Interval Recognition ear train

marchantpeter.co.uk

About this app

Ear training for intervals, clusters (harmonic), phrases, modes / scales, chords, tuning and perfect pitch.

High quality sampled piano plus midi sounds.

Listen feature to compare the question to all possible responses in order to find and understand the right answer.

Helps to associate intervals with common melodies to make them easier to learn and remember.

Extensive options including tempo, instrument, note velocity, pitch range, rhythm plus responses to correct and incorrect answers. Very customisable questions - from a phrase using eg only perfect 4ths and 5ths to a cluster using eg Dorian on F#.

Continuous Play - repeat question a set number of times then display the answer before moving on to the next one. Optional text to speech for announcing the root note and answers. Basic speech recognition for entirely hands free use.

Ratings and reviews

This app is slightly harder to use than the other best apps but it has a much more flexible melody recognition trainer. It is light years ahead of the other apps for creating custom exercises for yourself. There's no parameter that isn't tweakable. Intervals, scales, octaves, timing, etc etc. It also has an almost unlimited number of different instruments available for exercises. Something all the other apps are sorely lacking. This is a winner

2/08/20 Learning Intervals? Perfect. 3/24/21 When I started I was basically tone deaf. I would focus on two intervals at a time and try to tell the difference for hours with no progress. Literally thousands of trials. Sence then I have leared to hear all intervals within an octave, ascending and descending with above 94% success rate. Sometimes I think the app could be more random in selecting the interval, but it works well, and my improvement speaks for the effectiveness. 10/23/25 Still great

I'm a 60 year old tenured music professor looking to recommend an app for my students. This app is a good start but has lots of bugs...Just one example: it plays scales and labels them incorrectly...for example, playing a major pentatonic and when you click major pentatonic as the answer it says "wrong" and proceeds to play major pentatonic back to you as the correct answer....it really quite maddening. If this gets fixed I'll gladly change my rating.

What’s new

Option to show a prompt after a correct Interval - now works during phrases too.
Fixed text appearing over the Action Bar on some versions of Android.