Play By Ear - Ear Training

Name: Play By Ear - Ear Training
Rating: 4.4 (80 reviews)
Author: SuperNonstop.com, Inc.

By: SuperNonstop.com, Inc. App

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Overview

Version:

1.17

Last updated: 2023-01-21

Ranking

#167,985 ▼ 1,097

Overall

Features & Capabilities

Play By Ear - Ear Training is a call-and-response ear training app that helps you hear pitches and play them back on your instrument by ear. Built around pitch recognition, it lets you practice in a real-musician workflow, rather than tapping notes on screen.

Key features include pitch recognition, hands-free play, interval and chord exercises, random melodies, scale-pattern melodies, jazz lick melodies, melodic and harmonic sequences, ascending and descending note sequences, microphone calibration, tempo control, and the option to show or hide the first note. It supports key centers in C, Bb, Eb, F, G, and D. A microphone is required for full pitch recognition.

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By:

SuperNonstop.com, Inc.

Rating:

4.40

(80)

Version:

1.17 Last updated: 2023-01-21

Version code:

854515906

Creation date:

2010-03-17

Compatible devices:

Size:

24.02MB

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Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-07-18

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# 167,985 ▼ 1,097

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Developed by:

SuperNonstop.com, Inc.

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/play-by-ear-ear-training/id361203621

Website:

http://www.iwasdoingallright.com/playbyear/iphone

User Reviews

Users praise Play By Ear for effective, customizable ear training and portability, with strong progress feedback and versatile exercise options. The top concerns are reliability of pitch detection and stability across iOS updates/devices, plus limited handling of lower octaves and bass clef. When functioning smoothly, it’s a powerful, self-contained training tool for various instruments.

Pros

Progress tracking and clear error feedback showing what you got right and wrong.
High customization and a user-friendly UI with many options.
Portable, standalone ear trainer you can use anywhere across instruments.
Wide range of exercise types (notes, riffs, chords) with reading-practice mode (turn sound off to read).
Randomized content and root notes provide good variety and challenge.

Cons

Pitch detection can be inaccurate, producing false errors and misreads (especially with chords or low notes) and can vary across instruments.
Stability/compatibility issues across iOS versions and devices (e.g., problems after updates, calibration reliability, issues on certain devices like iPhone 6+).
Limited support for lower octaves and bass clef (doesn't hear low notes well and no bass-clef option).

Recent reviews

I like this app a lot, and it fills a need, but it’s a little tough for beginners (or people learning a new instrument, like me). A couple of things would make it easier: 1. Provide a “repeat” option: play the phrase, wait, play it again, wait, then give answer. Gives the student two tries. (Could even give a three-tries option.) 2. Allow limiting the scale patterns to a selected set of scales/keys. Maybe the jazz licks one, too. You can fudge this with the random notes by selecting notes to fit a scale, which is what I’ve ended up doing, for now, but it would be nice to have something more melodic. I have not tried anything with chords, yet, because I’m using this with trumpet. Which gives me another suggestion: maybe you could provide profiles for multi-instrumentalists (it would only affect pitch recognition, I suppose, so might not be worth the effort).