Epic Ear vs MeloDraw
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/
MeloDraw
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Draw a melody or a beat and hear something genuinely new every time - not a pre-made pack, a fresh procedural generation each draw. Shape what you draw: adjust tempo and pitch afterward, extend a piece you like, keep every past draw in your history and swipe back through it. Layer a melody with a beat into a Combo, then arrange several drawn pieces into a full song. REAL INSTRUMENTS, ANY SOUND - All 128 General MIDI instruments, played with real sampled sound. - Build your own custom sound three ways: a slider editor, humming into the mic, or a photo's colours. RECORD YOUR OWN VOICE - Play a saved song while recording vocals over it - MeloDraw mixes them together automatically. - Multiple people's takes can sit on the same song, each tagged with who sang it. YOUR MUSIC, ON YOUR DEVICE - No account, no server, no internet connection at all - MeloDraw has no networking code. - Back up your whole library to a file and restore it on a new device whenever you like. - Turn on App Lock to keep your saved music behind Face ID or Touch ID. Free to use, with no in-app purchases.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MeloDraw at none against Epic Ear's 3. MeloDraw also leads on update cadence (daily vs fortnightly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. MeloDraw asks for nothing beyond the download.
Epic Ear ships an update fortnightly, MeloDraw daily. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Epic Ear | MeloDraw |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Daily โ better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No โ better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad โ better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DONGWOOK LEE | Kangsoo Lee |
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
MeloDraw
No in-app purchases








