Comparison

Harmonomics Ear Training vs iPracticePro

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

Head to head
About

Harmonomics Ear Training

This tool helps musicians of all levels improve their auditory skills. It offers a wide range of customizable exercises for identifying intervals, melodies, chords, and progressions, with detailed statistics and motivational achievements.

Highlights
  • 50+ customizable exercises
  • Extensive chord library with inversions
  • Creative exercises beyond basic identification
  • Detailed statistics and progress reports
  • Motivational achievements
  • Supports interval, melody, chord, and scale training
Features
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Harmonomics is a deep, flexible ear-training studio for musicians at every level—from first intervals to advanced harmony. Build real listening skills through more than 50 customizable exercises covering intervals, melodies, chords, chord progressions, scales, music theory, perfect pitch, and relative pitch. Harmonomics goes beyond basic identification with exercises for chord inversions, altered dominant chords, simultaneous pitches, scale degrees, root movement, and much more. PRACTICE YOUR WAY • Customize each exercise with focused, exercise-specific settings. • Choose Standard, Guest, or Hands-Free sessions—with spoken answers and automatic progression in Hands-Free mode. • Create your own exercises for the exact skills you want to develop. • Work with a large library of more than 35 chord types in multiple inversions. • Choose from multiple in-app color themes, with light and dark appearance options. • Use keyboard shortcuts on supported devices for fast, hands-on practice. SEE YOUR PROGRESS • Review accuracy, question counts, response time, and detailed results. • Explore your history for each exercise and see how your performance changes over time. • Stay motivated with daily goals and streaks. • Celebrate progress with interactive 3D achievements and personal records. • Revisit completed sessions in your reports archive. FROM FUNDAMENTALS TO ADVANCED HARMONY Start with essential interval, melody, and chord recognition, then move into advanced exercises that challenge you to hear inversions, chord tones, altered harmonies, multiple simultaneous pitches, and complex sequences. Every exercise can be shaped around your level, your instrument, and the music you want to master. Whether you are beginning ear training, preparing for school, sharpening your improvisation, or maintaining professional-level listening skills, Harmonomics gives you room to keep growing. From the creator of Metronomics.

About

iPracticePro

This app offers a comprehensive suite of tools for musicians, including a chromatic tuner, extensive chord library, and customizable metronome. Practice scales, intervals, and complex chord progressions with adjustable tempos and time signatures. Explore fingering charts and reed adjustment information for wind instruments.

Highlights
  • Chromatic tuner with adjustable frequencies
  • Extensive chord library with over 45 types
  • Customizable metronome with adjustable BPM and time signatures
  • Chord progression practice with over 50 progressions
  • Pad for creating custom intervals and chords
  • Saxophone fingering charts and reed adjustment info
Features
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•Drones• The first part of the app allows you to play all chromatic notes in tunings from 432Hz to 444Hz in many different sounds. The notes sound continuously and it´s a perfect way to practice intervals, chords and scales. You also have the possibility to play the notes randomly in an adjustable period of time. The app supports quarter tones if you´ve chosen expert mode. Sounds: organ, piano, electric piano, strings, guitar, double bass, bassoon, clarinet, oboe, flute and sine •Chords• The chord section contains 5 chords in standard mode more than 45 chords in expert mode. The metronome allows you to practice in tempos from 30bpm up to 300bpm. It can be set to different time signatures like 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 7/4, 9/4, 11/4, 13/4. You can also select or deselect the downbeats and offbeats separately. You can listen and play to all chords in all twelve keys, see which notes are the chord notes and scale notes and read information about the chord and the corresponding scale. In addition to that, all chords can also be played randomly. You can choose to just randomly change the root or the root and the chord type. The app lets you filter the chords, which allows you to only randomly play the chords of for example the modes of melodic minor or harmonic minor. 45+ Chords: ▵7, 7, -7, ø7, o7, 5 69, ▵7#11, ▵7#5, ▵7#5(11), ▵7#9, ▵7#9b13 7sus4, 7susb9, 7#11, 7#5, 7b913, 7b9b13, 7b13, 7alt -6, -▵7, -▵7b13, -7b13, -7b9, -7#11, -∆7#11, phryg, ø713, o7b2b11 major, major/3, major/5, major/b9, major/9, major/b3, major/11, major/#11, major/b13, major/13, major/7, major/▵7 minor, minor/b3, minor/5 augmented, diminished Sounds: electric piano, piano, organ and strings •Progressions• In this section you can practice more than 50 chord progressions in all twelve keys. The metronome, with all its setting options, is also included in this section. The volume of the root note, third and septime or rather the tensions is adjustable. If you press one of the two random buttons, the app picks a random root or a random progression and root. 50+ progressions: II-7 V7 I▵7, II-7 V7alt I▵7, II-7 bII7#11 I▵7, II-7 V7b913 I▵7, II-7 V7b9b13 I▵7, II-7 V7susb9 I▵7 IIø7 V7 I-, Coltrane Changes and so on…see full list on my website. Sounds: electric piano, piano, organ and strings •Pad• Using the pad you can put together your own intervals and chords. You have four octaves and five sounds to choose from, with which you can select up to five tones. The tones can sound both simultaneously and one after the other. The metronome, with all its setting options, is also included in this section. You can choose out of these sounds: electric piano, piano, organ, strings and sine •Fingerings for saxophone and reed adjustment for saxophone and clarinet• There are fingering charts about standard fingerings, false fingerings, altissimo and quarter tones and information about reed adjustment of sides, table, tip, shoulder and heart. If you don´t play the saxophone, you can hide this part of the app. •Features• * Stealth Mode (Ear Training Mode). You can use stealth mode in drones, chords and progressions. This will hide the currently played chords and display them afterwards. * A practice timer that informs you when your set practice time has expired. * Landscape mode. * Light- and dark appearance (Night Shift). * You can set if you play a C, Bb, oder Eb Instrument. * Are you an advanced player? The expert mode offers you additional information which could be confusing to unexperienced musicians. If you have no idea what C▵7#5 means or if you have never heard of quarter tones you probably should choose the standard mode. * All sounds can be played from 432Hz to 444Hz.

Screenshots

Harmonomics Ear Training4 screens
iPracticePro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: iPracticePro at $5.99 against Harmonomics Ear Training's $9.99. iPracticePro also leads on ratings volume (239 vs 26) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). Harmonomics Ear Training's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs monthly). On rating, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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

Harmonomics Ear Training costs $9.99 and iPracticePro $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Harmonomics Ear Training against 4.7 for iPracticePro. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iPracticePro has 239 ratings behind it against 26, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 85% of Harmonomics Ear Training's written reviews are positive against 87% of iPracticePro's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Harmonomics Ear Training ships an update every 10 days, iPracticePro monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Harmonomics Ear Training versus iPracticePro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHarmonomics Ear TrainingiPracticePro
Price$9.99$5.99 — better
Rating4.7 (26 ratings)4.7 (239 ratings)
Positive reviews85.2% of reviews86.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings26239 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS18.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB170 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJohn NastosSteffen Weber

Customer experience

Harmonomics Ear Training

All ratings26 ratings
Positive96.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative3.8%
Written reviews27 reviews
Positive85.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.8%

iPracticePro

All ratings239 ratings
Positive95.4%
Neutral2.9%
Negative1.7%
Written reviews53 reviews
Positive86.8%
Neutral7.5%
Negative5.7%

In-app purchases

None

Harmonomics Ear Training

No in-app purchases

None

iPracticePro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Harmonomics Ear Training free?
Harmonomics Ear Training costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is iPracticePro free?
iPracticePro costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Harmonomics Ear Training or iPracticePro?
Harmonomics Ear Training and iPracticePro are both rated 4.7 out of 5 on the App Store, from 26 and 239 ratings respectively.
Do Harmonomics Ear Training or iPracticePro have ads?
Neither Harmonomics Ear Training nor iPracticePro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Harmonomics Ear Training or iPracticePro?
Harmonomics Ear Training ships an update every 10 days, and iPracticePro monthly. Most recently, Harmonomics Ear Training was updated on September 22, 2026 and iPracticePro on September 21, 2026.

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