Musical Scale Practice vs Ear training
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Musical Scale Practice
Learn and test your knowledge of musical scales with interactive practice and quiz modes. Visual aids like sheet music, sounds, and keyboard positions make it easy for beginners to grasp concepts.
- Practice Mode with random notes
- Quiz Mode to test skills
- Sheet music display
- Actual sound playback
- Scale name identification
- Keyboard position visualization
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In Practice Mode, you can study scales at your own pace with randomly displayed notes. In Quiz Mode, test your skills and see how much you've learned! With sheet music, actual sounds, scale names, and keyboard positions all displayed, even complete beginners can feel confident.
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 rating: Ear training at 4.5 against Musical Scale Practice's 3.8. Ear training also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 8 months vs every 32 months). Musical Scale Practice's advantage is review sentiment (50% vs 33%). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Musical Scale Practice sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Ear training asks for nothing beyond the download.
Ear training holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ear training has 248 ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Musical Scale Practice'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.
Musical Scale Practice ships an update every 32 months, Ear training every 8 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Musical Scale Practice | Ear training |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (16 ratings) | 4.5 (248 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 32.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 16 | 248 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 32 months | Every 8 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brick Bay Insights, Inc. | Alexey Ovod |
Customer experience
Musical Scale Practice
Ear training
In-app purchases
Musical Scale Practice
- Full Key Unlock$5.99
Ear training
No in-app purchases
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