Comparison

Riyaz vs Use Your Ear

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

Head to head
About

Riyaz

Learn to sing with instant feedback and thousands of practice lessons across various music styles. Track your progress and overcome mistakes with smart visual tools. Suitable for all ages and skill levels, from beginner to professional.

Highlights
  • Instant vocal feedback
  • Thousands of practice lessons
  • Carnatic, Hindustani, Devotional, Western styles
  • Smart visual tanpura
  • Voice recording and analysis
  • Progress tracking
  • Supports all voice types
Features
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Is singing your childhood dream? Let’s make that a reality! Riyaz has fulfilled the dreams of 30,00,000+ passionate singing aspirants. Just invest 10-15 mins a day on yourself. Be a proud connoisseur and a happy lifelong learner of music! Learn and practice singing with precise, instant feedback that guides you optimally to overcome your mistakes! No shyness, no embarrassment! With Riyaz, anybody can learn to sing! Give it a shot!! Download now and have ready access to thousands of practice lessons and songs in Carnatic, Hindustani classical, Devotional (light classical), and Western classical music styles! The smart visual tanpura in Riyaz helps you know and fix your mistakes before anyone else can. Let Riyaz record your practices to understand how much you exercised your voice! Top riyazers spend more than an hour daily doing sadhana and learning singing with the lessons offered! Join us today! Do get in touch with us (feedback [at] riyazapp [dot] com) if you need anything else as an aspiring singer or face any issues with Riyaz, we promise a reply to every email! Riyaz serves the needs of singing aspirants from absolute beginners to professional singers and everyone in between. We regularly update and add lots of lessons in all the music styles supported in Riyaz. Do send in your requests, we honor them :-) In Hindustani music, Beginner singing lessons include sargam, paltas and alankars. Advanced singing lessons include more than 45 raags with several bandishes in all those raags. In Carnatic music - Beginner lessons include Swaravalis, and intermediate and advanced singing lessons include Nottuswarams, Geethams, Geethams, Jatisvaras, and Svarajatis. In Devotional and light classical categories, Riyaz has various bhajans in praise of the deities. You're never too far from finding that perfect bhajan for offering your prayers. In Western classical music, we have structured vocal exercises for warm-up, vocal agility, dexterity, and vocal range. We also offer extensive solfege-based exercises and lessons to practice and be pitch perfect. Also comes with plenty of exercises to learn intervals, combinations of notes, rests, and much more! Whether you are a kid/teenager/adult, Riyaz supports all voice types and vocal ranges across all the course offerings for comfortable practice! Riyaz keeps track of your progress so that you know what’s happening. What are you waiting for? Come join the largest singing revolution the world has ever witnessed! :-) SUBSCRIPTIONS: All the content on Riyaz is offered for free, but the free version allows you to practice only 8 minutes per day. We offer a premium version with “unlimited practice” through a recurring subscription. Users can subscribe to either the monthly or annual subscription packages which are automatically renewed unless canceled by the user. An active subscription will give users unlimited practice to all content available on Riyaz. * Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase * Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period * Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal * Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. Terms of Service - https://riyazapp.com/terms-of-service/ If you have questions, suggestions, or feedback please write to us at [feedback]@riyazapp[dot]com

About

Use Your Ear

This app helps you develop your musical ear using a science-based method applied to full songs. Learn to recognize melodies and chords in real musical arrangements, progressing from beginner to advanced skills. It offers an enjoyable and effective way to practice ear training for real-life musical situations.

Highlights
  • Science-based ear training method
  • Apply to full songs
  • Recognize melodies and chords
  • Progress from beginner to advanced
  • Practice for real-life musical situations
  • Suitable for new and existing users
Features
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The Use Your Ear app guides you in applying the Use Your Ear method, the only science-based ear training method, to full songs. Train your ears by recognizing melodies and chords from fully produced songs with complete arrangements, helping you prepare for real-life situations when playing with your band or peers. The Use Your Ear method is known for its thorough, step-by-step process, consistently taking students from beginner to advanced ear training skills without exception. With this app, you can practice ear training in a more enjoyable and effective way by applying the method to full songs. You don't need to have been a student of the Use Your Ear method before to use this app; you can benefit from it even if you didn't know anything about Use Your Ear before. Terms & conditions: https://www.useyourear.com/terms-conditions-app Privacy policies: https://www.useyourear.com/privacy-policy-app

Screenshots

Riyaz4 screens
Use Your Ear4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Riyaz at 4.4 against Use Your Ear's 1.7. Riyaz also leads on ratings volume (340 vs 7). Use Your Ear's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Riyaz sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $24.49 per month and Use Your Ear sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.49 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Riyaz holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 1.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Riyaz has 340 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 45% of Riyaz's written reviews are positive against 43% of Use Your Ear's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Riyaz ships an update fortnightly, Use Your Ear every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Riyaz versus Use Your Ear: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRiyazUse Your Ear
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (340 ratings) — better1.7 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews44.8% of reviews — better42.9% of reviews
Number of ratings340 — better7
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size121 MB173 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMusicMuni Labs Pvt. Ltd.Use Your Ear

Customer experience

Riyaz

All ratings340 ratings
Positive86.2%
Neutral3.2%
Negative10.6%
Written reviews67 reviews
Positive44.8%
Neutral13.4%
Negative41.8%

Use Your Ear

All ratings7 ratings
Positive14.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative85.7%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive42.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative57.1%

Bugs and requests

Riyaz

Reported bugs

49 issues
  • App not optimized for large screens
  • High note not registered
  • App hanging when trying to loop
  • No repeat mode feature
  • Incorrectly marking perfect singing as incorrect
Show 44 more
  • Cannot find songs
  • App not displaying notes after high octave Sa
  • Looping gets stuck
  • Voice not taken consistently
  • Subscription not auto-renewing
  • Login buttons not working
  • Course preference not working
  • App stuck infinitely
  • App keeps rebooting
  • Updates introduced many bugs
  • App doesn't work anymore
  • Error fetching data message
  • App keeps crashing
  • Subscription not showing
  • Singalong feature uses substituted recordings
  • Slow speed and issues with loading
  • Practice plans failing to load
  • Subscription pricing misleading
  • Looping is poor
  • Tanpura not running properly
  • App not tracking singing properly
  • Stopped counting points on practices
  • App won't open
  • App hanging up frequently
  • App doesn't open for a long time
  • Doesn't move to the next lesson
  • Previous completed modules gone
  • App crashing on iOS
  • Progress lost after updates
  • App starts over at lesson 1 repeatedly
  • Exercise freezes during analysis
  • Daily practice sessions require uninstall/reinstall
  • Cannot update date of birth
  • App crashes after practice routines
  • Cannot find specific practice sections (e.g., seven notes)
  • Navigation not intuitive
  • Beginner starts with sangam without individual notes
  • Daily practice starts with sargam/paltas for beginners
  • No option to listen to own recording
  • No FAQs
  • No contact option within the app
  • Subscription issues (charged but not active)
  • Scammer trying to access Facebook account
  • App not working anymore after purchase

Requested features

12 requests
  • Add more song options (pop, musical theatre, rap)
  • Add intermediate and advanced carnatic levels
  • Add western music options
  • Add downloadable PDF for sargam and lyrics
  • Add Taal notations
Show 7 more
  • Add more vocal workouts in upper and lower octaves
  • Add Raag Darbari
  • Add option to practice Taal
  • Add option to practice seven notes
  • Simpler and flexible app interface
  • Dark mode option
  • Advanced analytics dashboard

Use Your Ear

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Riyaz

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly Subscription$24.491 Month
  • Yearly Subscription$79.991 Year
  • Yearly Subscription$88.991 Year
One-time7
  • Melodies on Krishna$49.99
  • Mridangam Accompaniment$49.99
  • Sanskrit Prosody & Verse$49.99
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  • Master Your Morsing$49.99
  • Master Any Song (Hindustani)$59.99
  • Hindustani Classical Basics$59.99
  • Voice Training Course$59.99
3 purchases

Use Your Ear

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly subscription$7.497 Days
  • Monthly Subscription$14.991 Month
  • Yearly Subscription$149.991 Year

Questions

Is Riyaz free?
Riyaz is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Use Your Ear free?
Use Your Ear is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Riyaz or Use Your Ear?
Riyaz is rated higher. Riyaz averages 4.4 out of 5 from 340 ratings, while Use Your Ear averages 1.7 from 7 ratings.
Do Riyaz or Use Your Ear have ads?
Neither Riyaz nor Use Your Ear shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Riyaz or Use Your Ear?
Riyaz ships an update fortnightly, and Use Your Ear every 3 weeks. Most recently, Riyaz was updated on November 10, 2026 and Use Your Ear on November 4, 2026.

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