Comparison

Complete Ear Trainer vs WhichPitch

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

WhichPitch

Train your brain to identify musical notes by their unique 'color' or chroma, rather than just their pitch. This app offers a unique method to overcome distractions and develop absolute pitch over time through consistent practice.

Highlights
  • Absolute pitch training
  • Chroma identification method
  • Overcomes timbre distraction
  • Develops note recognition
  • Physically modeled instrument sounds
  • A440 pitch standard
Features
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People used to believe that perfect pitch (more correctly known as "absolute pitch") is a skill you either were born with (or maybe acquired as a young child) or not--that it couldn't be developed later on. But this has been proven incorrect! Studies show that even adults can learn absolute pitch. Ask AI for an up-to-date summary of the evidence on this. The problem is, we don't yet know the best way to learn it. But we do know that the key is learning to ignore a note's pitch and instead focus on identifying it by its "colour" (or, chroma). Each of the 12 notes has a distinctive chroma, which is always present in the sound of the note regardless of which octave it's in. This chroma is not hidden; you always hear it. To demonstrate this, play a bunch of different octaves of the same note on any selection of instruments. Their pitches are all different, and each instrument sounds different, but the notes all sound the same, don't they? That sameness is the chroma. For some reason, most people's brains choose to simply focus on the pitch rather than the chroma when they're processing notes. Therefore, to learn absolute pitch, you need to train your brain to focus on the chroma rather than the pitch when processing notes. There are a couple challenges to doing this: (1) getting distracted by the timbre of the sound you're hearing and (2) relative pitch. WhichPitch is the only absolute pitch trainer that effectively helps you overcome these two challenges, and the method used is explained thoroughly in the How This App Works page in the app. Gradually--through consistent practice with WhichPitch over weeks or months--your brain will shift to processing notes based on their chroma rather than their pitch. After that, acquiring full absolute pitch is a simple matter of memorizing which chroma goes with which note. You may initially feel like you are making no progress, but be patient--a lot of the learning is happening subconsciously. Then, one day, you'll realize that each note is starting to sound completely distinct and unique. That's when you'll know you have succeeded at starting to shift your brain to processing notes using chromas rather than pitch. Technical notes (pun intended): The notes in this app use the A440 pitch standard with twelve-tone equal temperament, and the instruments' sounds are physically modeled rather than sampled (meaning they are computer-generated sounds, not recorded real instruments) to avoid any imperfections that could give non-chroma-related hints about which note you are hearing.

Screenshots

Complete Ear Trainer4 screens
WhichPitch4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Complete Ear Trainer at 4.7 against WhichPitch's 3.1. Complete Ear Trainer also leads on ratings volume (203 vs 7). WhichPitch's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 85%). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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 WhichPitch sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Complete Ear Trainer holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Complete Ear Trainer has 203 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 85% of Complete Ear Trainer's written reviews are positive against 100% of WhichPitch's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Complete Ear Trainer ships an update every 2 weeks, WhichPitch every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Complete Ear Trainer versus WhichPitch: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterComplete Ear TrainerWhichPitch
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (203 ratings) — better3.1 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews85.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings203 — better7
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.516.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size68 MB104 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBinary GuiltTaylor Christensen

Customer experience

Complete Ear Trainer

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

WhichPitch

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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
1 purchases

WhichPitch

One-time1
  • WhichPitch Full Version$6.99

Questions

Is Complete Ear Trainer free?
Complete Ear Trainer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is WhichPitch free?
WhichPitch is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Complete Ear Trainer or WhichPitch?
Complete Ear Trainer is rated higher. Complete Ear Trainer averages 4.7 out of 5 from 203 ratings, while WhichPitch averages 3.1 from 7 ratings.
Do Complete Ear Trainer or WhichPitch have ads?
Neither Complete Ear Trainer nor WhichPitch shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Complete Ear Trainer or WhichPitch?
Complete Ear Trainer ships an update every 2 weeks, and WhichPitch every 3 weeks. Most recently, Complete Ear Trainer was updated on November 9, 2026 and WhichPitch on October 30, 2026.

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