Ear Training App vs NoSheet
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ear Training App
This app offers a gamified approach to learning music theory, covering intervals, rhythm, and sight-reading. It features a guided "Journey" mode for beginners and a "Free Play" mode for advanced musicians to hone specific skills.
- Gamified music learning
- Interval recognition
- Rhythm training
- Sight-reading practice
- AI personalized tips
- Progress tracking
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Train your musical ear through games. NoteHunter is two apps in one: a guided Journey that teaches music the way real teachers do, and a Free Play sandbox where serious musicians drill the skills they actually need. LEARN: A FULL MUSIC THEORY COURSE (NEW) Nine units and 47 short lessons cover how music actually works: the staff, note names, rhythm and meter, scales, keys and the circle of fifths, intervals, chords, and cadences. Every lesson plays what it teaches, and quick drills after each one make sure it stuck. THE JOURNEY (great for kids, parents, and beginners) A step-by-step path through four biomes: Meadow, Forest, Mountains, and Ocean. Each biome adds new skills in the order music education actually teaches them. Higher or Lower comparisons, melodic contour, Sol-Mi singing, intervals, rhythm patterns, and sight reading. A friendly Bear mascot walks the map with you. Meadow and Forest are free; Mountains and Ocean unlock with Premium. FREE PLAY (for musicians who know what they want to practice) Jump into any drill at any difficulty: • Note Practice: identify random notes across your chosen pitch range • Interval Training: recognize the distance between two notes • Rhythm Hunter: drag and drop beats, from quarter notes to complex syncopation • Sheet Reading: read notes from the staff with adjustable difficulty ranges INSIDE EVERY MODE • AI Coach gives personalized tips and explanations as you play • Add reference notes to ground your practice • Multiple time signatures (4/4, 3/4, 2/4, 6/8) • Track streaks, accuracy, and progress across all modes • Haptic feedback so you feel every beat • Piano, guitar, violin, and flute sounds • Game Center leaderboards and achievements For kids, parents, music students, singers, and any musician who wants stronger ears. Start free. Start now. The app offers subscriptions that unlock custom settings and unlimited play: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
NoSheet
Learn the fundamentals of modern music theory and ear training through interactive games. This app helps you develop musical literacy by connecting what you hear to playing your instrument, fostering improvisation and spontaneous creation.
- Ear-to-instrument learning
- Find notes and intervals by ear
- Learn scales, chords, and progressions
- Sing and sight-sing exercises
- Improvisation training
- Progress tracking with statistics
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In any language, around ~1% of words can get you ~85% of the way to fluency. The same is true for music. Learn the basic vocabulary of modern music with NoSheet, and learn to speak music. NoSheet teaches it ear-to-instrument first, because you don't want to just be able to read a language - you want to hear it and use it. Become musically literate, and skip the middle step of opening your laptop and finding guitar tabs, piano roll, or sheet music. Learn to play by ear what you’re likely to hear and the gap between hearing something you like and playing it is bridged in a new, more direct, more powerful way, that allows you to create the sounds you want to hear spontaneously. Playing with your instrument at home or tapping away on the train, NoSheet will make you a wiser player with every session. Engaging gameplay teaches you music theory & trains your ears without monotonous drilling. - for guitar, piano, bass, ukulele and mandolin - find notes & intervals on your instrument, with your instrument, by ear - chat with our scatbot when you need help - find melodies in loads of scales & modes, with challenges of varying difficulty - learn what scales contain: intervals, triads, tetrads, & pentatonics - learn chord shapes & pick chord progressions by ear - sing & sight-sing to connect voice and instrument - audiation, powerful! - learn to improvise by playing endless melodies & harmonies - plan powerful practice sessions NoSheet is the only app that liberates your playing, taking you from being bound to guitar tabs or piano roll to playing freely - it is the only app that effortlessly teaches you to improvise. NoSheet bundles ear training and music theory into an ever-growing library of games with unique lessons that do precisely that. Surprise yourself with how instant the connection between ears and fingers can become. You may find that it feels almost automatic, like your mind is being bypassed by a direct connection. Your ear and fingers know, when your mind is still thinking it through. This is what you really want - to let your ear, or what you want to hear, guide your playing. Sing the degrees to develop an innate feeling for melodic function. Connect your voice and instrument to start picking the melodies you imagine. PP & ToU: https://www.nosheet.app/legal
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: NoSheet at 4.3 against Ear Training App's 4.0. NoSheet also leads on ratings volume (28 vs 3). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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. Ear Training App sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and NoSheet sells 15 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
NoSheet holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: NoSheet has 28 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Ear Training App's written reviews are positive against 57% of NoSheet's.
Ear Training App ships an update every 9 days, NoSheet every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ear Training App | NoSheet |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (3 ratings) | 4.3 (28 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 57.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 28 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 139 MB | 227 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Akos Komuves | Nicholas Fest |
Customer experience
Ear Training App
NoSheet
In-app purchases
Ear Training App
- Monthly$3.991 Month
- Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Lifetime$24.99
NoSheet
- Monthly (no trial)$2.991 Month
- Monthly + trial7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- 3 Months$6.993 Months
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- Monthly$7.991 Month
- Monthly pro7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- 6 Months$12.996 Months
- Annual Subscription7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- 6 Months$24.996 Months
- Annual subscription7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Annual Subscription$39.991 Year
- 6 Months7 Days trial$44.996 Months
- Annual Subscription$49.991 Year
- LifetimeFree
- Lifetime (promo)$19.99
- Lifetime pro$149.99
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