Better Ears - Ear Trainer app for iPhone and iPad


4.4 ( 1984 ratings )
Music Education
Developer: appsolute GmbH
9.99 USD
Current version: 3.7, last update: 1 year ago
First release : 12 Feb 2019
App size: 87.93 Mb

»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.

Pros and cons of Better Ears - Ear Trainer app for iPhone and iPad

Better Ears - Ear Trainer app good for

Internationalisation of notes would be nice like "do re mi fa sol la si" instead of "C D E F G A B"
maintenant...jaimerais une app pour laide a la lecture de rythme sur partition comme EarMaster School sur Mac/pc avec la possibilité de taper le rythme sur liphone. merci. now...I would love to have an app to practice music score reading with the ability to tap the rythm on the iphone like EarMaster School on mac/pc. Thanks.
Its a nice app but there is only melodic interval option. There should make an update with harmonic intervals as well. Id lime to see (hear) more instruments sounds like more piano options, double bass, violin, etcetera.
Phantastic App that helps me a lot improving my ears day by day. Thx
Im a piano teacher - and im going to tell all my students to get this. It is brilliant! best educational app!
I am a jazz degree student, and this app is great for keeping my ear training and theory skills sharp over the summer. Eagerly awaiting more features, more scales, and chords. Great potential

Some bad moments

this was the biggest waste of money i have ever spent on utunes
Not worth the money!!! Needs many more options. For example, the interval training and pitch training are EXTREMELY limited. If youre a beginner, this will help you but if youre a serious musician, STAY AWAY!!!
A clumsy interface and not enough customisation make this program a miss. Someone will come along and best it at some point so hopefully the developer will get on it.
Heres the real deal. It is a music ear training app. None of it sounds real or authentic like a real piano. As a result of this app, it is possible to de-tune your ear to what true notes, chords and scales should really sound like. The developers would really need to improve on the quality of the samples of the piano recording in order for this app to be affective. Acoustic piano players will immediately be turned off by the quality of the midi recordings. However, with the proper updates on sound quality, this app can be very useful. I do understand that this will mean a larger file size for the app, and careful sampling of a real piano is not an easy thing to achieve. A possible solution is to merge their app with roland or synthogy. Practice dont make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect. Sincerely, IronMicey911
Intervals are limited to the 8 (if you count prime and octave as 2) steps of the diatonic scale, that is, no minor, diminished, or augmented intervals. Chords and other features are similarly rudimentary. Might be helpful to child beginners, but much too limited for musicians. All in all, very disappointing, especially conisdering its high price. The interface is ok, but the content falls far short of usefullness.
Pitch doesnt go below C2 Poor sampling Rarely upated Too expensive

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