Comparison

Complete Ear Trainer vs Pure Tuner

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

Pure Tuner

Features
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Almost every tuner measures against equal temperament. If you tune a harpsichord to Werckmeister, play meantone in a consort, sing pure thirds in a choir or own a 19-tone guitar, that is of little use. Pure Tuner measures against the tuning you actually play in. Free: • A display in the style of an analogue meter: long, thin needle, one tick per cent, a green zone of ±3 cents • Switchable fine scale of ±15 cents for precise tuning close to the target note • Reference pitch anywhere from 380 to 480 Hz. 392, 415, 430, 440, 442 and 466 Hz can be selected directly • Detects low notes in the correct octave, from a five-string bass to a piccolo • With plucked notes, the reading stays for a moment after the note has died away One-time purchase "Every Tuning": • Werckmeister III, Kirnberger II and III, Vallotti, Young II, Kellner, Bach/Lehman • Quarter-, sixth- and third-comma meantone, Pythagorean, just intonation in any key • Equal divisions of 17, 19, 22, 24, 31 and 53 tones, 22 shruti, Bohlen–Pierce • A workshop for your own tunings: enter cents or frequency ratios, starting from any existing tuning • Import and export of Scala files (.scl) • A drone on the key note, with a pure fifth if you like, for tuning by ear When you change the tuning, the key note stays where it is. Only the other notes move. Pitch detection runs on your device, nothing is recorded or transmitted. No account, no ads, no subscription.

Screenshots

Complete Ear Trainer4 screens
Pure Tuner4 screens

Verdict

The call

Complete Ear Trainer and Pure Tuner are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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 Pure Tuner sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Complete Ear Trainer versus Pure Tuner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterComplete Ear TrainerPure Tuner
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (201 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews85.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings201 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.5 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size78 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBinary GuiltChristian-Conrad Knorr

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

Pure Tuner

One-time1
  • Every Tuning$3.99

Questions

Is Complete Ear Trainer free?
Complete Ear Trainer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pure Tuner free?
Pure Tuner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Complete Ear Trainer or Pure Tuner have ads?
Neither Complete Ear Trainer nor Pure Tuner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Complete Ear Trainer or Pure Tuner?
Complete Ear Trainer ships an update fortnightly, and Pure Tuner fortnightly. Most recently, Complete Ear Trainer was updated on October 29, 2026 and Pure Tuner on October 24, 2026.

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