Piano Ear Training Pro vs Real Ear Trainer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Piano Ear Training Pro
Develop your musical ear with comprehensive exercises for intervals, chords, scales, and progressions. Personalize your training, track your progress, and connect visual and aural skills with a configurable piano. Ideal for all musicians, from beginners to advanced.
- Interval training
- Chord distinction
- Pitch training
- Melodic dictation
- Chord progression analysis
- Configurable piano
- Progress tracking
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• Suitable for beginners to advanced musicians with all the essential ear training exercises in various levels. • Quickly develop aural skills by personalising your training by focusing on specific chords, intervals, progressions, scales etc. • Track progress as you improve efficiently in each ear training discipline. • A simple intuitive design enables you quickly enjoy ear training and follow the help and tutorials to get most out of the ear trainer. • Configurable piano which strongly aids connection between visual and aural skills and musical instruments. • Most popular and extensive ear training with over 1 millions users. • Highly recommended by professional and student musicians in top musical schools contributing to the design for their own use. • Ideal for all musicians as you can easily change the instrument sounds. • No advertising and all the content in this Pro version. Exercises: ***** interval training ***** Being able to determine intervals between notes in the key skill to playing by ear. Challenge your expertise by changing the base note or playing the notes together. This is made easy as it associates an interval with a well known song. ***** chord distinction ***** Can you distinguish between a Major from a Minor chord for example? There are 100s of chords to differentiate. You can help your understanding by selecting arpeggio mode to aid chord distinction and selecting highlight to visualise the construction of the chords. You can challenge yourself by changing the key of the chord. Work your way quickly and steadily through the levels. Another exercise to help you fully understand musical theory and composition. ***** higher lower ***** Given 2 notes, can you identify whether the second note is higher or lower in pitch than the first note? Musicians can train their ears to recognise different pitches. Whilst this is a beginners exercise, you can challenge yourself by reducing the range of the 2 notes played. ***** pitch training ***** After hearing a pitch, can you accurately play that same pitch on the piano? This exercise allows your to zoom in on the note using relative pitch skills, and will record how many notes it takes for you to correctly identify. You can easily adjust the difficult by setting a time interval between listening and playing. ***** interval comparison ***** Given 2 intervals, can you determine whether the second interval is wider or narrower in distance? ***** pitch identification ***** A popular test that comes up in music grade aural exams. Given a chord can you identify a specific note/pitch within it? For example, given a C Major chord, can you find the highest note? ***** melodic dictation ***** Listen to a melody and then play it back on the piano. You can make it easier by adjusting the speed and focusing on a few notes at a time. ***** chord progression ***** Can you distinguish a I - IV - V - I progression from a I - V- IV - I? Contains all the most common chord progressions which you will find in nearly all the most popular songs. ***** scale identification ***** Listen to a scale and can you then identify it as a Major scale, Harmonic Minor or Natural Minor for example? ***** absolute pitch ***** Given the same note played at different octaves, can you identify its pitch? Includes a Learning mode to imprint the pitches into the brain.
Real Ear Trainer
This app revolutionizes musical ear training by using AI to create personalized quizzes from your own music library. It adapts to your skill level, offering detailed progress tracking and feedback to help you improve your musical abilities.
- Personalized quizzes from own music
- AI-driven analysis
- Adaptive skill level adjustments
- Detailed progress tracking
- Targeted feedback
- Engaging musical exercises
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Play the songs you love — by ear. You don't need sheet music or years of theory to figure out the music in your head. Real Ear Trainer turns the songs you already listen to into quick, daily reps that train your ear to catch chords, melodies, and changes — until playing by ear just clicks. Drop in your own music and AI builds personalized exercises from the exact tracks you want to play. Start wherever you are — total beginner or seasoned player — and it adapts to your level, with progress tracking and feedback that show your ear getting sharper every day. 5 minutes a day. Then you're playing by ear. • Train on your own favorite songs, not generic drills • AI-generated quizzes from real music • Catch chords, intervals, and progressions by ear • Adapts to your level, beginner to advanced • Progress tracking + targeted feedback Stop reaching for tabs. Start hearing the music — and playing it back.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Real Ear Trainer at 100% against Piano Ear Training Pro's 33%. Real Ear Trainer also leads on price (Free vs $29.99) and rating (5.0 vs 4.3). Piano Ear Training Pro's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On ratings volume, 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
Real Ear Trainer is free to download; Piano Ear Training Pro costs $29.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Real Ear Trainer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 16 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Piano Ear Training Pro's written reviews are positive against 100% of Real Ear Trainer's.
Piano Ear Training Pro ships an update every 2 months, Real Ear Trainer every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Piano Ear Training Pro | Real Ear Trainer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $29.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (16 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 80 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Learn To Master Ltd | Mayank Sanganeria |
Customer experience
Piano Ear Training Pro
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In-app purchases
Piano Ear Training Pro
No in-app purchases
Real Ear Trainer
No in-app purchases
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