Earpeggio vs EarGuru
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Earpeggio
Enhance your musical abilities by training your ear to recognize intervals, chords, scales, and rhythms. This app offers various exercises and tests to help you improve your musical hearing and track your progress with detailed statistics.
- Interval identification exercises
- Chord identification exercises
- Chord progression exercises
- Melody dictation
- Rhythm dictation
- Progress tracking and statistics
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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.
EarGuru
This app offers three distinct modes to help musicians develop their aural skills. Practice identifying note sequences, replicating melodies on your instrument, or singing notes accurately. Continuous play allows for screen-free practice, transforming your musical hearing with regular use.
- Note identification in LISTEN mode
- Instrument playback in PLAY mode
- Singing pitch accuracy in SING mode
- Continuous play for screen-free practice
- Adjustable difficulty levels (1-11 notes)
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Only you can do the work of serious ear training. EarGuru helps you do it with three independent modes, each targeting a specific area. In LISTEN mode, EarGuru plays a group of notes, all different, and you try to identify them from lowest to highest. Beginners will want to start with 1, then move to 2. Experts can go all the way to 11 notes if they choose to. In PLAY mode, EarGuru plays a note, or a chord of up to 4 notes, and you play it back as quickly as possible on your instrument before it moves on to the next one. In SING mode, EarGuru asks you to sing a note, and as you're singing, EarGuru plays the note so that you can make sure you've sung it correctly and in tune. All three modes can be used without looking at the screen, using the CONTINUOUS PLAY mode. This app relies on you, as a serious musician, to self-evaluate. If used regularly, it can completely transform your hearing.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Earpeggio at Free against EarGuru's $3.99. Earpeggio also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 15 months) and ratings volume (9.8K vs 4). EarGuru's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 86%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On rating, 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
Earpeggio is free to download; EarGuru costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Earpeggio against 5.0 for EarGuru. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Earpeggio has 9.8K ratings behind it against 4, 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 100% of EarGuru's.
Earpeggio ships an update every 2 months, EarGuru every 15 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Earpeggio | EarGuru |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 4.9 (9.8K ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 86.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9.8K — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 15 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 105 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Balazs Kiss | Dan Tepfer |
Customer experience
Earpeggio
EarGuru
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
EarGuru
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Earpeggio
No in-app purchases
EarGuru
No in-app purchases
