For educators
Aubel is the daily ear-training app you can confidently recommend to your students. Bulk-buy it for them through Apple School Manager at half price, or just put it on the syllabus.
Most music students practice their instrument every day. Almost none practice ear training every day, even though every aural skills professor will tell them they should. The intention is real. The follow-through isn't.
Aubel ties the ear training to the morning alarm and to the apps students already unlock. The exercise becomes something that just happens, before they've decided whether they have time for it. By the time you see them in lesson or rehearsal, they've already named four intervals that morning.
Games covering intervals, scales, and chord qualities. Plus a Mixed mode that rotates all three.
Daily target. The morning alarm dismissal takes about that long. That's the homework.
Apple's free institutional channel for bulk app purchases. Any accredited school, university, or conservatory qualifies. Your IT/admin signs the institution up once at school.apple.com, then can buy apps in bulk for any class or program.
Buy the licenses.
In Apple School Manager, search for Aubel and order the number of licenses you need. Minimum is 20.
Apple charges your institution half price.
$2.50 per copy instead of $4.99. Paid by the school, not the student.
Apple generates redemption codes.
One unique code per license. They don't expire and don't recycle.
Hand the codes to your students.
Email, hand out a slip in lesson, however you'd handle a syllabus. Each student redeems their code on their personal iPhone in the App Store.
Aubel installs free for the student.
The license is now tied to their personal Apple ID. They keep the app permanently, even after graduation.
A 30-student studio
Two products with the same ear-training games at the core. The iPhone app went live on the App Store in May 2026; the web version is live at aubel.app/play, running in any modern browser including Chromebook. Each is $4.99 one-time, sold separately for now. The classroom edition with student accounts, teacher dashboards, and assignments is the next phase. Think Membean, but for ear training.
Live now
Coming · Classroom edition
For a department buying today, the iOS app is the volume-licensed option. Apple School Manager doesn't cover the web version yet, so individual students would buy that themselves at aubel.app/play. The iOS app's limitations are real: ask students to show you their stats screen during lessons; that's the closest thing to a dashboard for now. If you'd rather wait for the classroom edition, email me and I'll add you to the pilot list.
Not a curriculum. Just suggestions from how the app naturally fits into a music program.
"Set Aubel as your morning alarm. Five minutes before you've fully woken up." Students develop a streak. You glance at it during lessons. The streak counter is the assignment.
"Twenty minutes before aural skills, fire up Aubel and run a Mixed-mode round." Students walk into class with their ears already engaged.
The toughest-item card on the stats screen tells students which intervals or chord qualities they get wrong most often. That's the topic for next week's lesson, not whatever the textbook says comes next.
Aubel doesn't sight-sing, but interval and chord identification translates directly into hearing the leap before you sing it. Pair Aubel with whatever sight-singing methodology you use.
If you teach AP Music Theory, high-school music, or college aural skills, I'll send you a free App Store promo code so you can try Aubel yourself before deciding whether to use it with students. Take a few days with it. See if it fits what you're teaching.
Tell me a bit about your class. I read and respond to every request myself.
One free copy per teacher · I respond within a couple of days
If you're thinking about Aubel for your students, send me an email. Tell me your school, your role, and what you'd want the app to do for the class. We can talk through fit and figure out the right path.
The classroom pilot list opens early access to the teacher-facing platform as it gets built (student accounts, dashboards, assignments). Worth getting on if you're considering a department-wide rollout for next school year.
Email me →aubelapp@gmail.com · I read every email
