Functional Ear Trainer

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About this app

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!
Ear training is easy and fun with Functional Ear Trainer. Play music by ear.
Updated on
Oct 2, 2026

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Ratings and reviews

21.7K reviews
Drese
March 15, 2026
it is only logical that you will get better by using this app. You have a scope that can grow. you have direct and immediate feedback. all you need to do is practice. I find this an excellent tool 👍 one improvement I could think of would be more randomization options. Neurologically you learn best with variations. So you can never have enough. for example randomizing the cadence type everytime or minor and major would also be nice. Maybe even different modes could be cool. but as it is = great
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Kaizen9 Apps
March 16, 2026
Thank you very much for your review and for your excellent suggestion! ♥️
Nick Chesterton
October 15, 2024
Simple, intuitive, clean... effective! I am loving the app. Paid version is worth it: you can listen and watch hands-free and just train mentally if your hands are busy with dishes, etc. And you can listen to harmonic intervals from the very start and get good at distinguishing multiple notes at the same time. The approach is very purposeful and it works for me! I'm glad you made the app. Thank you. :)
42 people found this review helpful
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Kaizen9 Apps
October 15, 2024
Thanks so much for your kind words, Nick! I'm glad you enjoy the app!
A Google user
November 19, 2018
Many other apps for ear training just throw a lot of different types of exercises at you and hope you figure out how to learn. Unlike them this app gently guides you through the process in a surprisingly efficient way. You won't find here any advanced exercises like recognizing intervals, chord sequences or inversions, but you'll surely learn how to recognize specific notes in a context of different keys. And it should be the good base for everything else.
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Kaizen9 Apps
November 19, 2018
Artem, many thanks for your review! Functional ear trainer aims for exactly that :-)

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– Bug fixes and stability improvements.