Ear Training Master vs EarForge
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ear Training Master
This app helps children develop essential music skills through interactive exercises. It focuses on listening accuracy, rhythm, singing from sheet music, and reading notes with immediate feedback and customizable practice plans.
- Interactive music learning challenges
- Develops listening, rhythm, singing, and note reading
- 19,573 progressive exercises
- Customizable practice plans
- Immediate feedback and progress tracking
- Singing from sheet music with pitch guide
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Help children truly understand music by listening, tapping rhythms, singing, and reading notes! Ear Training Master for Kids turns serious music learning into engaging interactive challenges. It develops four essential abilities: recognizing sounds, understanding rhythm, singing directly from sheet music, and reading notes. The app has 19,573 exercises, arranged in progressive levels. Children begin with basic notes, beats, and music notation, then advance to intervals, chords, accidentals, complex rhythms, and melodies, building a strong musical foundation step by step. Listen to melodies and reproduce them on the piano keyboard to improve listening accuracy. Drag rhythm patterns into the correct positions or tap a drum along with the beat to develop a steady sense of rhythm. Sing from sheet music while a real-time visual guide shows pitch and accuracy. See a note and quickly find the matching piano key, making music reading more natural with every practice session. In addition to the structured levels, the app offers a wide range of customizable practice. Choose the exercise content, note range, tempo, time signature, intervals, chords, rhythm patterns, number of questions, and difficulty to create a personal practice plan for different abilities and learning goals. Immediate feedback, learning statistics, review of previous mistakes, and daily practice help children focus on weak areas and clearly see their progress. Ideal for children's music education, learning an instrument, and systematically developing listening, rhythm, singing, and music-reading skills. VIP AUTO-RENEWABLE SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION - Subscription periods: 1 month (monthly auto-renewable subscription) or 12 months (annual auto-renewable subscription). - Payment: Payment will be charged to your iTunes/Apple Account upon confirmation of purchase. - Cancellation: To cancel auto-renewal, turn it off in your iTunes/Apple Account subscription settings at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. - Renewal: Your iTunes/Apple Account will be charged within 24 hours before the end of the current period. After successful payment, the subscription will renew for the corresponding period. - Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ - Privacy Policy: https://app.notion.com/p/Ear-Training-Master-for-Kids-Support-FAQ-3e630ae239d38031b9eff026fd1a3471 Contact the developer: nuttystudio8@gmail.com
EarForge
This app offers a structured ear training program designed to improve your sense of pitch and ability to recognize musical notes and chords. It features progressive lessons, personalized quizzes, and detailed progress tracking. Advanced users can create custom training sessions for specific musical elements.
- 30-level note recognition program
- Chord identification lessons
- Customizable note and chord training
- Progress tracking with profile statistics
- Ad-free experience (PRO)
- Exclusive themes (PRO)
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— Featured in App of the Day and one of Apple's "Apps We Love", "Our latest Favourites" and "Turn Learning Into a Game" more than 100 countries including United States, United Kingdom and China! — EarForge is an app that can help you achieve the perfect ears and improve your sense of pitch with our well-designed training program. FEATURES - Lessons NOTES Enjoy our 30-level well-designed program. Develop your skill to recognize different notes. Great for beginners and any musicians. - Lessons CHORDS Given a single chord. Your goal is to identify the chord that you heard. - Quiz Unlock the quiz to challenge yourself in the next level. - Profile You can find your stat here. Check out your note accuracy, what you’re good at and what to improve. And track your progress with Facebook login, Google login or sign in with apple. EarForge PRO — a paid subscription feature * - Training NOTES You can program your own specific notes, sounds and octaves. This training mode will help you focus on the notes you want to learn and practice. - Training CHORDS You can program on specific chord keys, chord types and octaves. Listen to the chord and try to guess the correct answers. - Custom NOTES LESSON Keep practicing and create your own notes lesson. Select at least 3 notes you want to learn. This lesson will collect stats but not collect stars. - Custom CHORDS LESSON Keep practicing and create your own chords lesson. Select chord keys and select at least 3 chord types. This lesson will collect stats but not collect stars. - Exclusive themes It's beautiful and more delightful to use. - No ads Ad-free, no interruptions. * EarForge PRO subscription price is $2.99/month or $19.99/year. (Pricing may be converted to your local currency.) Payment will be charged to your iTunes account. Your subscription will auto-renew within 24 hours before the end of the current period and you can turn off auto-renewal at any time in the account settings. See our Privacy Policy at https://earforge.blog/privacy-policy/ and Terms of Service at https://earforge.blog/terms-of-service/ Feedback is always welcome, please let we know in the comment. Start forging your ears now! Learn Perfect pitch / Relative pitch / Absolute pitch / Ear training
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Verdict
Ear Training Master and EarForge both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 96% of Ear Training Master's written reviews are positive against 63% of EarForge's. EarForge's advantage is ratings volume (294 vs 12) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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
Both are free to download. Ear Training Master sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and EarForge sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Ear Training Master against 4.6 for EarForge. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: EarForge has 294 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 96% of Ear Training Master's written reviews are positive against 63% of EarForge's.
Ear Training Master ships an update every 3 weeks, EarForge every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ear Training Master | EarForge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (12 ratings) — better | 4.6 (294 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 95.7% of reviews — better | 62.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 294 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 93 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 韧 郭 | Patcharapon Phasukdee |
Customer experience
Ear Training Master
EarForge
In-app purchases
Ear Training Master
- Ear Training Master Monthly$3.991 Month
- Ear Training Master Yearly$24.991 Year
- VIP Forever$34.99
EarForge
- Monthly Subscription$3.991 Month
- Yearly Subscription$19.991 Year
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