ChordProg Ear Trainer vs DroneTones
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ChordProg Ear Trainer
This app offers a realistic music training experience by using real audio clips to teach chord progressions, intervals, chords, and scales. It provides over 500 audio clips for practice and is designed to help prepare users for ear training tests.
- Chord progression recognition
- Interval recognition exercises
- Chord recognition exercises
- Scale recognition exercises
- 500+ real audio clips
- Music theory exploration
- Regular updates with new features
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Learn to recognize chord progressions by ear with real recorded music. ChordProg Ear Trainer has exercises for chord, interval and scale practice, from identifying individual sounds to following a whole progression. Listen to a clip and name the chords in order. Replay a passage when you need another listen, and switch between chord names and Roman numerals to practice recognizing each chord's role in the key. More than 500 recorded clips give you practice across different keys and voicings. Focus on the sounds you want to recognize. Practice telling chord types apart, hearing the distance between two notes or identifying a scale as it plays. Work through short levels and return to the ones you find difficult. Your results and daily streak help you keep track of your practice. When you want to understand what you heard, look it up in the chord, interval and scale dictionaries. You can also tap notes on the piano to find matching chords and scales. Try introductory levels without a subscription. Premium gives you full access to the chord, interval, scale and chord progression exercises through an auto-renewing monthly or yearly subscription. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
DroneTones
Enhance your musical improvisation and practice sessions with sustained drone sounds. This app offers a wide range of keys and an intuitive interface to help musicians of all levels find the right notes and elevate their performances.
- Sustained drone sounds
- Expanded range of keys
- User-friendly interface
- Improvisation tool
- Practice enhancement
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A steady, warm cello drone to help you play in tune. Pick a note, press play, and tune your ear to a rock-solid reference pitch — for any instrument or voice. Practicing with a drone is the fastest way to fix intonation. Instead of chasing a needle on a tuner, you train your ear against a continuous reference tone and learn what "in tune" actually feels like. Scales, long tones, improv, warm-ups — a drone makes all of it sharper. DroneTones gives you a rich, natural cello timbre across all 12 chromatic notes, so the drone sits comfortably under whatever you play or sing. WHO IT'S FOR • Strings — violin, viola, cello, bass intonation • Voice & choir — match pitch and hold a tonal center • Brass & woodwinds — tune long tones to a reference • Any musician working on playing in tune FEATURES • Warm, natural cello drone tones • All 12 chromatic notes • Clean, distraction-free interface • Completely free — no time limits, no lock-outs • Optional tip jar if it helps your practice No ads. No subscription. Just a clean reference pitch whenever you need one.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: DroneTones at 4.8 against ChordProg Ear Trainer's 4.3. DroneTones also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 75%) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). ChordProg Ear Trainer's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs monthly). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. ChordProg Ear Trainer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and DroneTones sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
DroneTones holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 10 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of ChordProg Ear Trainer's written reviews are positive against 100% of DroneTones's.
ChordProg Ear Trainer ships an update every 9 days, DroneTones monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ChordProg Ear Trainer | DroneTones |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (15 ratings) | 4.8 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 139 MB | 153 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DevDa AS | Thanh Nguyen |
Customer experience
ChordProg Ear Trainer
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In-app purchases
ChordProg Ear Trainer
- Monthly premium subscription!$2.991 Month
- Yearly Premium Subscription!3 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Premium Access$9.99
DroneTones
- Grace Note$1.99
- Crescendo$4.99
- Standing Ovation$9.99
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