Quiztones App Reviews

Fun app & pro audio coworkers agree. My young nephew's favorite game. Great suggestions from Danwedge's review. Agreed, Danwedge. Thanks, Audiofile Engineering.

I am definitely making progress, but I wish it kept track of my scores so I could see my improvement over time. I feel like that would be really motivating. Is that really difficult to implement?

Definitely helps a lot with frequency recognition.

This is a cool concept, and hopefully just a starting point, for what could be a great learning tool. The app is split into 3 quiz sections: tones, EQ, and gain. It's straight forward, and you get a score at the end of each quiz. The only suggestion I have about improving the tone section would be the addition of progress tracking; as the scores don't show a comparison to your prior performance. The other two types of quizzes (EQ and gain) are a little more complicated to work with. The concept is interesting, but it still needs a little work. You can play a song from your library, or choose from stock instrument recording (guitar, drums, bass) and the app will boost certain frequencies, or the gain by a certain amount. Your supposed to identify which frequency is being boosted, or how much gain is added, but there is no "clean"comparison track to reference. This makes it feel less like a controlled experiment and more like a guessing game. I'm sure some individuals with well trained ears could easily point out what mine can't, but then they would have no use for this app. If this is meant to guide untrained ears; a reference track is essential. To add to this feeling of playing the quizzes blind, the app has very limited and vague instructions, no tutorial, FAQ, or contact info. As for support; I found no way to get in touch with them on their website while navigating it on my phone. I could have checked out their full version on my laptop, but figured since this was an iOS app, I should stick to my phone. I hope the updates improve upon this, otherwise this is definitely not a $5 app yet.

Very limited features and quizzes...

I mean, the whole buy then buy again is pretty darn Lame so off two stars, but the fact that it doesn't keep track of your performance is stupid (off two more stars). How would you see what you need to improve.... What are the points for??!! And instead of a Sine Wave Test Tone, you guys should get real life examples of feedback. I don't know, maybe just One same recording with a 32 band provoked over a mic and speaker to simulate. That would be 32 samples, multiplied by however many intensities you want, let's say 3- easy, Hard, and expert. This is a great tool, but let's improve it for the sake of this awesome app. It would be a shame for this potential to stay the same. Great App for beginners thou :) (1 star) 👍

Five dollars and then you have to pay more money to get the pro version? Ridiculous!I should have read the reviews prior to purchasing.

Why won’t the app work in landscape on iPad? And the layout of quizzes seems counterproductive. Start with easy on top and work down to more difficult? A few other things make it seem very unpolished for such an established app.

Certainly not a bad way to learn frequencies, but they try and get you to buy the "pro" version after you buy the app. Come on dude, I took a chance on you, don't shaft me...

Whenever I select a song for "my music" it doesn't work. But I love the app.

I don’t know what it is but I seriously could not hear the 10db boost in any of the quizzes. And I’m not crazy because I took the same piece of music and went to logic and boosted the same frequency up by 10 dB and it was an OBVIOUS boost but in the app the EQ boost was not there. If this is a bug then please fix it soon because I’m wasting my money. Edit: I didn’t realize you had to toggle the on and off switch. You know if you could put that in as a message before the quiz started that would be great.

I like the interface of this app, but it needs to be redesigned using a spaced repetition method. The app right now currently just jumps you into the frequency test, without teaching what each frequency sounds like. If spaced repetition was utilized, the frequencies can be more easily remembered.

Not opening my iTunes music iOS 7. Also, you have to pay $3 more to access all features.

I honestly have no idea where these negative comments are coming from. If all you are using it for is to identify tones then you are missing the point of the app. This has done wonders for my mixing skills. Immediately Finding problematic frequencies in sources is now a no brainer. I've told everyone I know to use this bad boy. It's done great things for me.

Great ear training. However, when I try to use songs from my library it just jumps right back to song selection after I tap a song to train. If fixed its a 5 star

Tried this and nearly all of the songs in my library couldn’t be used because they’re DRM-protected. Also started in the middle of the song and looped like 10 seconds. I can’t do anything with 10 seconds of banjo!

What a joke. I bought this because the far superior DDT Feedback app does not work anymore. I spent 5 bucks just wanting a feedback identification trainer. Well, the 1 octave version is great for beginners, but way too easy for me. Apparently I have to buy the pro version to unlock the 1/3rd octave function. Cool. I bought this app for $4.99, now I have to spend god knows how much to make it useful. I'd at least like to know how much it costs before to upgrade to pro. But apparently that needs to be kept secret as well. Great job.

The App is good, but don't work when load my songs in ios 5.1.1

This app helped me become MUCH faster with EQ, and helped me know with greater precision what I'm hearing all around .

I use this every day to hone acuity and pitch recognition. Really well constructed and helpful app. I would buy this again anytime....

I feel like the developers are trying desperately to trick people because they are poor and cannot get gigs themselves.

I love the fact that I can stream this app to my car stereo and study various eq choices to improve my mixes. I make final decisions in the car for my mixes. This app helps me better understand what those decisions will sound like. Definitely worth it!

I've owned this app for a few years now. Always loved it. It has helped immensely with my frequency range identification for both instruments in mixing, as well as finding feedback frequencies while mixing for live sound. Phenomenal app, highly recommend it. I own the iOS and desktop version. Totally worth it.

I wish this app had a way to track progress. I would have given it 5-stars if it had a way to track progress.

EDIT: Raised to 4 stars after recent fix. Great app, excellent for frequency ear training. Only one feature request: The choose your own music feature plays the same section over and over for the whole test. It would be great to see it choose different sections, at least as an option, otherwise it's a bit tiring. For the price, I would expect to see a little more depth. Overall, good stuff!

I've been looking for great tool to train my ears! This is it!!!

EQ option will not open my Apple Music files.

I use this everyday in the morning, and it's improving both my speed and accuracy in my studio. Great stuff!

To unlock even very basic levels, actually, any level other than "easy", it's another $2.99. Really? The screenshots are misleading.

To unlock even very basic levels, actually, any level other than "easy", it's another $2.99. Really? The screenshots are misleading.

Trying to do the eq quiz. Every song I select says that a clip cannot be created, select another song. Secondly, this puts you in an endless loop when trying to cancel out of song selection screen. Hitting cancel takes you back to eq quiz screen, but immediately launches back into select a song. 8 bucks is too much for this app. Disappointed.

This is a good app, seems to work well. When I try to play my own music the song selection window just closes the reopens.

You pay $5 for this then when you open it up and want to do basically anything you need to upgrade to the pro version.... trash

I absolutely love this app! (Would also, as others have stated, like to hear a whole song instead of clips.)

I love this app! Within minutes of using it, I gained a lot of experience with being able to decipher between different frequencies. If you are a budding sound engineer, I strongly suggest for you to purchase this app! You won't be disappointed!

U crazy

Great app for learning to differentiate between various pitches. The basic version is a good start, but most people would want the "pro" add-on for the extra $$. With that, I like that they give you an example track of a female vocalist, bass guitar, acoustic guitar, etc. and you are expected to tell what frequencies have been adjusted with those tracks. It's easy to get tired of hearing the same example track over and over, but I guess you could load some samples into itunes and use those for identifying various frequencies (instead of just using songs by your favorite artists). The grading system is very simple to understand and the layout looks great and is easy to use. Very happy customer here - Thanks (also, works great on iOs 8.3 - iPhone 6).

Songs will not load. I bought this with the intent of using my reference songs, and can't get them to work. On top of paying the app price, I also paid an additional fee to upgrade, and none of the issues were resolved.

This has helped me be able to identify frequencies much quicker which saves me time and money!

This was a great app, but since it appears it has been abandoned by its developer, I am giving it 0 stars. Has not been updated since Feb 2013 and is not functioning well in iOS8.... Sad bummer... It was a great app...

I am currently enrolled in MTSU's Audio Production program and this app is recommended as a tool to help outside of a class called "Critical Listening". The app is pretty similar to the training we do in class with the Golden Ears disc set. I love the option to choose a song from your phone's library to use. It's very important to have a collection of songs you know really well to use as a solid reference. If you pick a song that you really enjoy and just know how it sounds, it makes it easier for you to pinpoint where the problem is when the boost/cut is turned on (too bright, muddy bass, telephone effect, midrange honk, etc.) I think it would be nice to have a review option maybe after each question or after you complete the set of 10. Maybe the boost/cut is at 2K but you choose 1K, if you could revisit the question and had the option to compare the 2K boost to the 1K boost it would help you distinguish between them. Also I read another review that suggested a kind of tutorial/introduction for the newcomers. I think this would also be a good addition seeing as how it would help someone who is just starting out develop the associations of the change characteristics to the name of the frequency band. (Brightness = 8K/16K, Telephone effect = 1K/2K, etc.) All-in-all it's not bad, especially alongside any similar ear training courses or lessons.

It’s a good concept, but it is not fully accessible for blind users. It does not describe what the buttons are, it does not let you choose an answer, it does not let you choose a song from your library, it doesn’t even read you what the question is. It’s kind of confusing to navigate as well. Please make it accessible, if not give me my money back! And I’ll go ahead and let other blind users not to purchase this app. I would definitely change my review if it gets updated and becomes accessible.

The app is good and works very well, but I think if guys can put a little detail when you are answering the question why not the frequency sound like the frequency I mean the wrong answer sounds like the wrong answer I think it's a way to learn fast.

At first I didn't like this app, but then I dove into all the training games and changed my rating. The sine wave frequency training isn't the best, but what I found very useful is the eq section: three different levels for various instruments and a section for your own music! There's free stuff online out there, so the $7.99 is a bit much.

Has no learning / training mode

What a cool app,Great training

This app is great for all levels from beginner to expert. it is helping me train my ears to hear different frequencies a must have

Engaging and highly effective app format for training frequency/pitch identification.

If there was an option to have an upgrade path to both the OS X and iOS version, this app would be 5 stars and more. Also a tone generator would be awesome, especially if there were multiple waveforms.

I’m currently in school taking recording classes and we are supposed to be using the Golden Ears training program to study frequencies etc. That program is way too expensive for me and I can’t book studio time just to practice this. This app has been invaluable for identifying frequencies and pink noise/music EQ cut and boosts. Super happy with my purchase!