Comparison

SongSmith vs Private Ear App

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Private Ear App

Features
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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.

Screenshots

SongSmith4 screens
Private Ear App3 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
SongSmith versus Private Ear App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSongSmithPrivate Ear App
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (26 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings26 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.113.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB45 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerchelsie pasleyPrivate Ear B.V.

In-app purchases

None

SongSmith

No in-app purchases

None

Private Ear App

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SongSmith free?
SongSmith is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Private Ear App free?
Private Ear App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SongSmith or Private Ear App have ads?
Neither SongSmith nor Private Ear App shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SongSmith or Private Ear App?
SongSmith ships an update weekly, and Private Ear App every 3 weeks. Most recently, SongSmith was updated on October 30, 2026 and Private Ear App on October 31, 2026.

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