Name: Perfect Ear: Music & Rhythm
Rating: 4.67 (2896 reviews)

A Google user

6 years ago

Great to refresh and get back into reading music! This is one of the best apps I've used! Be aware, however, that if you don't have any music experience or knowledge this app will probably make no sense. It teaches some stuff, but I think it is more designed for musicians to review and improve. I'm sure you could use it as a supplement with a book for a beginner, but it would be hard to learn off of just this. Excellent app, no bugs, nicely designed!

A Google user

6 years ago

I've found it useful for evaluating my progress, but my one complaint is that the interface doesnt naturally promote learning, so I always have to figure out a way to teach myself. My suggestion: add a 2 second pause every time the user answers something wrong! If an intrinsic motivator is introduced, like the desire to go faster, learning will happen on it's own, with far less conscious effort. This would make the app much easier to use! I'd love to be able to update to 5 stars.

Jameson Forsythe

4 years ago

Great app, use it with all my students. I can't say enough good things about this. It's a simple to understand theory notebook close at hand, tons of exercises to work on whatever aspect of ear training you need help with, and you can build custom exercises to really work out your weak points. I bought the full exercise pack, as well as access to the customer exercise builder, and I think the total was $4. That. Is a bargain. UI is slick, and easy to understand and navigate, too.

A Google user

6 years ago

I like the app, but a couple things that bother me. first, the samples used for the piano sound terrible. at times they dont even sound like they come from the same instrument. second, it would be nice if you could choose which note is being changed in the interval. ex. when doing harmonic descending, the higher note is the one that changes. would be cool if you could choose which note would change. or choose random

Adam Gerlach

4 years ago

Awesome app! I've learned soooo much over the 2 years I've used it! One thing I wish it had on the fretboard trainer drill was a custom option where you could choose between different scales in any key. It's very time consuming to edit the entire fretboard for a scale in a single key. It could be even cooler if you also had to choose the scale degree each note in the scale was. I think this would be a great way to really master scales on a deep level.

Kayden Macey

3 years ago

This app is great for ear training, especially with the premium feature of using custom exercises. I'm glad this app keeps getting updated too, the UI looks a little bit better every once in a while. My biggest problem with this app though, is that, for being an ear training app, the sound they use is kind of weird. It's this low quality, like toy piano "ding", which I think makes the ear training worse. Having more options would be nice, especially since it's a music training app.

A Google user

5 years ago

I'm wanting to use this app for pitch training, but there's just not enough options. You can select the octaves, which is great, but you can't limit which notes in each octave (for example, eliminating the black keys). Further, three guesses is too leinient when you're really trying to drill it. You can change the number of guesses, but only to some presets which only go up (3, 5, 10, or infinite), meaning you can't be any more strict than the default.

Kyle Wagner

2 years ago

UPDATE: still using this, still a great learning tool. Excellent app ear training. Simple to use, loads fast, responsive Highly recommend paying the extra few bucks to unlock everything. Free version has no annoying ads. I use this when I get a few minutes... And I'm getting better at hearing intervals, chord qualities, scales, inversions. Seeing the exercise results in guitar/piano layout is a nice touch, since it's helping me to learn the guitar fingerboard. I wish all apps were this good.

A Google user

5 years ago

Theres a lot of really crappy ear training apps out there, but this is not one of them. Yes to unlock everything you have to pay whereas a lot of other apps are free but its 100% worth it. What bothered me with a lot of other apps was the audio quality was really bad playing through a phone speaker and there was a lot of distortion, but if you get the jazz piano pack or the classical piano pack the sounds are pretty dang good and dont sound bad coming out of a phone speaker. Overall very good

Aeryn

1 year ago

This app as well as Clefs (by the same developer) are essential to understanding and learning the basics of music and music theory. They have made it so fun and entertaining to learn! I hope they never change the app interface because either works exactly how you want and only lags if you have a laggy phone like I do. It's a great app and completely free, but a premium version is worth it and is also a very cheap investment. 9.7/10!

A Google user

5 years ago

Didn't realize I didn't correct my review. Didn't realize you could wait before starting the rhythm exercises at first, they had seemed to start abruptly but that was my own mistake. This is by far one of the best, most comprehensive music apps on the Play Store and I'd recommend it to anyone trying to master basic to intermediate theory. I very rarely buy anything on the Play Store, but I bought the full package for this.

Corey Regan

2 years ago

When I was in college ALL of my music major friends said they hated taking aural theory. The software they used was brutal and it turned everyone off from practicing. Here I am having used this app for years and I have not only enjoyed the time, but found it genuinely fun and motivating because it feels like playing a game. Its the perfect app for when I want to sit and look at my phone for a while but don't want to feel like I'm wasting my time being unproductive. All musicians should use this!

Andrew Thompson

2 years ago

Huge fan of learning stuff while on the toilet, and this app is great for that purpose. (though if you forget earbuds... Well...) Lessons are quick, fun, and effective at training the ear. Some small suggestions for improvement: - Bluetooth delay compensation for rhythm training. Essentailly the dots would show up on the timeline behind the timing bar relative to the delay in the bluetooth connection. - More content in the theory sections would be nice.

Cynthia J Luciene

1 year ago

A lot of my normal senses are gradually becoming less than normal, my "almost perfect pitch" hearing is worse than ever so when I found this app I thought what the heck, let's see if I can get my ear for music back. I am more than happy to say this app has been a pleasure to use and has helped to restore my nearly perfect ear for music.

A Google user

6 years ago

Great and helpful learning tool for so many musical aspects, tried many other apps like this, but none that I could find have so many different elements of music in one. Plus like other app that have awesome features this one won't crash all the time; in fact Perfect Ear has never crashed on me. With that said some apps might have different features this one doesn't have (or haven't found the features yet) like vocal range finder; but over all, 6 stars if I were rating this to other apps

Ian Beaudry

1 year ago

This app has a pretty vast variety of exercises and you only have to pay a couple bucks I think to unlock all the features. It's been pretty helpful and I've enjoyed my time with it. Good for anyone looking to train their ear, work on rhythm, or just your overall music theory knowledge. It also has courses tailored for begginer, intermediate, and advanced levels.

A Google user

5 years ago

I like the concept and playability of the app. However, the gamification is actually a big de-motivator. One broken day in a streak significantly lowers the user's ability to match previous scores attained during a streak, which in turn, becomes a demotivating factor to continue using the app, since it requires significant time to regain streak status.

Lamar Daniel

1 year ago

This is the best ear training app I've found by far. It's easy to use and comprehensive in training, starting with the most basic and leading you to highly advanced step-by-step. You can jump in anywhere you want. If you are interested in music theory (optional), it will teach you that as well. Also, a great rhythm trainer. I've recommended this app to many of my friends. MUSIC TEACHERS TAKE NOTE! I wish I'd had this when I first started learning music.

A Steele

1 year ago

Straightforward, no-nonsense ear training app. Gives you some good content at no-cost, with a simple single-payment system that doesn't torture you with exorbitant app subscriptions. Good enough for me to bother writing this review. Edit: Standard rhythm exercises get absurdly hard from the first exam onwards though, making you have to keep up with numerous bars of completely randomized rhythmic patterns.

alisa miles

1 year ago

This app is an amazing, easy-to-use introduction to music theory and ear training, especially at its price point--free. I have recommended it to many as I've never seen another app cover as much as this one does in both book material and actual exercises. Perfect for the beginner or not so who needs a refresher.