Vocal Mastery vs Functional Ear Trainer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Vocal Mastery
Enhance your singing with guided vocal warm-ups and practice tracks. This app offers easy-to-follow exercises and demonstrations to improve your vocal potential for auditions and rehearsals.
- Guided vocal warm-up exercises
- Exercise demonstrations
- Practice tracks for high/low voice
- Easy navigation
- Enhance singing abilities
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The Vocal Mastery Warm Up App, is the ultimate vocal warm-up app designed to enhance your singing abilities and unlock your true vocal potential! Easy to navigate, it contains instructions and demonstrations of exercises and a suitable track (High or Low Voice) for you to practise with. Never be caught short for an audition or rehearsal. Always be ready with the Vocal Mastery Warm up App.
Functional Ear Trainer
Develop your musical ear by learning to recognize tones within the context of a specific musical key. This app helps you understand the function of each note, improving your ability to transcribe, improvise, and play music by ear. Suitable for all ages and skill levels, with just 10 minutes of daily practice.
- Recognize tones in musical key context
- Understand note function
- Improve transcription skills
- Enhance improvisation
- Develop perfect pitch
- Daily 10-minute practice
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Have you (or maybe one of your friends) ever wanted to learn to transcribe or play music by ear? It is so important for a musician to know what you are hearing. A good musical ear helps when you are composing, improvising, transcribing melodies, or playing with others. Most likely you have already tried different programs to learn to recognize intervals or even to acquire perfect pitch. However, although such programs develop your ear, but can you actually play any melody you hear as soon as you listen to it? Imagine you could understand music... It is like when somebody is talking to you, you not only hear pleasant sounds, but you recognize words and their meaning. One day I came across Alain Benbassat's program called "Functional Ear Trainer" and have been using it ever since. It is based on Alain's method to learn to recognize tones. The main difference between the Functional Ear Trainer and other methods is that it teaches you to distinguish between tones in the context of a particular musical key. You begin to recognize the role (or function) of each tone in this key, which is incredibly similar to its role in other keys of the same scale. And it is *guaranteed* anyone can gradually develop this skill. It does not matter: - who you are - an absolute beginner in music or a virtuoso professional musician; - how old you are - a 3 yo kid or a 90+ adult; - what musical instrument you play (you don't even have to play one). The only requirement is to practice for 10 minutes a day. I was so excited about this ear trainer that I have developed a mobile app based on the Alain Benbassat method. I hope you will find it useful.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Functional Ear Trainer at 4.9 against Vocal Mastery's 3.0. Functional Ear Trainer also leads on ratings volume (3.7K vs 2) and review sentiment (96% vs 75%). Vocal Mastery's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Functional Ear Trainer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Vocal Mastery asks for nothing beyond the download.
Functional Ear Trainer holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Functional Ear Trainer has 3.7K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Vocal Mastery's written reviews are positive against 96% of Functional Ear Trainer's.
Vocal Mastery ships an update every 31 months, Functional Ear Trainer every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on September 11, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Vocal Mastery | Functional Ear Trainer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 4.9 (3.7K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 96.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3.7K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 31 months | Every 7 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vocal Mastery | Serhii Korchan |
Customer experience
Vocal Mastery
Functional Ear Trainer
Bugs and requests
Vocal Mastery
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Functional Ear Trainer
Reported bugs
2 issues- Keyboard display issues when selecting all chromatic notes
- Inconsistent note resolutions in some exercises
Requested features
5 requests- Add support for multiple notes/chords at once
- Implement a mode for training key recognition
- Provide more customization options for exercises
- Include voice input to play the notes
- Add support for German/Norwegian key names
In-app purchases
Vocal Mastery
No in-app purchases
Functional Ear Trainer
- Functional Ear Trainer Plus$19.99
Questions
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