The ultimate ear training app for musicians. Develop your relative pitch to the full by improving your aural skills and your music theory knowledge. This will better many aspects of your life as a musician, be it regarding improvisation, composition, arrangement, interpretation, singing, or playing in a band. Designed like a video game and with strong pedagogical concepts in mind, this app will make you truly master each interval, chord, scale, etc. before taking you to the next one.
Features
• 150+ progressive drills arranged over 4 levels / 28 chapters
• 11 drill types, 24 intervals, 36 chord types, chord inversions, 28 scale types, melodic dictations, chord progressions
• Easy mode: 50+ progressive drills arranged over 12 chapters especially designed for beginners
• Play a selection of 21 drills in arcade mode
• 5 octaves of actual recorded grand piano sounds
• 7 additional sound banks are available, all with actual recorded sounds: vintage piano, Rhodes piano, electric guitar, harpsichord, concert harp, strings and pizzicato strings
• In each chapter, a theory card will introduce you to the concepts you will need to know
• No need to know how to read music on a staff
• Designed like a video game: earn 3 stars in each drill of a chapter to unlock the next one. Or will you be able to obtain perfect 5-star scores?
• Don't want to follow the preestablished path of progression? Create and save your own custom drills and rehearse them at your own convenience
• Create full custom training programs and invite friends or students to join them. If for example you're a teacher you can create custom programs for your students, add drills every week and view their scores on private leaderboards
• Never lose any progress: cloud sync across your various devices
• 25 achievements to unlock
• Worldwide leaderboards (global, per level, per chapter, easy mode, arcade mode)
• Nice and clean user interface with 2 display themes: light and dark
• Designed by a musician and music teacher with a Royal Conservatory master's degree
Full Version
• Download the app and try out the first chapter of each mode for free
• One-time in-app purchase to unlock the full version on all your devices
Having a problem? Got a suggestion? You can reach us at hello@completeeartrainer.com
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Wow. This app is changing my world! I’ve been in composing classes and in awe of all the students who just hear the chord types off the bat. That seemed like such an unattainable dream. I have been using this for about five weeks now and the results are astounding. I got stuck on phase two in “easy mode” for about ten days, trying to distinguish between harmonic fourths and fifths. I tried about a half hour a day and got so frustrated and felt so stupid. But one day I had a breakthrough and can hear SO much better! Chords and relationships that were opaque are crystal clear now. This is really helping my composing and the pitch when I sing. It’s also really helping me retain melodies that I write for much longer. Now that I can hear all the jumps in them, my brain can stop floundering and remember so much more. This app was EXACTLY what I needed and will highly recommend it to my friends.
Mostly Complete Ear Trainer
Musician25
The app does a great job of gamifying many critical aspects of ear training to the point where it is fun, challenging, and habit forming. As a learner I would like to point out two of the app’s current weaknesses- 1, I think the title “Complete” ear trainer is a misnomer when it is missing functional ear training/degree in context exercises completely from its repertoire. 2, every exercise I have done until now has a way to learn after you make a mistake, but the lessons that I have been looking forward to (chords and degrees) provide no way to give myself auditory feedback after an error, and only plays a cadence one time before asking six questions wirh silence in between. In this format I feel like I learn nothing from my mistakes and the auditory memory of the context key disappears quickly. I wish it either played a new cadence for each question like many other ear training platforms do, or gives an option to relisten to the root chord and the test chord after a mistake, or literally any form of feedback at all. Truly if these two issues were resolved this app would be near flawless, however as long as I have to go to other platforms for certain ear training exercises it is certainly not “complete”
Developer Response
Thank you for the feedback. 2. The problem is that the app being gamified with online leaderboards, this specific drill type you mention becomes really easy if you can hear all the degrees between each question: just click on the seven chords, and while they are still in your immediate memory, go to next question and it will be much easier. Also, the purpose of this drill is to develop the fact that you can have your ear "stay in the key" after a few chord changes. So that would go against that. BUT, you can easily create the exact same drills in the custom training section, and here you will be able to click on the chords between questions. 1. That's precisely what the exercices you mention in 2. are about, so I'm not sure I understand. You can explain this to us at hello@completeeartrainer.com if you'd like. Best, Stéphane.
Best ear trainer on the App Store.
xsoundgardenx
I’m a professional classical musician and this is the best ear training app I’ve ever used. This one is easily the best to date. My only requests are 1) that they go back to the old leaderboard format. This new internal leaderboard system requires an account to be created and there are no people on the leaderboards anymore when there used to be thousands. 2) the melodic dictations start with a cadence to give you the key and sound like Melodies from a normal piece of music (at least for the earlier stages). Right now the Melodies sound random and it’s hard to find a tonal center. But the best thing about this app is it’s difficulty, so maybe it’s better to do dictations without this and to solely rely on intervals.
Developer Response
Thank you for the feedback. Leaderboards will be populated once everyone update to the new versions of the app, and there will be much more entries: you will now see Android scores in them. Old leaderboards could not be cross-platform as they were using Apple Game Center. New leaderboards only requires you to sign-in via Apple (it's advised anyway so you don't loose your data if you loose your phone!), and so did the old ones: they required you to sign-in via Apple Game Center. Hope this helps. Best, Stéphane.
Good layout. Too hard.
TrajanACC
Advertised as being for beginners, but the difficulty curve is bizarrely steep. Within the first few exercises of “easy” mode, I was being asked to distinguish randomized harmonic major and minor thirds across different registers. After trying the test 9-10 times over several days and scoring barely better than chance, I got discouraged and gave up.There’s nothing wrong with teaching difficult ear-training skills, but good instruction should build toward them gradually. If a beginner is repeatedly failing or guessing, the app should simplify the exercise and help develop the underlying skill before testing it again. Instead, it mostly just asks you to keep repeating the same difficult test.It’s also just poor game design. Games keep people engaged by creating a challenging but achievable difficulty curve—not by having players hit a wall almost immediately on “easy.” I like the concept and presentation, but the beginner progression badly needs better scaffolding and adaptive difficulty.
• The app has been rewritten from scratch in Swift and now uses the SwiftUI framework.
• The audio engine has been reworked and is now more performant and resilient to audio route changes
• The user interface has been modernized, and the app is now more consistent with its counterparts on other platforms
• All screens now use adaptive layouts and should look great on all devices and screen sizes
• On iPad, when there is room for it, a side menu has been added to quickly navigate to various app sections
• The app now respects the device’s preferred font size where possible
• Two new options can be found in the app settings to increase or decrease the user interface and font sizes
• Changing the app language no longer requires restarting the app
• When there is room for it, a theme switcher button is now displayed in the toolbar to quickly switch between light and dark themes
• The app icon is now compatible with Liquid Glass
• App shortcuts have been added
• A lot of bugs and visual inconsistencies have been addressed
Version 2.9.6
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Information
Seller
Binary Guilt
Size
81.4 MB
Category
Music
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.5 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.5 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 17.5 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 14.5 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
