Comparison

Complete Ear Trainer vs InTune Pro

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

InTune Pro

Enhance your musical ear for tuning and intonation with this scientifically-backed application. Track your progress, compete with others, and choose from a variety of studio-quality instrument sounds. It's designed to help musicians develop a more discerning ear.

Highlights
  • Improve musical intonation
  • Leverage academic research
  • Track progress
  • Compete on Game Center
  • Studio-quality instrument sounds
  • Pitch discrimination training
Features
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Improve your ear for tuning and intonation with this beautiful app. • Improve your musical intonation — one of the most important skills a musician can have. • Leverage 25 years of academic research on how to train intonation. • Track your progress and compete on Game Center. • Choose studio-quality instrument sounds, including piano, guitar, violin, cello, clarinet, banjo, flute, French horn, trombone, and trumpet. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING “A brilliantly simple game of precision hearing…ingenious. It will absolutely help you develop a more discerning ear.” — Voice Council Magazine “Very easy to use…a fun and useful addition to your practice toolbox.” — Horn World “There are a number of ear training apps available for the iPhone, but InTune has actual science to back it up.” — discchord “I have your app on my phone and love it!!!” — David P. Schurger, orchestra director, Indiana “Excellent...it’s made a remarkable difference this past year in my ability to rehearse complex 20th and 21st century music!” — Paul Piazza, conductor/composer, LA THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE APP InTune began as a way for researchers to test pitch discrimination, the ability to differentiate pitches that are close together. But then researchers discovered that musicians improved the more often they played – 3x faster than those who didn’t. Download InTune and see if it works for you! HELP US IMPROVE! We’re always improving InTune and love hearing from users. Please send your comments and requests to support@halfnotelabs.com.

Screenshots

Complete Ear Trainer4 screens
InTune Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Complete Ear Trainer at Free against InTune Pro's $4.99. Complete Ear Trainer also leads on review sentiment (85% vs 67%) and ratings volume (195 vs 8). InTune Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.5). On rating, 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; InTune Pro costs $4.99 up front. Complete Ear Trainer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. InTune Pro 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 4.6 for InTune Pro. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Complete Ear Trainer has 195 ratings behind it against 8, 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 67% of InTune Pro's.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Complete Ear Trainer versus InTune Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterComplete Ear TrainerInTune Pro
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating4.7 (195 ratings) — better4.6 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews85.1% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings195 — better8
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.513.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB86 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBinary GuiltHalf Note Labs

Customer experience

Complete Ear Trainer

All ratings195 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral2.1%
Negative4.6%
Written reviews174 reviews
Positive85.1%
Neutral7.5%
Negative7.5%

InTune Pro

All ratings8 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

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

InTune Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Complete Ear Trainer free?
Complete Ear Trainer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is InTune Pro free?
InTune Pro costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Complete Ear Trainer or InTune Pro?
Complete Ear Trainer is rated higher. Complete Ear Trainer averages 4.7 out of 5 from 195 ratings, while InTune Pro averages 4.6 from 8 ratings.
Do Complete Ear Trainer or InTune Pro have ads?
Neither Complete Ear Trainer nor InTune Pro shows ads.

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