Epic Ear vs DoomLoop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Epic Ear
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Epic Ear connects listening, notation, and the piano keyboard in one music-learning experience. Go beyond repeating sounds. See what you heard on the staff, find it on the keyboard, and build musical understanding with your ears, eyes, and hands. Start even if you are new to music Learn the staff, clefs, note names, rhythm, intervals, chords, progressions, and scales step by step. Guided scenes combine clear explanations with listening and hands-on interaction. Learn โ Practice โ Challenge โข Learn: understand each concept through visual, interactive lessons. โข Practice: repeat complete listening loops with reference sounds, piano, metronome, and spoken guidance. โข Challenge: answer by ear, reveal the notation and keyboard, then play the answer yourself. Intervals, chords, progressions, and scales Four official curricula take you from foundations to advanced material. During training, notes on the staff and keys on the keyboard animate with the actual sound. Pause to inspect, replay the current loop, or move through the timeline. Build training around your goals Choose musical materials and playing styles to create custom training loops. Organize them in folders, add the loops you need to playlists, and keep listening across the app. See your progress Track challenge attempts, all-time and recent accuracy, mastery, challenge activity days, and challenge streaks. Long-term milestones unlock playful collectible trophies and animated celebrations. Explore freely in Playground Play the keyboard and explore the relationships between sound, notation, intervals, and chords at your own pace. Included for free โข The complete Fundamentals course โข Interval Chapters 1โ4 โข Chord Chapters 1โ3 โข Progression Chapters 1โ3 โข Scale Chapters 1โ3 โข Playground โข Two custom training loops Epic Ear Pro unlocks the remaining official curriculum and unlimited custom loop creation and playback. If Pro ends, additional loops are never deleted; they remain safely stored in an inactive state. More features โข Adjustable tempo, master volume, and per-track sound balance โข Background playback with Lock Screen and Control Center controls โข English, Korean, and Japanese โข VoiceOver keyboard navigation and Dynamic Type support โข No separate account required Privacy Policy: https://drfranken.net/apps/EpicEar/privacyPolicy_en.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
DoomLoop
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DOOM LOOP is a stem-based loop machine built from the Doom Cougar catalog. Seven channels โ kick, bass, snare, hats, acid, perc, and FX โ each loaded with eight loops pulled from real Doom Cougar tracks. Tap a pad to bring that loop in. Tap another to swap it out on the next bar. Everything stays at 138 BPM. Everything stays in time. There is no beat-matching, no syncing, no waveforms to wrestle with. The tempo is fixed. The bars are fixed. The loops swap clean. WHAT'S IN IT - 56 loops from the Doom Cougar catalog โ Crease, Creature, Hematoma, Mothers Milk, Parlor Floor, Savage Wit, Shag Chain, Yule, and more - 7 channels โ one loop at a time per channel, plus a one-shot FX channel for stabs and vocal hits - 138 BPM master tempo with every stem pitched to match - 3-band EQ on every channel โ low, mid, high - Independent volume on every channel - Per-channel lock โ protect a loop you like before randomizing - Random โ roll the dice on every unlocked channel, queued to the next bar - Bar / beat indicator with 4-LED beat readout HOW IT WORKS Tap a pad to load that loop. If a channel is already playing, the new pick is queued โ it swaps in clean on the next downbeat. No bumps. No dropouts. No drift. Lock the channels you want to keep. Randomize the rest. Walk a track from a stripped-down kick-and-acid groove into a full mix and back without touching the play button. This is Doom Cougar's catalog, taken apart and handed back to you. Build new tracks. Wreck old ones. Nothing here gets out of time. 138 BPM. 7 channels. 56 stems. One bar at a time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DoomLoop at none against Epic Ear's 3. DoomLoop also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs fortnightly) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and ads there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Epic Ear sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. DoomLoop asks for nothing beyond the download.
Epic Ear ships an update fortnightly, DoomLoop every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Epic Ear | DoomLoop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 6 days โ better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No โ better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod โ better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.0 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | DONGWOOK LEE | Ryan Ebner |
In-app purchases
Epic Ear
- Epic Ear Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
- Epic Ear Pro Yearly$9.991 Year
- Epic Ear Pro Lifetime$29.99
DoomLoop
No in-app purchases









