Isaiah Radcliff vs Active Ear
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Isaiah Radcliff
Enhance your musical abilities with ear training and specialized lessons from a renowned pianist. This app offers vocal training, piano instruction, and various recognition exercises for scales, chords, and pitch. Connect with a community through messaging and track your learning progress.
- Vocal Training
- Piano/Keyboard Lessons
- Key, Scale, Chord, Interval, Pitch Recognition
- Free Messaging
- Goal Tracking
- One-time Lesson Purchases
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Nationally-renowned pianist and teacher, Isaiah Radcliff now has his own iOS app. He offers music and ear training to help you grow your musical skills and enhance your hearing capabilities. His tips and suggestions are right on the money. Specializing In: • Vocal Training • Piano/Keyboard Lessons • Choir Workshops • Key Recognition • Scale Recognition • Chord Recognition • Interval Recognition • Pitch Recognition • Organ Drawbar Settings • Gospel Licks Stay connected with the community by using the free messaging feature. Send audio messages, text, share photos and even videos. Track your goals, and how long it takes to purchase an item. You may purchase a musical lesson through Apple Pay. (This is a one-time transaction) • 1 payment of ($75.00) • Your lesson will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase and will not automatically renew. • Privacy policy: http://www.ingreatercompany.com/privacy-policy Email your questions for a professional answer and he'll share his entire teaching knowledge from starting technique and scales to interpretation and musical theory. Start learning today!
Active Ear
Develop your musical ear with a comprehensive ear training app. It offers various exercises to help musicians identify pitches, intervals, chords, and progressions. Customize your learning with practice modes and test your knowledge with quizzes.
- Pitch Recognition
- Interval Training
- Chord Quality Identification
- Bassline Training
- Progression Training
- Chord Inversions
- Customizable Practice Mode
- Quiz Mode
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Active Ear is for musicians of all skill levels and instrument types. With dozens of exercises ranging from beginner to advanced, Active Ear focuses on teaching you to identify pitches, intervals, chords, and progressions using only your Ear. The Practice Mode of the app allows you to customize the challenges to focus only on areas you're interested in improving. Once you're confident with the Practice Mode, you test yourself in the Quiz Mode of the app to see how well you understand the concepts. Active Ear Comes with six Ear Training Programs: - Pitch Recognition - Interval Training - Chord Quality - Bassline Training - Progression Training - Chord Inversions
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Active Ear at monthly against Isaiah Radcliff's every 18 months. Active Ear also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and ratings volume (50 vs 1). Isaiah Radcliff's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Isaiah Radcliff holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Active Ear has 50 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Isaiah Radcliff ships an update every 18 months, Active Ear monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Isaiah Radcliff | Active Ear |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.7 (50 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 93.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 50 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 18 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rickey Hrabowskie | MCPHERSON'S MUSIC LLC |
Customer experience
Isaiah Radcliff
Active Ear
In-app purchases
Isaiah Radcliff
No in-app purchases
Active Ear
No in-app purchases
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