Piano Ear Training vs Intervals
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Interval training
- Chord distinction
- Pitch training
- Melodic dictation
- Chord progression exercises
- Personalized training levels
- 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. 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.
Intervals
This app helps you learn and practice identifying musical intervals and notes by ear. It offers customizable exercises with various instruments and difficulty levels to improve your relative and perfect pitch.
- Learn musical intervals
- Practice ear training
- Select intervals and notes
- Choose musical instruments (piano, guitar)
- Adjust octave
- Train relative and perfect pitch
- Difficulty levels
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Do you want to learn musical intervals? Do you want to practice your ear training? With the help of our application, you can try ear training for musical intervals. At the beginning of classes, you can choose the musical intervals and notes that you want to study. After that, you can select and adjust the musical instrument and octave. In the basic version of the app, you can choose to practice piano or guitar. You will be able to train relative pitch and perfect pitch by guessing musical intervals and notes. To achieve good results, you have to complete ear training exercises and practice solfeggio regularly. If you practice regularly, you will gradually learn how to guess notes and musical intervals by ear. You can study from scratch and improve your skills. Classes are divided into difficulty levels. It will be easy for you to choose the level that suits you. To achieve success in the development of aural skills, first you need to learn how to identify simple musical intervals by ear. Then you can start studying more complex musical intervals for different root notes. Practice piano and guitar regularly, train your aural skills every day and everything will work out.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Piano Ear Training at 59% against Intervals's 0%. Piano Ear Training also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 10 months) and ratings volume (189 vs 3). Intervals's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and rating (4.7 vs 4.5). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. Piano Ear Training sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Intervals asks for nothing beyond the download.
Intervals holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Piano Ear Training has 189 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 59% of Piano Ear Training's written reviews are positive against 0% of Intervals's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Piano Ear Training ships an update every 5 weeks, Intervals every 10 months. Both last shipped on September 21, 2026.
| Parameter | Piano Ear Training | Intervals |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (189 ratings) | 4.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 58.9% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 189 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 10 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Learn To Master Ltd | Dmitry Zaika |
Customer experience
Piano Ear Training
Intervals
In-app purchases
Piano Ear Training
- Premium Version$2.991 Month
- Annual Premium Version7 Days trial$24.991 Year
Intervals
No in-app purchases
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