Comparison

Auricula vs Pure Tuner

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Interval ear training exercises
  • Progress analytics and skill overview
  • Daily exercise reminders
  • Customizable interval selection
  • Highscore mode
  • Light and dark mode support
Features
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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

About

Pure Tuner

Features
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Almost every tuner measures against equal temperament. If you tune a harpsichord to Werckmeister, play meantone in a consort, sing pure thirds in a choir or own a 19-tone guitar, that is of little use. Pure Tuner measures against the tuning you actually play in. Free: • A display in the style of an analogue meter: long, thin needle, one tick per cent, a green zone of ±3 cents • Switchable fine scale of ±15 cents for precise tuning close to the target note • Reference pitch anywhere from 380 to 480 Hz. 392, 415, 430, 440, 442 and 466 Hz can be selected directly • Detects low notes in the correct octave, from a five-string bass to a piccolo • With plucked notes, the reading stays for a moment after the note has died away One-time purchase "Every Tuning": • Werckmeister III, Kirnberger II and III, Vallotti, Young II, Kellner, Bach/Lehman • Quarter-, sixth- and third-comma meantone, Pythagorean, just intonation in any key • Equal divisions of 17, 19, 22, 24, 31 and 53 tones, 22 shruti, Bohlen–Pierce • A workshop for your own tunings: enter cents or frequency ratios, starting from any existing tuning • Import and export of Scala files (.scl) • A drone on the key note, with a pure fifth if you like, for tuning by ear When you change the tuning, the key note stays where it is. Only the other notes move. Pitch detection runs on your device, nothing is recorded or transmitted. No account, no ads, no subscription.

Screenshots

Auricula4 screens
Pure Tuner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Pure Tuner at fortnightly against Auricula's every 3 months. Auricula's advantage is iOS requirement (16.6 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Auricula sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Pure Tuner sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Auricula ships an update every 3 months, Pure Tuner fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Auricula versus Pure Tuner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAuriculaPure Tuner
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (83 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews79.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings83 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSimon BraunChristian-Conrad Knorr

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Auricula

One-time1
  • Auricula Pro$8.99
1 purchases

Pure Tuner

One-time1
  • Every Tuning$3.99

Questions

Is Auricula free?
Auricula is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pure Tuner free?
Pure Tuner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Auricula or Pure Tuner have ads?
Neither Auricula nor Pure Tuner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Auricula or Pure Tuner?
Auricula ships an update every 3 months, and Pure Tuner fortnightly. Most recently, Auricula was updated on October 29, 2026 and Pure Tuner on October 24, 2026.

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