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Release Notes

What's new in Earonman

Web: v1.9.0
Mobile: v1.9.0
25 Releases

v1.9.0

Mobile
Velvet
Latest

Released August 3, 2026

✨ Highlights

  • • The app has been redrawn from the ground up: its own typefaces, a deep velvet background lit from the top with a fine grain, warm cream text, and every card lit from its own corner instead of sitting flat
  • • Timbres: twelve colour schemes you can buy with EarCoins and wear across the whole app, each one drawn from a different corner of record and instrument design

New Features

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  • •Twelve Timbres are now on sale for EarCoins: Pressing, Stillness, Signal, Oxblood, Phosphor, Tweed, Panel, Walnut, Gatefold, Daylight, Fluoro and Concrete. Two of them are light. Each carries a one-line description and a preview, so you can tell what it is before you buy it.
  • •A Timbre picker in Settings puts on whichever one you own. The whole app follows: backgrounds, text, icons, the level map's nodes, quest colours in Stats and the dashboard's training grid.
  • •The app now uses its own typefaces instead of the system font: Instrument Sans for reading, Sometype Mono for numbers and labels, and a serif for screen titles, so the three do different jobs.
  • •The background carries a very fine grain, so it reads a little more like paper under a lamp and a little less like a lit panel. On Android 9 and older the effect is skipped, because those versions cannot blend it correctly.
  • •Quest type rows in Stats fill with light to match your accuracy, so you can read how you are doing across trainers at a glance.

Improvements

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  • •The Practice screen groups the ten trainers into five families - Distance, Stack, Key, Motion and Outside - instead of showing ten competing colours at once.
  • •Every practice setup screen is rebuilt. Start is the same orange button on every trainer, longer option names are no longer cut off, and options that do not apply right now are greyed out with a line saying why, instead of disappearing.
  • •Every practice type has a new description saying what you hear and what you do, in place of wording that assumed you already knew.
  • •Popups, tutorial steps and every other overlay now blur the screen behind them instead of only dimming it, so the text on top stays readable.
  • •Chat lessons take the new look: message bubbles are cards lit in the speaker's own colour.
  • •Body text is a warm cream rather than a cool near-white, and the near-duplicate greys the app had accumulated collapsed into one dimmed-text colour.
  • •Settings, notification settings, the exercise picker, Stats, the league, duels, daily goals and help cards all use the same lit surface now.

Bug Fixes

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  • •Fixed a crash when starting an exercise from the level map. The bottom tab bar set up its slide animation only after deciding whether to hide itself, so the hide-and-show that every full-screen exercise performs could leave it in an inconsistent state.
  • •The level map, Guido and Harmonic Quest were the only screens still painting their own background over the new one.
  • •The Accuracy Trend chart in Stats drew its line past the edge of its card, because it guessed its width instead of measuring it.
  • •The level-complete celebration kept the previous Timbre's accent colours after a switch.
  • •The two light Timbres now get a background, status bar and blurred overlays suited to a light screen.
  • •The keyboard-shortcut separators in the Guido exercise were so dark they were effectively invisible.
  • •The auto-advance switch in Settings briefly showed On before correcting itself, for anyone who had turned it off.
  • •Rounded corners in about forty places had quietly got 2-4px tighter.

v1.9.0

Web
Velvet on the Web, and Studio for Teachers
Latest

Released August 3, 2026

✨ Highlights

  • • The website now wears the app's design: the same velvet background and grain, the same typefaces, the same lit cards
  • • Earonman Studio is out of beta and open to every teacher, with per-seat billing, a 14-day trial and invoicing for schools

New Features

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  • •Earonman Studio is live for teachers and schools: classes, homework, a weak-spot heatmap, announcements, a class leaderboard and per-student PDF reports.
  • •Studio billing: EUR4 per seat per month with a 14-day free trial on a first subscription, or an invoice for schools with seats opened for an agreed term.
  • •A teacher can reserve a seat for a specific student instead of relying only on who joined first, and the roster says who a seat actually covers.
  • •The Learn page has a new shape: a rail on the left tells you what to do next, and the map keeps the middle, with a plain lesson list and a course map of all eighteen units as alternative views.
  • •Instruments can now be bought on the website too, and admins can try any Timbre from Settings to see the whole site re-skin.
  • •A page for Open Mic at /features/open-mic explaining how it works and what happens to your voice (nothing leaves your device).

Improvements

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  • •The homepage now describes what the app actually does: fourteen platform features instead of eight, with curriculum counts read from the database rather than repeated from two years ago.
  • •Every page linked from the footer sits on the velvet background, and the marketing pages use proper cards.
  • •The website's colours now live in the same shared package as the app's.

Bug Fixes

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  • •Homework that uses a Pro-only trainer or a Pro-only item now actually requires Pro, instead of working for every free student regardless of whether their teacher pays for seats.
  • •The class roster no longer calls a student who already has Pro a free-tier student, and says whether that Pro was bought or granted.
  • •Seats are no longer spent on students who already have Pro of their own, since a seat gave them nothing while still costing the teacher.
  • •Studio seats granted for a fixed period now actually stop at the end of it.
  • •Two things the pricing page promised for free were not free: the Jazz Voicings game mode and the scale levels.
  • •Every semantic colour on the website now actually renders. The roles behind green, amber, red, sky, purple and pink were written in a way the browser rejected, which is why nav chips and the coin counter showed up grey or invisible.

v1.8.0

Mobile
Open Mic

Released July 28, 2026

✨ Highlights

  • • Open Mic (PRO): stop tapping and sing your answer - Earonman listens through the microphone and grades your intonation live, note by note
  • • It hears your instrument too: answer on piano, saxophone or trumpet, one note at a time

v1.7.0

Mobile
Celebrate & Compete

Released July 20, 2026

✨ Highlights

  • • Finishing a level now celebrates: every level-up, streak and coin reward gets its own animated moment with sound, and your results land with a confetti burst
  • • A brand-new leaderboard - a top-3 podium, your global rank, and exactly how much XP you need to overtake the player right above you
  • • Faster startup, smoother screens, and better offline

v1.6.0

Mobile
Endless Practice & New Sounds

Released July 5, 2026

✨ Highlights

  • • Free Practice is now endless and earns you XP - no timer and no fixed number of questions; train as long as you like and tap Finish when you're done
  • • Buy individual instruments with EarCoins - harp, flute, clarinet, strings and more - each shown in its own full-color artwork
  • • Compare your answer with the correct one: miss an interval, chord or scale and play them back to back to train your ear on the difference

v1.6.0

Web
Euro Pricing & New Landing Pages

Released July 5, 2026

✨ Highlights

  • • Yearly Pro is now €59.99 (down from €69.99) - about 28% cheaper than paying monthly, and all pricing across the site now shows euros to match the app stores
  • • The homepage top now rotates between the 'Earonman is now on mobile' announcement and the classic 'Master Your Musical Ear' hero

v1.5.0

Mobile
Smarter Start & Accessibility

Released June 16, 2026

✨ Highlights

  • • Onboarding placement check skips you past the levels you can already hear, with a live first exercise instead of a mock-up
  • • Push notifications now reach your phone - duel challenges and updates, not only email - and the Duels tab shows a badge for invites and your-move duels
  • • Full accessibility pass: every exercise speaks its result, so blind players get the same feedback the colours give everyone else

v1.5.0

Web
Android Launch & Feature Demos

Released June 16, 2026

✨ Highlights

  • • Earonman is now on Google Play - a 'Get it on Google Play' button sits next to the App Store badge across the site
  • • Playable demos on the feature pages: try Guido, Functioneer and Scales right on the page before signing up

v1.4.0

Mobile
Duels & Sharing

Released May 29, 2026

✨ Highlights

  • • 1v1 Duels: challenge any other player to a head-to-head ear training match
  • • Invite by link: challenge anyone with a share link, even friends who don't have the app yet
  • • Share your duel result to an Instagram story, with your challenge link copied to paste in

v1.4.0

Web
Feature Pages, Duels Sharing & Spotify

Released May 29, 2026

✨ Highlights

  • • Duels invite links: challenge anyone with a share link, even people who don't have Earonman yet
  • • Spotify players embedded in lessons
  • • Every Earonman feature now has its own dedicated page with a live demo you can try without signing in

v1.3.4

Web
200+ Levels

Released May 12, 2026

✨ Highlights

  • • Curriculum nearly doubled - from 119 levels to over 200, with gradual bridge levels
  • • New Descending Intervals section
  • • Slash Chord Levels in every key system (Major, Natural Minor, Harmonic Minor, Melodic Minor)

v1.2.1

Mobile
Mobile Polish

Released May 24, 2026

✨ Highlights

  • • Practice Settings redesigned for faster setup
  • • Guido and Harmonic Quest get a UX overhaul
  • • Smoother audio playback and small polish across every quest mode

v1.3.3

Web
Leagues & Daily Goals

Released May 4, 2026

✨ Highlights

  • • Weekly Leagues — compete with players at your level and earn EarCoins
  • • Daily Goals — three challenges every day with bonus EarCoin rewards
  • • Push notifications for league results and daily goal completions

v1.3.2

Web
Instrument Expansion

Released April 29, 2026

✨ Highlights

  • • New instruments added: Harp, Strings, Flute, Clarinet, French Horn

v1.1.0

Mobile
Instrument Expansion (Mobile)

Released April 29, 2026

✨ Highlights

  • • New instruments added: Harp, Strings, Flute, Clarinet, French Horn

v1.3.1

Web
Polish & Privacy

Released April 25, 2026

✨ Highlights

  • • Account deletion now available directly from the mobile app (App Store compliance)
  • • One-click email unsubscribe — no login required
  • • Multiple bug fixes reported by App Store users

v1.3.0

Web
iOS Launch

Released April 23, 2026

✨ Highlights

  • • Earonman is now available on the iOS App Store - train your ears anywhere
  • • Native iPhone experience with the full Earonman curriculum in your pocket
  • • Android version is in active development and arrives shortly

v1.2.2

Web
Mobile First

Released February 2, 2026

✨ Highlights

  • • Continued mobile polish following the Vinyl & Privacy update
  • • Full-width piano keyboard in Interval Practice - easier to tap on any phone
  • • Cleaner, more spacious layouts across all Practice exercises

v1.2.1

Web
Vinyl & Privacy

Released January 31, 2026

✨ Highlights

  • • Modern vinyl-style answer buttons with curved text for better readability and style
  • • Faster controls and clearer keyboard shortcuts for instant answers
  • • Instant feedback with bold colors and smooth animations
  • • Full-screen chat lessons on mobile for distraction-free learning
  • • Shorter, clearer scale names for easier reading
  • • Unified, modern look across all training and game modes
  • • New: Play chords as arpeggios for more detailed ear training
  • • New: Option to opt out of public leaderboards—your results stay private if you wish

v1.2.0

Web
The Big Four

Released January 24, 2026

✨ Highlights

  • • Practice Mode unlocked for Free users - customize your training
  • • Slashmaster - Identify slash chords (PRO)
  • • Hybrid Lab - Practice hybrid chords and upper structures (PRO)
  • • Polychordist - Train polychords and bitonal harmony (PRO)
  • • Functioneer - Master chord functions and harmonic analysis (PRO)

v1.1.3

Web

Released December 31, 2025

✨ Highlights

  • • New Guido feature - Master guide tones with interactive exercises
  • • Redesigned control panels with keyboard shortcuts for faster practice

v1.1.2

Web

Released December 19, 2025

✨ Highlights

  • • Share your progress on social media with beautiful shareable cards

v1.1.1

Web

Released December 6, 2025

✨ Highlights

  • • New Harmonic Quest mode with real-time performance features

v1.1.0

Web

Released November 23, 2025

✨ Highlights

  • • Redesigned leaderboard with competitive features
  • • Faster dashboard loading with performance optimizations
  • • Enhanced mobile experience with haptic feedback
  • • Improved piano interface with visual guides

v1.0.0

Web
Foundation

Released October 30, 2025

✨ Highlights

  • • Initial beta release of Earonman
  • • Complete ear training system with 70+ levels
  • • Interactive lesson system with chat-based learning
  • • Progress tracking with XP, badges, and achievements

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