ScaleHelper vs Absolute Pitch Trainer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ScaleHelper
Improve your musical instrument playing with real-time feedback on your performance. Practice scales, arpeggios, and other exercises with scoring and audio playback. Prepare for exams with customizable challenges and support for multiple instruments and users.
- Real-time performance scoring
- Audio playback of notes and performance
- Practice any scale or choose specific exercises
- Exam preparation with challenge modes
- Support for multiple instruments and users
- Customizable syllabus creation
- Save and share recordings
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Choose an exercise: see the notes and hear them played Play the exercise: get a score, see the notes you played and listen to your performance ScaleHelper is the fast way to improve your playing. With actual feedback based on what you played, ScaleHelper enables you to concentrate on the aspects of your playing that will help the most. ScaleHelper has 3 modes: 1. Play any scale: ScaleHelper determines the exercise you have played and scores your performance. Ideal for impromptu practise sessions. 2. Choose a scale: Choose the exercise you want to play and ScaleHelper listens and gives you a score. Ideal to improve a specific musical exercise. 3. Challenge me: ScaleHelper will ask you to play exercises from your challenge list that is based on your chosen syllabus. ScaleHelper will identify what you need to practise and make sure you get exam ready while having fun on the way. Ideal for practising a range of exercises. ScaleHelper contains everything you need for most of the instruments covered by the ABRSM, Trinity Guildhall, and MTB examining boards all the way from Grade 1 to Grade 8. ScaleHelper will be there for you every step of the way as you grow as a musician. ScaleHelper allows you to create your own syllabus from the exercises it supports: major scales; major arpeggios; harmonic minor scales; melodic minor scales; natural minor scales; minor arpeggios; chromatic scales; dominant sevenths; diminished sevenths; augmented arpeggios; scales in thirds; whole-tone scales; and pentatonic major scales. All exercises are available starting from every tonic over 1 octave, 1 twelfth, 2 octaves, 2.5 octaves and 3 octaves. There is a range of exercise lists for popular music exams available for download. Instruments supported include Violin, Viola, Cello, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Clarinet, Flute, Oboe, Saxophone, Bassoon, Recorder, Trumpet, Cornet, Trombone and Horn. A full list is available at www.ScaleHelper.com along with details of the rich feature set ScaleHelper has to offer. At less than the price of a single music lesson the guidance that ScaleHelper provides between your lessons builds on that teaching. You can dispense with the need to review scales by playing them in your lessons and instead reuse the time you gain to learn technique and perfect your pieces. ScaleHelper supports multiple users, keeping each user's history for each of their instruments. You can save recordings to study later or to show and play to your teacher and friends. You can also email recordings to share them with others. Have fun competing with your friends to see who can get the highest score or who can maintain the highest average.
Absolute Pitch Trainer
Sharpen your musical ear with this app that turns ear training into a daily habit. Identify notes and chords through various difficulty levels and game modes. Track your progress with detailed statistics and achievements.
- 9 difficulty levels
- 3 game modes (Practice, Quiz, Weak Notes)
- Daily Challenge
- Reference tuning fork
- XP and ranked progression
- Streak systems
- Achievement system
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Perfect pitch and ear training in 5 minutes a day. Hear a tone — name the note. Nine difficulty levels from beginner to chord progressions, free to start. Absolute Pitch Trainer turns ear training into a daily habit you'll actually keep. Hear a pure tone. Tap the note you heard. Watch your accuracy climb session over session — through nine levels of difficulty, from three colored notes for absolute beginners to full chord progressions and melodies for serious students. THE SCIENCE Folk wisdom says perfect pitch is "inborn or never." That's only half the story. Children can develop full absolute pitch during a critical childhood window — especially with early musical training. But adult ears keep learning too: focused, repeated practice still sharpens accurate note recognition at any age. We built the app on the part of the science that works for grown-up brains. BUILT FOR REAL EARS • 9 difficulty levels — from 3 notes with color hints to full chords and melodies • Three game modes — Practice (calm, no pressure), Quiz (timed, scored) and Weak Notes (drills exactly the notes you miss) • Daily Challenge — a fresh test every day to keep the streak alive • Reference tuning fork — tap for a clean C-D-E-F-G-A-B reference scale • A real recorded concert grand, every note tuned exactly to A = 440 Hz — or the classic E-Piano PROGRESSION YOU CAN FEEL • XP and ranked progression from beginner to master • Two streak systems side-by-side — a daily-play streak that rewards showing up across sessions, plus an in-quiz answer streak that ignites an "On Fire" mode once you chain enough correct answers in a row • Achievement system across Common / Rare / Epic / Legendary rarities • Per-note mastery tracking — after every round, see which notes you missed and what you heard instead • Streak calendar showing every day you played this month STATS YOU'LL ACTUALLY READ • Historical accuracy curve — 7 days, 30 days, 90 days, or a full year of progress • Time played, total quizzes, correct answers, longest streak • Note mastery rings for every pitch class • Game Center leaderboards for career XP and best quiz score POLISH WHERE IT MATTERS • Four hand-tuned color palettes (Tube Glow, Jukebox Chrome, Reel-to-Reel, Rainbow Pride) • Multiple alternate app icons • Optional daily reminders so a busy week doesn't break your streak • iCloud sync — your progress moves with you to a new iPhone and survives a reinstall • Six languages: English, Deutsch, Español, Français, 日本語, 简体中文 PREMIUM Premium Lifetime is a one-time purchase, no subscription. It unlocks the higher difficulty levels, Weak Notes training, advanced statistics, and exclusive app icons. It's not too late to start. — Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://emign.github.io/absolute-pitch-trainer-legal/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Absolute Pitch Trainer at Free against ScaleHelper's $5.99. Absolute Pitch Trainer also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs monthly). ScaleHelper's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On 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
Absolute Pitch Trainer is free to download; ScaleHelper costs $5.99 up front. ScaleHelper sells 11 one-off in-app purchases and Absolute Pitch Trainer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ScaleHelper ships an update monthly, Absolute Pitch Trainer every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ScaleHelper | Absolute Pitch Trainer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Richard Williams | Nicolai Emig |
Customer experience
ScaleHelper
Absolute Pitch Trainer
In-app purchases
ScaleHelper
- Violin ABRSM G8$0.99
- Cello TRINITY G1 to G3$0.99
- Flute TRINITY G1 to G3$0.99
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- Viola ABRSM G6$0.99
- Viola ABRSM G7$0.99
- Viola ABRSM G8$0.99
- Violin ABRSM G1 to G3$0.99
- Clarinet ABRSM G1 to G8$2.99
- Violin ABRSM G1 to G8$2.99
- Flute ABRSM G1 to G8$2.99
- Cello ABRSM G1 to G8$2.99
Absolute Pitch Trainer
- Premium Lifetime$6.99
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