Comparison

Piano Ear Training vs String Quartet SightRead Tutor

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

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About

Piano Ear Training

Develop your musical ear with interactive exercises for intervals, chords, scales, and melodies. Personalize your training to focus on specific areas and track your progress. Ideal for musicians of all levels, from beginners to advanced.

Highlights
  • Interval training
  • Chord distinction
  • Pitch training
  • Melodic dictation
  • Chord progression exercises
  • Personalized training levels
  • Progress tracking
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. 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

String Quartet SightRead Tutor

Learn note placement on string instruments with interactive exercises. Practice sight-reading, ear training, and tuning using your device or real instrument. Supports violin, viola, cello, and double bass with customizable practice modes.

Highlights
  • Instrument fingerboard note placement
  • Sight-reading practice
  • Live instrument recognition
  • Integrated chromatic tuner
  • Multiple quiz and practice modes
  • Customizable practice options
  • Support for 7 notation systems
Features
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Learn fast where to play notes ! For Violin, Viola, Cello and Double-bass. With this staff Notes Sight Read Tutor, you will learn where to play notes on your instrument's fingerboard ! • Violin • Viola • Cello • Double bass Make progress even when you are away from your instrument ! You can also play your real instrument and the application detect the played notes ! Integrated chromatic tuner. Details : • Accelerated training : Notes you know less will be asked more often for you to be able to enhance your sight reading speed. • Choice of notes to practice : choose which strings to pratice, positions among 13 possible ones (from open string to 7th position), flat, sharp. • Choice of clefs to use. • Choice of language among 7 notation systems to display the name of the note to play : Solfège-Latin Si, English B, German H, Byzantine Zo, Japanese Ro, Indian (Hindusthani) Ni, Indian (Carnatic) Kakali Ni • Display of count of good and failed notes. Click on it to reset, or let it reset itself each morning. • Realistic sounds sampled from real instruments. • Sound On / Off. The screen flashes on good answers when the sound is muted. • Interface translated : displayed in English, French, Spanish or Korean depending on the langage of the device. Should you need a translation in another langage, contact me. • 3 Quiz modes and 2 additional modes :  Sight-Read Quiz (touch) : Read the staff note, then touch the right spot on the screen's instrument.  Live Sight-Read (Live) : Read the staff note, then play it using your real instrument. (This mode uses your device's microphone)  Ear-Training (touch) : Listen to the played note, then touch the right spot on the screen's instrument. (Click staff to replay note)  Free-Play (touch) : Touch the screen's instrument. The note will be played and displayed on the staff.  Instrument Tuner (Live) : Integrated tuner : play a note using your real instrument, the note will be displayed on the staff. (This mode uses your device's microphone) • Help system :  possible display of the name of the note to play.  Possible display of notes placements on the fingerboard (the name of the note to play is then displayed with the same color as the note placement)  Possible display of an helping staff with every notes of the fingerboard. In-app purchase : • Full version : no limits, all strings and positions are available + a BIG thanks for your support :o) There is no ads in this application. Confidentiality : In this application, audio recording is only used locally on your phone to detect played note pitch, it is never transmitted outside the app. Have fun at play !

Screenshots

Piano Ear Training4 screens
String Quartet SightRead Tutor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Piano Ear Training at 4.5 against String Quartet SightRead Tutor's 3.0. Piano Ear Training also leads on ratings volume (189 vs 15). String Quartet SightRead Tutor's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 14.0). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Piano Ear Training sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and String Quartet SightRead Tutor sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Piano Ear Training holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Piano Ear Training has 189 ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 59% of Piano Ear Training's written reviews are positive against 53% of String Quartet SightRead Tutor's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Piano Ear Training ships an update every 5 weeks, String Quartet SightRead Tutor monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Piano Ear Training versus String Quartet SightRead Tutor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPiano Ear TrainingString Quartet SightRead Tutor
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (189 ratings) — better3.0 (15 ratings)
Positive reviews58.9% of reviews — better52.9% of reviews
Number of ratings189 — better15
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksMonthly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.09.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size61 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLearn To Master LtdAlexandre Dupleix

Customer experience

Piano Ear Training

All ratings189 ratings
Positive86.2%
Neutral7.4%
Negative6.3%
Written reviews56 reviews
Positive58.9%
Neutral12.5%
Negative28.6%

String Quartet SightRead Tutor

All ratings15 ratings
Positive46.7%
Neutral13.3%
Negative40.0%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive52.9%
Neutral23.5%
Negative23.5%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Piano Ear Training

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Version$2.991 Month
  • Annual Premium Version7 Days trial$24.991 Year
1 purchases

String Quartet SightRead Tutor

One-time1
  • Full version$3.99

Questions

Is Piano Ear Training free?
Piano Ear Training is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is String Quartet SightRead Tutor free?
String Quartet SightRead Tutor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Piano Ear Training or String Quartet SightRead Tutor?
Piano Ear Training is rated higher. Piano Ear Training averages 4.5 out of 5 from 189 ratings, while String Quartet SightRead Tutor averages 3.0 from 15 ratings.
Do Piano Ear Training or String Quartet SightRead Tutor have ads?
Piano Ear Training shows ads; String Quartet SightRead Tutor does not.
Which is updated more often, Piano Ear Training or String Quartet SightRead Tutor?
Piano Ear Training ships an update every 5 weeks, and String Quartet SightRead Tutor monthly. Most recently, Piano Ear Training was updated on September 30, 2026 and String Quartet SightRead Tutor on June 1, 2026.

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