▶️ AnyTune (Slow Downer)

This app will slow down ANY tune in your iTunes library. I don’t use it all the time but when I need to slow down an MP3, this is my go-to app.

▶️ Auralia (Comprehensive Series of Ear Training Drills)

Auralia and Musition (Auralia’s visual companion app) are longtime, respected software programs with tutorials and drills designed to improve aural and music theory skills. The cloud-based programs are available for download on Windows and Macintosh. Both are ideal for classrooms and studios because of their comprehensive and well-organized lessons, practice drills, and the option to create individual student accounts to track progress.

▶️ Chord Crush (Chord Progression Ear Training)

Learn to hear chords by ear and train with pop tunes.

▶️ Functional Ear Trainer (Pitch Discrimination)

Carefully sequenced exercises to develop pitch discrimination within the context of scales and how they function within a scale.

▶️ Meludia (Ear Training)

The beautiful format of this app challenges players to identify pitch patterns with extensive drills.

▶️ Sproutbeat (Worksheets and Online Games)

This app features games and worksheets that can be completed on the iPad or downloaded for print. There is an option to set up student accounts and create assignments that drill most of the basics of music theory, including chords, rhythm, pitch recognition, finger numbers, five-finger patterns, intervals, and more.

▶️ Tenuto/MusicTheory Lessons (Tutorials and Drills )

Customize just about any drill for training ears to discern pitch, intervals, scales, and chords.

▶️ Theta Music Trainer (Ear Training)

Systematic courses and games to build ear training and music theory skills. The free version is great.

▶️ Yamaha Chord Tracker (Ear Training and Improvisation)

After opening Chord Tracker, you can import any tune in your iTunes library into the app. Push play, and as the tune plays, chord symbols of all the chord changes stream by so you can play along.