Ear Trainer Lite vs Complete Ear Trainer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ear Trainer Lite
Improve your musical ear with this free educational tool. It offers exercises for intervals, chords, and scales, with a virtual piano to help you learn. Track your progress with collected statistics.
- Interval comparison exercises
- Chord identification exercises
- Chord progression exercises
- Scale identification exercises
- Melody exercises
- Virtual piano keyboard
- Progress statistics
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With an overall rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars it is a must to try out this app. Did we mention that it is free? Listening is the most important skill in music, and this app will help you to listen better. Ear Trainer Lite is an educational tool designed for musicians, music students and anyone interested in improving ones musical ear. It has exercises covering intervals, chords, and scales. This is the LITE version with 32 exercises. The full version has over 260 exercises and the ability to create custom exercises. Ear Trainer Lite covers the following categories: - Interval Comparison (18 exercises) - Chord Identification (3 exercises) - Chord Progressions (3 exercises) - Scales (4 exercises) - Melody (4 exercises) Each exercise has a short description of its purpose and optional preview. A virtual piano keyboard in each exercise helps you visually understand and analyze the notes that have been played. To aid your progression you can compare the different options after answering. (You can even play the virtual piano if you like!) As you progress through the exercises, statistics are collected so that you can see your progress. The questions in the exercises are randomly generated so you can do them over and over again as many times as you like to continue to hone your skills. For more information please see the demonstration video at: www.dev4phone.com
Complete Ear Trainer
Develop your musical ear and music theory knowledge with this comprehensive training app. It offers progressive drills, various sound options, and a gamified learning experience to improve improvisation, composition, and performance skills.
- 150+ progressive drills
- 11 drill types
- 24 intervals, 36 chord types
- Melodic dictations and chord progressions
- Gamified learning with star system
- Custom drill and program creation
- Cloud sync across devices
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The ultimate ear training app for musicians. Develop your relative pitch to the full by improving your aural skills and your music theory knowledge. This will better many aspects of your life as a musician, be it regarding improvisation, composition, arrangement, interpretation, singing, or playing in a band. Designed like a video game and with strong pedagogical concepts in mind, this app will make you truly master each interval, chord, scale, etc. before taking you to the next one. Features • 150+ progressive drills arranged over 4 levels / 28 chapters • 11 drill types, 24 intervals, 36 chord types, chord inversions, 28 scale types, melodic dictations, chord progressions • Easy mode: 50+ progressive drills arranged over 12 chapters especially designed for beginners • Play a selection of 21 drills in arcade mode • 5 octaves of actual recorded grand piano sounds • 7 additional sound banks are available, all with actual recorded sounds: vintage piano, Rhodes piano, electric guitar, harpsichord, concert harp, strings and pizzicato strings • In each chapter, a theory card will introduce you to the concepts you will need to know • No need to know how to read music on a staff • Designed like a video game: earn 3 stars in each drill of a chapter to unlock the next one. Or will you be able to obtain perfect 5-star scores? • Don't want to follow the preestablished path of progression? Create and save your own custom drills and rehearse them at your own convenience • Create full custom training programs and invite friends or students to join them. If for example you're a teacher you can create custom programs for your students, add drills every week and view their scores on private leaderboards • Never lose any progress: cloud sync across your various devices • 25 achievements to unlock • Worldwide leaderboards (global, per level, per chapter, easy mode, arcade mode) • Nice and clean user interface with 2 display themes: light and dark • Designed by a musician and music teacher with a Royal Conservatory master's degree Full Version • Download the app and try out the first chapter of each mode for free • One-time in-app purchase to unlock the full version on all your devices Having a problem? Got a suggestion? You can reach us at hello@completeeartrainer.com Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Complete Ear Trainer at fortnightly against Ear Trainer Lite's every 4 months. Ear Trainer Lite's advantage is review sentiment (95% vs 85%) and iOS requirement (12.1 vs 17.5). On price, rating, ratings volume 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 Trainer Lite sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Complete Ear Trainer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Ear Trainer Lite against 4.7 for Complete Ear Trainer. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 343 and 195 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 95% of Ear Trainer Lite's written reviews are positive against 85% of Complete Ear Trainer's.
Ear Trainer Lite ships an update every 4 months, Complete Ear Trainer fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ear Trainer Lite | Complete Ear Trainer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (343 ratings) | 4.7 (195 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 95.0% of reviews — better | 85.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 343 — better | 195 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.1 — better | 17.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 92 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | thoor software AB | Binary Guilt |
Customer experience
Ear Trainer Lite
Complete Ear Trainer
Bugs and requests
Ear Trainer Lite
Reported bugs
2 issues- Sound not playing
- Compatibility issues with older devices
Requested features
4 requests- More interval training options
- Customizable difficulty levels
- Support for different instrument timbres
- Progress tracking and performance analytics
Complete Ear Trainer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Ear Trainer Lite
- Upgrade to full version$7.99
Complete Ear Trainer
- Cloud Sync and Web access$0.991 Month
- Cloud Sync and Web access$9.991 Year
- Full Version$6.99
Questions
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