Comparison

Tenuto vs Chet

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

Head to head
About

Tenuto

Enhance your musicality with a comprehensive suite of 24 customizable theory exercises and six essential musical calculators. Practice note and chord identification, ear training, and construct musical elements. Tools include accidentals, intervals, scales, chords, analysis symbols, and twelve-tone matrices.

Highlights
  • 24 customizable theory exercises
  • Note and chord identification
  • Ear training for intervals and scales
  • Musical construction exercises
  • Accidental calculator
  • Interval calculator
  • Chord calculator
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Tenuto is a collection of 24 highly-customizable exercises designed to enhance your musicality. From recognizing chords on a keyboard to identifying intervals by ear, it has an exercise for you. Tenuto also includes six musical calculators for accidentals, intervals, scales, chords, analysis symbols, and twelve-tone matrices. A short description of the exercises and calculators follows. –––––– • Note Identification • Key Signature Identification • Interval Identification • Scale Identification • Chord Identification Tap the button corresponding to the written staff line. For example: if shown a C, E, and G with a sharp; tap the "Augmented Triad" button. –––––– • Note Construction • Key Signature Construction • Interval Construction • Scale Construction • Chord Construction Construct the specified label by moving notes and/or adding accidentals. For example: if shown a C and an "Augmented 4th" label, move the second note to F and add a sharp. –––––– • Keyboard Reverse Identification Tap the piano key corresponding to the written note on the staff. While similar to Note Identification, this exercise uses a piano keyboard rather than note name buttons. • Keyboard Note Identification • Keyboard Interval Identification • Keyboard Scale Identification • Keyboard Chord Identification Tap the button corresponding to the highlighted piano key(s). If the C and G keys are highlighted, tap the "P5" (Perfect 5th) button. –––––– • Fretboard Note Identification • Fretboard Interval Identification • Fretboard Scale Identification • Fretboard Chord Identification Tap the button corresponding to the marked fretboard position(s). If the 2nd fret of the D string is marked, tap the "E" button. –––––– • Keyboard Ear Training • Note Ear Training Listen to the played reference and question notes. Select the piano key or note button corresponding to the question note. • Interval Ear Training • Scale Ear Training • Chord Ear Training Tap the button corresponding to the played notes. If E and F are played, tap the "Minor 2nd" button. –––––– • Accidental Calculator Display the accidental for a note and key. • Interval Calculator Display the interval for a note, type, and key. • Chord Calculator Display the scale for a tonic and scale type. • Chord Calculator Display the chord for a note, type, and key. • Analysis Calculator Display the chord for a symbol and key. • Matrix Calculator Display the twelve-tone matrix for a specified tone row.

About

Chet

Develop your musical ear and master music theory with interactive games and exercises. Learn at your own pace, identify music concepts, and practice with virtual instruments. Track your progress and compete globally to become a more confident and versatile musician.

Highlights
  • Identify music theory concepts
  • Call and response exercises
  • Virtual piano, guitar, bass
  • Guided learning paths
  • Intervals, scales, chords exercises
  • Global leaderboards
  • Spaced repetition practice
Features
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Chet is a music education app with a focus on ear training and music theory. Learn at your own pace, play musical games, and compete against others from around the world! Using Chet helps you to become a more well-rounded, versatile musician. With a trained ear, you can learn songs more quickly, play with others more easily and feel confident in your overall musical abilities! Features: - Multiple choice questions that challenge you to identify music theory concepts. - Call and response questions using a virtual piano, guitar, or bass. - MIDI compatible... so plug in your MIDI keyboard if you have one! - Guided learning paths for beginner and intermediate users. - A library of exercises including intervals, scales, arpeggios, chords, progressions, tonal sequences, famous tunes, and atonal sequences. - Challenge games with competitive global leaderboards. - Professionally recorded music performed by world-class musicians. - A variety of musical genres including jazz, classical, pop and more. - A practice mode that uses spaced repetition. - Sign in to track your progress and compete with other musicians. - Never run out of ways to keep learning with regular updates and new content.

Screenshots

Tenuto4 screens
Chet4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Chet at Free against Tenuto's $4.99. Chet also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (2.4K vs 667). Tenuto's advantage is chart position (#6 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (15.8 vs 18.0). On rating, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Chet is free to download; Tenuto costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Tenuto against 4.8 for Chet. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 667 and 2.4K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 94% of Tenuto's written reviews are positive against 96% of Chet's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tenuto ships an update every 3 months, Chet every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Tenuto versus Chet: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTenutoChet
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (667 ratings)4.8 (2.4K ratings) — better
Positive reviews94.1% of reviews96.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings6672.4K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank#6 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.8 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB117 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developermusictheory.netEnsemble Education

Customer experience

Tenuto

All ratings652 ratings
Positive93.9%
Neutral2.0%
Negative4.1%
Written reviews354 reviews
Positive94.1%
Neutral3.1%
Negative2.8%

Chet

All ratings2,425 ratings
Positive95.3%
Neutral2.1%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews277 reviews
Positive96.0%
Neutral1.1%
Negative2.9%

User reviews

Tenuto

From 667 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Essential for musicians
  • 👍 Great app
  • 👍 Perfect app
  • 👍 Wonderful app
  • 👍 Highly recommend

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Wrong billing
  • 🐛 Piano tone is so bad
  • 🐛 Not good
  • 🐛 Great but buggy
  • 🐛 All sounds stopped working

Chet

From 2.4K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Great app
  • 👍 Helpful and fun
  • 🚀 Excellent ear training tool
  • 👍 Intuitive and well-designed
  • 🚀 Comprehensive and effective

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches
  • 🔋 Compatibility issues with older devices
  • 🐛 Inaccurate labeling of intervals
  • 🔋 Timed exercises not suitable for all

Bugs and requests

Tenuto

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Sound cuts out
  • Unresponsive at times
  • Freezes up
  • Doesn't work well for guitar
  • Incorrect chord/key associations

Requested features

20 requests
  • Cadences and inversions for ear training
  • Chord progressions for ear training
  • Melodic and harmonic minor modes for scale recognition
  • 6th, 9th, 11th and 13th chord extensions for chord recognition
  • Melodic dictation
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  • Rhythm exercises
  • Fretboard reverse identification
  • Chord inversions for chord identification
  • Scales written on staff using various clefs
  • Rhythm, melodic, and harmonic dictation exercises
  • Part writing exercises
  • Exercises for form, cadences, etc.
  • MIDI support
  • Autoplay function
  • Ability to input notes/chords on fretboard
  • Chord progression ear training
  • Inversion options for chord and interval identification
  • Melodic and harmonic minor scale identification
  • Extended chord identification
  • Rhythmic dictation

Chet

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App not loading or freezing
  • Incorrect labeling of intervals
  • Timed exercises not functioning properly

Requested features

7 requests
  • Add Chinese language support
  • Incorporate guitar-specific exercises
  • Introduce a hands-free mode
  • Reinstate the previous practice mode
  • Expand the range of musical genres and styles
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  • Add an option to change the tonic note
  • Introduce a daily streak feature

In-app purchases

None

Tenuto

No in-app purchases

None

Chet

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tenuto free?
Tenuto costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chet free?
Chet is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tenuto or Chet?
Chet is rated higher. Tenuto averages 4.7 out of 5 from 667 ratings, while Chet averages 4.8 from 2.4K ratings.
Do Tenuto or Chet have ads?
Neither Tenuto nor Chet shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tenuto or Chet?
Tenuto ships an update every 3 months, and Chet every 5 weeks. Most recently, Tenuto was updated on October 26, 2026 and Chet on October 28, 2026.

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