Comparison

DegreesToIt 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

DegreesToIt

This app visualizes music theory on a guitar fretboard. Explore chords, scales, and progressions with interactive fretboard diagrams. It's designed for guitarists to understand the theory behind their playing without relying on shapes or boxes.

Highlights
  • Fretboard chord identification
  • 20+ scales visualization
  • Chord exploration by category
  • Diatonic chord display
  • Progression visualization
  • Four tunings supported
  • Left-handed mode
Features
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DegreesToIt is a fretboard reference for guitarists who want to see the music theory under their fingers. Identify Chords Tap on a fret board to see what chord that is. Save your favorite chords or explore alternate voicings. Scales 20+ scales — major, minor, pentatonic, blues, the modes, harmonic and melodic minor, exotic, and chromatic. Tap any fret to change the root. Learn the fretboard inside out, relative scale positions, note names. No shapes, no boxes. Explore New Chords Explore by category, swipe through voicings with difficulty ratings, or tap a shape on the fretboard to jump to it. Diatonic Chords See every chord that live in the key. Progressions and Scales Visualize a progression on the fret board. Explore alternative voicings or get scale recommendations to rip your own solo. Built for the way guitarists actually think Four tunings: Standard, Drop D, Drop C, and FACGCE. Left-handed mode. Dark theme. No accounts, no ads.

About

Ear Training

Features
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Most ear trainers hand everyone the same random list of intervals. This one watches which ones YOU get wrong — and builds your practice from that. Every answer lands in a confusion grid. Rows are what was played, columns are what you picked. After a few rounds the grid shows the truth about your ear: maybe you never miss a fifth, but a major sixth and a minor seventh trade places again and again. That cell turns hot, and practice starts coming from there. HOW IT WORKS • Ten-question rounds. Listen, pick what you heard. That's the whole loop. • The grid fills in as you go. Tap any hot cell to drill that one pair until it cools down. • When you miss, you hear both — the right answer and your pick, from the same starting note, back to back. That comparison is where the ear actually learns. • Practice is chosen from three things: what's due for review, which pairs you confuse, and what you haven't seen yet. It's weighted, not a fixed order, so answers never fall into a guessable pattern. • 42 items: twelve intervals ascending, descending and harmonic, plus six chord qualities. The set starts small and opens up as you improve. BUILT FOR PRACTICE, NOT FOR SHOW • Pick your register — low, middle, high, or any mix. No more questions buried so low you can't hear them. • Soft or bright tone, synthesised on the device. • Name things your way: short (m3), full (minor 3rd) or solfège. • Timer pressure is off by default. Turn it on when you want it. • 46 achievements and a daily streak, if that's what keeps you coming back. • A daily reminder at a time you choose — and it stays quiet on days you've already practised. HONEST ABOUT WHAT IT TEACHES These drills train RELATIVE pitch: hearing the distance between notes, which is the skill that actually reads a chord chart or transcribes a melody. It won't promise to make you name notes out of thin air, and it says nothing about your hearing — it's a music practice app, nothing more. PRIVATE AND OFFLINE Everything is synthesised and stored on your device. No account, no server, no tracking. Your grid is yours. Ear Training Pro unlocks practice rounds. The grid, your history, your stats and all settings stay open — free or not, your own data is never locked away. • A recurring subscription, with the first period at a reduced price • Or a one-time purchase that never renews Terms of Use: https://doesonejob.com/eargrid/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://doesonejob.com/eargrid/privacy/ Questions: eargrid@doesonejob.com

Screenshots

DegreesToIt4 screens
Ear Training4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DegreesToIt at none against Ear Training's 3. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. DegreesToIt asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
DegreesToIt versus Ear Training: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDegreesToItEar Training
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequency—Fortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMario Dehesa AzuaraYUSUF OCAL

In-app purchases

None

DegreesToIt

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Ear Training

Subscriptions2
  • Ear Training Pro · Weekly7 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Ear Training Pro · Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Ear Training Pro · Lifetime$19.99

Questions

Is DegreesToIt free?
DegreesToIt 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 DegreesToIt or Ear Training have ads?
Neither DegreesToIt nor Ear Training shows ads.

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