Auricula vs Active Ear
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
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 in-app purchases: Active Ear at none against Auricula's 1. Active Ear also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months) and review sentiment (94% vs 79%). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Auricula sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Active Ear asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Auricula against 4.7 for Active Ear. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 71 and 50 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 79% of Auricula's written reviews are positive against 94% of Active Ear's.
Auricula ships an update every 3 months, Active Ear monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Auricula | Active Ear |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (71 ratings) — better | 4.7 (50 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 79.1% of reviews | 93.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 71 — better | 50 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Monthly — 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 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Simon Braun | MCPHERSON'S MUSIC LLC |
Customer experience
Auricula
Active Ear
In-app purchases
Auricula
- Auricula Pro$8.99
Active Ear
No in-app purchases
