Auricula vs MelodyTrainer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Auricula
Enhance your musical abilities by practicing interval recognition. This app offers various difficulty levels, progress analytics, and daily reminders to help you improve your sense of hearing and musical development.
- Interval ear training exercises
- Progress analytics and skill overview
- Daily exercise reminders
- Customizable interval selection
- Highscore mode
- Light and dark mode support
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Looking for the best interval ear training app? Do you want to improve your sense of hearing, develop your ability to identify intervals, or take your musical development to the next level? Then Auricula is the app for you - updated and evolving since 2014! Features you don't want to miss: - Exercises with different levels of difficulty - Analytics for your learning progress: overview of your skills, showing averages from your last and all exercises - Enjoy clear entry of all intervals and display of the correct interval after three incorrect entries with automatic replay. - Receive daily exercise reminders to ensure a steep learning curve - Supports light and dark mode Unlock Auricula Pro - full access to all features and support for independent app development: - All exercise variations in addition to ascending: descending, random and simultaneous intervals - Choose your preferred intervals for training: all, weakest, or custom selections - Dive into endless highscore mode, where you identify the interval of the previously played note - Change custom application icons - Email Support Got any feedback? Send an email to: feedback@simonbraun.eu
MelodyTrainer
Practice melodic ear-training with this customizable app. Learn to identify melodies of varying difficulty, with options to adjust scales, intervals, and keys. Perfect for musicians looking to improve their skills.
- Melodic ear-training practice
- Customizable difficulty settings
- Select scales and modes
- Adjust interval size
- Choose melody generation style
- Practice specific keys
- Quiz mode with high scores
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MelodyTrainer is a fun, easy to use, highly customisable way to practice melodic ear-training. Learn to play-by-ear and clearly pick out the melodies of varying levels of difficulty generated by MelodyTrainer. Customise the settings to match your skills, level, or personal needs. *Totally Free - No ads, No in-app purchases* Have fun and become a better musician. Work against the clock in quiz mode, and try to get a new high score! In MelodyTrainer, you can use any of 5 preset difficulty settings or: - choose which scales and modes will be used to generate the melodies (Major, Harmonic Minor, Dorian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Blues Scale, Chromatic, and more) choose the maximum interval size that can occur in the melodies - choose natural melodies (where small intervals occur more often) or more challenging randomly distributed melodies - choose the key or set of keys you want to practice - restrict the keyboard to allow only scale tones, for beginners
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MelodyTrainer at none against Auricula's 1. MelodyTrainer also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 79%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Auricula's advantage is ratings volume (71 vs 3). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. Auricula sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. MelodyTrainer asks for nothing beyond the download.
MelodyTrainer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Auricula has 71 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of Auricula's written reviews are positive against 100% of MelodyTrainer's.
Auricula ships an update every 3 months, MelodyTrainer every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Auricula | MelodyTrainer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (71 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 79.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 71 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Simon Braun | Jeff Holtzkener |
Customer experience
Auricula
MelodyTrainer
In-app purchases
Auricula
- Auricula Pro$8.99
MelodyTrainer
No in-app purchases
