Comparison

Musicated Ear Training vs HarmoniQ

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

Head to head
About

Musicated Ear Training

Enhance your musical abilities with interactive ear training exercises. Practice identifying notes, intervals, and chords through various drills. Customize your practice sessions and personalize the app's appearance.

Highlights
  • Higher / Lower drill
  • Single Note drill
  • Intervals drill
  • Keyboard Intervals drill
  • Chord Modes drill
  • Keyboard Chords drill
  • Customizable practice preferences
  • Changeable background images
Features
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Train your ears and become a better musician. This app includes 6 music ear training drills including Higher / Lower, Single Note, Intervals, Keyboard Intervals, Chord Modes and Keyboard Chords. The preferences allow you to set what you want to practice. The background images can be easily changed from the Main Menu.

About

HarmoniQ

This app provides conservatory-grade ear training with a focus on relative pitch. It analyzes your musical ear's unique profile and creates personalized lessons to address your specific weaknesses in intervals, chords, scales, and more.

Highlights
  • Relative pitch training
  • Interval, chord, and scale recognition
  • Error detection in rhythm and melody
  • Rhythmic and melodic dictation
  • Harmonic dictation
  • Personalized lesson recommendations
  • Detailed ear profile analysis
Features
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A conservatory-grade relative pitch trainer that measures your ear's unique profile and dynamically builds lessons to eliminate your weak spots. POWERED BY EAR-IQ Ear-iQ measures every answer in musical terms. Interval distances, chord-tone geometry, scale degree differences, notes shared in the key, and per-note pitch and rhythm differences tell you far more than a simple right or wrong. YOUR EAR, IN DIMENSIONS YOU ALREADY USE - Intervals: perfect consonant, major, minor, simple lower, simple upper, imperfect consonant, dissonant, and compound - Chords: triads, open, major, minor, diminished, augmented, dominant, 6ths & 7ths, 9ths, 11ths & 13ths, altered - Scales: major & minor, diatonic modes, pentatonic & blues, dominant, symmetric, jazz modes, exotic, bebop - Scale degrees and scale degree melodies: tonic chord, tendency tones, major key, minor key, and chromatic - Chord progressions: tonic, predominant, dominant, major, minor, diminished, triads, sevenths, secondary dominants, modal mixture - Error detection: pitch, rhythm, meters, voices, identification, and accuracy - Rhythmic dictation: note values, placement, syncopation, rests, tuplets, and meters - Melodic dictation: pitch, scale degree, interval, contour, and rhythm - Harmonic dictation: soprano, alto, tenor, and bass SMART RECOMMENDATIONS Ear-iQ tracks the pairs you confuse and draws them back onto the answer grid, weighted by how often you confuse them, letting them drift back out as you improve. Every lesson targets what you need most, and the difficulty rises when your performance says you're ready. No configuration required. ERROR DETECTION Read a rhythm, melody, or harmony while hearing it performed, then identify and mark the errors on an interactive staff. RHYTHMIC DICTATION Transcribe rhythmic patterns on an interactive staff. The engine tests precise note placement, rests, ties, syncopation, and tuplets across simple, compound, and asymmetric meters. MELODIC DICTATION Transcribe an infinite stream of melodies on an interactive staff. The engine uses real cadences, harmonic functions, and voice-leading rules to create natural, resolving melodies in real keys, meters, and clefs, and grades pitch, scale degree, interval, contour, and rhythm separately. HARMONIC DICTATION Transcribe harmonies in two, three, or four parts on an interactive staff, including treble, bass, alto, and tenor clefs. INTERVALS Every interval from a perfect unison to a major thirteenth, ascending, descending, and harmonic. CHORDS Triads, sixths and sevenths, extended and altered chords, with enharmonic spellings graded by chord-tone geometry. SCALES Major, minor, diatonic modes, pentatonic and blues, symmetric, jazz, and bebop scales. SCALE DEGREES AND SCALE DEGREE MELODIES Learn harmonic functions inside a key, diatonic and chromatic, in major and minor, one note at a time or as whole melodies. CHORD PROGRESSIONS Identify chord progressions by their Roman numerals, in major and minor. GAMES Play Find the Note and Pitch Collector for high scores. PRACTICE YOUR WAY Build a custom lesson from exactly the material you want, or start from a preset for any skill. Save custom lessons and shape your own learning path. Once you choose the skills you're working on, or define your own, your recommendations will follow. REAL INSTRUMENTS Recordings of real instruments across seven octaves: piano, violin, viola, cello, flute, oboe, clarinet, English horn, trumpet, French horn, and trombone, plus a pure sine tone. Every one is free in custom practice. FOR MUSIC STUDENTS, CASUAL LEARNERS, AND PROFESSIONALS Start with the fundamentals and let the engine raise the challenge as your ear improves, up to the advanced material tested in college placement and conservatory exams. Free lessons every day, no account required. Privacy Policy: https://harmoniqmusic.com/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Musicated Ear Training4 screens
HarmoniQ4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Musicated Ear Training at none against HarmoniQ's 6. Musicated Ear Training also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). HarmoniQ's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 47 months) and ratings volume (7 vs 2). On price, rating, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. HarmoniQ sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Musicated Ear Training asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Musicated Ear Training against 5.0 for HarmoniQ. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 7 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Musicated Ear Training ships an update every 47 months, HarmoniQ weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 4 level
Musicated Ear Training versus HarmoniQ: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMusicated Ear TrainingHarmoniQ
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (7 ratings)
Number of ratings27 — better
Update frequencyEvery 47 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size191 MB74 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAndrew MaddockMatthew James Clower

Customer experience

Musicated Ear Training

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

HarmoniQ

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Musicated Ear Training

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

HarmoniQ

Subscriptions2
  • HarmoniQ Pro7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • HarmoniQ Pro$29.991 Year
One-time4
  • Tiny Bundle of Diamonds$0.99
  • Small Bundle of Diamonds$1.99
  • Medium Bundle of Diamonds$4.99
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  • Buy me a coffee$5.99

Questions

Is Musicated Ear Training free?
Musicated Ear Training is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is HarmoniQ free?
HarmoniQ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Musicated Ear Training or HarmoniQ?
Musicated Ear Training and HarmoniQ are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 7 ratings respectively.
Do Musicated Ear Training or HarmoniQ have ads?
Neither Musicated Ear Training nor HarmoniQ shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Musicated Ear Training or HarmoniQ?
Musicated Ear Training ships an update every 47 months, and HarmoniQ weekly. Most recently, Musicated Ear Training was updated on November 3, 2026 and HarmoniQ on November 10, 2026.

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