Trill: Ear Training Daily

This app, presented as a game, fails in several respects. It doesn’t really TEACH anything. It’s just a series of repetitions of the same material over and over, with no attempt to help the user actually get better. Pitch recognition is a complex activity, very subjective to each person’s experience and imagination. The app does not address pitch recognition complexities, it just keeps throwing random pitches at the user, who is forced to merely guess and discover that they were wrong. The app doesn’t even seem to recognize which pitches are consistently missed, so there is no automatic repetition of problem areas that I could discern. And, once you get going, there are NO DISCUSSIONS, NO EVALUATIONS, NADA. It feels like I am blindfolded, throwing darts to hit a target, and all I ever hear is MISSED AGAIN! Finally, the electronic keyboard they used to play chords and scales was either really cheap (I.e. terrible) or in need of repair. There are notes in the lowest octave which sound like a hammer hitting a bell. The resulting overtones interfere with the accurate presentation of intervals and chords in particular. I should have waited before falling for the yearly subscription..I am stuck paying for an entire year, while still needing to find a good pitch training app. My advice: LOOK ELSEWHERE.

Excellent app but please add an option to redo an exercise once completed. It’s to time consuming to go through the menu and find the specific exercise you want to practice again

Nice UI. The chord spellings and scales get a little funky sometimes but it’s alright, it’s kind of charming/engaging. Plus a lot of real world enharmonics pull the funny spellings anyways. Coming back to ear training after undergrad and graduate music degrees. This app is working out great for me. The audio gets weird when I have my AirPods in or if I swipe out to a different app during a lesson (my RoK gathering must continue ungapped) Will update my review when I hit that top rank. I’m a silver 💀 Edit: I’ve reached expert! Cool app. Works better with AirPods now than when I first got it (hardly worked with AirPods at all). My ears have improved quite a bit, and my instrument practice is more enriching/fun/easier as a result. I’ve got my hopes in this dev. Ear training isn’t life or death to me, so why not support an underdog? The gamification is fun, I like working through the four stages each day. Please keep up the good work! I recommend this app a lot.