Otonic vs JazzEar
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Otonic
Enhance your musical abilities with a comprehensive ear training application. Features a level editor for personalized learning experiences and progression tracking.
- Fully featured ear training
- Level editor
- Progression editor
- Personalized learning
- Music skill enhancement
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Otonic is a fully featured Ear Training app with a level and progression editor.
JazzEar
Enhance your jazz chord progression recognition with diverse exercises. Study curated progressions, practice random sequences, and tackle challenges inspired by real jazz tunes. Track your progress and compete with friends on daily songs.
- Hundreds of curated chord progressions
- Randomly generated chord sequences
- Progressions inspired by real jazz tunes
- Daily song challenges
- Streak and performance statistics
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Improve your recognition of jazz progressions with a variety of exercises and features: - Study from hundreds of hand-curated chord progressions from easy to difficult, covering topics such as diatonic movements, diminished passing chords, modulations, and more. - Practice randomly generated chords or 2-5 movements to test difficult intervals and modulations. - Try progressions inspired by real jazz tunes, with options to tune the difficulty to your level. - Make your best attempt at the "daily song" and compare results with your friends! - Stats to track your streaks and how well you performed at each exercise. Aim for fewer mistakes, fewer listens, and faster completion.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: JazzEar at 5.0 against Otonic's 4.4. Otonic's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.4). On price, update cadence, 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. Otonic sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and JazzEar sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
JazzEar holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Otonic has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Otonic ships an update every 5 days, JazzEar every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Otonic | JazzEar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alexander Blackwell | Paul Cohn |
In-app purchases
Otonic
- Otonic Pro$6.99
- Otonic Essential$19.99
- Otonic Pro$39.99
JazzEar
- Full Access$6.99
