Modalissimo Ear Training vs Aubel
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Modalissimo Ear Training
Develop your musical ear with this comprehensive ear training app. It offers modes for recognizing intervals, chords, melodies, and rhythms, with a built-in tuner and interactive piano. Practice offline with adaptive learning and track your progress through gamified elements.
- Interval and chord recognition
- Melodic and polyphonic dictation
- Rhythm tapping exercises
- Singing pitch detection
- Chromatic instrument tuner
- Interactive piano with score player
- Offline functionality
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Train your ear like a real musician. Intervals, chords, rhythm, dictation: with Modalissimo you finally hear music from the inside. Exercises designed and reviewed with singer June. Most ear-training apps make you guess isolated sounds. Modalissimo makes you hear them in context, like real music: every exercise starts with a cadence that sets the key. Your ear learns the function of every note — and that's what makes the difference in rehearsal, on stage or when improvising. ■ WHY IT WORKS • Tonal context before every question: a solid relative pitch you can actually use • Adaptive practice: what you miss comes back more often, what you master fades out • 5 minutes a day is enough: daily goal, streaks, levels and XP keep you going • Statistics per interval, chord and degree: see exactly where to improve ■ EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO PROGRESS Melody: Intervals, Scales, Modes (jazz modes too), Melodic Dictation, Sight-singing, Singing (mic), Score Harmony: Chords (7ths, sus2/sus4, inversions), Progressions, Cadences, Polyphonic Dictation Rhythm: Rhythm Dictation, Rhythm Writing Tools: Tuner, Metronome (any time signature, tap tempo), Simple Piano, Studio Piano, Pocket Mode ■ SING — THE APP LISTENS Sight-singing and Score: sing with count-in, click and accompaniment. The mic rates your pitch and rhythm note by note, right on your device. ■ EVEN WITHOUT LOOKING Pocket Mode plays the questions and speaks the answers, screen locked. Perfect on the bus or on a walk. ■ WHO IS IT FOR? Music students, singers and choir members, jazz and pop musicians, teachers (free teacher license), and anyone who wants to play and sing more in tune. ■ COMFORT • 8 timbres: piano, Rhodes, violin, sax, trumpet, flute, guitar, synth • Do Re Mi or C D E notation • 3 levels per exercise, from beginner to advanced • Larger layout on iPad, 9 languages, works offline, no ads ■ FREE TO START Every exercise is free, with 6 questions per day per exercise. Go Pro for unlimited practice on every exercise, no ads, forever: monthly, yearly or lifetime. And this is just the beginning: June is already preparing what comes next. ■ PRIVACY No account. Microphone audio is analysed on your device and never recorded or sent. Anonymous usage statistics, which you can turn off in Settings, help us improve the app. Privacy policy: https://gansoft.ch/eartraining-privacy-policy.html Terms of Use: https://gansoft.ch/eartraining-terms.html
Aubel
This app helps music students develop their ear by identifying intervals, scales, and chords. It integrates with your phone's alarm and Screen Time features to ensure consistent practice, making ear training a daily habit.
- Interval, scale, and chord identification
- Adaptive progression engine
- Morning alarm practice integration
- Screen Time app lockout for focused practice
- Streak counter and accuracy tracking
- Multiple game modes
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Train your ear and your eye. Aubel is ear training and sight-reading for music students. Hear intervals, scales, and chords and name them. Read notes, chords, and key signatures on the staff. A progression engine starts from what you already know and opens up new material as you get accurate. LISTEN Intervals, scales, chord quality, and intonation, by ear. Two notes and a gap. A scale running up and down. Four notes stacked into a chord. Train one at a time, or mix them. READ Notes on the staff, intervals, scales, chords, and key signatures, on sight. The same progression that sharpens your ear sharpens how fast you read. PRACTICE THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS Most people mean to do ear training and never get to it. The problem is timing, not motivation. Aubel makes the practice come to you. Set a morning alarm that plays a few notes and won't dismiss until you name them. Put distracting apps behind a quick challenge with Screen Time, so opening Instagram costs you five intervals first. COMPETE A daily chord-progression puzzle, the same one for everyone, every day. Weekly leagues that sort you against players at your level. A global board. Head-to-head battles with friends whenever you want one. FOR CLASSROOMS Teachers can run a class, assign quizzes, and see who is keeping up, with full reporting on the web. PRICING Aubel is free to start. One payment unlocks everything, and you pay what it is worth to you. No subscription, ever. WHY EAR TRAINING A trained ear shrinks the gap between what you imagine and what you play. You hear the chord changes coming. You catch your own tuning. You learn songs off a recording instead of waiting for the sheet music. Every music student knows ear training matters. Almost nobody does it, because the plan to practice later this week loses to everything else on the list. Aubel fixes the timing first. The session is thirty seconds, and the apps you already open ask for it. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Modalissimo Ear Training at every 2 days against Aubel's monthly. Modalissimo Ear Training also leads on monetization model (freemium vs paid). Aubel's advantage is ratings volume (11 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Modalissimo Ear Training sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and Aubel sells 18 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Modalissimo Ear Training against 5.0 for Aubel. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Aubel has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Modalissimo Ear Training ships an update every 2 days, Aubel monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Modalissimo Ear Training | Aubel |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 11 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 130 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | GanSoft SARL | Euan Maley |
Customer experience
Modalissimo Ear Training
Aubel
In-app purchases
Modalissimo Ear Training
- Pro Monthly$6.991 Month
- Pro Yearly$22.991 Year
- Pro Lifetime$34.99
Aubel
- Meow$0.99
- Rocket$0.99
- Kalimba$0.99
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- Unlock Aubel$1.99
- Keyboard & Plucked$2.99
- Percussion Pack$2.99
- Strings Pack$2.99
- Brass Pack$2.99
- Woodwinds Pack$2.99
- Saxes Pack$2.99
- Unlock Aubel$4.99
- Unlock Aubel$9.99
- Complete Collection$9.99
- Unlock Aubel$14.99
- Unlock Aubel$19.99
- Unlock Aubel$24.99
- Unlock Aubel$49.99
- Unlock Aubel$99.99
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