Comparison

Guitar Interval Ear Trainer vs Dubplate Player

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

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About

Guitar Interval Ear Trainer

Master musical intervals on the guitar with this comprehensive ear training app. Learn to identify distances between notes visually and aurally, improving your ability to decipher music and replicate melodies.

Highlights
  • 17 selectable intervals
  • Melodic and harmonic interval options
  • Visual fretboard representation
  • Practice and quiz modes
  • Alternate tuning support
  • Scale context practice
  • Left-handed and bass guitar support
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One of the first steps in ear training is recognizing intervals, which are the distances between two notes. Because every melody, chord, or scale consists of a series of intervals, this is a fundamental and valuable skill in music. Our app is designed to help you identify intervals and learn how to locate them on the guitar. By improving your knowledge of intervals on the guitar, you can easily decipher chord progressions, replicate melodies as you hear them, gain a better understanding of written music, and more. Key Features - Choose from 17 selectable intervals, ranging from unison and minor seconds to major tenths. - Select between melodic and harmonic intervals, for both ascending and descending. - Get a visual representation of intervals on the guitar. - Choose the root note from two octaves. - Use portrait, portrait upside down, and landscape modes. - Optional voice function for convenient training, even in the car. - Practice and test (quiz)modes. - Intervals are categorized by difficulty level, with each group having 6 progress indicators corresponding to different interval types (melodic ascending/descending, harmonic ascending/descending, random melodic, random harmonic/melodic). - Optional reference melodies for each interval can be played, helping you learn intervals faster. - When practicing harmonic intervals, the app classifies the interval as consonant or dissonant, helping you identify harmonic intervals effectively. - Access over 10 alternate tunings, including NST (new standard tuning) and all fourths tuning, making it easier to recognize similar patterns across the fretboard for the same intervals. - An option to play only tapped notes (interval type "None") is available, which is useful for figuring out melodies or experimenting with alternate tunings. - In practice mode, the root can also be played as the second note in the interval. -In Test Mode, you can choose an infinite think-time. When infinite think-time is selected, tap anywhere outside the fretboard to replay the interval. - The app supports left-handed and bass guitars. - Enharmonic equivalent notes are used to maintain classical interval names, ensuring consistency with written music (e.g., the 3-semitone interval C - D# will be called a minor third C - Eb). - Practice and test intervals within a scale context, as the same intervals can sound different in various scales. This feature allows you to play partial scale runs of the interval automatically backward and/or forward in your chosen scale. - Visualize over 15 essential scales on the fretboard. The scale notes are clustered and colored to clearly indicate the root note to which the interval applies. - Our app is universal, designed for iPhone, iPhone Duo and iPad. - Support for all screen sizes. - Dark mode support (iOS 13+). - Tested on iOS and iPadOS 27.

About

Dubplate Player

Features
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The world hasn't heard it yet. You have. Dubplate turns a private folder in your cloud storage into a proper album library. Connect Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, or a Nextcloud server of your own, pick a folder, and it becomes an album you can play: artwork, tracklist, gapless-feel playback, lock-screen controls, and offline listening. It is built for the music that isn't on streaming. Unreleased albums and rough mixes. Pre-release folders someone shared with you. Bandcamp buys, live rips, out-of-print records, the bootlegs in the vault. HOW IT WORKS 1. Connect your cloud. Sign in to Dropbox, OneDrive or your own Nextcloud. Dubplate asks for read-only access: it can see and stream your files, never change them. 2. Pick a folder. Your own, or one shared with you. Dubplate reads the tags, or the filenames when there are none, and builds a clean album with artwork and tracklist. 3. Press play. Stream straight from your cloud, or sync an album to your device and listen offline. FEATURES - Albums built from folders, with embedded artwork and real track durations - Folders shared with you, not only your own - Offline sync: download an album and play it in airplane mode - Background audio and lock-screen controls - Playlists across albums, and per-track title and artist corrections - Lyrics and liner notes picked up from files beside your music - Search across your whole library - Light and dark, in English and Norwegian PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION There is no Dubplate server. The app talks straight from your device to the service you connected, and to nothing else. Your sign-in, your file names, your folder structure and your audio never reach a server we run, and your library is stored only on your device. Dubplate is read-only. It never uploads, renames, moves or deletes anything in your storage, and it never asks a service for permission to. PRICING One album free, with every feature. A single one-time purchase unlocks unlimited albums. No subscription and no ads. One purchase covers iPhone, iPad and Mac. WHAT YOU NEED An account with Dropbox or Microsoft OneDrive, or a Nextcloud server, with music files already in it. Dubplate is a player for storage you already have: it does not sell, provide or find music for you. Two notes on OneDrive, so nothing is a surprise. OneDrive gives apps no way to list the folders other people have shared with you, so add the folder to your own OneDrive with "Add shortcut to My files", or paste its link into the app. And OneDrive support is built for personal Microsoft accounts; a work or school account may need approval from whoever administers it. Dropbox is a trademark of Dropbox, Inc. Microsoft and OneDrive are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Nextcloud is a trademark of Nextcloud GmbH. Dubplate is an independent product, not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them.

Screenshots

Guitar Interval Ear Trainer4 screens
Dubplate Player4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Dubplate Player at Free against Guitar Interval Ear Trainer's $1.99. Dubplate Player also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.6). Guitar Interval Ear Trainer's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On 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

Dubplate Player is free to download; Guitar Interval Ear Trainer costs $1.99 up front. Dubplate Player sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Guitar Interval Ear Trainer asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Guitar Interval Ear Trainer ships an update every 3 months, Dubplate Player monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Guitar Interval Ear Trainer versus Dubplate Player: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGuitar Interval Ear TrainerDubplate Player
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (11 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews86.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings11 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS26.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRolfs AppsErik Buene

In-app purchases

None

Guitar Interval Ear Trainer

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Dubplate Player

One-time1
  • Dubplate Premium$1.99

Questions

Is Guitar Interval Ear Trainer free?
Guitar Interval Ear Trainer costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dubplate Player free?
Dubplate Player is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Guitar Interval Ear Trainer or Dubplate Player have ads?
Neither Guitar Interval Ear Trainer nor Dubplate Player shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Guitar Interval Ear Trainer or Dubplate Player?
Guitar Interval Ear Trainer ships an update every 3 months, and Dubplate Player monthly. Most recently, Guitar Interval Ear Trainer was updated on October 23, 2026 and Dubplate Player on October 25, 2026.

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