Comparison

Piano Ear Training vs MelodyTrainer

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

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

MelodyTrainer

Practice melodic ear-training with this customizable app. Learn to identify melodies of varying difficulty, with options to adjust scales, intervals, and keys. Perfect for musicians looking to improve their skills.

Highlights
  • Melodic ear-training practice
  • Customizable difficulty settings
  • Select scales and modes
  • Adjust interval size
  • Choose melody generation style
  • Practice specific keys
  • Quiz mode with high scores
Features
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MelodyTrainer is a fun, easy to use, highly customisable way to practice melodic ear-training. Learn to play-by-ear and clearly pick out the melodies of varying levels of difficulty generated by MelodyTrainer. Customise the settings to match your skills, level, or personal needs. *Totally Free - No ads, No in-app purchases* Have fun and become a better musician. Work against the clock in quiz mode, and try to get a new high score! In MelodyTrainer, you can use any of 5 preset difficulty settings or: - choose which scales and modes will be used to generate the melodies (Major, Harmonic Minor, Dorian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Blues Scale, Chromatic, and more) choose the maximum interval size that can occur in the melodies - choose natural melodies (where small intervals occur more often) or more challenging randomly distributed melodies - choose the key or set of keys you want to practice - restrict the keyboard to allow only scale tones, for beginners

Screenshots

Piano Ear Training4 screens
MelodyTrainer3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: MelodyTrainer at 100% against Piano Ear Training's 59%. MelodyTrainer also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). Piano Ear Training's advantage is ratings volume (192 vs 3). On price, update cadence and device support 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. MelodyTrainer asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

MelodyTrainer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Piano Ear Training has 192 ratings behind it against 3, 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 100% of MelodyTrainer's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Piano Ear Training versus MelodyTrainer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPiano Ear TrainingMelodyTrainer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (192 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews58.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings192 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.010.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size62 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLearn To Master LtdJeff Holtzkener

Customer experience

Piano Ear Training

All ratings192 ratings
Positive85.4%
Neutral7.8%
Negative6.8%
Written reviews56 reviews
Positive58.9%
Neutral12.5%
Negative28.6%

MelodyTrainer

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Piano Ear Training

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Version$2.991 Month
  • Annual Premium Version7 Days trial$24.991 Year
None

MelodyTrainer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Piano Ear Training free?
Piano Ear Training is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MelodyTrainer free?
MelodyTrainer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Piano Ear Training or MelodyTrainer?
MelodyTrainer is rated higher. Piano Ear Training averages 4.5 out of 5 from 192 ratings, while MelodyTrainer averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Piano Ear Training or MelodyTrainer have ads?
Piano Ear Training shows ads; MelodyTrainer does not.
Which is updated more often, Piano Ear Training or MelodyTrainer?
Piano Ear Training ships an update every 2 months, and MelodyTrainer every 2 months. Most recently, Piano Ear Training was updated on October 23, 2026 and MelodyTrainer on October 11, 2026.

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