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Ear training, harmony, and practice for the modern musician

For iPhone, iPad, Mac and Android mobile.

Explore Hear This

For musicians at every level.

Whether you’re finding your first notes, returning to music, or refining years of experience, there’s room to grow. Build your ear, explore harmony, and bring a deeper understanding to the music you make.

YOUR LISTENING SPACE

Make room for the music.

A calm place to listen, learn, and follow your curiosity.

Hear This Home on ipad in Dusk

LIGHT & DARK MODE

One listening space.
Two lights.

Choose the atmosphere that supports the way you listen. Dusk brings deep ink and quiet evening light. Sunrise opens the same musical space in warm morning light.

Hear This Home in Dusk, the app’s dark appearance

Dusk

Deep ink. A quiet place to focus.

Hear This Home in Sunrise, the app’s light appearance

Sunrise

Warm light. Room to begin again.

The same lessons, tools, and musical relationships, in the light that feels right for you.

LISTENING FOUNDATIONS · 50 LEVELS

Listening Foundations

Fifty carefully sequenced levels develop pitch, interval, chord, and harmonic recognition through sound.

An advanced Listening Foundations level in Hear This

A path with somewhere to go.

Begin with direct comparisons. Build a dependable interval vocabulary. Continue into triads, seventh chords, extensions, and integrated harmonic listening.

Teaching appears before unfamiliar work. Mastery confirms readiness. Completed material remains available for practice.

Listening Foundations is where Hear This begins. It is not where it ends.
PitchIntervalsTriadsSeventhsAdvanced HarmonyMastery

Listening Atlas

See the relationship.

Art and clear musical ideas bring each listening relationship into focus.

Understanding through the eye.

Listening Atlas connects the sound of each level with its musical structure. Artwork and focused teaching copy make the relationship visible, giving you something clear to listen for when you return to practice.

Sound Theory

Connect sound and understanding.

Explore the relationship between what you hear, the staff, and the keyboard.

Hear it. See it. Connect it.

Sound Theory brings musical language into the listening experience. Follow relationships on the staff and keyboard, and connect the explanation with the sound rather than treating them as separate subjects.

YOUR WORKING SPACE

The modern musician’s studio.

Follow a question, explore a sound, or settle into your daily practice. Your musical tools belong together.

Chord Builder

Explore the shape of harmony.

Choose a root and chord quality, compare available voicings, and listen together or arpeggiated. Staff notation and the keyboard make each structure visible, while Understand offers the musical context.

Chord Builder promotional preview in a MacBook-style frame; iPad-based imagery

Mac promotional composite using iPad imagery.

Interval Explorer

Hear intervals moving up, moving down, or sounding together, with notation and keyboard relationships in view.

Circle of Fifths

Explore the connections between keys, relative major and minor, and key signatures.

Metronome

Shape your practice with tempo, meter, subdivisions, patterns, and count-in.

Drone

Hold a tonal center for intonation, long tones, intervals, and improvisation.

Practice Timer

Give your practice a little structure and room for focused work.

Instrument voices

Explore familiar relationships through Piano and Rhodes, choosing the sound that helps you hear clearly.

Scale Explorer

Follow the shape of a sound.

Explore scales and modes with space to see their structure.

More than a pattern of notes.

Explore scales and modes through playback, staff notation, and keyboard relationships. Change the pace of playback and listen closely to the character of each collection, with its musical context in view.

TUNER · UNDERSTAND · INSTRUMENT HISTORY

Tune. Understand. Discover.

A practical tuner with room to learn about your instrument, its tuning, and its history.

Hear This String tuning on ipad in Dusk

String tuning

Find your tuning.

Choose your instrument and tuning, see the target notes, and use live pitch feedback to settle into tune.

Hear This Understand on ipad in Dusk

Understand

Explore the instrument behind the sound.

Open Understand to connect your selected tuning with illustrated string targets and the instrument itself.

Hear This Instrument history on ipad in Dusk

Instrument history

Every instrument has a story.

Discover the roots and traditions behind the instrument you are playing. Optional sections let you explore at your own pace.

Listening Lab

Make room for the sound.

Choose your listening practice and return to the relationships you want to explore.

Your listening. Your practice.

Listening Lab gives you room to choose the relationships you want to practice. Build a focused set, listen again, and use Study to spend time with a sound before returning to the next prompt.

NOTICE WHAT YOUR EAR IS LEARNING

The Listening Matrix

See musical growth by area instead of reducing everything to one score.

Hear This Insights overview and Listening Matrix
01

See the territory.

Intervals, chords, and harmonic areas remain distinct.

02

Notice the pattern.

Accuracy, experience, recent work, and repeated mixups add context.

03

Choose the next listen.

Return to the Journey or practice a developing relationship in Listening Lab.

Hear This Insights showing commonly confused musical relationships

PLACES TO LISTEN

We build places,
not screens.

Quiet places to listen, learn, and explore. Moving water, drifting fog, and changing light give each sound room.

Alpine Stillwater in Dusk, a quiet mountain lake in Hear This

Choose Dusk or Sunrise, explore a landscape, or settle into Quiet Canvas with only the Listening Mark. Each place has its own atmosphere, with device availability shown in the gallery.

Places to Listen

APPLE WATCH COMPANION

Practice from your wrist.

Choose eligible Listening Lab practice on iPhone. Hear the prompt through connected earbuds. Answer from your Watch while your phone stays in your pocket.

On the train. On a walk. Between rehearsals. The Watch companion keeps the experience focused on listening.

Hear This shown on an iPhone beside an Apple Watch displaying the Listening Mark
A music student with a guitar case practicing with Hear This on the Boston T
Hear This widget above standard Apple apps on a dark iPhone home screen, with quick access to Listening Lab, Metronome, and Tuner

A SMALLER WAY IN

Keep listening close.

The Hear This widget puts a next step within reach: Listening Lab, Metronome, or Tuner without opening the full studio first.

It is a quiet reminder to return to the work when a few minutes become available.

THE WORLD CAN GROW

More Journeys are coming.

Listening Foundations establishes the shared language. Future Journeys develop other dimensions of musicianship.

CORE JOURNEY

Core Journey

Listening Foundations: pitch, intervals, chords, harmony, extensions, and integrated listening.

COMING 2027

Rhythm Journey

Pulse, subdivision, meter, syncopation, feel, groove, and rhythmic memory.

FUTURE

Harmony in Motion

Function, progression, bass motion, cadence, voice leading, and direction.

Your listening space. Wherever you practice.

iPhone · Android mobile · iPad · Mac

Portrait and landscape layouts on iPad. Mac support for Apple silicon. The Apple Watch companion connects to eligible Listening Lab practice on iPhone.

Screens throughout this page show Hear This on different devices. Places and supported features may vary by platform.

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MAKE IT YOURS

Start free. Open the complete experience when you are ready.

No account is required. Create one only if you want to protect and synchronize supported progress.

FREE

Begin listening.

  • Listening Foundations Levels 1–10
  • Selected Studio tools
  • Canyon Listening Room
  • Optional progress account

FULL STUDIO

The complete Hear This experience.

  • All 50 Listening Foundations levels
  • Included future Journeys
  • Expanded Studio access
  • Listening Library
  • Deeper Listening Lab practice

Available purchase options and prices are shown in the app.

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