Comparison

OpenEar vs Pitch Ninja

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

Head to head
About

OpenEar

This app offers a variety of exercises designed to improve musicians' aural skills, focusing on tonal music. It helps users master recognizing musical patterns through exercises like scale degree and chord identification, and progression analysis.

Highlights
  • Scale Degree Identification
  • Chord Function Identification
  • Common Progressions
  • Chord Types
  • Scale Degrees with Chords
  • Triad Inversions
  • Intervals
Features
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OpenEar is the open source ear training app for musicians. It's goal is to provide a flexible variety of exercises with emphasis on tonal music so musicians will be able to master recognizing any musical pattern that might help them become better musicians. Currently includes the following exercises: 1. Scale Degree Identification 2. Chord Function Identification (identify chords in roman numeral analysis) - the only app in the world that allow this! 3. Common Progressions 4. Chord Types - including settings for root degrees per type so you can practice only common types in a tonal context 5. Scale Degrees with Chords - absolutely revolutionary exercise that help develop both scale degree and chord identification in tonal context. 6. Triad inversions - identify a position of a closed voiced triad 7. Intervals - the classic atonal intervals exercise. Not recommended for beginners as research shows that apart from advance usecases, intervals are not effective in developing good aural skills in tonal music. Check out our GitHub page for contribution and feedback: https://github.com/ShacharHarshuv/open-ear

About

Pitch Ninja

Features
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This is a simple ear training exercise app for audiation. You will be asked to sing an interval from a given tone. The app records your voice and gives you feedback. Best used with a headset.

Screenshots

OpenEar4 screens
Pitch Ninja4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Pitch Ninja at weekly against OpenEar's monthly. Pitch Ninja also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

OpenEar ships an update monthly, Pitch Ninja weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
OpenEar versus Pitch Ninja: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOpenEarPitch Ninja
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (12 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews62.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings12 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size106 MB111 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShachar Har-ShuvDmitry Alexandrovsky

In-app purchases

None

OpenEar

No in-app purchases

None

Pitch Ninja

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is OpenEar free?
OpenEar is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pitch Ninja free?
Pitch Ninja is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do OpenEar or Pitch Ninja have ads?
Neither OpenEar nor Pitch Ninja shows ads.
Which is updated more often, OpenEar or Pitch Ninja?
OpenEar ships an update monthly, and Pitch Ninja weekly. Most recently, OpenEar was updated on October 24, 2026 and Pitch Ninja on October 27, 2026.

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