# Tenuto vs Étude

The clearest difference is price: Étude at Free against Tenuto's $4.99. Tenuto's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and chart position (#4 vs unranked). On ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Étude is free to download; Tenuto costs $4.99 up front. Étude sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. Tenuto asks for nothing beyond the download.

## The numbers

| Metric | Tenuto | Étude |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Price | $4.99 | **Free** |
| Rating | **[4.8 (652 ratings)](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tenuto/id459313476/reviews)** | — |
| Number of ratings | **652** | — |
| Positive reviews | 94.1% of reviews | — |
| In-app purchases | **No** | Yes |
| Ads | No | No |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | — |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Best chart rank | **#4** | — |
| Size | 11 MB | 43 MB |
| Requires iOS | 15.8 | **15.1** |
| Devices | **iPhone, iPad, iPod** | iPhone, iPod |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | [musictheory.net](https://appshunter.io/developer/459313479) | [Gael Homere](https://appshunter.io/developer/6786710850) |

## What reviewers say

### Tenuto

[App page](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tenuto/id459313476)

**Currently charting:** #4 Top Paid · Music, #28 Top Paid (US App Store)

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

**In-app purchases:** none

**What reviewers like**

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

**What reviewers complain about**

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

**Reported bugs**

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

**Requested features**

- 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


### Étude

[App page](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/etude-piano-practice-tracker/id6804077005)

**Features:** macOS Compatibility, Vision Pro support

**In-app purchases (2)**

| Purchase | Price | Billing |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Étude Full, Monthly | $14.99 | per month |
| Étude Full, Yearly | $119.99 | per year |


## Frequently asked questions

### Is Tenuto free?

Tenuto costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.

### Is Étude free?

Étude is free to download, with in-app purchases available.

### Do Tenuto or Étude have ads?

Neither Tenuto nor Étude shows ads.

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*Compared by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/) from daily US App Store data. Review summaries are generated from verbatim App Store reviews.*