About this app
What Earsharp does
Musicians want ear-training apps that drill them. They don't want streak badges, social invites, locked content, or a login screen. Earpeggio and Play By Ear are the dominant iOS ear trainers — and their App Store reviews are full of the same complaints: 'spamming me to invite friends', 'asks me to login every time', 'doesn't randomize intervals properly so I keep getting the same questions', 'chords can't play harmonically'. Earsharp does the basics correctly: — Intervals: perfect, major, minor, augmented, diminished, ascending, descending, harmonic — all six drill modes, properly random within your chosen difficulty. — Chords: triads (major, minor, dim, aug), 7ths, sus2, sus4, inversions — played harmonically (all notes together), not arpeggiated. — Scales: identify modes, major/minor/harmonic minor/melodic minor, pentatonic. — Melodic dictation: hear a 3–8 note phrase, tap the keyboard to reproduce. — Rhythm clap-back: hear a rhythm, tap it back; the app uses on-device DSP to grade. No account. Sounds are synthesized on-device via AVAudioEngine — every drill ships in the binary. Set your daily target if you want; ignore it forever and the app says nothing. Just drills, when you open it.
Features
Built to be useful, not noisy.
Interval drill
Ascending/descending/harmonic intervals with randomized difficulty
Chord drill
Triads & 7ths played harmonically, identify root/quality/inversion
Scale drill
Identify modes and minor scale variants
Melodic dictation
Hear a phrase, tap a keyboard to reproduce
Rhythm clap-back
Microphone DSP grades your tapped/clapped rhythm
Why it exists
The problem
Existing ear-training iPhone apps gamify, gate, and gate behind accounts. Earpeggio asks for login on every launch and spams friend invites; Play By Ear can only arpeggiate chords (defeating the point of harmonic chord ID); both have App Store reviews complaining about poor randomization between mastered and new mater…
What's different
How Earsharp stands out
Earsharp does five drill modes (intervals, chords, scales, melodic, rhythm) properly randomized with adjustable weighting toward weaker categories. No account, no leaderboard, no streak. Chords play harmonically with built-in AVAudioEngine synthesis. Rhythm clap-back uses on-device microphone DSP — first iOS ear-train…
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FAQ
Questions about Earsharp
How much does Earsharp cost?▾
Earsharp is free. All features are included from day one — no subscription, no in-app purchases, no paid tiers. Everything you see in this listing works the moment you install it.
Where does Earsharp store my data?▾
On your device. Earsharp is built privacy-first: no account is required, no analytics SDKs, no third-party trackers. Nothing is uploaded to a server we control — the app works without one.
What platforms does Earsharp support?▾
iOS, on iPhone and iPad. You can find the latest availability on this page.
How do I get support for Earsharp?▾
Use the Support link on this page, or email support@allthingsn.com. We answer every message and keep responses on the same thread.
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