Comparison

Relative Pitch 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

Relative Pitch

Train your ear to recognize musical intervals by listening to notes. This app dynamically adjusts difficulty based on your performance, offering personalized feedback. It's designed for all skill levels, from beginners to experienced musicians, with accessibility features and multiple profiles.

Highlights
  • Interval recognition training
  • Adaptive difficulty engine
  • Personalized feedback
  • Multiple user profiles
  • Accessibility features
  • Available in 12 languages
Features
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The app is free. Level 1 in full, with unlimited sessions, and training that adapts to your ear from the very first answer. You hear two notes. Which one is higher? By how much? And played together, could you name them? Recognizing intervals by ear is what separates the musician who reads notes from the one who hears music. It is not a gift, it is practice. And you do not need to read sheet music to start. TRAINING THAT ADAPTS TO YOU The ZDP engine reads your answers as you go and sets every exercise to the level you are at today. On a good run? Difficulty rises. An interval that keeps slipping? It eases off until that one sinks in. You stay where progress actually happens: never bored, never stuck against a wall. A DEBRIEF AFTER EVERY SESSION Apple Intelligence can analyze your work right on your device and give you personal feedback: what is settling in, what still needs time. Nothing leaves your device. FREE, FOREVER • All of Level 1, with unlimited sessions • The full adaptive engine within that scope • Your progress, your calendar and your stats • Reminders to help you keep the rhythm WHAT THE SINGLE PURCHASE UNLOCKS • Every level, from your first steps to the most demanding • The complete range of intervals, simple and compound, ascending, descending and harmonic • Your choice of which intervals to work on • The pathway built for the L.U.C.I.D. method One purchase, no subscription. FOR HOME AND FOR THE CLASSROOM Up to 3 independent profiles on a single device: everyone keeps their own progress, stats and pace. BUILT TO BE USABLE BY EVERYONE VoiceOver, high contrast, a dark interface, and feedback that never relies on color alone: every answer is marked by a symbol and by haptic feedback. Adapting properly means adapting to each person. YOUR DATA STAYS WITH YOU No collection, no account to create, no connection required, no permission to grant to get started. Everything happens on your device. Note Precision: Intervals accompanies the Relative Ear module of the L.U.C.I.D. platform, which grew out of a music teacher's work, and it fits practice with your teacher as naturally as working on your own at home. Available in 12 languages, as a native app on iPhone, iPad and Mac. This is the first app in the NotePrecision suite. The ear can be trained.

About

Ear Training

Improve your musical abilities with daily, game-like exercises focused on pitch, intervals, chords, scales, and rhythm. Designed for quick, five-minute sessions, it offers adaptive learning and detailed feedback to help you master your musical ear.

Highlights
  • Daily bite-size lessons
  • Pitch and interval training
  • Chord and scale recognition
  • Rhythm exercises
  • Adaptive difficulty
  • Detailed performance stats
  • Multiple instrument sounds
Features
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Train your musical ear with quick, game-like daily drills. Hear it, name it, nail it. Build perfect and relative pitch through bite-size lessons you'll actually finish — five fun minutes a day. WHAT YOU'LL TRAIN • Notes — name the pitch you hear • Intervals — feel the distance between two notes • Chords — major, minor, diminished, 7ths and beyond • Scales — modes from Dorian to Lydian • Rhythm — lock in your internal clock WHY IT WORKS • Bite-size lessons with instant feedback • Daily streaks, hearts and weekly leagues keep you coming back • Adaptive difficulty and spaced repetition • Detailed stats reveal your weak spots • Multiple instrument timbres — practice with the sound you love • Clean, distraction-free design Play songs by ear, improvise with confidence, transcribe, produce, or ace auditions and exams — a sharper ear changes everything. Start training today. Five minutes is all it takes. Support: https://app.notion.com/p/Support-Pitchpal-3760cc7ee7368033adfddfb849c5a5d3?source=copy_link Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Relative Pitch4 screens
Ear Training4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Relative Pitch at none against Ear Training's 2. Ear Training's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads 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. Ear Training sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Relative Pitch asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Relative Pitch versus Ear Training: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRelative PitchEar Training
PriceFreeFree
Rating—1.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFreemium — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCedrik RazafimanantsoaMUHAMMET USLU

Customer experience

Relative Pitch

Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Ear Training

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Relative Pitch

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Ear Training

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly Pro3 Days trial$2.997 Days
  • Yearly Pro$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Relative Pitch free?
Relative Pitch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ear Training free?
Ear Training is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Relative Pitch or Ear Training have ads?
Neither Relative Pitch nor Ear Training shows ads.

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