ToneWren

About ToneWren

ToneWren gives everyone the same five notes each day, in a challenge numbered from its first day in September 2026. A new one starts at 00:00 UTC, and no account is needed.

For each note you press Play note and listen. You can replay it as often as you like, but you get only one answer: twelve buttons, C, C sharp, D and so on up to B, laid out like the white and black keys. On a keyboard you can press the letter, with Shift for sharps, Space to replay and Enter to move on. After five notes you get a score out of 5, which you can share as a row of green and red squares without giving the notes away.

Correct answers earn points for your wren, a small bird mascot you can name. Points carry it through a composer journey in birth order, from Thomas Tallis and Palestrina onward, with a library of short cards about each composer. Your progress and streak stay in your browser, and you can save a progress link to restore them elsewhere.

The practice page is unlimited: 12 rounds over one octave, either in Perfect Pitch mode with no reference or in Relative Pitch mode where an A at 440 Hz plays before each note. You can pick a sine, triangle or sawtooth sound, and there is a chord challenge in which you name every note of a chord over nine levels.

How to play ToneWren

1. Open tonewren.com and press Start today's challenge.
2. Press Play note and listen; replay it as many times as you need.
3. Choose the note you heard from the twelve buttons, C to B with sharps. You get one answer per note.
4. Go on to the next note, and after all five see your score out of 5 and share it.

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Tips

• Warm up on the practice page in Relative Pitch mode first: hearing an A next to each note trains you to judge the distance.
• Replays are free, so listen several times and sing the note back before you commit to an answer.
• Use the keyboard: the letter keys answer, Shift adds the sharp and Space replays, which keeps your hands off the mouse while you listen.

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