Comparison

Complete Ear Trainer vs EQ Perfect

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

EQ Perfect

This app offers a unique approach to EQ ear training for music production. It features a real parametric EQ and structured lessons to develop your skills, mirroring the workflow of professional DAWs and plugins. Track your progress and focus on areas needing improvement.

Highlights
  • Real parametric EQ
  • Step-by-step EQ lessons
  • DAW-like workflow
  • Performance tracking
  • Variety of training songs
  • Focus on frequency, gain, and curve
Features
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EQ Perfect is a revolutionary EQ ear trainer app. Unlike other EQ training apps where you can only choose from few pre-defined options, EQ Perfect's way of training can be immediately applied to your production workflow. We have developed our new EQ ear trainer app which contains a real parametric EQ, and a comprehensive list of lessons to build your EQ skills step by step. Because you are learning with a real parametric EQ, the workflow is just like how you would later use an EQ in your favorite DAW: FL studio, Ableton, Studio One, Logic Pro or a VST plugin such as FabFilter Pro Q 3. You will learn every aspect of a parametric EQ, including how does different frequencies sound, how much gain to apply, how steep is your EQ curve and what shape should you use. Along your journey of EQ training, we present you an overview of your performance in different aspects of the EQ skills, where you can easily spot your weaknesses and choose lessons accordingly to turn them into your strengths. The app comes with a set of FREE songs to train your EQ skills on, ranging from vocals to EDM. It is perfect for amateur music producers and mixing engineers to pick up EQ skills.

Screenshots

Complete Ear Trainer4 screens
EQ Perfect4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: EQ Perfect at every 4 days against Complete Ear Trainer's fortnightly. EQ Perfect also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 17.5). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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 and EQ Perfect sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

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 EQ Perfect. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 195 and 331 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 85% of Complete Ear Trainer's written reviews are positive against 83% of EQ Perfect's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Complete Ear Trainer ships an update fortnightly, EQ Perfect every 4 days. Both last shipped on September 26, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Complete Ear Trainer versus EQ Perfect: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterComplete Ear TrainerEQ Perfect
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (195 ratings)4.7 (331 ratings)
Positive reviews85.1% of reviews — better83.3% of reviews
Number of ratings195331 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.510.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB58 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBinary GuiltMing Zhang

Customer experience

Complete Ear Trainer

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

EQ Perfect

All ratings331 ratings
Positive94.0%
Neutral3.6%
Negative2.4%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral5.6%
Negative11.1%

Bugs and requests

Complete Ear Trainer

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

EQ Perfect

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Cannot unlock units 2 and 3
  • Purchased unlimited hearts twice due to unclear wording

Requested features

6 requests
  • Ability to dial back difficulty for beginners
  • More tracks or ability to play own music
  • Option to select specific frequencies or ranges
  • Headphone mode excluding changes below 100hz
  • Clearer wording for upgrade packages
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  • Songs that utilize the full EQ spectrum throughout

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
4 purchases

EQ Perfect

One-time4
  • Unlimited hearts$1.99
  • Unlock Unit 2$4.99
  • Unlock Unit 3$4.99
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  • Unlock Unit 2 & 3$6.99

Questions

Is Complete Ear Trainer free?
Complete Ear Trainer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is EQ Perfect free?
EQ Perfect is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Complete Ear Trainer or EQ Perfect?
Complete Ear Trainer and EQ Perfect are both rated 4.7 out of 5 on the App Store, from 195 and 331 ratings respectively.
Do Complete Ear Trainer or EQ Perfect have ads?
Neither Complete Ear Trainer nor EQ Perfect shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Complete Ear Trainer or EQ Perfect?
Complete Ear Trainer ships an update fortnightly, and EQ Perfect every 4 days. Most recently, Complete Ear Trainer was updated on September 26, 2026 and EQ Perfect on September 26, 2026.

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