SongSmith vs Private Ear App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SongSmith
This app helps songwriters visualize and organize their lyrics. It tracks rhyming patterns and poetic meter, and offers a powerful search for rhymes, synonyms, and definitions. Easily restructure your songs by moving or deleting verses.
- Visualize rhyming patterns with color-coding
- Track rhyming schemes
- Visualize poetic meter and syllable counts
- Search for rhymes, synonyms, and definitions
- Organize and restructure song verses
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SongSmith is the only notepad for writing lyrics that lets you visually see your patterns and easily restructure your lyrics. You can track your rhyming patterns, poetic meter, organize/move verses in a song, and look up new rhymes, synonyms, and more with its easy-to-use and intuitive interface. EASILY VISUALIZE RHYMING PATTERNS SongSmith finds rhyming words in real-time and color-codes them so you can easily see which words rhyme and visualize complicated rhyming patterns. It also keeps track of your rhyming scheme based on the last word of each line in the right-hand column. EASILY VISUALIZE POETIC METER SongSmith also tells you the syllable stresses and number of syllables for each word and updates this in real-time as you type so you can see how the words flow easily. It even keeps track of the number of syllables for each line in the left-hand column too. EASILY FIND POWERFUL WORD COMBINATIONS SongSmith's search feature is extremely powerful. Enter any word and SongSmith will show you all the exact rhymes, all the near rhymes, all the synonyms, and all the definitions for that word. Allowing you to find new creative wording for your lyrics. EASILY RESTRUCTURE YOUR LYRICS SongSmith gives you the option to create your lyrics one verse at a time. Those verses can then be moved or deleted to allow the user to tinker with their overall structure or experiment with new ideas and scrap ones they no longer need.
Private Ear App
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With Private Ear, we are about to revolutionize the way musicians experience sound. As soon as you switch on the device, you will feel relief and hear the best and safest sound you can imagine, including your real-life soundstage.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: SongSmith at weekly against Private Ear App's every 3 weeks. Private Ear App's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SongSmith ships an update weekly, Private Ear App every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SongSmith | Private Ear App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (26 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 26 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | chelsie pasley | Private Ear B.V. |
In-app purchases
SongSmith
No in-app purchases
Private Ear App
No in-app purchases









