Solfege Trainer vs Ear training
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Solfege Trainer
This app helps you improve your musical ear and sight-singing abilities. It tracks your pitch in real-time, displaying solfege syllables and note names. Get instant feedback to correct your singing and become a better musician.
- Real-time pitch accuracy tracking
- Movable and Fixed Do solfege support
- Customizable solfege syllables
- Sheet music capture and saving
- Integrated piano keyboard
- Singing recording for playback
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Do you want to read and sing music at first sight? Do you want to improve your pitch accuracy and practice solfege any time? If yes, this app is your perfect assistant. As you sing, it can track your pitch and display the solfege syllable (Do, Re, Mi, …) and also the note name (C, D, E, …) in real time. The instant feedback can help you correct yourself when you sing out of tune. When you are training your singing, you are also training your ears, because sight-singing and ear training go hand in hand. This is the smartest, most motivating and especially most efficient way to become a better musician. Main Features: • Visually check your pitch accuracy in real time • Support both “Movable Do” and “Fixed Do” solfege • Customize the solfege syllables based on your own habit • Take pictures of the sheet music you can found easily from Internet or books and save them in the app to practice conveniently • Piano keyboard is included to remind yourself of the correct pitch • To evaluate yourself, you can record your singing for playback • More features are coming…
Ear training
Develop perfect pitch and recognize notes, chords, and melodies by ear. This app offers a series of exercises to train your aural skills, with explanations and hints to help you learn at your own pace. Improve your ability to play along with songs or guess melodies.
- Develop perfect pitch
- Recognize notes and chords
- Identify intervals and chord progressions
- Learn major and minor scales
- Instrument-specific practice
- Hint function
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Would you like to be able to guess melodies by hearing them or be able to play accompaniment to your favorite songs on the guitar or piano? Ear training is the perfect app for you! This app will help you develop perfect pitch, and train your ear to recognize notes and chords in any key. The app consists of a series of exercises, which will gradually introduce you to all the notes and chords in the major and minor scales. You can also practice identifying intervals and chord progressions. Each exercise is accompanied by a clear and concise explanation, so you can understand the theory behind it. And if you get stuck, the app includes a handy hint function. The exercises are tailored to help you improve your aural skills, so you can develop at your own pace. You can also choose to practice in a particular key, or with a particular instrument. So why wait? Start training your ear today!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Ear training at Free against Solfege Trainer's $2.99. Ear training also leads on rating (4.5 vs 3.4) and ratings volume (245 vs 5). Solfege Trainer's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (43% vs 33%). On update cadence, 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
Ear training is free to download; Solfege Trainer costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Ear training holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ear training has 245 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 43% of Solfege Trainer's written reviews are positive against 33% of Ear training's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Solfege Trainer ships an update every 5 months, Ear training every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Solfege Trainer | Ear training |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.4 (5 ratings) | 4.5 (245 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews — better | 32.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 245 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Plearn LLC | Alexey Ovod |
Customer experience
Solfege Trainer
Ear training
In-app purchases
Solfege Trainer
No in-app purchases
Ear training
No in-app purchases
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