Coco vs Minuet

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.

Minuet is a free music education application for ear training, with exercises for intervals, chords, scales, and rhythm patterns, including rests. It helps users identify notes through keyboard and staff feedback. Sing intervals and scales to receive live pitch and timing feedback, or clap written rhythms and see where beats land. Exercise controls let users adjust tempo, instruments, test length, and microphone feedback. Minuet is available for Linux, Windows, and macOS, and is licensed under GPL-2.0+. Linux installation options include AppStream stores, distribution package managers, and Flathub. KDE also provides nightly builds for testing on Flatpak, Windows, and macOS. The Minuet page links to a handbook, KDE forum, kde-edu mailing list, and #kde-edu on Libera.chat. KDE's software privacy policy says data is generally not transferred from a device except after an explicit user action; any telemetry, where present, is opt-in and disabled by default.