Comparison

Coco Ear Training vs HarmoniQ

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

Head to head
About

Coco Ear Training

Enhance your musical ear with focused exercises and real piano audio. Track your progress with a comprehensive score and access built-in theory courses. Ideal for musicians of all levels seeking structured ear training.

Highlights
  • Real Grand Piano audio samples
  • Seven focused ear training games
  • Coco Performance Index for progress tracking
  • Daily personalized workouts
  • Built-in music theory courses
  • Worldwide daily challenges
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Train your ear like a pro in just 5 minutes a day. Coco is the ear-training studio built for serious musicians: real Grand Piano audio, seven focused games, and one score that proves you're actually improving. No browser. No laptop. Just your ears, your phone, and measurable progress. REAL PIANO, NOT MIDI Every interval, chord, and scale is rendered live from Grand Piano samples — no synthetic loops, no compressed MIDI. The cleanest, most musical training audio on iOS. SEVEN GAMES — ONE FOR EVERY SKILL • Sonar — pitch identification • Triad — chord quality • Climb — ascending intervals • Fall — descending intervals • Blend — harmonic intervals • Ladder — scale identification • Span — interval comparison Plus daily worldwide challenges to train against real musicians, on your schedule. ONE SCORE THAT MEANS SOMETHING: THE COCO PERFORMANCE INDEX Stop guessing whether you're improving. CPI rolls your performance across every game into a single number — so you always know where your ear is, where it was last week, and what to train next. DAILY WORKOUT — 5 TO 15 MINUTES Coco picks the right exercises for your level every day. "Contrast before similarity" pedagogy builds solid foundations before the hard stuff. Most musicians notice the difference within 2–3 weeks. THEORY COURSES, BUILT IN Music Fundamentals · Scales & Keys · Intervals · Chords · Chord Progressions · Modes & Advanced Scales · Ear Training Theory — ~66 lessons, 285 slides, 70 test questions. Theory and practice stay separate, so you train exactly what you need. WHO COCO IS FOR • Guitarists, pianists, producers, songwriters, vocalists & DJs • Self-taught players who want structure • Students prepping for aural / conservatory exams • Pros keeping their ears sharp between sessions HOW IT WORKS 1. Pick a game or start your Daily Workout 2. Listen to live piano audio and answer 3. Watch your CPI climb as your ear sharpens "Even after just a few sessions, I can already hear the difference! The other day I was casually playing guitar, not even my main instrument, and one I've never properly studied, and for the first time I started figuring out new chords completely by ear!" Train your ear. Trust your ear. Download Coco and start your first workout today. — Privacy Policy: https://cocomusic.app/privacy-policy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

HarmoniQ

This app provides advanced ear training for musicians, focusing on relative pitch. It analyzes your unique musical profile to create personalized lessons for intervals, chords, scales, and rhythms, helping you identify and improve your weak spots.

Highlights
  • Personalized ear training lessons
  • Interval, chord, and scale identification
  • Rhythmic and melodic dictation
  • Detailed ear profile analysis
  • Dynamic difficulty adjustment
  • Real instrument recordings
Features
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A conservatory-grade relative pitch trainer that measures your ear's unique profile and dynamically builds lessons to eliminate your weak spots. POWERED BY EAR-IQ Ear-iQ measures every answer in musical terms. Interval distances, chord-tone geometry, scale degree differences, notes shared in the key, and per-note pitch and rhythm differences tell you far more than a simple right or wrong. YOUR EAR, IN DIMENSIONS YOU ALREADY USE - Intervals: perfect consonant, major, minor, simple lower, simple upper, imperfect consonant, dissonant, and compound - Chords: triads, open, major, minor, diminished, augmented, dominant, 6ths & 7ths, 9ths, 11ths & 13ths, altered - Scales: major & minor, diatonic modes, pentatonic & blues, dominant, symmetric, jazz modes, exotic, bebop - Scale degrees and melodies: tonic chord, tendency tones, major key, minor key, and chromatic - Chord progressions: tonic, predominant, dominant, major, minor, diminished, triads, sevenths, secondary dominants, modal mixture - Rhythmic dictation: note values, placement, syncopation, rests, tuplets, and meters - Melodic dictation: pitch, scale degree, interval, contour, and rhythm - Harmonic dictation: soprano, alto, tenor, and bass See each skill with its strengths and weaknesses SMART RECOMMENDATIONS Ear-iQ tracks the pairs you confuse and draws them back onto the answer grid, weighted by how often you confuse them, letting them drift back out as you improve. Every lesson targets what you need most, and the difficulty rises when your performance says you're ready. No configuration required. MELODIC DICTATION Transcribe an infinite stream of melodies on an interactive staff. The engine uses real cadences, harmonic functions, and voice-leading rules to create natural, resolving melodies in real keys, meters, and clefs, and grades pitch, scale degree, interval, contour, and rhythm separately. HARMONIC DICTATION Transcribe harmonies in two, three, or four parts on an interactive staff, including treble, bass, alto and tenor clefs. RHYTHMIC DICTATION Transcribe rhythmic patterns on an interactive staff. The engine tests precise note placement, rests, ties, syncopation, and tuplets across simple, compound, and asymmetric meters. INTERVALS Every interval from a perfect unison to a major thirteenth, ascending, descending, and harmonic. CHORDS Triads, sixths and sevenths, extended and altered chords, with enharmonic spellings graded by chord-tone geometry. SCALES Major, minor, diatonic modes, pentatonic and blues, symmetric, jazz, and bebop scales. SCALE DEGREES AND SCALE DEGREE MELODIES Learn harmonic functions inside a key, diatonic and chromatic, in major and minor, one note at a time or as whole melodies. CHORD PROGRESSIONS Identify chord progressions by their Roman numerals, in major and minor, including secondary dominants and borrowed chords. PRACTICE YOUR WAY Build a custom lesson from exactly the material you want, or start from a preset for any skill. Save custom lessons and shape your own learning path. Once you choose the skills you're working on, or define your own, your recommendations will follow. REAL INSTRUMENTS Recordings of real instruments across seven octaves: piano, violin, viola, cello, flute, oboe, clarinet, English horn, trumpet, French horn, and trombone, plus a pure sine tone. Every one is free in custom practice. FOR MUSIC STUDENTS, CASUAL LEARNERS, AND PROFESSIONALS Start with the fundamentals and let the engine raise the challenge as your ear improves, up to the advanced material tested in college placement and conservatory exams. Free lessons every day, no account required. Privacy Policy: https://harmoniqmusic.com/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Coco Ear Training4 screens
HarmoniQ4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: HarmoniQ at 5.0 against Coco Ear Training's 3.0. HarmoniQ also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). Coco Ear Training's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Coco Ear Training sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and HarmoniQ sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

HarmoniQ holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 4 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Coco Ear Training ships an update every 3 weeks, HarmoniQ every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Coco Ear Training versus HarmoniQ: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCoco Ear TrainingHarmoniQ
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings24 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size95 MB71 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarco SantonocitoMatthew James Clower

Customer experience

Coco Ear Training

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

HarmoniQ

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Coco Ear Training

Subscriptions4
  • Weekly Pro$4.997 Days
  • Monthly Pro$9.991 Month
  • Yearly Pro$24.991 Year
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  • Yearly Pro Offer1 Year trial$24.991 Year
6 purchases

HarmoniQ

Subscriptions2
  • HarmoniQ Pro7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • HarmoniQ Pro$29.991 Year
One-time4
  • Tiny Bundle of Diamonds$0.99
  • Small Bundle of Diamonds$1.99
  • Medium Bundle of Diamonds$4.99
Show 1 more
  • Buy me a coffee$5.99

Questions

Is Coco Ear Training free?
Coco Ear Training is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is HarmoniQ free?
HarmoniQ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Coco Ear Training or HarmoniQ?
HarmoniQ is rated higher. Coco Ear Training averages 3.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while HarmoniQ averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Coco Ear Training or HarmoniQ have ads?
Neither Coco Ear Training nor HarmoniQ shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Coco Ear Training or HarmoniQ?
Coco Ear Training ships an update every 3 weeks, and HarmoniQ every 4 days. Most recently, Coco Ear Training was updated on October 12, 2026 and HarmoniQ on October 8, 2026.

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