Comparison

Voice Up vs Ear Training

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

Head to head
About

Voice Up

Features
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Unlock Your Full Vocal Potential with Voice Up Elevate your voice and collaborate seamlessly. Whether you are a solo artist, a choir member, a karaoke enthusiast, or an aspiring professional, Voice Up is engineered to help you master your unique instrument. Powered by advanced on-device audio analysis, Voice Up provides immediate, high-fidelity feedback to help you visualize your pitch accuracy, expand your singing range, and rehearse asynchronously with your team. --- KEY FEATURES - Song Practice (New): Rehearse your favorite music anytime, anywhere. Load local audio files directly from your device or source backing tracks from YouTube to sing along to. Voice Up captures your voice and tracks your pitch continuously across the full duration of the song, giving you comprehensive analytical clarity from the first note to the final resolution. - Asynchronous Rehearsals & Team Sharing: Perfect for ensembles, choirs, and bands. Record your specific vocal part while listening to what your teammates have already uploaded. Layer your harmonies over existing tracks, evaluate the collective blend, and export your offline recordings cleanly to your singing team or vocal coach. - Vocal Range Test: Discover your lowest and highest notes in seconds. Establish an accurate baseline and find out if you are a Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Baritone, or Bass. - Real-Time Pitch Monitor: Visualize your voice on a digital scale as you sing. Our enhanced tuning engine reacts instantly to rapid vocal agility and subtle pitch modifications, helping you eliminate note drift immediately. - Gamified Ear Training: Turn technical practice into interactive play. The Pitch Game trains your brain and vocal cords to recognize, match, and reproduce musical intervals with speed, confidence, and local leaderboards. - Daily Vocal Warm-ups: Access professional-grade exercises to keep your vocal cords healthy, flexible, and fully primed for any performance. - Your Practice Library: Automatically archive your range tests and song sessions. Monitor your historical metrics to track compounding progress, identify structural tendencies, and hit personal milestones over time. CORE PRECISION UPGRADES - Enhanced Pitch Listening: Technical sensitivity improvements capture subtle shifts and rapid melodic runs with absolute precision. - Organic Metronome Engine: Replaced synthetic digital signals with a realistic-sounding acoustic click to help you internalize tempo naturally. - Wired Headset Optimization: Resolved hardware configuration bugs to guarantee flawless, full-amplitude mic capture when monitoring through your preferred headphones with zero lag. PRIVACY FIRST Your voice belongs to you alone. True to our local-first engineering philosophy, Voice Up processes all audio data entirely on your device. Your recordings, pitch logs, and library metrics never leave your phone, ensuring complete offline privacy with zero cloud processing, data tracking, or server storage. GO PRO Unlock your absolute maximum potential with Voice Up PRO: * Full access to Song Practice, asynchronous layered recording, and YouTube tracking. * Complete access to the Practice Library to label, save, and analyze your sessions by song, part, and artist. * Unlimited Pitch Game access and vocal agility testing. Privacy Policy: https://www.voiceup.info/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Ear Training

This app helps musicians and students improve their musical ear through adaptive training exercises. It covers intervals, chords, scales, vocal warmups, and melodic/rhythmic dictation. Personalized practice sessions and detailed feedback aid skill development.

Highlights
  • Adaptive interval, chord, and scale identification
  • Vocal warm-up routines
  • Solfege and interval singing practice
  • Melodic and rhythmic dictation
  • Chord progression identification
  • Educational music theory guides
  • Customizable practice routines
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ToneSeed is a complete ear training app for musicians, music theory students, and singers. An adaptive engine learns your strengths and weaknesses, then builds every session around what you need to practice most. INTERVAL TRAINING Identify ascending, descending, and harmonic intervals from unison to octave. The adaptive engine tracks your accuracy for each interval and direction, challenging you where you're weakest. Anchor each interval with reference songs you know. CHORD RECOGNITION Learn to identify 11 chord types: major, minor, diminished, augmented, sus2, sus4, and all seventh chords (Maj7, min7, dom7, dim7, m7b5). Train with root position through 3rd inversion. SCALE IDENTIFICATION Recognize 12 scale types: major, natural minor, harmonic minor, melodic minor, major and minor pentatonic, blues, and 5 modes (Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Locrian). Each scale plays as a melody with staff notation. VOCAL WARMUP Guided 5-, 8-, or 12-minute routines: sirens, lip-trills, hums, scales, arpeggios, and a sustained-tone messa di voce. Transposed through your own vocal range with a soft drone for support. SOLFEGE SINGING Sight-singing practice with real-time pitch detection. 26 progressive exercises across 7 major keys, from stepwise motion to challenging leaps. INTERVAL SINGING Hear only the root, then sing the second note of the interval. Octave-independent matching lets you sing in your own range. CHORD ENTRANCE Hear a chord, then sing its 3rd or 5th. A pitch meter shows where you landed, and feedback distinguishes correct from confused-with from non-chord-tone. MELODIC DICTATION Transcribe melodies by ear across 3 modes: - Diatonic: melodies in 5 major keys - Atonal: chromatic melodies with no key center - Melodic-rhythmic: combined pitch and rhythm transcription RHYTHMIC DICTATION Notate rhythms from memory across 8 difficulty levels — from basic quarter notes to complex patterns with dots, ties, rests, and triplets. CADENCE IDENTIFICATION Identify 4 cadence types (perfect authentic, plagal, half, deceptive) in major keys. CHORD PROGRESSIONS Identify 27 common chord progressions — pop staples like I–V–vi–IV, jazz ii–V–I turnarounds, 12-bar blues, and minor-key classics (Stairway, Andalusian cadence). Build custom practice sets by picking scale degrees, or choose a preset (Pop, Rock, Jazz, Blues, Classical). Answer by tapping the progression name or by tapping out the chords one at a time. EDUCATIONAL GUIDES Browse detailed guides for all intervals, chords, scales, and cadences. Hear examples, read character descriptions, and view staff notation. SMART FEATURES - Adaptive engine targets your weakest areas - Daily practice built for you, with per-section progress and XP - Custom training routines with full configuration - Practice calendar with streak tracking - 12 achievements and XP leveling system - Detailed statistics and confusion matrix - Interactive circle of fifths - 4 instruments: piano, guitar, violin, voice - Piano keyboard input for dictation - Staff notation throughout the app - Works fully offline - Cloud sync with optional account FREE FOREVER Interval training, chord recognition, scale identification, interval reproduction with pitch detection, vocal warmup, all educational guides, and the circle of fifths are free with no limits. PREMIUM Unlock solfege singing, interval singing, chord entrance, all dictation modes, cadence identification, chord progressions, custom routines, and custom reference songs. Start with a 7-day free trial. Available in English, Polish, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Japanese, and Korean. Terms of Use: https://toneseed.app/terms

Screenshots

Voice Up4 screens
Ear Training4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Ear Training at none against Voice Up's shown. On price, update cadence, 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

Both are free to download. Voice Up sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. Both last shipped on October 28, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Voice Up versus Ear Training: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVoice UpEar Training
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size79 MB143 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperOSI ABUISI EJIOFORMarcin Chudy

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Voice Up

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Access7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Yearly Access7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time2
  • Streak Freeze$2.99
  • Voice Up PRO$69.99
3 purchases

Ear Training

Subscriptions3
  • ToneSeed Pro — Monthly7 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • ToneSeed Pro — Yearly1 Year trial$39.991 Year
  • ToneSeed Pro — Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Voice Up free?
Voice Up is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ear Training free?
Ear Training is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Voice Up or Ear Training have ads?
Voice Up shows ads; Ear Training does not.
Which is updated more often, Voice Up or Ear Training?
Voice Up ships an update weekly, and Ear Training weekly. Most recently, Voice Up was updated on October 28, 2026 and Ear Training on October 28, 2026.

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