Name That Key

Name the key.
Learn the why.

A few seconds of a real record plays. The room guesses. Then the reveal shows the key — and the reason it's that key.

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iPhone and iPad · Free to download

A group of friends sitting together in a lamplit room with a guitar and a trumpet, listening to music.

The difference

Every ear-training app has drills.
None of them have the reason.

A thousand records, and a musician's explanation attached to each one. Not "the answer is E♭ minor" — why the record landed there.

E♭ minor

Superstition

Stevie Wonder

The clavinet riff sits on an E♭ minor pentatonic. One-chord funk, nowhere to hide.

C♯ minor

California Dreamin'

The Mamas & The Papas

The recording sounds in C♯ minor — the tape was sped up from A minor, which is why the voices sit oddly high.

D Dorian

So What

Miles Davis

Sixteen bars of D Dorian before it shifts up a half step. Modal, not a key signature.

Inside

Three tabs. In order.

Learn builds the ear one thing at a time. Kit is what you reach for mid-practice. Play is where the path graduates.

The Learn tab showing a five-stage path.
Learn — five stages, in order, all free
The Kit tab listing song keys, tuner, metronome, circle of fifths, scales and chords.
Kit — the tools, mid-practice
The circle of fifths screen with F sharp minor selected.
A circle you hear, not a poster
Genre picker showing rock, classical, jazz and more with song counts.
Play — pick genres, start listening
A round in progress showing a Haydn symphony in D major.
The reveal, with the reason

What costs money

The game is free. Forever.

Songs play through your own Apple Music subscription, so there's nothing to charge for. Membership covers the tools.

Free

No account, no trial needed

  • The song game — 1,000 rounds across 12 genres
  • The whole Learn path, all five stages
  • Sharp-or-flat tuning drill
  • Intervals and the scale explorer

Membership

$12.99 a year · first week free

  • Song keys — the full catalogue, searchable
  • Tune by ear, with a mic check after you've listened
  • Metronome — seven meters, swing, tap tempo
  • Circle of fifths, played aloud
  • Chord player — I–IV–V in any key

Playing songs needs an Apple Music subscription, which Apple provides — it isn't part of membership and we don't charge for it.