Comparison

Aether Radio vs Ear Engineer Mobile

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

Head to head
About

Aether Radio

Transform your device into a vintage radio to access over 50,000 live global stations. Explore music, news, and talk shows by sliding the dial, saving favorites, and filtering by country or language.

Highlights
  • Vintage radio interface
  • 50,000+ live global stations
  • Tune by country or language
  • Save favorite stations
  • Explore stations worldwide
Features
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Turn your phone into a vintage radio and explore the world through sound. Tune between 50,000+ live radio stations from every corner of the globe — music, news, talk shows, and more. Slide the dial just like an old-school radio and discover what’s playing in Tokyo, Paris, or New York in seconds. Save your favorite stations, switch by country or language, and listen anytime, anywhere. Feel the world. Tune your mood.

About

Ear Engineer Mobile

Features
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YOUR EARS ARE THE INSTRUMENT Every plugin, every monitor, every room you will ever work in sits downstream of one thing: your hearing. Ear Engineer trains it. HOW IT WORKS Pink noise plays once, for five seconds. Somewhere inside it a single ISO third-octave band is lifted by 6 dB: the noise fades in, the boost swells and settles back, the noise fades out. Then the room goes quiet and the question appears. Which band was it? One replay per round. Ten rounds per set. Score 8 or better and you move up. FIVE LEVELS, FROM OBVIOUS TO BRUTAL Level 1 offers three options a decade apart, 100 Hz against 1 kHz against 10 kHz. You will get it right, and that is the point. You are calibrating, not guessing. Then the options close in. Two octaves. One octave. Two thirds of an octave. And finally Pro, where all 31 ISO bands sit on screen and the boost could be any one of them. The options are never the same twice. Every round draws a fresh ladder from a random anchor, so level 1 asks 100 Hz / 1 kHz / 10 kHz on one round and 80 / 800 / 8000 on the next. You learn the frequencies, not the layout of the buttons. THE DETAILS ARE THE PRODUCT The filter Q never changes. It is a one-third-octave bell on every level and every round, narrow enough that 1 kHz and 1.25 kHz stay clearly tellable apart. Bandwidth is never part of the test, so you only ever train one variable at a time. The analyser does not cheat. It shows the material breathing across the spectrum, but it is tapped before the equaliser, so it can never draw the bump and hand you the answer. The moment you answer, it draws the real filter curve exactly where the boost was. That is when you see what you just heard. The noise plays once, not on a loop. One pass, one decision, the way it works when a client is sitting behind you. LOW BANDS, ON OR OFF Training on the move without headphones? Switch the low bands off and everything at 100 Hz and below leaves the game, so a phone speaker never costs you a point. Switch them back on with headphones and the full 20 Hz to 20 kHz grid is in play. BUILT FROM YEARS OF TEACHING IT This is not a toy built around a random number generator. It is a training method that has been run with real students for years, put into an app: the same intervals, the same progression, the same insistence that you name the band rather than wave at the general area. PROGRESS YOU CAN SEE Every level remembers your best set, so you can watch the day 250 Hz stops being a coin toss and starts being obvious. Every level is unlocked from the start, so you can drop into Pro whenever you feel like being humbled. FOR MIXERS, LIVE, MASTERING, POST AND BROADCAST Anyone who has swept a parametric hunting for a resonance knows the feeling of finding it by accident. This is how you stop doing that. A few minutes a day and you start reaching for the right band first, on instinct, while everyone else is still sweeping. Your ears are the one piece of gear you cannot upgrade. Maintain them. No ads. No account. No internet connection required.

Screenshots

Aether Radio4 screens
Ear Engineer Mobile3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Aether Radio at $0.99 against Ear Engineer Mobile's $9.99. Aether Radio also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Ear Engineer Mobile's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On 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

Aether Radio costs $0.99 and Ear Engineer Mobile $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Aether Radio ships an update every 3 weeks, Ear Engineer Mobile weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Aether Radio versus Ear Engineer Mobile: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAether RadioEar Engineer Mobile
Price$0.99 — better$9.99
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB43 MB
Age rating12+4+
Developer俊 邹sebastian rivas

In-app purchases

None

Aether Radio

No in-app purchases

None

Ear Engineer Mobile

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Aether Radio free?
Aether Radio costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ear Engineer Mobile free?
Ear Engineer Mobile costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Aether Radio or Ear Engineer Mobile have ads?
Neither Aether Radio nor Ear Engineer Mobile shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Aether Radio or Ear Engineer Mobile?
Aether Radio ships an update every 3 weeks, and Ear Engineer Mobile weekly. Most recently, Aether Radio was updated on October 24, 2026 and Ear Engineer Mobile on October 29, 2026.

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