Better Ears is the complete ear training and sight‑reading workout for musicians, students and teachers. Train your musical ear and master music theory — from interval recognition all the way to chord progressions and rhythm training. 15 exercises take you from absolute beginner to pro, at your own pace, with no rules and no pressure.
NEW: RHYTHM TRAINING
Sharpen your sense of timing with two brand‑new exercises. Hear a rhythm and clap or tap it back, or read rhythmic notation and perform it in time — with count‑in, metronome, triplets and time signatures like 3/4, 4/4 and 5/4. Clap straight into your device's microphone and Better Ears listens.
YOU DECIDE HOW TO TRAIN
There are no rules to follow. You decide when to start, what to practice and how often.
15 EXERCISES INCLUDED
• Interval recognition
• Scale recognition
• Chord recognition
• Chord progressions
• Pitch recognition
• Melodic dictation
• Tempo recognition
• Key signature recognition
• Music reading
• Interval music reading
• Scale music reading
• Chord music reading
• Melody music reading
• Rhythm recognition (new)
• Rhythm reading (new)
ANSWER WITH YOUR VOICE OR A REAL INSTRUMENT
Built‑in pitch detection lets you answer by singing or by playing a real instrument (e.g. piano or guitar). Just sing or play the notes when the microphone button lights up red.
CUSTOM CHORDS, SCALES & CHORD PROGRESSIONS
The built‑in editor lets you add your own chords, scales and chord progressions.
FOUR PRESET LEVELS + UNLIMITED CUSTOM LEVELS
Start at Beginner, Easy, Normal or Professional — then build your own levels to focus exactly where you need to: church modes, those two pesky intervals, custom rhythms, whatever you like.
6 INSTRUMENTS & CUSTOM SOUNDFONTS
Train with Acoustic Grand, Bright Acoustic Piano, Electric Grand, Drawbar Organ, Nylon and Steel Acoustic Guitar — or extend Better Ears with your own sounds via SoundFonts (.sf2).
KEYBOARD & FRETBOARD
Answer on a virtual piano keyboard or a virtual guitar fretboard.
MIDI SUPPORT
Route sound through an external MIDI device and even control Better Ears with a connected master keyboard.
SYNC ALL OF YOUR DEVICES
Keep your Mac, iPhone and iPad in sync via Dropbox. You choose what to sync: your own levels, your statistics, your settings — or all of it.
STATISTICS
Better Ears tracks your progress for every exercise and every question — right and wrong answers at a glance.
WIKIPEDIA INTEGRATION
The matching Wikipedia article is shown for each exercise, so the theory is always one tap away.
REFRESHED DESIGN
A modern, fully redesigned interface on iPhone, iPad and Mac — with full Dark Mode and crystal‑clear music notation.
I’m finding this app very helpful leaning my intervals. I’ve used other simpleton apps and I was struggling but with this app I’m extremely pleased with my progress. Although, it could be just that I’ve spent more time on my piano since my first run at interval training. I find the keyboard at the bottom with the starting note labeled and able to play it with triggering it as ‘your answer’ very helpful for the learning phase. It’s also great practice to count-off your intervals on the keyboard for transferring your answer to the visual interval on the keyboard. I’m sure it’s me but this thing is addicting and I can’t wait for the next session and am racking up two or three short practice sessions a day because of the extreme convenience of using an iPad.
Awesome
Delonté Greenwell
If you're look to better your musical ear this is the app for you, I helps you hear the differences in pitches, chords, while helping you learn scales, intervals. If you want to hear better and have more knowledge in music theory this is a great app.
Great app, only one thing holds it back
windjznensn
I love the flexibility of this app, it’s been really great for my ear training. Many of the exercises would be helpful for my students, as well, but anytime the fretboard is used for note entry (such as on the “melody music reading” exercises) it fails to account for the guitar being an octave transposing instrument. Guitar reads C4 on the fifth string third fret, even though the second string first fret is the one that actually sounds as a C4. Should be an easy fix, hope to see it implemented in the future! PS The “ignore octave when entering notes” option in general settings does not solve this problem
Fantastic
Nu Yawka
Couldn't ask for more. Comprehensive, good range of material from beginner to pro. Highly recommended.
NEW: Rhythm training is here! Two new exercises — Rhythm recognition and Rhythm reading — let you clap or tap rhythms back by ear, or read and perform rhythmic notation in time. Clap straight into the microphone, with count-in, metronome, triplets and time signatures like 3/4, 4/4 and 5/4.
Also in this update:
• Refreshed, modern design across iPhone, iPad and Mac
• Full Dark Mode support
• Clearer, better-spaced music notation
• Many fixes and performance improvements
Happy training!
Version 4.0
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