Piano Ear Training vs Chords
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.
Chords
This music trainer helps you learn piano, guitar, and ukulele by practicing notes, intervals, chords, and scales. It offers exercises to master music theory, solfeggio, and harmony, with options to use a MIDI keyboard or microphone for interactive learning.
- Learn musical intervals
- Master piano and guitar chords
- Study musical scales and modes
- Practice with MIDI keyboard
- Recognize notes by ear via microphone
- Learn music theory and solfeggio
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How to memorize piano or guitar chords? How to learn to build musical intervals? How to learn scales and modes? Chords is your music trainer to help you learn piano, guitar or ukulele sheet music. By doing the exercises, you will be able to remember the names of notes, intervals, chords, scales. You can practice piano chords and scales using a MIDI keyboard. If you want to learn ukulele or guitar chords, you can use a microphone. Our application can recognize notes by ear. We offer you three basic exercises in mastering music theory: Musical intervals. In the classes on building musical intervals, you will master the basics of musical theory, solfeggio and harmony. You will learn how to quickly build musical intervals from any note. Get used to recognizing notes and musical intervals by ear. Our app, like a real music teacher, will give you musical tasks throughout the day. Chords for piano and guitar. You will learn major, minor, triad, and seventh chords. You can watch jazz, blues guitar chords. As you practice, you will have the opportunity to use a MIDI keyboard or microphone so you can learn guitar tabs or learn piano chords. Musical modes and scales for piano and guitar. Knowledge of musical scales and modes is required for every musician. You will learn natural, harmonic, melodic major and minor scales. Remember the Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Locrian musical modes. Memorize the notes and rules for constructing musical scales. Studying music theory, solfeggio, harmony, will help you compose songs, write blues and jazz improvisations and melodies. Solve chord progressions. Build guitar tabs. Train your ear for music. Learn to read sheet music. Play musical intervals. If you study independently, with a music teacher, do exercises for the piano, guitar, then you will become a successful musician.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Chords at none against Piano Ear Training's 2. Chords also leads on review sentiment (68% vs 59%). Piano Ear Training's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 12 months) and ratings volume (189 vs 57). On price, rating, 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. Chords asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Piano Ear Training against 4.6 for Chords. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 189 and 57 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 59% of Piano Ear Training's written reviews are positive against 68% of Chords's.
Piano Ear Training ships an update every 5 weeks, Chords every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Piano Ear Training | Chords |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (189 ratings) | 4.6 (57 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 58.9% of reviews | 68.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 189 — better | 57 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 12 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 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Learn To Master Ltd | Alexey Ovod |
Customer experience
Piano Ear Training
Chords
In-app purchases
Piano Ear Training
- Premium Version$2.991 Month
- Annual Premium Version7 Days trial$24.991 Year
Chords
No in-app purchases
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