Jazz Pad vs JazzEar
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Jazz Pad
Organize practice sessions, manage music scores, and transcribe songs with advanced tools. Access a large library of jazz standards or upload your own music. Syncs across all devices for seamless practice.
- Smart practice organization
- Custom practice plans
- Music library with 1400+ jazz standards
- Add personal melodies and chord sheets
- Upload and annotate PDF scores
- YouTube video transcription tools
- iCloud sync across devices
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The only app that organizes your practice, manages your scores, and helps you transcribe songs—all in one place, synced across all devices. All while completely free. Smart Practice Organization • Organize your sessions with custom, repeatable practice plans. • Stay focused with a built-in session timer. • Track your progress by logging the keys and areas you’ve practiced each day. Store Your Music Library • Instantly access over 1,400 built-in jazz standards. • Build your personal library by adding melodies to chord sheets. • Go paperless by uploading and annotating your own PDFs. Advanced Transcription Tools • Finally nail that tricky solo. Isolate any section of a YouTube video to master the lines you’ve always wanted to learn. • Save a specific YouTube video to each song in your library for quick reference. Instant Practice Access • Use the Home Screen widget to jump into your practice session with a single tap. Stay In Sync With iCloud • Keep everything seamlessly updated across your iPhone, iPad, and Mac with full iCloud sync.
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 in-app purchases: Jazz Pad at none against JazzEar's 1. Jazz Pad also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.4). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. JazzEar sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Jazz Pad asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Jazz Pad against 5.0 for JazzEar. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Jazz Pad ships an update every 3 days, JazzEar every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Jazz Pad | JazzEar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 111 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mohammed Elmzoudi | Paul Cohn |
In-app purchases
Jazz Pad
No in-app purchases
JazzEar
- Full Access$6.99







