# Tenuto vs Earpeggio

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 (#7 vs unranked) and review sentiment (95% vs 86%). On rating, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

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

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.

Tenuto ships an update every 3 months, Earpeggio every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.

## The numbers

| Metric | Tenuto | Earpeggio |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Price | $4.99 | **Free** |
| Rating | [4.8 (652 ratings)](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tenuto/id459313476/reviews) | **[4.9 (9.7K ratings)](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/earpeggio/id884775105/reviews)** |
| Number of ratings | 652 | **9.7K** |
| Positive reviews | **94.6% of reviews** | 86.4% of reviews |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Ads | No | No |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | **Every 2 months** |
| Monetization | Paid | **Free** |
| Best chart rank | **#7** | — |
| Size | 11 MB | 37 MB |
| Requires iOS | 15.8 | **15.0** |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | [musictheory.net](https://appshunter.io/developer/459313479) | [Balazs Kiss](https://appshunter.io/developer/6779887776) |

## What reviewers say

### Tenuto

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

**Currently charting:** #7 Top Paid · Music, #116 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


### Earpeggio

[App page](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/earpeggio/id884775105)

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:** Vision Pro support

**In-app purchases:** none

**What reviewers like**

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

**What reviewers complain about**

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

**Reported bugs**

- 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**

- 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


## Frequently asked 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 27, 2026.

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