Real Ear Trainer vs Menma
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Real Ear Trainer
Train your musical ear using your favorite songs. This app generates personalized exercises from your music to help you identify chords, melodies, and changes without needing sheet music. It adapts to your skill level, offering progress tracking and feedback for daily practice.
- Train on personal favorite songs
- AI-generated quizzes from real music
- Identify chords, intervals, and progressions
- Adapts to beginner to advanced levels
- Progress tracking and feedback
- Play by ear without sheet music
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Play the songs you love — by ear. You don't need sheet music or years of theory to figure out the music in your head. Real Ear Trainer turns the songs you already listen to into quick, daily reps that train your ear to catch chords, melodies, and changes — until playing by ear just clicks. Drop in your own music and AI builds personalized exercises from the exact tracks you want to play. Start wherever you are — total beginner or seasoned player — and it adapts to your level, with progress tracking and feedback that show your ear getting sharper every day. 5 minutes a day. Then you're playing by ear. • Train on your own favorite songs, not generic drills • AI-generated quizzes from real music • Catch chords, intervals, and progressions by ear • Adapts to your level, beginner to advanced • Progress tracking + targeted feedback Stop reaching for tabs. Start hearing the music — and playing it back.
Menma
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Menma is a very simple flashcard app. It has no unnecessary features. You can take multiple-choice tests and written tests. Additionally, you can mark questions and solve only the marked questions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Real Ear Trainer at every 4 days against Menma's every 7 months. Menma's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Real Ear Trainer ships an update every 4 days, Menma every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Real Ear Trainer | Menma |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 80 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mayank Sanganeria | Shuhei Takezawa |
In-app purchases
Real Ear Trainer
No in-app purchases
Menma
No in-app purchases
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