Comparison

Earpeggio vs Quality Tones

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

Head to head
About

Earpeggio

Enhance your musical skills by training your ear to identify intervals, chords, scales, and rhythms. This app offers various exercises and tests to track your progress and improve your musical hearing.

Highlights
  • Interval identification
  • Chord identification
  • Melody dictation
  • Rhythm dictation
  • Progress statistics
  • Customizable exercises
Features
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Become a better musician! Master the identification of intervals, chords, scales and rhythms solely by hearing them. Earpeggio is an ear training app which lets you improve your musical hearing. Earpeggio provides ten different exercises, including: - Interval identification - Chord identification - Chord progressions - Melody dictation - Rhythm dictation Once you are bored with exercising, try taking the tests and see what your limits are. The broad statistics give you meaningful insights on your progress and help you achieve your goals.

About

Quality Tones

This app helps brass musicians improve their playing accuracy, range, and tone through randomized and customizable exercises. It offers a unique approach to practice, allowing users to focus on specific areas for dramatic improvement in sound and consistency.

Highlights
  • Randomized note practice
  • Customizable note range
  • Adjustable dynamics and articulations
  • Improve tone and accuracy
  • Practice full range on demand
  • Tailored practice sessions
Features
Currently charting
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Quality Tones train brass musicians to learn how to play any note, in any range, in any dynamic, beautifully and consistently. This method has been proven to dramatically help brass musicians of all levels develop a more beautiful sound, and a more consistent and accurate level of playing. Accuracy exercises are a must for brass musicians. There are hundreds of effective teaching methods designed to help brass musicians play more accurately, but there are two things that make the Quality Tone App unique and superior: 1. Randomization – In order to obtain maximum effectiveness, all quality tones in each session will appear in a random order. This method allows you to work on a variety of quality tones in your full range in a much more efficient manner. You will find this method more difficult than practicing attacks in a non-random order, but you will also find it supremely more effective. No longer will you have to worry about playing contrasting excerpts or passages right after the other, because you’ll be confident and trained to play any note beautifully, in any order, and in your entire range - on demand! 2. Customization – This app surpasses standard method books because it gives you the ability to work on exactly what you need to practice, and then constantly tweak it in a matter of seconds. You can customize the lowest and highest note that will be asked for in each session, and turn on or off 13 different variations of dynamics and articulations. This allows you to isolate and focus on specific areas you would like to improve. You could devote an entire session to soft high note attacks, improve your stopped horn technique if you’re a horn player, extend your extreme high range if you’re a lead trumpet player, or slow things down with a series of long tone variations - there are endless possibilities. This Quality Tone App will tailor to YOUR needs.

Screenshots

Earpeggio4 screens
Quality Tones3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Earpeggio at Free against Quality Tones's $3.99. Earpeggio also leads on ratings volume (9.8K vs 10) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 6 months). Quality Tones's advantage is chart position (#197 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). On rating, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Earpeggio is free to download; Quality Tones costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Earpeggio against 4.9 for Quality Tones. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Earpeggio has 9.8K ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of Earpeggio's written reviews are positive against 92% of Quality Tones's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Earpeggio ships an update every 2 months, Quality Tones every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Earpeggio versus Quality Tones: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEarpeggioQuality Tones
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating4.9 (9.8K ratings)4.9 (10 ratings) — better
Positive reviews86.0% of reviews92.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings9.8K — better10
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#197 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.09.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBalazs KissApps For Brass LLC

Customer experience

Earpeggio

All ratings9,770 ratings
Positive97.9%
Neutral1.2%
Negative0.8%
Written reviews271 reviews
Positive86.0%
Neutral7.0%
Negative7.0%

Quality Tones

All ratings10 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive92.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.7%

Bugs and requests

Earpeggio

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Notes getting stuck or not turning off
  • Login and password reset functionality not working
  • Melodic dictation exercises not displaying properly
  • Inconsistent scoring and progress tracking

Requested features

5 requests
  • Option to change instrument sounds
  • Ability to repeat completed goals
  • More detailed feedback on mistakes
  • Adaptive difficulty based on user performance
  • Integration with other music learning platforms

Quality Tones

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Earpeggio

No in-app purchases

None

Quality Tones

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Earpeggio free?
Earpeggio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Quality Tones free?
Quality Tones costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Earpeggio or Quality Tones?
Quality Tones is rated higher. Earpeggio averages 4.9 out of 5 from 9.8K ratings, while Quality Tones averages 4.9 from 10 ratings.
Do Earpeggio or Quality Tones have ads?
Neither Earpeggio nor Quality Tones shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Earpeggio or Quality Tones?
Earpeggio ships an update every 2 months, and Quality Tones every 6 months. Most recently, Earpeggio was updated on November 9, 2026 and Quality Tones on November 2, 2026.

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