Earonman vs Modalissimo Ear Training
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Earonman
Master your musical ear with interactive exercises and real-time feedback. Learn intervals, chords, scales, and complex jazz harmonies through a gamified curriculum. Practice specific areas without pressure and track your progress with detailed stats.
- Interactive ear training exercises
- Real-time feedback
- Gamified learning path with XP and badges
- Over 200 levels covering intervals to jazz harmonies
- Practice mode for focused drilling
- Specialized training modes for advanced musicians
- Detailed progress tracking and stats
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Master your musical ear. Become an Earonman. Earonman is a gamified ear training app for musicians of all levels. Build real relative pitch through 200+ structured levels, six specialized PRO quests, open practice, live microphone input, and head-to-head challenges. MAKE IT YOURS Wear a Timbre: an app-wide colour scheme bought with the EarCoins you earn by training. Twelve to collect, each drawn from a different corner of record and instrument design - Pressing, Stillness, Signal, Oxblood, Phosphor, Tweed, Panel, Walnut, Gatefold, Daylight, Fluoro and Concrete. Two of them are light. The whole app follows - backgrounds, text, the level map, your stats. AUTHENTIC SOUND Train with samples of a real Petrof III grand piano recorded at Baracca Records. Choose from 8 instruments: piano, Rhodes, strings, harp, electric guitar, flute, clarinet, and French horn. 200+ STEP-BY-STEP LEVELS Progress from basic intervals to advanced jazz harmony: • Melodic and harmonic intervals • Triads and inversions • Seventh and extended chords • Compound intervals • Scales and modes • Slash chords • Jazz voicings • Upper structures, hybrid chords, and polychords LEARN WITH DR. EARMOND SHARP Each level begins with a short, chat-style lesson led by your witty musical guide. Learn theory through sound, clear explanations, and practical examples. FREE PRACTICE MODE Practice Intervals, Chords, Scales, and Jazz Voicings with no timers, no lives, and no daily limit. Train at your own pace without losing XP. SIX PRO QUESTS • Slashmaster — recognize inversions and slash chords • Functioneer — hear harmonic functions and secondary dominants • Harmonic Quest — explore harmonic movement through exercises inspired by several approaches, including the Barry Harris method • Guido — master guide tones, especially 3rds and 7ths • Hybrid Lab — identify triads over bass notes • Polychordist — recognize stacked-triad structures OPEN MIC Answer by singing or playing instead of tapping. Earonman listens through your microphone and evaluates your intonation live, note by note. It works with voice, piano, saxophone, trumpet, and more. All audio analysis happens on your device. Nothing is recorded or uploaded. 1V1 DUELS Challenge another player across intervals, chords, scales, cadences, and chord progressions. Invite Earonman users directly or share a link with friends who do not have the app yet. GAMIFIED PROGRESS • Earn XP • Build streaks • Unlock badges • Climb weekly Leagues • Review past League results • Track accuracy and time by quest and session SPEAKS YOUR LANGUAGE Earonman is available in English, Czech, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese (the last three in beta). It follows your phone language automatically, and a picker in Settings switches any time, including back to English. Note names stay international (C, D, E, F, G, A, B). ACCESSIBLE BY DESIGN Full VoiceOver support across lessons, quests, and onboarding helps blind and low-vision musicians train independently. The app also includes large touch targets, high contrast, and clear focus indicators. BUILT BY A MUSICIAN Created by a professional jazz pianist, educator, and Barry Harris protégé. The curriculum connects ear training with real musical theory, harmony, and practical musicianship. FREE • 3 standard exercises per 8-hour window • Unlimited Practice Mode • Selected basic levels • Basic stats and badges PRO — 14-DAY FREE TRIAL • Unlimited exercises • All 200+ levels and lessons • All 6 advanced quests • Open Mic • All 8 instrument sounds • Advanced stats • Weekly Leagues and full history • Full badge system • Cancel anytime Whether you are a student, teacher, performer, producer, or hobbyist, Earonman gives you the tools to develop real relative pitch and musical fluency. Start training today. Become an Earonman. Privacy Policy: https://www.earonman.com/legal/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Modalissimo Ear Training
Develop your musical ear with this comprehensive ear training app. It offers modes for recognizing intervals, chords, melodies, and rhythms, with a built-in tuner and interactive piano. Practice offline with adaptive learning and track your progress through gamified elements.
- Interval and chord recognition
- Melodic and polyphonic dictation
- Rhythm tapping exercises
- Singing pitch detection
- Chromatic instrument tuner
- Interactive piano with score player
- Offline functionality
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Functional Ear Training — develop your musical ear in tonal context. Designed for musicians, conservatory students, singers, jazz players and anyone who wants to train their relative pitch, the app makes you recognize intervals, chords, rhythms and melodies — across 6 instrument timbres — after a harmonic cadence that establishes the key. ■ TRAINING MODES • Intervals — recognition with a I-IV-V-I cadence before each exercise (functional ear training) • Chords — major, minor, diminished, augmented + 7th chords (M7, m7, dom7, m7b5), inversions • Melodic dictation — reconstruct a diatonic melody note by note in the given key • Polyphonic dictation — two simultaneous voices, transcribe soprano + bass beat by beat • Singing mic — sing the target note, real-time pitch detection in cents via the microphone • Rhythm — listen, then tap back the rhythm. Adjustable tempo and difficulty. • Tuner — chromatic instrument tuner with cent precision • Pocket mode — hands-free audio training with voice answers, even with the screen locked • Piano — full keyboard with instrument choice, plus a score player: follow “Für Elise” note-by-note on the staff, at your own tempo (play/pause, step through notes) ■ FEATURES • 6 instrument banks — piano, violin, sax, trumpet, flute, guitar • 3 difficulty levels per mode (Beginner → Intermediate → Advanced) • Notation toggle: Do Re Mi (Latin) or C D E (English) • Adaptive selection — items you miss come back more often (SRS-lite) • Per-item statistics — see your strengths and weaknesses by interval, chord and degree • Daily streak with reminder — keep the practice habit • Light, dark and color-blind friendly themes • 9 languages: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese • No ads, no tracking, works offline • Progress & rewards — XP, levels, a daily goal, badges and streaks to keep you motivated (free, no account) ■ PRO PLAN All exercise modes are free, with a daily quota of 6 questions per mode. Pro removes the limit for unlimited practice on every mode, and guarantees no ads — today and forever: • Monthly — CHF 5.99/month (cancel anytime) • Yearly — CHF 19.99/year (save 72%) • Lifetime — CHF 32.99 one-time payment ■ PRIVACY No sign-up, no account, no login required. No personal data sent to our servers. The Singing mode processes microphone audio entirely on your device, in real time, and never records or transmits it. Purchases are handled by the App Store — we never see your payment details. Privacy policy: https://gansoft.ch/eartraining-privacy-policy.html Terms of Use: https://gansoft.ch/eartraining-terms.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Modalissimo Ear Training at 5.0 against Earonman's 3.0. Modalissimo Ear Training also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 11 days). 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
Both are free to download. Earonman sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and Modalissimo Ear Training sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Modalissimo Ear Training holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Earonman ships an update every 11 days, Modalissimo Ear Training every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and August 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Earonman | Modalissimo Ear Training |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tomas Jochmann | GanSoft SARL |
In-app purchases
Earonman
- Earonman Pro Monthly14 Days trial$6.991 Month
- Earonman Pro Yearly14 Days trial$49.991 Year
Modalissimo Ear Training
- Pro Monthly$6.991 Month
- Pro Yearly$22.991 Year
- Pro Lifetime$34.99





