Comparison

Musicality Training vs Tone Hole

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

Head to head
About

Musicality Training

Learn music fundamentals quickly with daily exercises. Develop your ear for rhythm, pitch, and harmony to enhance your musical skills, whether you're a beginner or looking to refine your abilities.

Highlights
  • Create simple sounds and rhythms
  • Understand pitch and frequency
  • Feel harmony and tension
  • Recognize musical intervals
  • Improve beat keeping
  • Hear pitch differences
  • Play melodies naturally
Features
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Roughly one in six adults believe they are tone deaf. Measured, the real number is closer to one in sixty-five. Musicality is built for the gap between those numbers: for everyone who quietly decided music was not for them, based on nothing. You are not tone deaf. You are untrained. There is a difference, and you can hear it for yourself in three minutes a day. What an interval is An interval is the distance between two notes. The difference between a happy chord and a sad one is one semitone. There are thirteen of them, from the prime to the octave, and they are what Musicality teaches. You answer by playing Musicality plays a note and you play it back by ear, scored on pitch and timing, beat by beat. You are never asked to name what you heard. You need no instrument of your own. If you have a piano or a guitar, turn on the microphone and answer on that instead. Play along with the record Both albums play inside the app with the melody drawn as it sounds: on the page, on a piano keyboard, or on a guitar neck. Turn on the microphone and your own pitch appears beside the melody, so you can see where you landed. Training tracks play from half speed to one and a half. Two albums Basic Training and Sticky Tunes: twenty-six tracks composed for this app by Ruud Vleij. Every interval gets a Training that teaches the distance and a Tune that makes it stick. A tune never leaps further than the interval it teaches, so remembering the tune means remembering the interval. The tracks play like any album, lock screen and all: press play and simply listen, no instrument needed. It starts before the first lesson A four-chapter introduction builds music in front of you. A single pulse becomes time. Pulses fuse into frequency. Frequency becomes color and tone. Tones become music. No notation, no instrument, no experience needed. Then, three minutes a day Three minutes, every day. Your range grows only when your ear has earned it. The thirteen intervals The Prime you meet in the introduction; twelve more unlock as your ear proves itself, Minor Second to Octave. Real music for every interval: a Training to play along with, a Tune to remember it by. Thirteen rings, one per interval. They fill as you practice. Every interval's story: its waves, its ratio, the songs it lives in. Made by two people The app is by Jamal Vleij: design, code, words. The music is by his father, Ruud Vleij. Begun in the Netherlands in 2013, continued in Porto, Portugal, and still being made. The introduction is free, and three minutes of training a day. Pro removes the clock and opens all thirteen intervals. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: https://musicality.app/privacy/

About

Tone Hole

A musical game where players match tones to corresponding holes. It features different rounds, from color-assisted matching to challenging sound-only levels that test auditory memory.

Highlights
  • Tone matching gameplay
  • Color and sound matching
  • Sound-only practice rounds
  • Challenging silent outer holes
  • Auditory memory training
Features
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Sink the tone to the hole whose sound matches. Drag it or touch the matching hole. WARM-UP ROUND: Use color and sound to make the match. PRACTICE ROUND: Sound only. CHALLENGE ROUND: Outer holes are silent. You have to internalize their tones!

Screenshots

Musicality Training4 screens
Tone Hole1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Musicality Training at every 3 days against Tone Hole's every 2 weeks. Tone Hole's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, 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. Musicality Training sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month and Tone Hole 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Musicality Training against 5.0 for Tone Hole. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Musicality Training ships an update every 3 days, Tone Hole every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Musicality Training versus Tone Hole: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMusicality TrainingTone Hole
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings13 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size94 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJamal VleijListen Up Games

Customer experience

Musicality Training

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Tone Hole

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Musicality Training

Subscriptions1
  • Musicality Pro$1.991 Month
1 purchases

Tone Hole

One-time1
  • Tone Hole Full Game$1.99

Questions

Is Musicality Training free?
Musicality Training is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tone Hole free?
Tone Hole is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Musicality Training or Tone Hole?
Musicality Training and Tone Hole are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Musicality Training or Tone Hole have ads?
Neither Musicality Training nor Tone Hole shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Musicality Training or Tone Hole?
Musicality Training ships an update every 3 days, and Tone Hole every 2 weeks. Most recently, Musicality Training was updated on September 25, 2026 and Tone Hole on October 1, 2026.

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