Auris vs Coco

Auris is an ear-training app for students and musicians to practice listening skills through intervals, scales, melodic dictation, chords, inversions, and chord progressions. Its exercises are presented as suitable for beginners and advanced musicians, with no prior knowledge required. It runs on Android, iOS, and the web. Practice features include streaks, high scores, leaderboards, and detailed progress statistics. Free access is limited: an account saves progress, while the no-account option does not. Full access costs €4.99 per month on the yearly plan, billed yearly, or €9.99 per month on the monthly plan; both paid plans save progress and remove ads. A Schools plan lists full access, student targets, exams, and student information, and educator tools include tracking student progress and setting targets. Auris collects account, usage, and device information, and automatically adds new accounts to its mailing list with an opt-out option. It says data is primarily processed in the EEA, with some transfers elsewhere, including the United States. Practice time cannot be tracked in a private or incognito browser session.

Coco is an ear-training app for musicians, offering short listening exercises to develop recognition of notes, intervals, chords, scales, and pitch. Its seven games are Sonar, Triad, Climb, Fall, Ladder, Span, and Sound. Rules generate game levels that can introduce more answer options, chromatic notes, wider octave ranges, faster play, and greater difficulty as players advance.

The Daily Workout selects a personalized set of usually one to three games based on practice history and areas to improve. The Daily Challenge instead gives every player the same questions and time limits for the day, with one attempt. Coco is available on Android, iOS, and in a web browser. An account is needed to save progress and sync statistics across devices. Most listening runs locally after content loads, but an internet connection is needed to submit results, update the proficiency index, and retrieve daily content. Coco requires sound and does not currently support a hearing-impaired mode; headphones are recommended for chord and harmonic-interval games. The free plan has daily session limits. Coco Pro offers unlimited daily practice and full progression, with pricing shown in the app at purchase.