EarMaster vs Minuet

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.

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.