Comparison

Sonofield Ear Trainer vs Beat

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Sonofield Ear Trainer

This app helps musicians develop their ear by focusing on the feeling of individual notes within a key, rather than traditional interval training. It uses sustained drones and offers various modes like identifying scale degrees, melodies, and singing exercises. The app adapts to your skill level with an intuitive interface and progression path.

Highlights
  • Feeling-based note recognition
  • Scale degree identification
  • Melody recognition training
  • Singing exercises
  • Hands-free training mode
  • Interactive exploration instrument
Features
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Sonofield Ear Trainer (SET) is a revolutionary ear training app designed to help you intuitively play the melodies you hear and imagine. Instead of relying on traditional old methods like intervals, SET focuses on helping you feel the unique character of each note within a key. By using sustained drones to create a tonal foundation, you’ll learn to recognize scale degrees based on their *feeling*, not just how they sound. The app offers a variety of ways to train: * Degrees Mode - Identify individual notes against the drone by feeling. The heart of SET. * Melody Mode - Identify short melodic phrases, preparing you for real music. * Voice Mode - Sing the requested scale degree into your microphone. * Pocket Mode - Hands-free training for when you're on the go. * Free Play - An interactive instrument for exploration. With its intuitive, color-coded interface, thoughtfully designed progression path, and multiple difficulty levels, SET adapts to your skill level while keeping practice engaging. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced musician, SET is your guide to unlocking true musical fluency through intuitive, feeling-based ear training. No ads or forced payments. The free version contains full foundations for feeling-based ear training. Download the ear training app now!

About

Beat

Develop pitch sensitivity and harmonic awareness through interactive exercises focused on just intonation. Explore intervals and chords, tune by ear, and enhance your musical listening skills in a focused environment. Ideal for musicians seeking to refine their understanding of pure tuning relationships.

Highlights
  • Interactive interval training
  • Chord tuning and harmonic awareness
  • Progressive ear-training exercises
  • Customizable interval and chord building
  • Focus on just intonation
  • Designed for real musical environments
Features
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Core Features Interactive Interval Training Develop sensitivity to pitch relationships by exploring intervals tuned using just intonation. • Hear intervals begin perfectly aligned • Adjust pitch in real time to hear beats appear and disappear • Tune intervals by ear using guided listening exercises • Practice intervals across multiple keys and registers Chord Tuning and Harmonic Awareness Understand how scale degrees shape harmony by exploring chords built from pure tuning relationships. • Major, minor, diminished, and augmented triads • Seventh chords including dominant, major, minor, half-diminished, and fully diminished • Isolate chord tones to hear how each pitch affects resonance • Adjust individual notes to hear chords stabilize or destabilize Challenge Mode Strengthen listening accuracy through progressive ear-training exercises. • Tune intervals by ear with adjustable difficulty levels • Customize time limits and precision targets • Unlock intervals through guided progression • Track improvement and share results with teachers or directors Lab Mode Experiment freely with pitch relationships and harmonic structure. • Build custom intervals, chords, or harmonic textures • Assign independent tuning values to each pitch • Explore consonance, dissonance, and overtone interaction Designed for Real Musical Environments In rehearsals and performances, musicians rarely hear themselves in isolation. Beat-Less Tuning removes ensemble noise and allows you to focus on deliberate listening, helping you build reliable tuning instincts that translate directly into real musical situations. This app is ideal for: • Band and orchestra students • Choir and vocal ensemble singers (especially Straight-Tone singing) • Drum corps and marching musicians • Barbershop and a cappella performers • Music educators and ensemble directors Why Just Intonation? Most modern instruments use equal temperament, which balances pitch across all keys but slightly compromises many intervals. Beat-Less Tuning introduces just intonation, where intervals follow natural harmonic ratios that create clarity, depth, and resonance. The listening skills developed in this app strengthen tuning awareness in any musical tuning system. Built by Musicians and Educators Beat-Less Tuning was created by Grammy Finalist and Recording Academy Music Educator of the Year Jeremy Bradstreet, in collaboration with software developer Noirit Ghosh Choudhuri. Together they combined decades of teaching experience and advanced software design to create a powerful and intuitive listening tool for musicians at every level. Train your ears. Build your sound. Hear music more clearly.

Screenshots

Sonofield Ear Trainer4 screens
Beat4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Sonofield Ear Trainer at Free against Beat's $4.99. Sonofield Ear Trainer also leads on ratings volume (389 vs 4) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). Beat's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and review sentiment (100% vs 89%). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Sonofield Ear Trainer is free to download; Beat costs $4.99 up front. Sonofield Ear Trainer sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Beat asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Sonofield Ear Trainer against 5.0 for Beat. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sonofield Ear Trainer has 389 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 89% of Sonofield Ear Trainer's written reviews are positive against 100% of Beat's.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Sonofield Ear Trainer versus Beat: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSonofield Ear TrainerBeat
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating4.9 (389 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews88.8% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings389 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 9 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size105 MB223 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSonofield Ear Trainer Education Ltd.Jeremy Bradstreet

Customer experience

Sonofield Ear Trainer

All ratings387 ratings
Positive97.4%
Neutral1.6%
Negative1.0%
Written reviews152 reviews
Positive88.8%
Neutral6.6%
Negative4.6%

Beat

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Sonofield Ear Trainer

Reported bugs

1 issue
  • None reported

Requested features

5 requests
  • Option to switch between 12TET and just intonation
  • Ability to reduce octave range
  • Incorporate more timbre options for drone and notes
  • Tracking and visualization of progress and learned skills
  • Add interactive tutorial for level 1

Beat

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Sonofield Ear Trainer

One-time4
  • Lifetime Pro$14.99
  • Lifetime Pro$17.99
  • Lifetime Pro2 variants$19.99
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  • Lifetime Pro$24.99
None

Beat

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sonofield Ear Trainer free?
Sonofield Ear Trainer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Beat free?
Beat costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Sonofield Ear Trainer or Beat?
Beat is rated higher. Sonofield Ear Trainer averages 4.9 out of 5 from 389 ratings, while Beat averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Sonofield Ear Trainer or Beat have ads?
Neither Sonofield Ear Trainer nor Beat shows ads.

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