Jazzr vs Hark
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Jazzr
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Jazzr is a practice tool built for guitarists serious about jazz. Chord Voicings Generate drop 2, drop 3, triads, shell voicings, guide tones, and quartal shapes across all string sets and inversions. Harmonize any key across all 7 diatonic degrees with a voice leading optimizer that minimizes hand movement between chords. Build custom progressions with the palette editor. Scales 25+ scale types across CAGED, 3NPS, and 3:2 systems. Covers major modes, melodic minor, harmonic minor, pentatonics, blues, and symmetric scales. View a single position or all positions at once. Label by notes, intervals, or fingering. Arpeggios Triad, seventh, and extension arpeggios in position and diagonal 2NPS layouts. Harmonized arpeggios across all 7 diatonic degrees. Practice Tools - Chord Analyzer: detect any chord shape on a 20-fret fretboard in real time. - Harmony Analysis: identify chord functions with Real Book notation and cadence analysis. - Harmony Lab: drill ii-V-I cadences and voice leading. - Guide Tones: ear training focused on thirds and sevenths through progressions. - Reharmonization: explore and drill substitution techniques. - Circle of Fifths: interactive wheel with mnemonics and quizzes. - Rhythm Trainer: subdivisions, tap accuracy, and rhythm games. - Chromatic Tuner: pitch detection. - Conducting: beat pattern practice. - Standards: jazz standard analysis and practice. - Practice Routines: build and follow structured sessions with a built-in player and HUD. - Custom Drills: build your own exercises. - Progress: streaks, stats, and session history. Theory A full content library covering foundations, advanced harmony, scale-chord relationships, style and form, and jazz standards analysis. Progress tracking and streaks built in. Interactive chord and scale examples throughout. Audio Real guitar sample playback with strum patterns, reverb, and tone controls. A precise metronome with subdivisions, polyrhythm, beat patterns, and tap tempo. Export Generate PDF chord guides, scale charts, and arpeggio sheets ready to print or share. Built by a guitarist, for guitarists. _ Terms of Use: https://jazzr.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://jazzr.app/privacy
Hark
This app trains musicians to identify notes within a musical key, focusing on their relationship to the tonic. It offers various training modes, including single notes, melodies, and chord progressions, with hands-free operation for convenient practice.
- Identify notes as scale degrees
- Hands-free training mode
- Multiple training modes (degrees, melodies, chords, progressions)
- Visual staff with colored notes
- Explore any note in any key
- Multiple instrument sounds
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Hark trains your ear the way musicians actually hear: every note as a degree of the key, not a distance from the note before it. A cadence — or a drone — puts the tonic in your ear. A note sounds. You answer on a ladder of degrees, with the home note at the bottom like the ground. Then the note walks home, step by step, back to the tonic, so you hear the pull instead of reading about it. That walk is the explanation. There is no lecture. FOUR KINDS OF TRAINING • Degrees — one note at a time, from two degrees up to all twelve • Melodies — short phrases, name every note in order • Chords in the key — I, IV, V and the rest, heard by function • Progressions — three and four chords in a row INSIDE • A ladder of seven colours: tonic gold, dominant blue, leading tone red • Notes on a staff, spelled the way the key spells them • The walk home after every answer • Hands-free: train with the screen off, on a walk or in the car. The key, the note, a pause for your answer, then the answer spoken aloud. • Explore: hold any degree in any key and listen. No score, no history. • Five instruments: piano, guitar, strings, choir, electric piano • Your map: accuracy by degree and by chord, and what your ear mixes up • Ten languages, and a ladder labelled with numbers, movable-do syllables or note names — Do–Si, Do–Ti, H and B where they belong FREE, FOR GOOD Five degree levels in C major — up to all seven degrees across two octaves — two melody levels, two chord levels, the first progression level, hands-free training, the staff, a week of statistics, and all of Explore: every degree in every key, there to listen to. No daily cap, no timers. HARK PRO — MONTHLY, YEARLY OR ONCE Training in all twelve keys, chromatic degrees, minor keys, three octaves, all seven chords with sevenths, progressions, melodies up to five notes, custom drills, and the full map of your ear with four weeks of history. Choose a monthly or yearly subscription, with a one-week free trial for eligible customers, or a one-time purchase for permanent Pro access. Only one free trial is available per subscription group. After the trial, the selected subscription renews at the price shown in the app. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel them in your Apple Account subscription settings. To avoid a charge after a free trial, cancel at least 24 hours before it ends. The free levels stay free either way. NO ACCOUNT, NO ADS No sign-up, no ads, no streaks and no nagging. Your individual answers and detailed training history stay on your device. The app sends a limited set of usage events with a random installation identifier, including session summaries and purchase or free-trial events, to help us understand how it works. The privacy policy lists what is sent. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://hark-ear.pages.dev/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Hark at 17.0 against Jazzr's 26.2. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Jazzr sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Hark sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Jazzr | Hark |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.2 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Humam Abo Alraja | Ilia Usatov |
In-app purchases
Jazzr
- Jazzr Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
- Jazzr Pro Annual$17.991 Year
- Jazzr Pro Lifetime$24.99
Hark
- Hark Pro$19.99








