Pig Ear

Pig Ear teaches you to hear intervals, one step at a time. A session is thirty short melodies. The pig plays one, you tap it back on the keyboard, and it tells you straight away whether you heard it. Thirty-five steps run from three notes in one key to melodies long enough to need real attention. The pig decides when you move on. Hold 85% on a step and the road opens; fall short and you stay where you are, practising the thing you cannot do yet rather than the thing you can. Nothing is unlocked by paying, waiting or grinding — only by getting it right. WHAT IT KEEPS AN EYE ON Every move you make is recorded as an interval you heard correctly or missed, and the grid turns that into a map of your weak spots. Drills pull melodies straight out of that map, so a session spent on your worst three intervals is a session the app built for you. The path shows the thirty-five steps as a road with your position on it. Stats show the difficulty you can sustain, which is the number that actually moves. PRACTICE WITH PEOPLE A group seats up to six. Everyone sees the same thing about each other — today's step, today's score, whether you have fed the pig — and the streak only survives if two of you turn up. Nobody carries it alone. You can add friends by code and nudge one who has not played yet. What a group never sees is your melodies, your moves or your weak spots. Those are yours. STARTS WITHOUT ASKING YOU FOR ANYTHING No sign-up, no email, no account to make. Open it and practise. When you want your progress backed up — or on a second phone — attach an email in Settings and it follows you. If you would rather it never left the phone, it never has to. You answer by tapping, never by singing: the app does not listen, and it records no audio. Practice works offline. A reminder each evening is optional, and so is everything else about notifications.