Tonestep

Most ear training apps hand you thirteen intervals and tell you to memorise them. That is why most people quit in the first week. Tonestep starts somewhere else: teaching you to hear where a note sits inside a key. It is the skill that actually transfers to playing by ear, and everything else is built on top of it. A CURRICULUM, NOT A PILE OF DRILLS 112 stages across 11 chapters, in a deliberate order — from finding the tonic, through the perfect intervals, major versus minor, the triad family, the seven scale degrees, modes, seventh chords, cadences, and finally Free Field, where there is no key centre, the root is random, and the clock is running. Difficulty does not just mean "more items". Tonestep measures how easily two sounds are confused, so a stage asking you to separate a perfect fifth from a perfect fourth is correctly harder than one mixing a fifth with a minor second — even…