Comparison

Tenuto vs Musician Learner

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

Musician Learner

Features
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MusicianLearner is your personal practice coach — built for instrumentalists who want to hear exactly where they're going wrong and track their improvement over time. REAL-TIME NOTE DETECTION As you play, MusicianLearner listens and detects every note instantly using YIN and FFT algorithms. A live sheet view shows each note as you play it — colour coded green for correct, red for wrong, and grey for expected notes you haven't hit yet. AI-POWERED TRANSCRIPTION Upload any song you want to practise. Choose between on-device processing (fast, works offline) or AI extraction powered by Spotify's open-source Basic Pitch neural network — ideal for polyphonic pieces like piano chords and guitar arrangements. ACCURACY SCORE WITH DTW COMPARISON After each recording, Dynamic Time Warping compares your notes against the reference song — accounting for natural tempo variations — and gives you a precise accuracy percentage. Know exactly which notes you hit and which you missed. MUSIC SHEET GENERATOR Any uploaded song or recording can be visualised as rendered sheet music. Export as an image or PDF to bring to your teacher or print for your music stand. BUILT-IN CHROMATIC TUNER A chromatic tuner is always one tap away in the Tuner tab. Tune your instrument before every practice session without leaving the app, with an adjustable reference A from the standard 440 Hz. CHALLENGES Compete with other musicians on shared songs. Create a challenge from any of your songs, submit your recording, and see where you rank on the accuracy leaderboard. MUSICAL DNA Your Musical DNA builds automatically after each practice session — giving you a long-term accuracy profile across all your songs and instruments. HOW IT WORKS 1. Sign in with Google or Apple 2. Upload a reference song (MP3, M4A, WAV and more) 3. Tap + in Recordings, choose your song, and play along 4. Review your accuracy score and music sheet PRIVACY Your songs and recordings are stored privately — only you can access them. No ads, no tracking, no data sold to third parties. Delete your account and all data at any time from Settings.

Screenshots

Tenuto4 screens
Musician Learner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Musician Learner at Free against Tenuto's $4.99. Musician Learner also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). Tenuto's advantage is chart position (#7 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tenuto ships an update every 3 months, Musician Learner every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Tenuto versus Musician Learner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTenutoMusician Learner
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (667 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews94.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings667 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#7 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.8 — better16
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB46 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developermusictheory.netpascal daher

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

Musician Learner

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Tenuto

No in-app purchases

None

Musician Learner

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tenuto free?
Tenuto costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Musician Learner free?
Musician Learner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tenuto or Musician Learner have ads?
Neither Tenuto nor Musician Learner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tenuto or Musician Learner?
Tenuto ships an update every 3 months, and Musician Learner every 3 weeks. Most recently, Tenuto was updated on October 26, 2026 and Musician Learner on October 14, 2026.

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