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PitchMe — It's just a game.

But your ears will never hear music the same way again.

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The fun way to train your musical ear

PitchMe is a musical ear training app that turns practice into a game. Instead of dry drills, you play short, addictive rounds that teach your ear to recognise intervals, scales, and chords — the foundation of relative pitch. Whether you're learning an instrument, producing music, or studying music theory, a sharper ear makes everything easier: playing by ear, improvising, transcribing, and singing in tune.

Why PitchMe is the best way to train relative pitch

Relative pitch is the ability to identify notes and chords by their relationship to a key rather than in isolation. It is the skill behind playing by ear, transcribing, improvising and singing in tune, and unlike perfect pitch it is learnable at any age. Here is the case for training it this way.

It trains function, not flashcards

Most ear trainers play two notes and ask you to name the distance. That is a labelling skill, and it transfers to real music slowly, because music does not arrive as isolated pairs of notes — it arrives inside a key. PitchMe establishes a key centre first, then asks what you heard in relation to it: the 4 chord, the flat 7, the third degree of the scale. That is the same thing you are doing when you work out a song by ear, so the practice and the payoff are the same skill.

It covers the whole hearing stack, in one method

Relative pitch is not one skill. Hearing a single note against a tonic, hearing a chord's role in a progression, picking one note out of a chord that is already sounding, and hearing that a note is slightly out of tune are four different abilities. PitchMe trains all four — Notes, Chords, Harmony and Intonation — using the same functional method, so they reinforce each other instead of sitting in separate apps.

It takes the crutches away on a schedule

The reason most ear training stalls is that people keep practising what they can already do. PitchMe decides the difficulty for you. Levels widen the range to two octaves, add first and second inversions, add complex and non-diatonic chords, add the harder scale degrees, and — at level 3 — take the reference note away entirely, so you have to hold the key in your head. You cannot settle into a comfortable plateau, because the app keeps moving it.

It trains resolution, not just labels

Naming a fifth is a categorical judgement. Hearing that a note is fifteen cents sharp is a resolution judgement, and it is what separates a musician who plays in tune from one who plays the right notes. PitchMe's Intonation mode plays a reference and a target and asks whether the target is in tune, tightening the threshold from fifteen cents to ten to five as your ear sharpens. It is a rare feature in ear training apps.

It is built around the thing that actually decides who develops an ear

Not content, not features — consistency. An ear is built by short, frequent, high-feedback repetitions, and the bottleneck is whether you open the app tomorrow. So PitchMe is shaped like a game: rounds run about a minute, you get three lives, a combo multiplier rewards a run of correct answers, every answer is marked instantly, and global leaderboards and shareable scores give you a reason to come back. The pedagogy is retrieval practice with immediate feedback, spaced daily. The delivery is a game, because that is what makes the spacing happen.

What you can train

Relative pitch training

Learn to recognise the distance between notes by ear — the skill behind playing by ear, improvising, and transcribing music.

Intervals & chords

Drill intervals, scales, and chord qualities with instant feedback so your ear gets sharper every session.

Non-diatonic scales

Learn to hear chromatic scales and non-diatonic chords

Play, compete, improve

Turn practice into a game with daily challenges and leaderboards that keep you coming back.

Bite-sized sessions

Train in a few minutes a day. Progress is tracked so you can watch your musical ear level up over time.

How ear training works in PitchMe

Each round plays a sound and asks you to identify what you heard. Guess, get instant feedback, and watch your accuracy climb. Sessions take just a few minutes, so it's easy to build a daily habit — and the game keeps it genuinely fun.

Over time, the patterns you drill move from "I think that's a fifth" to instant recognition. That's the moment music starts to sound different — and you never go back.

How PitchMe compares

There are good ear training apps, and some of them do things PitchMe does not. We wrote the comparison honestly, including when you should pick one of them instead.

See the full comparison →

Frequently asked questions

What is PitchMe?
PitchMe is a mobile ear training app and game that helps you develop relative pitch — recognising intervals, scales, and chords by ear. It's designed to make ear training feel like play rather than homework.
Is PitchMe free?
Yes, PitchMe is free to download on both iOS and Android, with no ads. You can start training your ear straight away.
Do I need to read music to use PitchMe?
No. PitchMe trains your ear directly, so beginners can start with no music theory background, while experienced musicians can push into harder intervals and chords.
What's the difference between relative pitch and perfect pitch?
Perfect pitch is naming a note with no reference; relative pitch is identifying notes and chords in relation to a reference tone. Relative pitch is a learnable skill at any age, and it's what PitchMe trains.
What is the best way to train relative pitch?
Train in a key rather than in the abstract. Establish a tonal centre, then identify what you hear relative to it — scale degrees and chord functions rather than isolated interval names — and practise in short daily sessions with immediate feedback on every answer. Remove your supports over time, so you eventually hold the key in your head instead of leaning on a reference note. This is the functional method, and it is exactly how PitchMe is built.
Which is the best ear training app?
It depends on what you need. For a full aural curriculum including rhythm, dictation and sight-singing, EarMaster covers the most ground. For a precise offline theory toolkit, Tenuto is excellent. For relative pitch specifically — hearing notes and chords by their function in a key — PitchMe trains scale degrees, chord functions, chord tones and intonation in one method, free on iOS and Android, and was the one we found drilling cents-level intonation. See the full comparison for where each app wins.
How long does it take to develop relative pitch?
It varies, but many people notice a difference within a few weeks of daily practice, with reliable recognition of the common scale degrees and chord functions taking longer. What matters is the number of days you practise, not the length of each session — five focused minutes a day beats an hour at the weekend, which is why PitchMe is built around short rounds rather than long ones.
Can adults learn relative pitch?
Yes. Unlike absolute (perfect) pitch, which is strongly tied to early childhood exposure, relative pitch is a trainable skill at any age. It is pattern recognition, and it responds to repetition and feedback the way any other trained perception does.

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