# PitchMe vs Perfect Ear

> 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.

**Short answer.** 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.

Perfect Ear is made by Crazy Ootka Software (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.evilduck.musiciankit). Facts
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## How each one teaches

- **PitchMe** — 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.
- **Perfect Ear** — A large library of configurable exercises plus theory articles, with the option to build your own drills, custom scales and chord progressions.

## What Perfect Ear does well

- Enormous breadth for a free app: rhythm training, melodic dictation, sight reading, a scale dictionary and theory articles all sit alongside the ear training.
- Custom exercises are its best feature. If you can specify exactly what you want to drill, you can build it.
- You can get a long way before the premium tier matters.

## Where Perfect Ear stops

- Most of the ear training is abstract interval, scale and chord identification rather than functional hearing in a key.
- No chord-function training in Nashville numbers, and no dedicated mode for picking a note out of a sounding chord.
- Its singing exercises use a microphone for pitch matching; we found no drill for hearing whether a sounded note is slightly sharp or flat.
- The free tier carries ads.

## Side by side

| What it trains | PitchMe | Perfect Ear |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Trains notes in a key** | 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** | 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** | Yes — A dedicated Harmony mode plays a chord and asks which note inside it you heard, including complex chords. | No — No dedicated chord-tone identification mode. |
| **Trains intonation in cents** | 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** | 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** | Yes — Rounds run about a minute, with three lives, a combo multiplier and optional daily reminders. | Partial — Practice reminders, but no game loop. |
| **Leaderboards** | Yes — Global leaderboards and shareable scores. | No — No leaderboards. |
| **Price** | Free to download; optional subscription. No ads. | Free with ads; premium subscription. |
| **Platforms** | iOS and Android. | Android, with a more limited iOS build. |

## Frequently asked questions

### Is PitchMe better than Perfect Ear?

Perfect Ear has more features; PitchMe has a sharper method. Perfect Ear adds rhythm, notation and custom exercises, which PitchMe does not have. PitchMe trains notes and chords by their function in a key, adds a harmony mode and cents-level intonation, escalates difficulty for you, and shows no ads. If you want breadth, take Perfect Ear. If you want relative pitch specifically, take PitchMe.

### Does PitchMe have ads like Perfect Ear's free tier?

No. PitchMe shows no ads at all. It is free to download with an optional subscription.

## Other comparisons

- [PitchMe vs Functional Ear Trainer](https://pitchme.moosedev.app/compare/functional-ear-trainer): The free, single-purpose app that made functional ear training popular: a cadence establishes the key, then you name the scale degree you heard.
- [PitchMe vs EarMaster](https://pitchme.moosedev.app/compare/earmaster): The textbook of ear training software: a large, structured curriculum covering intervals, chords, scales, rhythm, melodic dictation and sight-singing, on desktop and mobile.
- [PitchMe vs Tenuto](https://pitchme.moosedev.app/compare/tenuto): A clean, offline toolkit of about two dozen customisable music theory and ear training drills from the makers of musictheory.net, sold once rather than rented.
- [PitchMe vs ToneGym](https://pitchme.moosedev.app/compare/tonegym): A browser-based, heavily gamified ear training platform aimed at producers, with a daily workout of short games, weekly contests and a large community.
- [All comparisons](https://pitchme.moosedev.app/compare): the full matrix across every app above.

## Download PitchMe

- [PitchMe on the App Store](https://apps.apple.com/sg/app/pitchme-train-relative-pitch/id1281567190)
- [PitchMe on Google Play](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.moosedev.pitchme)