Comparison

Ear Dojo vs Wavepocket

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

Head to head
About

Ear Dojo

This app offers focused ear-training exercises for musicians to improve pitch, rhythm, and harmony skills. It features a belt-based curriculum with guided feedback to help users progress through various musical concepts. Includes practice tools like a metronome and tuner.

Highlights
  • Belt-based ear-training curriculum
  • Sensei guidance system
  • Pitch, rhythm, and harmony exercises
  • Solfège, melody, interval, and chord recognition
  • Metronome, tuner, pitch pipe, and drone
  • Optional one-time purchases for advanced content
Features
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Ear Dojo is a focused ear-training app for musicians who want stronger pitch, rhythm, interval, harmony, and singing skills without subscriptions. Built around a belt-based curriculum, Ear Dojo guides you step by step through short, focused exercises that fit easily into daily practice. Instead of overwhelming you with random drills, Ear Dojo provides a clear path: learn, train, test your skills, and advance through the belts. At the center of the experience is the Sensei guidance system. Sensei Night Fox studies your training history, identifies developing strengths and weak concepts, and recommends what to practice next. Clear feedback and focused strategy help your training feel guided rather than scattered. Ear Dojo develops the listening skills musicians use in real music: recognizing pitch, hearing and singing intervals, identifying chords, following harmonic movement, improving rhythmic accuracy, strengthening musical memory, and developing steadier intonation. Core training areas include: Solfège Recognition Solfège Singing Melodic Memory Interval Recognition Interval Singing Chord Recognition Chord Progressions Rhythmic Tap Syncopation Rhythmic Dictation Each belt introduces new musical vocabulary and progressively more challenging material. Yellow Belt begins with accessible foundations, while Orange through Black Belt gradually expand the melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, and singing demands. Detailed instructions, real-time score and accuracy feedback, timing and pitch displays, progress history, concept mastery, belt tests, and shareable certificates help make improvement visible. The Learn section provides pressure-free references for scales, intervals, and chords. Tool Pack I adds a metronome, tuner, pitch pipe and drone, and tap tempo for daily practice, intonation work, rehearsals, and lessons. Optional specialty packs provide four additional trainings and a dedicated test: Polyrhythms Perfect Tempo Jazz Harmony Singing Camp The free download includes Learn, Sensei guidance, and the complete Yellow Belt training path and test. Optional one-time purchases can unlock Orange through Black Belt, Tool Pack I, individual specialty packs, or the complete Ear Dojo Pro experience. Ear Dojo is designed for music students, teachers, singers, instrumentalists, composers, producers, and anyone who wants to hear music more clearly. Train your ear. Sharpen your instincts. Earn your belt.

About

Wavepocket

This pocket studio app combines a synthesizer, drum kit, sampler, and 4-track tape recorder for music creation on your device. It offers multi-touch controls, various sound engines, and a clip-based timeline for easy track arrangement. All your creations are saved locally, and the app works completely offline.

Highlights
  • Synthesizer with multiple sound engines
  • 8-pad drum kit with adjustable parameters
  • Sampler with chromatic playback and slicing
  • 4-track tape recorder with clip timeline
  • Versioned tweaks with undo/redo
  • Offline functionality
Features
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Wavepocket is a pocket studio: a synthesizer, drum kit, sampler and 4-track tape recorder that fit in your hand. Play it with your fingers: multi-touch chords, glissando slides across the keys, drum pads, and four color-coded encoders that always control what you're looking at. MAKE A SOUND: Analog (saw–square with sub), FM, and Cluster Engines • A sampler engine: play any recording chromatically across the keys • Slice samples on the waveform, name each slice, and flip between them • ADSR envelope, resonant filter, env→cutoff, LFO • Presets by category (bass, keys, strings, brass, lead, pad, pluck, bell). MAKE A BEAT: Synthesized 8-pad drum kit: kick, snare, hats, clap, tom, rim, bell • Kit-wide tune, decay, tone and level • Arpeggiator (up / down / up-down / random) and metronome MAKE A TRACK: 4-track tape with a clip timeline: record in any mode, then drag clips between lanes, trim their edges, and cut at the playhead • Everything shares one loop boundary, so your layers always line up • Mixer with per-track level, pan and mute • Filtered delay and spring-style reverb sends. KEEP EVERYTHING: Every tweak is versioned: undo, redo, or scrub the timeline of your session and annotate the versions worth keeping • Recordings and imports persist on your device between sessions • Save the whole project with settings, history, presets and audio as a single file, and render your mix to MP3 NO STRINGS: No account, no ads, no tracking • Works completely offline • Nothing leaves your device

Screenshots

Ear Dojo4 screens
Wavepocket4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Ear Dojo at 5.0 against Wavepocket's 4.5. Wavepocket's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 7). On price, ratings volume, 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 Dojo sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Wavepocket asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Ear Dojo holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Ear Dojo versus Wavepocket: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEar DojoWavepocket
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better4.5 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better2
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.2 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAngelo MilliMATTHEW RYAN SANDY

Customer experience

Ear Dojo

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Wavepocket

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Ear Dojo

One-time7
  • Tool Pack I$3.99
  • Polyrhythms$3.99
  • Perfect Tempo$3.99
Show 4 more
  • Jazz Harmony$3.99
  • Singing Camp$3.99
  • Student$9.99
  • Ear Dojo Pro$19.99
None

Wavepocket

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ear Dojo free?
Ear Dojo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Wavepocket free?
Wavepocket is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Ear Dojo or Wavepocket?
Ear Dojo is rated higher. Ear Dojo averages 5.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Wavepocket averages 4.5 from 2 ratings.
Do Ear Dojo or Wavepocket have ads?
Neither Ear Dojo nor Wavepocket shows ads.

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