Ear Drone vs SongScribe
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ear Drone
Master musical intervals, chords, and scales with interactive exercises and reference drones. Learn solfege hand signs and practice with various instrument sounds or MIDI controllers. This app offers customizable training for musicians of all levels.
- Interactive ear training exercises
- Reference drones for pitch accuracy
- Multiple instrument sounds
- MIDI instrument support
- Customizable exercises
- Solfege hand sign learning
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Master your musical ear with the ultimate ear training app! Elevate your musical skills with our powerful and intuitive ear trainer application, designed to help musicians of all levels improve their ear training through immersive, interactive exercises and reference drones. Whether you're learning scales, modes, triads, or solfege hand signs (also known as Kodály or Curwen hand signs), this app has everything you need to master your musical ear with precision. Three Interactive Modes: Input mode: Dive deep into ear training with full user interaction. Listen to intervals, chords, and scales, then test yourself by inputting your answers. Listen mode: Improve your ear training without lifting a finger! Simply listen to the exercises and absorb the musical information hands-free. Great for passive learning, this mode is ideal for training your ear while you're on the go or in situations where interaction isn’t possible. Free play mode: Unleash your creativity with Free Play Mode! Choose your preferred instrument and explore its range of sounds in the app’s instrument views. Experiment with melodies, harmonies, and scales, using this mode for both practice and inspiration. Key Features: Background Reference Drones: Develop pitch accuracy and tonal memory using customizable reference drones. These steady tones provide a constant pitch foundation, improving your ability to match and recognize notes across exercises. Multiple Instrument Sounds: Train your ear in a wide range of musical environments by choosing from different instrument sounds, including keyed, stringed, wind, and synth instruments. MIDI Instrument Support: Expand your learning experience by integrating external MIDI instruments. Whether you prefer a digital keyboard or a MIDI controller, this feature allows you to practice ear training with the tactile feedback of your instrument of choice. Customizable Ear Training Exercises: Design your own ear training sessions to focus on specific intervals, scales, modes, or triads. The app supports a wide range of musical scales, from basic major and minor scales to more advanced scales such as Lydian, Phrygian, and Mixolydian. Build exercises that cater to your unique needs and push your ear training to the next level. Learn Solfege Hand Signs (Kodály/Curwen): Perfect your ability to visualize and sing pitches using solfege hand signs, an excellent method for enhancing sight-singing, pitch recognition, and tonal awareness. Who is This App For? - Musicians and music students who want to sharpen their ear for intervals, chords, scales, and modes. - Teachers looking for a comprehensive tool to assist students in learning music theory and solfege. - Instrumentalists who wish to improve their pitch recognition and tone matching skills. - Singers who want to master solfege hand signs and enhance their sight-singing abilities. - Producers and composers aiming to sharpen their tonal awareness across different instrument sounds, from piano and guitar to synths and wind instruments. Keywords: ear trainer, ear training, music practice, drones, instrument, piano, guitar, synth, MIDI, triads, scales, modes, solfege Hand Signs, Kodály, Curwen, hand signs, musical ear development. Download the app today and start your journey toward mastering your musical ear. Whether you're practicing with hands-on exercises, passively listening, or engaging in free play, you'll have all the tools you need to become a well-rounded musician!
SongScribe
This app helps musicians write, practice, and perform songs. It allows inline chord placement with lyrics, offers performance mode with auto-scroll, and includes tools like a tuner and metronome. It supports various instruments and import/export formats, with offline functionality.
- Inline chord placement with lyrics
- Performance mode with auto-scroll
- Chord builder with voicings
- Multi-take audio recorder
- Chromatic tuner and metronome
- Import/export various formats
- Offline by default functionality
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Put each chord over the syllable where it changes, then play the song from the same screen on stage. No Wi-Fi, no account, no subscription. WRITE SONGS THE WAY YOU PLAY Lyrics and chords share one page. Tap a chord onto the syllable where you change and it sits above the word without pushing your lyrics around. Drag it anywhere and a glowing caret shows where it will land. • Verse, Chorus, Bridge, Hook and more, or name your own sections • Duplicate and reorder sections with one tap • A notes page on every song for rhymes and half-finished lines NO WI-FI. NO PROBLEM. Writing, chord lookup, recording, tuning and export all run offline, so you can play a basement bar with no signal. There's no account to create. Your songs live on your device, and iCloud sync carries them between your iPhone and iPad through your own iCloud account. EVERY CHORD. EVERY VOICING. 1,794 curated chord shapes for guitar, bass, ukulele, mandolin and banjo. Build any chord from root to bass note, step through its voicings, and tap to hear each one. SongScribe keeps the exact shape you picked. • 19 tuning presets like Drop D and DADGAD, plus custom tunings, and SongScribe works out shapes for any of them • Left-handed mode and a piano view • Transpose, set a capo, or detect the key from your chords FIND A CHORD WITHOUT A NAME Tap out a shape you found by ear and SongScribe names it. Pick the right name and it goes straight into your lyrics. BUILT FOR THE STAGE Performance mode puts the song full screen and scrolls it for you, at any speed from a slow crawl to 2×. Controls fade once you start, and the screen stays awake until you leave. • Build setlists and play the whole set in order • Start, stop, change speed and skip songs with a MIDI or Bluetooth page-turner pedal (Lifetime) A STUDIO IN YOUR POCKET Hit record, switch back to your lyrics and keep writing while the take rolls. Listening back, drop a marker with a note like "better chorus here," loop a section, or play it from quarter speed to double with the pitch intact. With Lifetime, stack up to four overdubs on your first take, set each layer's volume, and mix it down to one track. Lifetime also adds lossless recording. PRECISION TUNING. ZERO FUSS. The tuner reads to the cent, with presets for guitar, bass, violin and voice, plus a noise filter for loud rooms. Land within 3 cents and you feel a tap. The mic turns off when you leave the tuner. The metronome floats over your lyrics while you play, with tap tempo, 48 time signatures and each song's tempo saved. SEE HOW YOUR SONG FITS TOGETHER The harmony view arranges the seven chords of your key around the tonic, color-coded by function. Tap one to hear it, or jump to a related key and see which chords the two keys share. EXPORT TO PDF, CHORDPRO AND MORE Export a PDF chart in three layouts with chord diagrams and one-tap fit to page, or export ChordPro, ASCII or plain text (Lifetime). Your old charts come with you. Import ChordPro or text files and SongScribe sets each chord over its word and labels your verses and choruses. ONE PRICE FOR EVERYTHING Free, for as long as you like: • 10 songs and 5 recordings per song • Every chord tool, the tuner, metronome and harmony view • Setlists, Performance mode and iCloud sync • All 17 themes, light and dark SongScribe Lifetime, one purchase: • Unlimited songs and recordings • Export, multi-track recording, lossless audio and footswitch control Try every Lifetime feature free for 7 days. Nothing renews and there's nothing to cancel. If you don't upgrade, your songs stay safe: SongScribe never deletes or hides them. Built by a musician, for people who write songs and then get up and play them. Questions or ideas: support@songscribe.io Terms of Use: https://songscribe.io/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: SongScribe at every 3 weeks against Ear Drone's every 2 months. Ear Drone's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (17.2 vs 26.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Ear Drone sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and SongScribe sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Ear Drone against 5.0 for SongScribe. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Ear Drone ships an update every 2 months, SongScribe every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Ear Drone | SongScribe |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.2 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 919 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jason Fleischer | Sergei Lekoutovich |
Customer experience
Ear Drone
SongScribe
In-app purchases
Ear Drone
- Fully Unlocked$1.99
- Generously Fully Unlocked$3.99
- Very Generously Fully Unlocked$6.99
SongScribe
- SongScribe Lifetime$19.95
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