Comparison

Scale Master 2.0 vs hEARit!

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

Head to head
About

Scale Master 2.0

This app helps musicians improve their tuning accuracy and speed. It uses droning sounds to practice intonation and visually highlights scale patterns for easy recognition. Ideal for both aspiring and professional musicians, as well as educators.

Highlights
  • Droning sound practice for intonation
  • Visual scale pattern highlighting
  • Supports various scale modes
  • Scale auto-play function
  • Real-time interval generation
  • 780 droning renderings
  • 420 scale configurations
Features
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Train your ears. Strengthen your intonation. Play with greater confidence. Scale Master helps musicians develop a more reliable sense of pitch by turning intonation into something you can clearly hear, feel, and practice. Whether you sing, play a wind or string instrument, rehearse an ensemble, or teach music, Scale Master provides a steady tonal reference that makes focused listening easier. Practice with a sustained root and justly tuned interval to hear when two notes truly resonate. As your pitch settles into place, beating is reduced and the sound becomes clearer—helping you learn the sensation of playing in tune, not merely watching a tuner. Switch to scale practice to build dependable pitch placement across keys. Hear each scale ascend and descend while following its pattern on screen, then work at your own pace with adjustable tempo, note length, repetition, and metronome support. Scale Master can help you: • Recognize and correct intonation more quickly • Hear the resonance of well-tuned intervals • Develop stronger interval and scale awareness • Improve ensemble balance and harmonic listening • Practice confidently with a stable tonal center • Demonstrate pitch relationships clearly to students Choose your concert root, octave, transposing instrument, enharmonic spelling, and pitch calibration to create a practice environment that fits your music. Use Scale mode for consistent equal-tempered pitch placement, or Drone mode to explore the resonance of just intonation. Included scales cover essential material such as major, natural minor, harmonic minor, blues, whole tone, chromatic, and pentatonic scales. An optional Jazz Modes upgrade adds Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, and Locrian modes. Designed by a professional musician and educator, Scale Master is a practical ear-training companion for students, teachers, ensemble directors, and experienced performers who want to hear more deeply—and play more beautifully in tune.

About

hEARit!

Develop your musical ear with this app designed for music students. Practice identifying intervals in various orders, including ascending, descending, and simultaneous. Teachers can utilize a Google Sheet integration to track student scores.

Highlights
  • Interval recognition practice
  • Ascending interval drills
  • Descending interval drills
  • Simultaneous interval drills
  • Teacher score tracking via Google Sheets
Features
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hEARit! provides developing music students with a variety of ways to hear and respond to intervals. Want to hear the notes in ascending order? Descending? At the same time? No problem. Teachers: You can use a google sheet to collect scores!

Screenshots

Scale Master 2.03 screens
hEARit!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: hEARit! at Free against Scale Master 2.0's $1.99. hEARit! also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Scale Master 2.0's advantage is ratings volume (23 vs 1). On ads and device support 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

hEARit! is free to download; Scale Master 2.0 costs $1.99 up front. Scale Master 2.0 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. hEARit! asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

hEARit! holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Scale Master 2.0 has 23 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Scale Master 2.0 versus hEARit!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScale Master 2.0hEARit!
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.4 (23 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews86.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings23 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGil EstesBrian Wis

Customer experience

Scale Master 2.0

All ratings23 ratings
Positive87.0%
Neutral8.7%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews30 reviews
Positive86.7%
Neutral6.7%
Negative6.7%

hEARit!

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Scale Master 2.0

One-time1
  • Jazz Modes$0.99
None

hEARit!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Scale Master 2.0 free?
Scale Master 2.0 costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is hEARit! free?
hEARit! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Scale Master 2.0 or hEARit!?
hEARit! is rated higher. Scale Master 2.0 averages 4.4 out of 5 from 23 ratings, while hEARit! averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Scale Master 2.0 or hEARit! have ads?
Neither Scale Master 2.0 nor hEARit! shows ads.

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