MyEarTraining vs Notes Game
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MyEarTraining
Enhance your musical abilities with comprehensive ear training exercises. Practice intervals, chords, and scales to improve intonation, musical memory, and transcription skills. Suitable for all levels, from beginners to advanced musicians.
- Interval training (melodic/harmonic)
- Chord recognition (including inversions)
- Scale and mode identification
- Melody training
- Progress tracking and statistics
- Virtual piano keyboard input
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Ear training is highly essential for any musician - be it a composer, singer, songwriter or instrumentalist. It practices the ability to connect music theory elements (intervals, chords, scales) with real sounds you hear. The benefits of mastering ear training include improved intonation and musical memory, confidence in improvisation or the ability to transcribe music more easily. MyEarTraining makes ear training practice possible almost anywhere and anytime on the go, thus saving you from the hassle of assembling musical instruments. You can practically train your ears while waiting at the bus stand, traveling, or even at your coffee desk. >> APP FOR ALL EXPERIENCE LEVELS Whether you are new to music theory, need to prepare for an intensive school exam, or are an experienced musician, there are over 100 aural exercises to help you push your music skills. Users with no ear training experience begin with simple perfect intervals, major vs. minor chords and simple rhythms. Advanced users can progress through seventh chord inversions, complex chord progressions and exotic scale modes. You can use tonal exercises with solfeggio or singing exercises to improve your inner ear. Input answers using buttons or virtual piano keyboard. For major music topics, MyEarTraining offers different courses and lessons including basic music theory. Interval songs and practice piano are also included. >> COMPLETE EAR TRAINING MyEarTraining app works by combining different ear training approaches like isolated sounds, singing exercises, and functional exercises (sounds in tonal context) to train your ears, thus maximizing results. It’s designed for musicians who want to improve their relative pitch recognition abilities and get one step further towards perfect pitch. >> RECOMMENDED BY PROFESSIONALS ** Concept supported by Dr. Andreas Kissenbeck (University of performing Arts Munich) ** “The skill, knowledge and depth of the app is absolutely outstanding.” - Educational App Store ** “I truly recommend MyEarTraining to improve the ability to fully recognize intervals, rhythms, chords and harmonic progressions.” - Giuseppe Buscemi (classical guitarist) ** “#1 Ear Training App. MyEarTraining is an absolute necessity for anyone in the field of music.” - Fossbytes magazine” >> TRACK YOUR PROGRESS The app provides updated statistics to track your progress and can be easily synced to other devices. Use the statistics reports to see your strengths or weaknesses. >> ALL ESSENTIAL EXERCISE TYPES - Intervals training - melodic or harmonic, ascending or descending, compound intervals (up to double octave) - Chords training - including 7ths, 9ths, 11ths, inversions, open and close harmony - Scales training - major, harmonic major, natural minor, melodic minor, harmonic minor, neapolitan scales, pentatonics... all scales including their modes (e.g. Lydian #5 or Locrian bb7) - Melodies training - tonal or random melodies up to 10 notes - Chord inversions training - identify inversion of a known chord - Chord progressions training - random chord cadences or sequences - Solfege/functional training - do, re, mi... as single notes or melodies in given tonal center - Rhythm training - including dotted notes and rests in various time signatures You can create and parametrize your own custom exercises or challenge yourself with exercises of the day. >> SCHOOLS Teachers can use the MyEarTraining app platform to assign exercises to students and control their progress. They can also design their own customized courses and implement student-specific syllabus to help them learn better. For more information visit https://www.myeartraining.net/
Notes Game
This app helps users practice reading musical notes in a fun and interactive way. It offers two modes: a relaxed practice mode and a timed challenge mode. Users can customize clefs, sharps/flats, and note naming conventions.
- Playful note reading practice
- Two game modes: Practice and Play
- Customizable clefs (G, F, C)
- Sharps, flats, or both options
- Traditional or modern note names
- Progress tracking and reports (full version)
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With Reading Notes you will able to work on reading notes in a playful way, configuring the possibilities: clef, sharps/flats, name... You can play two modes: -Practice: In this mode, you can train to read the note that appears dedicating all the time you need. -Play: In this mode you will have to read the note as it comes out on the screen before it reaches the clef. You will have to be quick and when you rack up hits, faster will be the note speed. You can choose the clef that you want to practice: G, F or C. Also, you can decide if you want to practice flats, sharps or both. And if you want, you can choose use the traditional name or modern name of the notes. In full version one email can be registered per user, but each user can have any number of groups and aliases. In this way, students can use aliases supervised by a teacher. Registration allows you to save the results and to receive a results report for each of the groups and aliases by email to the user, in this way you can follow-up and analize the evolution of each one.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: MyEarTraining at 93% against Notes Game's 0%. Notes Game's advantage is iOS requirement (12.4 vs 15.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. MyEarTraining sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Notes Game sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
MyEarTraining ships an update every 6 weeks, Notes Game every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MyEarTraining | Notes Game |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (252 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 93.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 252 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | myrApps | Cesar Herreros |
Customer experience
MyEarTraining
Notes Game
Bugs and requests
MyEarTraining
Reported bugs
7 issues- Some notes within a chord don't play
- App only registers up to E5 in unison singing
- Missing note on the keyboard for chord training
- Lag causes incorrect answers
- Interval singing section stopped working after update
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- App locks up when adjusting input method in settings
- Singing portion is two notes out of tune
Requested features
10 requests- Add absolute pitch test
- Add relative pitch test (interval recognition)
- Add more sounds
- Increase font size
- Sell premium features separately
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- Alternative assessment approach to 'all or nothing' scoring
- Add notifications for daily practice
- Allow specifying random melody from a fixed set of notes
- Update exercises for absolute pitch
- More lessons/content
Notes Game
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
MyEarTraining
- Premium Upgrade$12.99
Notes Game
- Full version$0.99
Questions
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