You learned your first language by ear — listening, then speaking — long before you read a word. Intonote builds your musical ear the same way: hear it, name it, then sing it back. A guided 75-level Journey that turns recognising sounds into truly hearing them.
You learned to speak years before you learned to read. Music works the same way — yet most training inverts it, drilling notation and theory before the ear can hear what they describe. Intonote teaches the sound first. Names, symbols and notation come later, once you can already recognise what they stand for.
Tapping the right answer on a multiple-choice screen only proves you can recognise a sound while it's in front of you. Audiation — a term from Edwin Gordon's Music Learning Theory — is hearing music in your mind when nothing is playing at all. That's the skill real musicians have, and it's what the Journey is built to grow: a spiral curriculum that keeps returning to each skill in new musical contexts, so it moves from a lucky guess to something you simply know.
You can recognise a minor third and still not own it. A sound becomes truly internal the moment you can produce it from memory — and the most direct way to do that is with your own voice. So most Journey levels don't end when you name the answer; they end when you sing it back. Hearing, then naming, then singing closes the loop between spotting a sound and carrying it inside you.
Intonation is hard to learn because you can't see it — you just have a vague sense you're "a little off." As you sing, Intonote listens and draws your pitch against the target in real time, automatically shifted into your own vocal range. Sharp or flat stops being a feeling and becomes something you can watch and correct, note by note.
A phrase plays — an interval inside a melody, a chord inside a progression, a scale degree inside a key. Always in musical context, never an isolated beep.
You identify what you heard. Get it wrong and the exact pair you confused is logged, so the app can bring it back as a targeted drill later.
The app asks you to sing it back, shifted into your range. Recognising turns into producing — the step almost every other ear trainer skips.
Your voice is drawn against the target in real time. You watch yourself land the pitch — and see exactly where to correct when you don't.
75 levels across 6 stages — a spiral curriculum that revisits intervals, chords, scales, rhythm, melody, and harmony at increasing depth. Most levels end with chained singing.
AI spots the pairs you consistently mix up and generates targeted drills to fix exactly those weak spots.
Choose exactly which notes, intervals, chords, or scales to practice — your way.
After every Journey question, sing the answer back — with real-time pitch detection auto-shifted to your vocal range.
XP, levels, 41 achievements, daily goals, streaks, confusion drills, and detailed stats by mode.
Audio examples and explanations for every interval, chord, scale, cadence, and progression.
A 75-level curriculum across 6 stages that decides what comes next. Start at the beginning and climb — each skill revisited and deepened as you go. The path most people follow.
Short, dedicated progressions that drill one area at a time — intervals, chords, rhythm, voice leading, modal ear and more. Pick the skill you want to sharpen and go deep on just that.
Every exercise on its own, on your terms. Choose the difficulty, set custom filters, and practise exactly the notes, intervals, chords or scales you want.
Hear sounds and name what you hear.
Recognize chords, scales, progressions, and how voices move.
Match pitch, sing scales and intervals, and perform melodies with real-time feedback.
A spiral curriculum across 6 stages — every skill revisited and deepened as you progress.
Piano, violin, cello, flute, trumpet, marimba, harp, bass, and guitar. As you move through the Journey it rotates the timbre, so your ear learns the sound itself — not one instrument's fingerprint.
No internet or account needed. Optionally sync progress across devices via iCloud.
We'd love to hear from you — whether it's a bug report, feature request, or just to say hi.
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