Earpeggio vs Active Ear
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.
Active Ear
Develop your musical ear with a comprehensive ear training app. It offers various exercises to help musicians identify pitches, intervals, chords, and progressions. Customize your learning with practice modes and test your knowledge with quizzes.
- Pitch Recognition
- Interval Training
- Chord Quality Identification
- Bassline Training
- Progression Training
- Chord Inversions
- Customizable Practice Mode
- Quiz Mode
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Active Ear is for musicians of all skill levels and instrument types. With dozens of exercises ranging from beginner to advanced, Active Ear focuses on teaching you to identify pitches, intervals, chords, and progressions using only your Ear. The Practice Mode of the app allows you to customize the challenges to focus only on areas you're interested in improving. Once you're confident with the Practice Mode, you test yourself in the Quiz Mode of the app to see how well you understand the concepts. Active Ear Comes with six Ear Training Programs: - Pitch Recognition - Interval Training - Chord Quality - Bassline Training - Progression Training - Chord Inversions
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Earpeggio at 9.7K against Active Ear's 50. Earpeggio also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.7). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Earpeggio holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Earpeggio has 9.7K ratings behind it against 50, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 86% of Earpeggio's written reviews are positive against 94% of Active Ear's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Earpeggio ships an update every 2 months, Active Ear monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and June 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Earpeggio | Active Ear |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (9.7K ratings) — better | 4.7 (50 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 86.4% of reviews | 93.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9.7K — better | 50 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Balazs Kiss | MCPHERSON'S MUSIC LLC |
Customer experience
Earpeggio
Active Ear
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
Active Ear
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Earpeggio
No in-app purchases
Active Ear
No in-app purchases
