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Developer Description

Ear training is easy and fun with Functional Ear Trainer. Play music by ear.

Ear training can be easy and fun! With a right approach.

Have you (or one of your friends) ever wanted to learn to transcribe or play music by ear?

It is so important for a musician to know what you are hearing. A good musical ear helps when you are composing, improvising, transcribing melodies, or playing with others.

Most likely you have already tried different programs to learn to recognize intervals or even to acquire perfect pitch. However, although such programs develop your ear, but can you actually play any melody you hear as soon as you listen to it?

Imagine you could understand music… It is like when somebody is talking to you, you not only hear pleasant sounds, but you recognize words and their meaning.

One day I came across Alain Benbassat's program called “Functional Ear Trainer” and have been using it ever since. It is based on Alain's ear training method to learn to recognize tones.

The main difference between the Functional Ear Trainer and other methods is that it teaches you to distinguish between tones in the context of a particular musical key. You begin to recognize the role (or function) of each tone in this key, which is incredibly similar to its role in other keys of the same scale.

And it is *guaranteed* anyone can gradually develop this skill. It does not matter:
– who you are – an absolute beginner in music or a virtuoso professional musician;
– how old you are – a 3 yo kid or a 90+ adult;
– what musical instrument you play (you don't even have to play one).

The only requirement is to practice for 10 minutes a day.

I was so excited about this ear trainer that I have developed an Android app based on the Alain Benbassat method. I hope you will find it useful.

Download this app right now, and have fun with your ear training!

What's New

*** If you like Functional Ear Trainer, please take the time to give it a nice review: it really helps.
– The settings have been redesigned to simplify them. An important point: the label settings and piano settings are now individual for each playback mode (e.g., Play, Listen, Advance).
– Bug fixes and stability improvements.

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Downloads
1M+
Updated on
Dec 23, 2025
Released
Nov 13, 2014
Requires
Android Varies with device

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Functional Ear Trainer users say on Google Play

★★★★★
Keith Jones Keith Jones

Been using for a couple of weeks and while I was not sure at first, I can now say it definitely works. I understood what they say about science and the theory of it, but I wasn't hearing it. Now I can reliably identify notes, after 10 to 20 min a day for about 2 weeks. I like this over the others I've tried because they dive into identifying intervals which is more hit or miss and wasn't getting results after about the same amount of time and effort. I think it makes sense to build up to that

29 Jul 11, 2025
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John Stryczek John Stryczek

i struggle with musical intervals and notes recognition and this has helped but I have now hit a wall re which I cannot get past, but I will persevere. the problem. I read that tonal deafness is rare so maybe time will tell.

1 Aug 31, 2025
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Leo Egal Leo Egal

It's ok for the purpose. UI not that great, but works.

0 Dec 4, 2025
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D. Morrison D. Morrison

I do not recommend this app, although the approach is good intentioned, once you get to the more advanced parts of the melodic dictation section, it all falls apart. how can you have functional ear training when the key gets obscured by such bizarre non-musical melodic patterns?? Novel concept, but not practical, much like any ear training app.

7 Sep 28, 2025
Lucas Xavier Lucas Xavier

when will it turn into a subscription based app? I'd like to use it for a bit before deciding if its worth my money, but I'll never pay for it if its subscription based

0 Dec 19, 2025

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