Earpeggio vs Basic Pitch
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.
Basic Pitch
This app makes music education engaging for all skill levels. It offers a gamified approach to ear training and sight-singing, essential skills for musicians. Learn to identify pitches, intervals, scales, chords, and rhythms through interactive exercises.
- Gamified music education
- Ear training exercises
- Sight-singing practice
- Learn music theory concepts
- Identify pitches and intervals
- Chord and rhythm recognition
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Basic Pitch builds internal pitch awareness through simple, game-like listening, matching, and singing.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Earpeggio at Free against Basic Pitch's $1.99. Earpeggio also leads on ratings volume (9.7K vs 11) and review sentiment (86% vs 67%). Basic Pitch's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On rating, update cadence, 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
Earpeggio is free to download; Basic Pitch costs $1.99 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 Basic Pitch. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Earpeggio has 9.7K ratings behind it against 11, 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 67% of Basic Pitch's.
Earpeggio ships an update every 2 months, Basic Pitch every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Earpeggio | Basic Pitch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.9 (9.7K ratings) | 5.0 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 86.4% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9.7K — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Balazs Kiss | Carlos DeSoto |
Customer experience
Earpeggio
Basic Pitch
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
Basic Pitch
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Earpeggio
No in-app purchases
Basic Pitch
No in-app purchases
