Comparison

Piano Ear Training Pro vs Colored Letters

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

Head to head
About

Piano Ear Training Pro

Develop your musical ear with comprehensive ear training exercises. Personalize your learning by focusing on specific musical elements and track your progress with intuitive tools. Features include interval, chord, and pitch recognition, designed for all skill levels.

Highlights
  • Personalized training by chords, intervals, scales
  • Progress tracking
  • Configurable piano interface
  • Interval training
  • Chord distinction
  • Pitch and melodic dictation
Features
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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.

About

Colored Letters

Features
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Make Learning to Read a Joyful Experience Colored Letters is a learning app focused on early reading and number recognition. Each digital book includes a free preview of the first few pages. To access the full story, in-app purchase is required. Explore Early Literacy Content Engaging stories and activities designed to support foundational reading and counting skills. Start with a free sample - unlock full content with a purchase. Available in Multiple Languages Books currently offered in English and Swedish. More languages (Spanish, French, German, Italian, Polish) coming soon. Secure and Ad-Free Experience No advertisements or pop-ups - just a focused and distraction-free learning environment.

Screenshots

Piano Ear Training Pro4 screens
Colored Letters3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Colored Letters at Free against Piano Ear Training Pro's $29.99. Colored Letters also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). Piano Ear Training Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Colored Letters is free to download; Piano Ear Training Pro costs $29.99 up front. Colored Letters sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Piano Ear Training Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Piano Ear Training Pro ships an update every 2 months, Colored Letters weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Piano Ear Training Pro versus Colored Letters: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPiano Ear Training ProColored Letters
Price$29.99Free — better
Rating4.3 (16 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings16 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB53 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLearn To Master LtdAlegor AB

In-app purchases

None

Piano Ear Training Pro

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

Colored Letters

Subscriptions2
  • Premium monthly$3.991 Month
  • Premium yearly$19.991 Year
One-time8
  • Fånga ballonger$0.99
  • A Little House$1.99
  • Träna ljudkartan$2.99
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  • Träna ord$2.99
  • Countings is Easy$7.99
  • Learn to read in English - 2$7.99
  • Räkna är Lätt$7.99
  • Learn to read in English$7.99

Questions

Is Piano Ear Training Pro free?
Piano Ear Training Pro costs $29.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Colored Letters free?
Colored Letters is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Piano Ear Training Pro or Colored Letters have ads?
Neither Piano Ear Training Pro nor Colored Letters shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Piano Ear Training Pro or Colored Letters?
Piano Ear Training Pro ships an update every 2 months, and Colored Letters weekly. Most recently, Piano Ear Training Pro was updated on October 24, 2026 and Colored Letters on October 25, 2026.

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