Comparison

Modalissimo Ear Training vs Guitar Gym

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Interval and chord recognition
  • Melodic and polyphonic dictation
  • Rhythm tapping exercises
  • Singing pitch detection
  • Chromatic instrument tuner
  • Interactive piano with score player
  • Offline functionality
Features
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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

About

Guitar Gym

Features
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Guitar Gym is a practice room for beginner guitarists. Open it, tune up, warm your hands, and work on the chord changes that are actually holding you back. Four tools, in the order a practice session needs them. TUNER Point it at your guitar and play. The tuner starts listening the moment it opens — there is no start button — and finds the string you played by itself. Tap a tuning peg to lock onto one string, tap it again to go back to automatic. Standard tuning, six strings, and a needle steady enough to trust. METRONOME 40 to 240 BPM in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4 and 6/8. Your tempo and time signature are remembered between sessions, and changing the metre takes effect on the next beat without restarting the bar. WARM-UP Eight exercises across three groups — finger patterns, position shifts, and the natural notes along the neck. The fretboard shows exactly where the next note goes, one note per beat, at whatever tempo you set. CHORDS Four ways to work on chords: • Chord Practice — 28 exercises that drill changing between chords in time, from open shapes to barre shapes. • Chord Memory — 20 lessons across 6 groups that teach the shapes and then quiz you on them. • Chord Listening — 5 ear-training lessons: hear a chord, name it. Major, minor and dominant sevenths. • Chord Library — 147 chords and 161 fingerings, searchable and filterable, every one drawn with its fingering and fret position. BUILT TO BE PRACTISED WITH • Works completely offline. No connection needed for anything you practise. • No account. Nothing to sign up for, nothing to log in to. • No ads and no in-app purchases. • English and Tiếng Việt.

Screenshots

Modalissimo Ear Training4 screens
Guitar Gym4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Guitar Gym at none against Modalissimo Ear Training's 3. Modalissimo Ear Training's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks). 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. Modalissimo Ear Training sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Guitar Gym asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Modalissimo Ear Training ships an update every 2 days, Guitar Gym every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Modalissimo Ear Training versus Guitar Gym: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterModalissimo Ear TrainingGuitar Gym
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB47 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGanSoft SARLMGVLabs

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Modalissimo Ear Training

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly$6.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly$22.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime$34.99
None

Guitar Gym

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Modalissimo Ear Training free?
Modalissimo Ear Training is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Guitar Gym free?
Guitar Gym is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Modalissimo Ear Training or Guitar Gym have ads?
Neither Modalissimo Ear Training nor Guitar Gym shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Modalissimo Ear Training or Guitar Gym?
Modalissimo Ear Training ships an update every 2 days, and Guitar Gym every 3 weeks. Most recently, Modalissimo Ear Training was updated on October 8, 2026 and Guitar Gym on October 31, 2026.

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