Earpeggio vs Ear training
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.
Ear training
Develop perfect pitch and recognize notes, chords, and melodies by ear. This app offers a series of exercises to train your aural skills, with explanations and hints to help you learn at your own pace. Improve your ability to play along with songs or guess melodies.
- Develop perfect pitch
- Recognize notes and chords
- Identify intervals and chord progressions
- Learn major and minor scales
- Instrument-specific practice
- Hint function
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Would you like to be able to guess melodies by hearing them or be able to play accompaniment to your favorite songs on the guitar or piano? Ear training is the perfect app for you! This app will help you develop perfect pitch, and train your ear to recognize notes and chords in any key. The app consists of a series of exercises, which will gradually introduce you to all the notes and chords in the major and minor scales. You can also practice identifying intervals and chord progressions. Each exercise is accompanied by a clear and concise explanation, so you can understand the theory behind it. And if you get stuck, the app includes a handy hint function. The exercises are tailored to help you improve your aural skills, so you can develop at your own pace. You can also choose to practice in a particular key, or with a particular instrument. So why wait? Start training your ear today!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Earpeggio at 86% against Ear training's 33%. Earpeggio also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.9 vs 4.5). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Earpeggio has 9.8K ratings behind it against 247, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of Earpeggio's written reviews are positive against 33% of Ear training's.
Earpeggio ships an update every 2 months, Ear training every 8 months. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.
| Parameter | Earpeggio | Ear training |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (9.8K ratings) — better | 4.5 (247 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 86.0% of reviews — better | 32.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9.8K — better | 247 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Balazs Kiss | Alexey Ovod |
Customer experience
Earpeggio
Ear training
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
Ear training
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Earpeggio
No in-app purchases
Ear training
No in-app purchases
