Sing It vs Active Ear
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sing It
Train and improve your musical ear and singing abilities. This app is designed for musicians, singers, or anyone looking to enhance their vocal skills and musical understanding, from beginner to expert levels.
- Test musical ear
- Train singing abilities
- Improve musical skills
- Beginner to expert levels
- For musicians and singers
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A must app for every musician, singer, or just for fun. Test,train, and improve your musical ear and singing abilities, from beginner to expert. Use this app to become a great musician and/or amazing singer.
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 rating: Sing It at 5.0 against Active Ear's 4.7. Sing It also leads on iOS requirement (9.3 vs 15.1). Active Ear's advantage is ratings volume (50 vs 3). On price, review sentiment, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Sing It 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 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Sing It's written reviews are positive against 94% of Active Ear's.
Sing It ships an update every 6 weeks, Active Ear monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sing It | Active Ear |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 4.7 (50 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 93.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 50 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.3 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | avi zazati | MCPHERSON'S MUSIC LLC |
Customer experience
Sing It
Active Ear
In-app purchases
Sing It
No in-app purchases
Active Ear
No in-app purchases
