A broad, long-established Android-first trainer covering intervals, scales, chords, rhythm, solfège, note reading and custom exercises, free with ads and a premium tier.
Choose PitchMe if you would rather have one method that escalates on its own, no ads, and chord, harmony and intonation training built on hearing in a key.
Choose Perfect Ear if you want the widest possible free feature list on Android, you want rhythm and notation drills in the same app, and you like configuring your own exercises.
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Establishes a key, then asks what you heard inside it — scale degrees, chord functions as Nashville numbers, notes within a sounding chord, and whether a note is in tune. Difficulty escalates by level rather than by setting.
A large library of configurable exercises plus theory articles, with the option to build your own drills, custom scales and chord progressions.
Including the things it does better than PitchMe.
The gaps that matter if relative pitch is what you are training.
| What it trains | PitchMe | Perfect Ear |
|---|---|---|
Trains notes in a key Whether you identify what you hear relative to a tonal centre, or as an isolated distance between two notes. This is the difference between an ear that works on real music and one that only works on quizzes. | Yes Every mode establishes a key first, then asks what you heard inside it, labelled as scale degrees or solfège. | Partial Includes solfège and some in-key work, but the core drills are abstract. |
Trains chords by function Whether chords are drilled by their role in a key (the 4, the 5, the 6) rather than only by quality (major, minor, diminished). Function is what you need to hear a progression. | Yes Chords are drilled as Nashville numbers — the 1, 4, 5, 6, then the 2, 3 and 7 — with inversions and non-diatonic chords unlocking later. | Partial Chord identification by quality; progressions can be built manually. |
Trains hearing inside a chord Whether you practise picking out individual notes within a sounding chord — the skill behind transcribing voicings, harmonising, and singing a part. | Yes A dedicated Harmony mode plays a chord and asks which note inside it you heard, including complex chords. | Not found No dedicated chord-tone identification mode. |
Trains intonation in cents Whether you practise hearing that a note is slightly sharp or flat. Naming intervals is a labelling skill; hearing tuning is a resolution skill, and they train separately. | Yes A dedicated Intonation mode asks whether a note is in tune, tightening from 15 cents to 5 cents as you improve. | Partial Microphone singing exercises; no cents-level tuning discrimination found. |
Removes crutches on a schedule Whether difficulty escalates on its own — dropping the reference note, adding inversions, widening the range — rather than leaving you to pick settings you are already comfortable with. | Yes Levels unlock a second octave, inversions, complex chords and extra scale degrees, and take the reference note away at level 3. | Partial Structured units exist, but difficulty is mostly yours to set. |
Built around a daily habit Ear training is decided by how many days you show up, not by how much content the app has. Whether the app is shaped like something you open every day. | Yes Rounds run about a minute, with three lives, a combo multiplier and optional daily reminders. | Partial Practice reminders, but no game loop. |
Leaderboards Whether progress is visible against other people, which is what keeps a practice habit alive past the first fortnight. | Yes Global leaderboards and shareable scores. | Not found No leaderboards. |
Price Cost to start and to keep going. | Free to download; optional subscription. No ads. | Free with ads; premium subscription. |
Platforms Where it runs. | iOS and Android. | Android, with a more limited iOS build. |
PitchMe is free to download on iOS and Android, with no ads. One round takes about a minute.