Comparison

JazzEar vs Jazz Catalog

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Hundreds of curated chord progressions
  • Randomly generated chord sequences
  • Progressions inspired by real jazz tunes
  • Daily song challenges
  • Streak and performance statistics
Features
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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.

About

Jazz Catalog

Features
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The jazz canon, organized. JazzCatalog is a chart reader built for working musicians. Browse thousands of standards across every canonical fake book, drop in your own charts, build setlists for the night, and practice with a built-in metronome, MIDI chord recognition, annotations, and YouTube playback — all on your iPad or iPhone. WHAT'S INSIDE • 3,500+ standards. Search the entire jazz canon by title or book. Filter to playable tunes or your bookmarked favorites. • Add your own charts. Drop in any single-song PDF and it joins the catalog right alongside the standards. Or override a tune's book version with your own arrangement — the app will use your PDF for that song while keeping the book for everything else. • Setlists. Build the night in your own order. Tap Next on the bandstand and you move to the next tune in the list, not the next page in the book. • Practice metronome. Visual click with time signatures and accents. Per-song BPM is saved automatically the moment you change it. • MIDI chord display. Plug in a keyboard and the chord you're holding shows on screen — inversions, slashes, and extensions resolved correctly. • Annotations. Mark up charts with pen, marker, or pencil. Use a finger or Apple Pencil. Annotations stay locked to each tune across launches. • YouTube reference tracks. Listen to a canonical recording of any tune while reading the chart. The player floats — drag it anywhere that doesn't cover the staff. • Your library, your way. Import legally-acquired PDFs of full fake books, or drop in single-song charts. Everything stays on your device — no cloud, no account, no subscription. BUILT FOR THE BANDSTAND JazzCatalog isn't a beginner app or a notation editor. It's a tool for the working musician who already plays the music and needs the chart, the chord reference, the click, and the recording all in one place. PRIVACY Your library, bookmarks, custom charts, and setlists stay on your device. There's no account to create. There's nothing to sync.

Screenshots

JazzEar4 screens
Jazz Catalog4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Jazz Catalog at none against JazzEar's 1. JazzEar's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.2). On price, update cadence, 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

Both are free to download. JazzEar sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Jazz Catalog asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

JazzEar ships an update every 4 days, Jazz Catalog every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
JazzEar versus Jazz Catalog: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJazzEarJazz Catalog
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB82 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPaul CohnNicolas Tejera

In-app purchases

1 purchases

JazzEar

One-time1
  • Full Access$6.99
None

Jazz Catalog

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is JazzEar free?
JazzEar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Jazz Catalog free?
Jazz Catalog is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do JazzEar or Jazz Catalog have ads?
Neither JazzEar nor Jazz Catalog shows ads.
Which is updated more often, JazzEar or Jazz Catalog?
JazzEar ships an update every 4 days, and Jazz Catalog every 2 days. Most recently, JazzEar was updated on October 28, 2026 and Jazz Catalog on October 10, 2026.

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