Better Ears vs jAMSKOOL

Better Ears is an ear-training and sight-reading app for musicians, students, and teachers, with exercises spanning listening and music reading. Its 15 exercises include rhythm recognition and rhythm reading; rhythm practice can use a count-in, metronome, triplets, and time signatures including 3/4, 4/4, and 5/4. Answers may be sung, played on a real instrument, entered with a virtual keyboard or guitar fretboard, or sent through a MIDI device. Four preset levels are available, and an editor lets users build levels, chords, scales, and chord progressions. The app includes six instruments, supports custom SoundFonts, and the site says Mac can use more than 100 sounds through DLS SoftSynth. It records correct and incorrect answers for each exercise and question. Levels, sounds, and statistics are described as syncing across Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android, with Dropbox syncing for levels, statistics, and settings. Better Ears runs on Android, iOS, and macOS. Android costs CHF 2.60, paid once; the iPhone and iPad app costs $4.99, paid once. A free Mac Beginner edition and a free macOS trial are listed.

jAMSKOOL is a collection of six music-training apps for musicians and curious listeners. Ear Trainer offers 12 listening and singing quizzes, microphone pitch scoring, three difficulty levels, study mode and progress tracking. Sing Trainer uses random notes, scales and arpeggios with pitch feedback and voice-range calibration. Polarity combines tonal-meditation sessions about interval polarity, chord gravity and scale fields with a chord builder, library, journal and quizzes. Build is an ear-training game with five timed rounds, three difficulty levels and a global leaderboard. The kIDS app has seven quizzes, a pass-the-phone Party Mode and a Random Notes game for children. Apps run on Android and iOS. Free plans are available, while listed paid unlocks are one-time purchases. Ear Trainer says audio is processed on-device, progress stays local and no account is required. kIDS states that it has no accounts, ads, purchases, external links or data collection.