Music Mini Games

Play. Practice. Progress.

Learn music through interactive mini games. Name chord progressions by ear, tune notes that are off, sing chords with live pitch detection, and sharpen your sense of pitch. Four games in one app.

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Free download · iPhone, iPad & Mac

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Four Games, Four Skills

Each one trains a different part of your ear, and each one has difficulty tiers to grow into.

Prog Rock

Chord Progression Ear Training

  • Hear a progression on marimba, name the chords
  • Daily Challenge: five rounds, same puzzles for everyone
  • Unlimited practice in sets of ten
  • Easy, Medium, and Hard tiers, every one free

Tune-a-Fish

Intonation Game

  • One note is out of tune: drag its fish until it sounds right
  • A single note on Easy, an interval on Medium, a chord on Hard
  • Off by a quarter tone or a half step
  • Daily Challenge plus practice in sets of ten

Strike a Chord

Chord Singing Game

  • Sing the notes, live pitch detection scores you
  • Two modes: Practice and a Daily Challenge
  • Six chord qualities in every key
  • Your longest run of clean chords ranks

Pitchin' Impossible

Pitch Discrimination Game

  • Sharp or flat? Hear the difference
  • Easy, Medium, Hard: 50, 25, then 10 cents apart
  • Sets of ten, and you keep going as long as you like
  • Your streak of correct calls ranks per difficulty

What's in the App

Ear training that keeps score, remembers what you played, and works with no signal.

Live Audio Processing

Instant pitch detection for Strike a Chord, precise pitch shifting for Pitchin' Impossible and Tune-a-Fish, and real marimba samples in every game.

Four Complete Music Games

Prog Rock for chord progression ear training, Tune-a-Fish for intonation, Strike a Chord for chord singing, and Pitchin' Impossible for pitch discrimination.

Daily Challenges

Prog Rock, Tune-a-Fish and Strike a Chord each serve one puzzle per day, the same for everyone worldwide.

Streaks You Can See

A contribution-style grid on the home screen fills in every day you play, and each daily game wears its current streak on the way in. Miss a day and you will know.

Leaderboards

A This Week ladder adds up your dailies and best sets across every game and resets each Monday, and each run ends on its own board with your standing called out. No account or sign-in required.

Difficulty That Grows With You

Prog Rock moves from multiple choice up to Hard, where you enter every chord yourself, and Tune-a-Fish grows from one note to full chords. Every tier is free, and your difficulty follows your account.

Practice In Any Mode

Hear the same progressions in major, minor, Dorian, Mixolydian, Lydian, Phrygian or Locrian. The numerals follow the mode you pick, so a IV in major is a iv in minor, and each mode centers your ear with its own cadence.

Six Chord Qualities

Sing major chords free in any key. One purchase adds minor, diminished, major 7th, minor 7th, and dominant 7th, and lets you pick exactly which chords a practice run draws from.

Progress You Can Chart

Weekly accuracy, times, and best scores for each game, with practice and the daily charted separately so a warm-up never flatters your real runs.

Plays Offline

Every game works without a connection, and the day's challenge is already on your device. Scores and streaks sync when you are back online.

No Subscription

Free to download with optional purchases. No recurring fees. Own your learning forever.

iPhone, iPad & Mac

One purchase covers all three, with the layout adapting to the screen in front of you.

Accuracy, Not Lives

Strike a Chord runs sing all the way through. A note counts as clean when you land it with no miss and no hint, and every set ends with your accuracy and the notes you nailed.