Koch Trainer app for iPhone and iPad

4.4 ( 2864 ratings )

Utilities Education
Developer: Pignology, LLC

0.99 USD

Current version: 3.5, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 29 Nov 2010
App size: 6.38 Mb

Koch Trainer is a morse code trainer that uses the Koch Method developed by the German psychologist Ludwig Koch in the 1930s. The method basically states that you should learn morse code at the speed you expect to receive, by training your reflexes to respond to code sent at 20 WPM youll learn the code much faster.

Thank you and 73,
Nick
N3WG

Pros and cons of Koch Trainer app for iPhone and iPad

Koch Trainer app good for

Nice, simple app. What is missing to make me fully happy would be a feature which compares scratch pad and played code and directly displays reached accuracy level.

The current version does everything I need it to do. Uses Koch method and Farnsworth timing as recommended by most CW mentors. Works as advertised. Scratch pad feature is helpful as well. Im a novice with CW and this app is Definitely helpful in building skill. Could it be improved by adding more features? Sure. But it does the job well and its priced right. Great job by the Pignology team.

Some bad moments

The App. Does Not allow you to Set the breaks length which is a pitty... Audio Output is only Mono.

Has possibilities but in its present configuration a poor trainer. Fails to follow Farnsworth principles for timing so useless for actual training. Several app are much better, consider DahDit or HamMorse.

While the Koch Trainer v1.0 is based on the Koch Method for learning Morse Code, it also adheres to the KISS principle. Nick has kept the interface very simple yet useful & functional. I look forward to ways he can improve such a solid v1.0! - Jim KB5AWM

Nice and simple - could be good, but too unstable - crashes regularly on my iPhone 3G - typically after 2 or 3 short play sessions. 1 star till the reliability improves

This is a good start. You might want to consider writing the next version to work on the iPad. You would have a ton of real estate to have the user type in the lower box/scratch pad and check against the upper one. You would also have almost zero competition on the iPad since there are no cw tutor apps for it.

Crashes after 8 or 9 play sessions - which is OK, since I need a break by then anyway. (on an ipad...) Only plays through one side of the headphones. This makes for some interesting experiments -- can I read code better with my left or right ear? Probably this is NOT the intended design. The lesson selection wheel works rather poorly on the iPad for some reason. It would be nice if the settings would remain from one session in the software to the next. In spite of all these issues the software has already helped improve my code copying skills.

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