»Better Ears« is an educational Music Theory and Ear Training app, which helps you grow your musical skills and enhance your hearing capabilities. There are 13 different exercises included, starting from interval recognition all the way down to chord progressions - perfect for beginners and music-masters alike!
YOU DECIDE HOW TO TRAIN!
With »Better Ears« you can decide for yourself what your training routine should look like. There are no rules you have to follow, you decide when to start and how often to practice.
13 DIFFERENT EXERCISES INCLUDED
»Better Ears« includes 13 different exercises:
• 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
CUSTOM CHORDS, SCALES AND CHORD PROGRESSIONS
The new editor for Chords, Scales and Chord Progressions allows you to add your own items.
6 DIFFERENT INSTRUMENTS
Choose your training sound out of six different instruments. Better Ears comes with Acoustic Grand piano, Bright Acoustic Piano, Electric Grand Piano, Drawbar Organ, Nylon Acoustic Guitar and Steel Acoustic Guitar.
CUSTOM SOUNDS WITH SOUNDFONTS
With the help of SoundFonts (.sf2) you have the possibility to extend Better Ears with your own sounds.
KEYBOARD AND FRETBOARD
»Better Ears« comes with a virtual keyboard and virtual guitar fretboard. You can key notes on either.
ANSWER WITH YOUR VOCALS OR WITH A REAL INSTRUMENT
The integrated pitch detection allows you to answer the questions with your voice or a real instrument (e.g. piano or guitar). Simply play the individual tones on your instrument or sing them when the microphone button lights red.
FOUR PRESET LEVELS
»Better Ears« ships with four preset levels:
• Beginner
• Easy
• Normal
• Professional
UNLIMITED CUSTOM LEVELS
Additionally you can create your own levels, letting you train to your own specific needs. Put yourself in "Training Camp" to learn church modes, or concentrate on those two pesky intervals that constantly cause you problems.
SYNC ALL OF YOUR DEVICES
With »Better Ears« you can keep your Mac and your iOS devices in sync. You can choose what to sync: Your own levels, your statistics, your settings or all of this.
MIDI SUPPORT
»Better Ears« supports routing sound through an external MIDI device, allowing you to use your existing MIDI master keyboard or sound module. You can even control »Better Ears« using a connected keyboard.
STATISTICS
For every exercise »Better Ears« knows all your current stats, including how often you have answered each question correctly or incorrectly.
WIKIPEDIA INTEGRATION
»Better Ears« shows the relevant Wikipedia article for the current exercise. If a relevant article is not available online, another topically-appropriate article will be shown instead.
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.
- Updated for iOS 26
- Various bug fixes
Version 3.8
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