Comparison

Tenuto vs Earpeggio

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

Earpeggio

Enhance your musical abilities by training your ear to recognize intervals, chords, scales, and rhythms. This app offers various exercises and tests to help you improve your musical hearing and track your progress with detailed statistics.

Highlights
  • Interval identification exercises
  • Chord identification exercises
  • Chord progression exercises
  • Melody dictation
  • Rhythm dictation
  • Progress tracking and statistics
Features
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Become a better musician! Master the identification of intervals, chords, scales and rhythms solely by hearing them. Earpeggio is an ear training app which lets you improve your musical hearing. Earpeggio provides ten different exercises, including: - Interval identification - Chord identification - Chord progressions - Melody dictation - Rhythm dictation Once you are bored with exercising, try taking the tests and see what your limits are. The broad statistics give you meaningful insights on your progress and help you achieve your goals.

Screenshots

Tenuto4 screens
Earpeggio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Earpeggio at Free against Tenuto's $4.99. Earpeggio also leads on ratings volume (9.7K vs 652). Tenuto's advantage is chart position (#6 vs unranked) and review sentiment (95% vs 86%). On rating, update cadence, 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

Earpeggio 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 — 4.8 for Tenuto against 4.9 for Earpeggio. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Earpeggio has 9.7K ratings behind it against 652, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 95% of Tenuto's written reviews are positive against 86% of Earpeggio's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tenuto ships an update every 3 months, Earpeggio every 2 months. Both last shipped on September 24, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Tenuto versus Earpeggio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTenutoEarpeggio
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (652 ratings)4.9 (9.7K ratings) — better
Positive reviews94.6% of reviews — better86.4% of reviews
Number of ratings6529.7K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank#6 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.815.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB37 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developermusictheory.netBalazs Kiss

Customer experience

Tenuto

All ratings652 ratings
Positive93.9%
Neutral2.0%
Negative4.1%
Written reviews350 reviews
Positive94.6%
Neutral2.6%
Negative2.9%

Earpeggio

All ratings9,660 ratings
Positive97.9%
Neutral1.2%
Negative0.8%
Written reviews265 reviews
Positive86.4%
Neutral6.8%
Negative6.8%

User reviews

Tenuto

From 652 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

Earpeggio

From 9.7K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Great for ear training
  • 🚀 Efficient and easy to use
  • 💡 Customizable exercises
  • 🤑 Completely free with no ads
  • 🤓 Helpful for music theory and exams

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional bugs and crashes
  • 🔇 Poor sound quality of instruments
  • 🤔 Unclear instructions for beginners
  • 🤯 Difficulty progressing to more advanced levels

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

Earpeggio

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Notes getting stuck or not turning off
  • Login and password reset functionality not working
  • Melodic dictation exercises not displaying properly
  • Inconsistent scoring and progress tracking

Requested features

5 requests
  • Option to change instrument sounds
  • Ability to repeat completed goals
  • More detailed feedback on mistakes
  • Adaptive difficulty based on user performance
  • Integration with other music learning platforms

In-app purchases

None

Tenuto

No in-app purchases

None

Earpeggio

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tenuto free?
Tenuto costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Earpeggio free?
Earpeggio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tenuto or Earpeggio?
Earpeggio is rated higher. Tenuto averages 4.8 out of 5 from 652 ratings, while Earpeggio averages 4.9 from 9.7K ratings.
Do Tenuto or Earpeggio have ads?
Neither Tenuto nor Earpeggio shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tenuto or Earpeggio?
Tenuto ships an update every 3 months, and Earpeggio every 2 months. Most recently, Tenuto was updated on September 24, 2026 and Earpeggio on September 24, 2026.

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