Auricula vs Otonic
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
Otonic
Enhance your musical abilities with a comprehensive ear training application. Features a level editor for personalized learning experiences and progression tracking.
- Fully featured ear training
- Level editor
- Progression editor
- Personalized learning
- Music skill enhancement
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Otonic is a fully featured Ear Training app with a level and progression editor.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Otonic at every 5 days against Auricula's every 3 months. Otonic also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.6). Auricula's advantage is ratings volume (71 vs 4) and review sentiment (79% vs 67%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 and Otonic sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Otonic 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 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 79% of Auricula's written reviews are positive against 67% of Otonic's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Auricula ships an update every 3 months, Otonic every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Auricula | Otonic |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (71 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 79.1% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 71 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Simon Braun | Alexander Blackwell |
Customer experience
Auricula
Otonic
In-app purchases
Auricula
- Auricula Pro$8.99
Otonic
- Otonic Pro$6.99
- Otonic Essential$19.99
- Otonic Pro$39.99
