Comparison

Ear Training Master vs ScoreSkills

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

ScoreSkills

Learn music theory, ear training, and sight-reading through fun, step-by-step games and challenges. This app helps users of all levels compose their own music and improve cognitive skills like focus and memory.

Highlights
  • Ear training exercises
  • Sight-reading practice
  • Music theory lessons
  • Compose your own music
  • Step-by-step rewarding games
  • Instant performance feedback
Features
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ScoreSkills is an innovative app that helps you to learn music and enhance your musical skills in a fun & interesting way. The App is designed for beginners and doesn’t require a musical instrument to enjoy. ScoreSkills offers you (or your kids) "learning by experience" fun exercises that teach you as you go to read, write and play music at your own pace, whenever and wherever you want. “By far, it’s my favorite app, and it really helps me learn music theory while making it fun and interesting.” With our proven techniques, developed by music experts and educators, you'll gain everything you need to master music and become a pro (music theory, ear-training, sight-reading, music writing, etc.). Not only that, it is proved that our learning methods improve other life & brain skills such as; creativity, focus, memory abilities, analytical skills, etc. We introduce new skills by using step by step rewarding games and challenges that suit your playing level and give you instant feedback on your performance. WRITE YOUR OWN MUSIC! ScoreSkills is the only music education app that trains your music-writing skills as a core part of learning. You'll be composing your own music in no time. Download now to practice reading, writing, singing, and listening to music and join our global community of music makers. WHO IS THIS APP FOR? Basically, anyone who can read and wants to improve his music and personal skills. It is perfectly suited for self-learning or as a supplement to learning with a teacher. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN? The app contains thousands of levels, and we keep releasing hundreds more every few weeks that will teach you everything you need in a simplified way. Aural Foundations, Pitch Matching, Directional Audiation, Note reading up to an octave, Rhythms including Whole, Half, and Quarter Notes, Notes up to staff edges, Rhythms including eighth and 16th notes, Accidentals, Tonic and Dominant Functions, Notes up to 3 Ledger Lines, Rhythms with Ties, 4 More Major Scales, Chord Inversions, Add Subdominant Chords, Whole and Half Steps, 4 More Major Scales, Interval Quality, Simple Chord Progressions, Rhythms in 2/4, 4/4, and 6/8, Complex Rhythms in Duple/Triplets, All 12 Major keys and scales, Chord Progressions, and more subjects are arriving soon. HOW DOES THE SUBSCRIPTION WORK? Get a 7-day free trial! Subscribers will receive unlimited access to all of the chapters and levels. If you enjoy your ScoreSkills trial, do nothing, and your subscription will automatically continue. You can choose the plan that suits you the most between our 3 plans. Prices may vary in different countries, and payment will be charged to iTunes Account. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. CONTACT We'd love to hear your thoughts, feedback, and suggestions while we strive to make music education fun and easy and enable anyone to become a composer. Reach us at ScoreSkillsTeam@compoze.co Have fun! privacy policy: https://www.scoreskills.com/privacy.htm terms of use: https://www.scoreskills.com/terms.htm

Screenshots

Ear Training Master4 screens
ScoreSkills4 screens

Verdict

The call

Ear Training Master and ScoreSkills both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 96% of Ear Training Master's written reviews are positive against 60% of ScoreSkills's. Ear Training Master also leads on ads (none vs shown). ScoreSkills's advantage is ratings volume (2K vs 12). On price, rating, update cadence 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. Ear Training Master sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and ScoreSkills sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days. 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 Ear Training Master against 4.6 for ScoreSkills. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ScoreSkills has 2K 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 60% of ScoreSkills's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ear Training Master ships an update every 3 weeks, ScoreSkills fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Ear Training Master versus ScoreSkills: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEar Training MasterScoreSkills
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (12 ratings) — better4.6 (2K ratings)
Positive reviews95.7% of reviews — better59.7% of reviews
Number of ratings122K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.6
Further details — not scored
Size75 MB122 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer韧 郭Compoze Music Solutions

Customer experience

Ear Training Master

All ratings12 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.3%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive95.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative4.3%

ScoreSkills

All ratings1,943 ratings
Positive87.8%
Neutral6.0%
Negative6.3%
Written reviews273 reviews
Positive59.7%
Neutral15.0%
Negative25.3%

Bugs and requests

Ear Training Master

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

ScoreSkills

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashes frequently
  • Note-writing feature not working properly
  • Progress not saved between sessions
  • Lessons not unlocking as expected

Requested features

5 requests
  • Allow creating multiple user profiles
  • Add more detailed music theory lessons
  • Improve note-writing functionality
  • Provide better feedback on mistakes
  • Introduce a free version with ads

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Ear Training Master

Subscriptions2
  • Ear Training Master Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Ear Training Master Yearly$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • VIP Forever$34.99
10 purchases

ScoreSkills

Subscriptions10
  • ScoreSkills Pro3 Days trial$9.997 Days
  • ScoreSkills Pro$14.991 Month
  • ScoreSkills Pro3 Days trial$14.991 Month
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  • ScoreSkills Pro3 Days trial$28.993 Months
  • ScoreSkills Pro$29.993 Months
  • ScoreSkills Pro$39.991 Year
  • ScoreSkills Pro$44.996 Months
  • ScoreSkills Pro$59.991 Year
  • ScoreSkills Pro7 Days trial$59.991 Year
  • ScoreSkills Pro1 Month trial$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Ear Training Master free?
Ear Training Master is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ScoreSkills free?
ScoreSkills is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Ear Training Master or ScoreSkills?
Ear Training Master is rated higher. Ear Training Master averages 4.7 out of 5 from 12 ratings, while ScoreSkills averages 4.6 from 2K ratings.
Do Ear Training Master or ScoreSkills have ads?
ScoreSkills shows ads; Ear Training Master does not.
Which is updated more often, Ear Training Master or ScoreSkills?
Ear Training Master ships an update every 3 weeks, and ScoreSkills fortnightly. Most recently, Ear Training Master was updated on November 9, 2026 and ScoreSkills on November 2, 2026.

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