Best Ear Trainer Apps

4.9😊(3.9K ratings)

FreeIn-App Purchases

Develop your musical ear by learning to recognize tones within the context of a specific musical key. This app helps you understand the function of each note, improving your ability to transcribe, improvise, and play music by ear. Suitable for all ages and skill levels, with just 10 minutes of daily practice.

What We Love

🚀 Effective ear training
👍 Simple and intuitive interface
💡 Customizable exercises
🎉 Noticeable improvement with regular practice
🎨 Visually appealing design
🆓 Free app with no ads

Room to Improve

🐛 Occasional audio glitches
💡 Lack of support for other instruments besides piano
💡 Desire for more advanced features (e.g. chord recognition)

Earpeggio by Balazs Kiss

Musical Ear Training Exercises

Strong Contender

4.9😊(9.8K ratings)

Free

Enhance your musical skills by training your ear to identify intervals, chords, scales, and rhythms. This app offers various exercises and tests to track your progress and improve your musical hearing.

What We Love

👍 Great for ear training
🚀 Efficient and easy to use
💡 Customizable exercises
🤑 Completely free with no ads
🤓 Helpful for music theory and exams
🎉 Noticeable improvement in users' musical abilities

Room to Improve

🐛 Occasional bugs and crashes
🔇 Poor sound quality of instruments
🤔 Unclear instructions for beginners
🤯 Difficulty progressing to more advanced levels

Ear Trainer by thoor software AB

Worth Considering

MyEarTraining - Ear Trainer

4.8😊(1.2K ratings)

$7.99

This app is designed to enhance your musical listening skills. It offers a comprehensive set of over 260 exercises across nine study areas, plus custom exercise creation. Suitable for all levels, it helps musicians and students improve their ear training.

What We Love

👍 Simple and effective
🚀 Accessible and easy to use
🚀 Customizable exercises
🚀 Comprehensive training
🚀 Steady progress and improvement
👍 Useful for beginners and advanced musicians
🚀 Excellent value for money

Room to Improve

🐛 Incorrect note/interval spellings
🐛 Lack of melody dictation exercises
🐛 Limited chord progression exercises
🐛 Cumbersome note deletion in melody exercises

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Aural exercises and lessons

Interval training (melodic/harmonic)Chord recognition (including inversions)Scale and mode identification

Enhance your musical abilities with comprehensive ear training exercises. Practice intervals, chords, and scales to improve intonation, musical memory, and transcription skills. Suitable for all levels, from beginners to advanced musicians.

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Complete Ear Trainer

150+ progressive drills11 drill typesCustomizable drills and programs

Enhance your musical abilities with comprehensive ear training exercises. Master intervals, chords, and scales through gamified lessons and custom programs. Ideal for musicians seeking to improve improvisation, composition, and performance.

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Perfect Ear: Music & Rhythm

Ear training, notes & chords

Interval, chord, and scale recognitionRhythm reading and imitation exercisesMelodic dictation

This app helps musicians of all levels improve their musical ear, rhythm, and understanding of music theory. It offers hundreds of exercises and guided courses for listening, singing, reading music, and identifying melodies and rhythms. Practice consistently to build musical confidence and skills.

Ear training. Sing it back.

Sing intervals, chord tones, and scale degreesReal-time pitch scoring via microphoneSight singing and note guessing exercises

This app trains your musical ear by having you sing notes, intervals, chords, and melodies back into your microphone. It provides real-time feedback on pitch accuracy without multiple-choice options, helping you develop your ability to reproduce music.

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Microtonal Ear Trainer

Pitch and interval recognitionChord and scale identificationMicrophone-based singing practice

This app helps musicians improve their ability to recognize musical sounds, sing more accurately, and understand music theory. It offers a variety of exercises, daily routines, and progress tracking to build stronger pitch, intonation, and confidence. Practice essential skills like intervals, chords, scales, and rhythm in just a few minutes a day.

Professional ear trainer

$5.99

Enhance your musical ear with interactive exercises designed for musicians of all levels. Practice active and passive hearing through a variety of drills, including interval recognition, chord identification, and melodic imitation using your instrument or voice. The app offers a unique dialogue feature with integrated voicing generation for accurate feedback.

Active and passive hearing exercisesMicrophone-based instrument/voice feedbackIntegrated voicing generator for chords

Ear Training: TheAudioToolkit

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Train your ear for live sound

by David Mann Music LLC

Learn, play and compose songs

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Piano Chords and Scales

Chord and scale collectionsSong composer with recommendationsVirtual piano and staff views

Explore chords, scales, and progressions to compose music. Visualize musical structures on a virtual piano and staff, with interactive tools and audio playback. Ideal for musicians of all levels seeking inspiration and understanding.

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Ear training app for musicians

Sonofield Ear Trainer

Feeling-based note recognitionScale degree identificationMelody recognition training

This app helps musicians develop their ear by focusing on the feeling of individual notes within a key, rather than traditional interval training. It uses sustained drones and offers various modes like identifying scale degrees, melodies, and singing exercises. The app adapts to your skill level with an intuitive interface and progression path.

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EarRing - Ear Trainer

BassEducation Ear Trainer

Intervals, chords & modes

$7.99

Develop your musical ear by identifying intervals, chords, and scales through interactive exercises. This app offers focused training with instant feedback and a free play mode for exploration. It's designed to build essential listening skills for musicians.

Interval trainingChord quality identificationModal color recognition

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Learn Music Scores & Notes

Tune, interval, scale, and chord trainingPractice with sounds and scoresCustomizable practice parameters

Develop your aural skills with this music training app. Practice tunes, intervals, chords, and scales using both sound and visual scores. Customize your practice sessions to enhance your musicality.

Improve your musical ear with this free educational tool. It offers exercises for intervals, chords, and scales, with a virtual piano to help you learn. Track your progress with collected statistics.

Interval comparison exercisesChord identification exercisesChord progression exercises

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