Earz vs Pianolytics
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Earz
This app offers comprehensive music lessons for all skill levels, covering note reading, music theory, and ear training for various musical elements. It's designed for both individual learners and educators, with customizable content for students.
- Note reading instruction
- Music theory lessons
- Ear training for chords, harmony, scales, and intervals
- Instrument and style recognition
- Rhythm and time signature practice
- Customizable content for educators
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Earz is the best and most complete music lesson app for home and school. For beginners to experts, from classical to pop and jazz! With Earz you learn what you want: • Reading notes • Music Theory Recognising by ear: • Chords • Harmony • Scales • Intervals • Instruments • Styles • Melody • Rhythm • Time signatures • Effects • Tones: high/low, long/short, loud/soft Earz is the ideal tool for schools, bands, private teachers etc. because the content can be fully adapted and adjusted to the students by the teachers! Please visit the Earz website to subscribe.
Pianolytics
Master the piano with interactive games covering notes, chords, scales, and music theory. Practice on your real instrument using mic detection, track your progress with detailed stats, and even compose your own music. Offers a comprehensive learning experience for all skill levels.
- Note, chord, and scale learning games
- Real piano mic detection
- Music composition tools
- Progress tracking and heat maps
- Built-in tuner and metronome
- Video lessons in multiple languages
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Built on 9+ years of development, Pianolytics is the ultimate piano trainer. Learn every note, chord, scale and interval through fast, addictive games, then use it all to write your own music. For every level: beginners learn the basics, intermediate players finally see the whole keyboard, and advanced players can dig into extended chords and 950+ scales in every key. Made by a single developer who is also a musician. PLAY ON YOUR REAL PIANO Turn on mic detection and answer with your piano or keyboard instead of tapping the screen. Pianolytics hears the note you play and tells you if it's right, so practice carries straight over to the keys under your fingers. 35+ GAMES AND TOOLS - Find any note on the piano, on any range of keys you choose: the first keys, a section in the middle, or the whole keyboard - Name Chord game: choose which chords to practice and identify their shapes anywhere on the keyboard, from simple triads to diminished sevenths and major thirteenths - Chord Chart Explorer: find any chord on the keyboard, worked out by a custom algorithm, and save your favorite shapes - Name Interval and Find Interval games, with your choice of intervals and starting notes - Scale Explorer: 950+ scales from any root note, customized however you want, with intervals color-coded - Games to practice building chords and scales note by note, and chord progressions chord by chord - Staff game: learn to read music on any section of the staff, with your choice of staff type - Staff and Piano game: find the key that matches a note on the staff - Ear training for notes, intervals and chords - Circle of fifths practice - Built-in tuner and metronome - Video lessons in 20+ languages WRITE YOUR OWN SONGS - Write down your song ideas, attach audio recordings and lyrics, and save them - Pianolytics detects the scale of your melody and generates chord progressions that fit it - Generate any popular chord progression in any key, then play along with playback TRACK YOUR PROGRESS - A heat map shows how well you know every key - Stats showing how fast you answer every single key, interval and chord shape, and how far you've come - Milestones guide you through what to learn next MADE FOR HOW YOU PLAY - Automatic Mode: the games answer themselves on a loop, so you can learn just by watching - Timer Mode: set your own timer in any game to test yourself - Customizable interval colors and app theme color - Chord names as standard letters, chord symbols, or Nashville numbers (with or without flats) - Note names in letters, two solfege styles, numbers, German, Japanese, Indian, Cyrillic or Korean notation - Available in 20 languages HAND-BUILT BY ONE DEVELOPER Pianolytics is designed and built by one independent developer, the creator of Fretonomy, and new games are added regularly. PLAY EVERY GAME FREE Every game and tool is open in the free version, so you can try all of it. Terms of Use: https://www.pianolytics.com/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://www.pianolytics.com/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pianolytics at 50% against Earz's 0%. Pianolytics also leads on rating (4.5 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (30 vs 1). Earz's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, 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. Pianolytics sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Earz asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pianolytics holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pianolytics has 30 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Earz's written reviews are positive against 50% of Pianolytics's.
Earz ships an update every 3 weeks, Pianolytics every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Earz | Pianolytics |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) | 4.5 (30 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 30 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 85 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ger Wolthuis | Strong Apps LLC |
Customer experience
Earz
Pianolytics
In-app purchases
Earz
No in-app purchases
Pianolytics
- Premium$2.991 Month
- Premium$23.991 Year
- Lifetime$49.99









