Complete Music Reading Trainer vs EarMaster

Complete Music Reading Trainer helps users learn to read sheet music and build sight-reading skills through game-like practice. Its curriculum offers 270 progressive drills across seven clefs, three levels and 26 chapters, including key signatures up to six sharps or flats and common clef combinations. Notes can be entered with a note circle, virtual piano keyboard, connected MIDI controller or an instrument played near the device microphone. Learners can make custom drills and training programs, review global progress statistics, and use arcade mode, achievements and leaderboards. The app provides four sheet-music display styles, recorded grand piano sounds and six additional sound banks. It is available on Android, iOS, macOS, web and Windows; the desktop and browser versions are part of Complete Music Trainer, which bundles two other apps. Teachers and schools can organize students into classes, assign programs, track progress and manage students and licenses with the Teacher Companion App. A free plan and trial are listed; the full version costs 5.99 USD one time.

EarMaster is an app for ear training, sight-singing, and rhythm practice on Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows. Its library contains 4,000 exercises and workshops, with voice and clap recognition, MIDI input, and sounds sampled from real instruments. The free version includes four Beginner's Course modules, customized interval and chord identification, Call of the Notes, Greensleeves, and Carmen - Habanera. For schools, choirs, and teachers, EarMaster Cloud provides student results, assignment management, workbook editing, and a music library; results can be exported to CSV. An all-access subscription syncs results and settings across devices. A yearly subscription is $3.65 a year (billed US$43.80 yearly); a monthly subscription is $5.99 a month. The One-Year All-Access Pass is $49.95 a year. Desktop licenses include EarMaster Pro 7 at $59.95, paid once and the Family Pack at $99.95, paid once. Personal subscriptions are for one person's devices and require internet access at least once every seven days.