Comparison

iPracticePro vs Music Ear Ready

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

Head to head
About

iPracticePro

This app offers a comprehensive suite of tools for musicians, including a chromatic tuner, extensive chord library, and customizable metronome. Practice scales, intervals, and complex chord progressions with adjustable tempos and time signatures. Explore fingering charts and reed adjustment information for wind instruments.

Highlights
  • Chromatic tuner with adjustable frequencies
  • Extensive chord library with over 45 types
  • Customizable metronome with adjustable BPM and time signatures
  • Chord progression practice with over 50 progressions
  • Pad for creating custom intervals and chords
  • Saxophone fingering charts and reed adjustment info
Features
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•Drones• The first part of the app allows you to play all chromatic notes in tunings from 432Hz to 444Hz in many different sounds. The notes sound continuously and it´s a perfect way to practice intervals, chords and scales. You also have the possibility to play the notes randomly in an adjustable period of time. The app supports quarter tones if you´ve chosen expert mode. Sounds: organ, piano, electric piano, strings, guitar, double bass, bassoon, clarinet, oboe, flute and sine •Chords• The chord section contains 5 chords in standard mode more than 45 chords in expert mode. The metronome allows you to practice in tempos from 30bpm up to 300bpm. It can be set to different time signatures like 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 7/4, 9/4, 11/4, 13/4. You can also select or deselect the downbeats and offbeats separately. You can listen and play to all chords in all twelve keys, see which notes are the chord notes and scale notes and read information about the chord and the corresponding scale. In addition to that, all chords can also be played randomly. You can choose to just randomly change the root or the root and the chord type. The app lets you filter the chords, which allows you to only randomly play the chords of for example the modes of melodic minor or harmonic minor. 45+ Chords: ▵7, 7, -7, ø7, o7, 5 69, ▵7#11, ▵7#5, ▵7#5(11), ▵7#9, ▵7#9b13 7sus4, 7susb9, 7#11, 7#5, 7b913, 7b9b13, 7b13, 7alt -6, -▵7, -▵7b13, -7b13, -7b9, -7#11, -∆7#11, phryg, ø713, o7b2b11 major, major/3, major/5, major/b9, major/9, major/b3, major/11, major/#11, major/b13, major/13, major/7, major/▵7 minor, minor/b3, minor/5 augmented, diminished Sounds: electric piano, piano, organ and strings •Progressions• In this section you can practice more than 50 chord progressions in all twelve keys. The metronome, with all its setting options, is also included in this section. The volume of the root note, third and septime or rather the tensions is adjustable. If you press one of the two random buttons, the app picks a random root or a random progression and root. 50+ progressions: II-7 V7 I▵7, II-7 V7alt I▵7, II-7 bII7#11 I▵7, II-7 V7b913 I▵7, II-7 V7b9b13 I▵7, II-7 V7susb9 I▵7 IIø7 V7 I-, Coltrane Changes and so on…see full list on my website. Sounds: electric piano, piano, organ and strings •Pad• Using the pad you can put together your own intervals and chords. You have four octaves and five sounds to choose from, with which you can select up to five tones. The tones can sound both simultaneously and one after the other. The metronome, with all its setting options, is also included in this section. You can choose out of these sounds: electric piano, piano, organ, strings and sine •Fingerings for saxophone and reed adjustment for saxophone and clarinet• There are fingering charts about standard fingerings, false fingerings, altissimo and quarter tones and information about reed adjustment of sides, table, tip, shoulder and heart. If you don´t play the saxophone, you can hide this part of the app. •Features• * Stealth Mode (Ear Training Mode). You can use stealth mode in drones, chords and progressions. This will hide the currently played chords and display them afterwards. * A practice timer that informs you when your set practice time has expired. * Landscape mode. * Light- and dark appearance (Night Shift). * You can set if you play a C, Bb, oder Eb Instrument. * Are you an advanced player? The expert mode offers you additional information which could be confusing to unexperienced musicians. If you have no idea what C▵7#5 means or if you have never heard of quarter tones you probably should choose the standard mode. * All sounds can be played from 432Hz to 444Hz.

About

Music Ear Ready

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Music Ear Ready helps you train your harmonic ear: set up an exercise, listen to the chords and identify their function within the key. In Practice, choose exercises with one to four chords, a fixed or random key, piano or strings, and touch or MIDI input. The key selector places fixed keys around a circle of fifths, with a random-key choice in the center. Listen to the reference to establish the key, play the exercise and replay it whenever you need to. In Chords, build a free selection by adding families from Add more chords. Enable an entire family or choose individual chords, expand each family and preview its chords in the current key. For exercises with two to four chords, pin chords and choose whether each exercise must include all pinned chords or at least one. You can also explore modes from Try Modes. Choosing a variant starts a modal practice with a preset chord selection that cannot be edited while that mode is active. Exit the mode to return to your previous free selection, including pins that remain compatible with the selected exercise length. To answer, tap a slot, choose a family in the panel, then choose a chord. Before completing your answer, you can change a selection or listen to the original exercise chord from the same panel. After answering, listen to your answer and the exercise chord to compare them. Gesture selection is also available as a shortcut on iPhone. If you have a compatible MIDI keyboard connected, you can answer by playing. In Settings, adjust chord speed and hear a sample. Your preference is saved, and changing it preserves your current exercise and answers. The guide explains setup, listening, answering and MIDI. Open it again whenever you need help using the help button. The app supports Spanish and English and follows your device's language preference. Audio samples are included, so you can practice offline without creating an account. Your settings are saved locally. There are no ads or analytics services. Available for iPhone and iPad running iOS or iPadOS 16.4 or later. MIDI is optional and requires a compatible connected source; touch input lets you practice without external hardware.

Screenshots

iPracticePro4 screens
Music Ear Ready4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Music Ear Ready at Free against iPracticePro's $5.99. Music Ear Ready also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 5 weeks). On ads, in-app purchases, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Music Ear Ready is free to download; iPracticePro costs $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iPracticePro ships an update every 5 weeks, Music Ear Ready daily. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
iPracticePro versus Music Ear Ready: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriPracticeProMusic Ear Ready
Price$5.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (244 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews87.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings244 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size170 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSteffen WeberMartin Tabak

Bugs and requests

iPracticePro

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • App closes on its own after about 30 seconds
  • Cannot limit roots and progression at the same time

Requested features

10 requests
  • Display notes of a chord when improvising
  • Ability to create own chord progressions
  • Random tempo oscillation with tweakable parameters
  • Add sax voices
  • Cover more than an octave
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  • Add a metronome for drones
  • Keep audio playing in the background
  • Progress tracking with gamification
  • Drones cycle down the scale
  • Drone scale made of selected notes

Music Ear Ready

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

iPracticePro

No in-app purchases

None

Music Ear Ready

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is iPracticePro free?
iPracticePro costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Music Ear Ready free?
Music Ear Ready is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do iPracticePro or Music Ear Ready have ads?
Neither iPracticePro nor Music Ear Ready shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iPracticePro or Music Ear Ready?
iPracticePro ships an update every 5 weeks, and Music Ear Ready daily. Most recently, iPracticePro was updated on November 3, 2026 and Music Ear Ready on October 31, 2026.

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