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
Bastien Versini
February 4, 2024
The app and the method are excellent, compared to interval identification drills, which have little use in the real world, this app teaches you ear training in the way the ear really works. At its price, it’s a total steal. I recommend coupling it with singing and chord progression exercises for a full workout. My only (minor :D) nitpick is the RNG (sometimes I get 9/20 of one note for instance), I’d recommend implementing a bag randomizer like in Tetris, but custom exercises fix the problem
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Kaizen9 Apps
February 4, 2024
Thank you very much for your review and suggestions, Bastien!
Helder S Ribeiro
May 22, 2020
I'm not a musician and I thought recognizing musical notes was something for gifted mutants until I tried this app. I'm still pinching myself like "holy cow, is this really happening??" I'm getting good at it pretty fast, and it's so fun and *easy*! I'm starting to think that picking up an instrument might actually be doable after this. Super grateful to the app author and the method author for the learning _and_ confidence boost their work has given me. Thank you so much!
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Kaizen9 Apps
May 23, 2020
You are very welcome, Helder! Thank you so much for your words! :)
Barry Gackle
September 2, 2026
I have had quite a bit of success learning with this app. I like to use two or three different apps in rotation to keep things fresh, but this has become the core of what I use, probably 80% of my ear training time is spent here. It took a couple of weeks a little time every day and what seemed like no progress, and then all the sudden I could hear notes. It's a little bit magical.
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Kaizen9 Apps
September 3, 2026
Thank you very much for your review, Barry! Enjoy 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.
– Bug fixes and stability improvements.