Audio Deck vs Guitar Earo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Audio Deck
Organize, play, and share your audio projects with this streamlined tool. Cloud syncing ensures your library is accessible across devices, and easy sharing links simplify collaboration.
- Organize tracks into folders
- Arrange and sort audio files
- Tag tracks for easy retrieval
- Cloud syncing across devices
- Share tracks via direct links
- Download and re-download audio
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Use Audio Deck to listen to your sketches, mixes, and any other audio you're working on. Organize your tracks into folders, arrange and sort them, and also tag tracks. If all you need is an audio player, those features are all free. With a subscription, your tracks will be uploaded to the cloud. Your audio library will be available across all your devices and will stay in sync. If your device gets full (as it does), you can clear the storage on your device. When you need to listen to those tracks, just download them again. The Audio Deck Cloud service keeps the originals for you. A subscription also allows you to share your tracks. If you are annoyed by using standard file-sharing apps to send music, this part is for you. In Audio Deck, you create a link, and you send that link to your friend. That link will open Audio Deck on your friend's device, and they can immediately download and listen to your music. If you give permission, they can also export and save the original file. Receiving and listening to a shared folder is free and works across different mobile devices, so your subscription makes collaboration wonderfully easy.
Guitar Earo
This app helps musicians compare the tonal differences between various guitars before purchasing. It offers instant A/B comparisons, structured ear training exercises, and blind listening challenges to refine your tone recognition skills.
- Instant guitar A/B comparison
- Curated library of iconic guitars
- Ear training courses
- Blind tone recognition challenges
- Progress tracking
- New content added regularly
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Guess which guitar is playing. Real recordings, same hands, same amp, same room. Most guitarists chase tone by buying more gear. Guitar Earo is a more fun way to spend five minutes: guess which guitar is playing, flip A/B on real recordings, see if your ears agree with your eyes. Same player, same amp, same room. One thing changed. We asked 180 guitarists to tell a humbucker from a single coil. Six in ten got it wrong. Set neck against bolt-on. Two tones that could not be further apart, and still a coin toss for most players. Past a certain point, everybody is guessing. Open the app and take the 60 second test. No signup first. You hear two guitars back to back, pick which is which, and get a score that names what you missed. Then you play. Instant A/B. Real instruments. Same player, same amp, same riff. Listen for the bite in a single coil's attack, or the way a humbucker's low mids fill in. Five quizzes a day. Miss it, A/B it, come back tomorrow. Privacy Policy: https://www.earo.app/privacy_policy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Guitar Earo at 5.0 against Audio Deck's 4.0. Guitar Earo also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). 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. Audio Deck sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Guitar Earo sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Guitar Earo holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Audio Deck's written reviews are positive against 100% of Guitar Earo's.
Audio Deck ships an update every 2 weeks, Guitar Earo every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 6, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Audio Deck | Guitar Earo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 156 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ben Singer | Earo Technologies Ltd |
Customer experience
Audio Deck
Guitar Earo
In-app purchases
Audio Deck
- Cloud$1.991 Month
- Cloud Yearly$19.991 Year
Guitar Earo
- Guitar Earo Founders Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Guitar Earo Pro Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Guitar Earo Founders Yearly7 Days trial$34.991 Year
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- Guitar Earo Pro Yearly7 Days trial$69.991 Year
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