Auricula vs Interval
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
Interval
This app provides a comprehensive suite of tools for guitarists, including a tuner, metronome, drone, and theory resources. It automatically logs practice sessions, tracks progress, and offers insights into your development.
- Integrated tuner with alternate tunings
- Metronome with customizable click sounds and volume
- Drone in twelve keys
- Note and voice memo recording
- Scale, chord, and theory resources
- Automatic practice session logging
- Progress tracking and streak counting
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Interval is a daily practice journal for whatever you play. Start a session and the timer runs. A metronome, a drone, notes and voice memos are one tap away without leaving it — so you never stop practicing to go and find a tool. Guitar, bass and ukulele also get a tuner and scale diagrams drawn along the neck. WHAT YOU GET • A practice timer that keeps running while you use everything else • A metronome with four click sounds and its own volume • A drone in any of twelve keys • Notes and voice memos, to catch an idea while you are playing • A tuner, on the instruments that have strings to tune • Scales, chords and short theory written for people teaching themselves • A calendar that fills in as you play, and a streak that does not shame you PICK WHAT YOU PLAY Guitar, bass, piano or keyboard, ukulele, or anything else. The tools follow your choice. Nothing pretends to be something it is not: there is no keyboard diagram, and no sheet music. LEARNING WITH A TEACHER? If your teacher uses Interval, they give you a six-digit code. That is the whole setup — no email, no password. Your teacher can set the week's practice: a few tasks, a time on each, and a line about what to listen for. Tap start and you are in the usual session screen, with each task keeping its own time against its own target. It saves to your journal by itself, and your teacher sees the time you put in without you having to tell them. YOUR PRACTICE STAYS YOURS No account to make, no analytics, no tracking, no ads. Unless you connect to a teacher, there is no Interval server for your practice to go to at all. What you write stays on your phone unless you choose to share a page with your teacher, and your recordings never leave it at all. You can disconnect, or delete your account and everything sent from it, from Settings at any time. A copy of your journal is kept in your own iCloud so a lost phone does not cost you your history. You can switch that off in one tap. Recordings are never included.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Interval at none against Auricula's 1. Interval also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 79%) and update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 3 months). Auricula's advantage is ratings volume (71 vs 1). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Interval asks for nothing beyond the download.
Interval 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 1, 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 Interval's.
Auricula ships an update every 3 months, Interval every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Auricula | Interval |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (71 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 79.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 71 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 4 weeks — 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 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Simon Braun | Bijan Pousti |
Customer experience
Auricula
Interval
In-app purchases
Auricula
- Auricula Pro$8.99
Interval
No in-app purchases









