Comparison

Musicality Training vs Daily Ear Training

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 to distinguish musical intervals through interactive exercises. Play along with melodies and track your progress daily. This app helps anyone develop their musical ear, even if they believe they are tone-deaf.

Highlights
  • Interval recognition exercises
  • Play-along melodies
  • Pitch and timing scoring
  • Visual feedback on piano/guitar
  • Two albums of original music
  • Progressive interval unlocking
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

Daily Ear Training

Features
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Daily Ear Training is a focused listening-practice app for iPhone. Hear intervals, scales, and chords, choose the answer, and build reliable musical recognition through short repeatable sessions. Key features - Interval, scale, and chord identification practice - Built-in AVAudioEngine synth playback - Replay, skip, and instant scoring for each question - Staff notation alongside answer choices - Session accuracy, average response time, and weak-spot tracking - Reference pitch, tempo, tone, difficulty, and question-count settings - All training history and settings stored locally on your device Beginners can start with short sessions and core intervals, while more experienced musicians can expand into scales and chord qualities for deeper daily practice. There are no accounts, subscriptions, ads, or server sync in this version. Accurate ears are built through steady repetition. Daily Ear Training keeps the loop simple: listen, answer, review, and return to the items that need more attention.

Screenshots

Musicality Training4 screens
Daily Ear Training4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Daily Ear Training at none against Musicality Training's 2. Musicality Training's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Musicality Training sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Daily Ear Training asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Musicality Training versus Daily Ear Training: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMusicality TrainingDaily Ear Training
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size94 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJamal Vleijsoohyun lee

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Musicality Training

Subscriptions1
  • Musicality Pro$1.991 Month
One-time1
  • Intervals$17.99
None

Daily Ear Training

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Musicality Training free?
Musicality Training is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Daily Ear Training free?
Daily Ear Training is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Musicality Training or Daily Ear Training have ads?
Neither Musicality Training nor Daily Ear Training shows ads.

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