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REVIEW
Perfect Pitch Player turns the Samsung TV into an ear-training rig.
A single-purpose music utility that drills pitch recognition through your living-room speakers — useful for the right learner, awkward for everyone else.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 11, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
Perfect Pitch Player
PERFECT PITCH LTD
OUR SCORE
6.4
SAMSUNG TV
★ —
PRICE
Free
Perfect Pitch Player is one of the more honest apps you’ll find in the Tizen store: a single-screen ear-training drill that does nothing else and apologises for nothing. It plays a note, you name the note, it tells you whether you were right. There’s no streak counter, no animated owl, no upsell to a pro tier. For a music student already inside a practice routine, that restraint is the appeal.
The Tizen context matters more than it first seems. Ear training on a phone happens in earbuds, and earbuds compress the acoustic field in ways that don’t transfer to playing in a band, a choir, or an orchestra. Doing the same drill through a TV’s speaker array — and the room around it — is closer to the listening conditions a working musician actually performs in. That’s the case for putting this kind of practice tool on a living-room screen rather than a pocket one, and the developer has built around it cleanly.
Where the app strains is the TV remote itself. A directional-pad answer grid is the wrong input device for a timing-sensitive drill, and Perfect Pitch Player has no phone-pairing mode to route around it. Combine that with a session-only score that resets at every launch and you get a tool that’s well-aimed but undercooked for the serious learner it’s pitched at. The bones are right — the polish isn’t there yet.
Perfect Pitch Player is a practice tool that happens to live on a TV, not a TV app that happens to teach music.
FEATURES
Perfect Pitch Player is a single-purpose ear-training app for Samsung Tizen TVs. It plays isolated notes — and short chord and interval patterns — through the TV's speakers or whatever audio path the set is configured to use, then asks the listener to identify what they heard from a directional-pad-driven answer grid.
The drill set covers single-note pitch identification across the standard 88-key piano range, interval recognition (minor second through octave), basic triad qualities (major, minor, diminished, augmented), and inversions. Sessions are configurable for note range, tempo between prompts, and whether to bias the random draws toward notes the user has missed recently.
The interface is deliberately spartan — large note names, a piano-keyboard reference strip across the lower third of the screen, and a running score panel on the right. Audio is sampled piano timbre, not synthesised sine tones, which matters for absolute-pitch practice because timbre cues can confound the ear.
No accounts, no cloud sync, no subscription. Progress is stored locally on the TV. There is no companion phone app, no leaderboard, no social layer.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
Doing one thing is the achievement. Most ear-training software on phones bundles the drill into a gamified shell with streaks, hearts, mascots, and ad breaks; Perfect Pitch Player is closer to a tuner — turn it on, run a drill, turn it off. For a learner already taking lessons, that minimalism is the feature.
Putting the audio on a full-room TV speaker system is the second real win. Pitch perception genuinely changes between headphone listening and open-room listening, and a music student who plays in ensembles is training on the wrong acoustic if they only drill on earbuds. The Tizen build sidesteps that without asking the user to set up a Bluetooth speaker chain.
Sampled-piano timbre is the correct choice and the developer made it. A pure sine tone is easier to identify but transfers poorly to real instruments.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
The directional-pad answer grid is slow. Entering an answer for a single-note drill on a TV remote takes three or four button presses where a piano keyboard or phone touch surface would take one — and at advanced tempos, that input lag eats into the drill. A pairing mode that uses a phone as a numeric keypad would close the gap.
There is no progress tracking worth the name. The session score resets each launch; there is no week-over-week graph, no spaced-repetition queue across days, no export. For a tool aimed at serious learners, that gap is real — practice without measurement plateaus quickly.
Content depth is thin past the basics. Modal interval drills, jazz chord qualities, microtonal practice, and figured-bass dictation are all absent. A music-school student will outgrow the drill catalogue inside a semester.
CONCLUSION
Install Perfect Pitch Player if you already practise ear-training and want a no-friction drill rig that lives on the family TV. Skip it if you're starting from zero — a phone app with structured curriculum (Functional Ear Trainer, Tenuto, EarMaster) will get you further faster. Watch for whether the developer ships phone-as-remote pairing and persistent progress tracking; both would push this from useful to genuinely good.