.

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