# ChordChord — Chord Progression Generator

> AI-powered chord progression generator for musicians and songwriters. (iPhone/iPad app by ChordChord OU.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chordchord/id1489041024 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [ChordChord OU](https://appshunter.io/developer/1489041023)
- Category: Music, Entertainment
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 3.72/5 from 158 App Store ratings · 61 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 10.0 · 82 MB
- Languages: English
- Released: 2020-01-07
- Data updated: 2026-08-10
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chordchord/id1489041024/reviews.md

## What is ChordChord?

ChordChord is the service to make the chord progressions for your songs and music!

The core of ChordChord is the chord progression generator. This is the app that is specifically dedicated to musicians, who are willing to find some catchy and interesting chord progressions. Apart from generating chord progressions, this website can help you improve your musical compositions and suggest you some sweet chord sequences to make music.

It doesn't matter what you produce -> Trap, EDM, Blues, Jazz, R&B, Rock or Pop, Progressions exist everywhere!

Main features of this app:

- It is the service that is available on all major platforms

- It generates chords that sound good together.

- You can set up the instruments, set up the key and scale.

- This service is perfect inspiration storage that will help you to make your awesome harmonic music!

Just try it out and you won't regret!

Terms Of Service: https://chordchord.com/terms-of-service

## Key features

- Chord progression generator
- Suggests harmonic sequences
- Supports multiple music genres
- Customizable instruments, key, and scale
- Inspiration for music composition

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Monthly Premium Subscription | $11.99 | per month |
| Annual Premium Subscription | $89.99 | per year |


## What do users think of ChordChord?

Overall sentiment: negative

**Pros**

- 💡 Useful for quick chord arrangements
- 💡 Handy for finding chord progressions
- 💡 Great concept for musicians
- 💡 Helps with melody and chord ideas
- 💡 Piano roll for easy understanding
- 💡 Good for aspiring artists
- 💡 Inspiring for songwriting

**Cons**

- 💰 Steep cost for limited features
- 💸 Expensive subscription model
- 💸 Auto-renewal without notice
- 💸 Pushy upgrade prompts
- 💸 Premium features locked
- 💸 Better free alternatives exist (GarageBand)
- 💸 Unjustifiable pricing
- 💸 Limited free progressions
- 💸 Predatory app design

**Commonly reported bugs**

- No sound on app version
- App crashes frequently
- Saved progressions disappear
- Auto-renewal without warning
- App times out quickly
- Upgrades are non-interactive
- Key transposing dropdown fails
- Save feature sometimes fails
- App crashes on launch
- Cannot play sound through phone speaker
- Progressions forgotten/not saved
- Create account loop
- App shuts off when phone sleeps
- In-app purchases not working

**Most requested features**

- Label piano diagram with note names
- Guitar mode
- AI generator
- More in-depth chord editor
- Limit custom chords to compatible ones
- Option to construct song layouts (more than 4 chords)
- Back button or history feature
- Record while singing
- Zoomed-in keyboard view
- Option to disable auto-display of chord notes
- More instruments (guitar, violin, etc.)
- Recently deleted feature
- One-time payment option
- More than 4 chords in progression

## Recent user reviews (10 of 61)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chordchord/id1489041024/reviews.md

### 5/5 — App comment

*2025-01-23, version 1.0.9*

Please label the piano diagram so we can see the correct notes by name such as Do Re

### 1/5 — Very unsatisfactory customer service

*2024-07-09, version 1.0.9*

I never normally write reviews, but I purchased the premium a year ago and rarely used the application afterwards as I’d found much better apps and systems for finding good chord progressions. I didn’t know there was an auto renewal process and didn’t receive any lead up emails about it (I forgot this app existed), normally good companies will send follow up emails to customers who they see aren’t interacting with their product much and also a notice for auto renewal. I got none of that and was charged $99, I saw this on my bank statement the following day and emailed them asking if I could please refund and cancel as I haven’t used this app in so long and I had no idea about the auto renewal. Per their policy they don’t allow this even if it’s by one day, I’m cancelling immediately and I’m so irritated that they wouldn’t even allow me to pay for this month and refund the rest. It’s how these companies get you, and don’t truly care for their customers experience whatsoever.

### 1/5 — Bad

*2024-02-27, version 1.0.9*

Bought the premium subscription to transfer midi data. Saved 10 progressions that I would end up using. Open app the next day to start the process and all the progressions are gone. Went straight to cancel the subscription, are you kidding me?

### 4/5 — Fun App But Too Costly For Limited Features

*2024-02-08, version 1.0.9*

I commend the developer for creating a useful tool for quick chord arrangements over a beat. The best perk of the app in my opinion is the various arpeggiated chord playbacks. 

Where the app falls short is that it lacks the features that would make it great. For example.. 

1) There’s no way to limit the custom chords to chords that play well alongside your existing chords.

2) There’s no option to construct actual song layouts. I find it odd that the app limits you to just 4 chords rather than allowing you to build & arrange a series of stacked progressions similar to what you’d see in a DAW. 

3) There’s no back button or history feature for instances where you accidentally hit the wrong button. I’ve lost whatever I was working on multiple times because of this. I’ve also lost progressions that I had just got finished recording & was in the process of saving… as I’m typing in the name of the file I accidentally hit the wrong part of the screen & the entire saved file becomes gone for good. 

4) You can’t record while singing over top of the progression. It only records what’s playing. You can play notes on the keyboard though (they record).

5) Being able to play notes on the keyboard display is a handy feature (allows you to explore melodies overtop of the chord progression that’s playing), but because the keys are so thin & small (even on my iPhone Pro Max’s larger screen), I end up hitting the wrong notes (keys) nearly half of the time. This issue could be remedied by allowing a zoomed in view of the keyboard. 

6) When a chord progression is being played, the app displays the notes of each chord in blue color. While this is a nice feature, it’s very interfering when trying to play melody notes on the keyboard. An option to quickly disable & re-enable this auto display of chord notes would help with this. 

7) Sometimes when I go to save a progression, it doesn’t actually save despite it saying that it’s been saved. I even tried refreshing the screen where saved progressions are listed, but for whatever reason the progression just wouldn’t save. This has happened a couple of times already, despite only using the app for a brief time so far. 

8) There have been a few times where the key transposing dropdown doesn’t work. When I go to change the key of the active progression, it fails to update the key change; while other times it works just fine. 

Because of these issues & limitations, I can’t see the justification for the steep cost of this app. Especially since you can pretty much do everything this app can do (& more) with GarageBand (which is free & includes more advanced features). The one thing I like about smaller apps with specific purposes is they are often simpler & quicker to work in. But there’s only so much sacrifice I’m able to accept, especially with apps this costly. 

If the developer would fix the mentioned issues & make this app more customizable, user friendly, & useful as an actual songwriting tool; I could maybe see paying $6 / month. But for what it currently is, & the developer’s seeming lack of replies to user comments, bug reports & feature requests; I think I’m gonna have to pass on this. Especially since GB seems to cover these bases & more. 

On an end note, I agree with the numerous users who find your “I’d rather avoid improving as a musician” call-to-action pay screen message, to be quite annoying & pushy. The fact you’ve left it up despite numerous sentiments similar to mine, implies to me that you either don’t read these comments or don’t care. I’m not trying to be rude, just providing honest feedback.

### 2/5 — a shell of the actual desktop app

*2023-11-17, version 1.0.9*

needs guitar mode, ai generator, and more in-depth chord editor

### 3/5 — It's cool but please read

*2023-11-13, version 1.0.9*

Okay, so this app is perfect other than one thing. That thing is that the sound stopped working, and I will update this if it gets fixed. I highly recommend this app!

### 1/5 — Crazy

*2023-05-05, version 1.0.9*

Crazy that the app times out after about 20 seconds. As soon as you start playing your phones already off! Useless.

### 1/5 — add sound

*2023-04-22, version 1.0.9*

i’ve downloaded this multiple times, please for the love of god add sound

### 4/5 — Great app, minor issues.

*2023-02-20*

If you’re looking for a way to quickly play chords and design progressions this app is perfect for you. It has a piano roll which shows the chords playing making it smooth very easy to understand. There are issues present, like how you can’t play any sound through a phone speaker (need to be Bluetooth connected or using headphones) which doesn’t really make sense, and is surprising that this hasn’t been fixed yet. Overall good app, recommend downloading for fellow musicians

### 2/5 — Not a good choice of words

*2022-12-30, version 1.0.9*

This app is great and all but to use any of the good features you instantly get a pop up window that displays 3 options to select from. $7.50/month if you pay annually for $80.99, $11.99 month 2 month OR “No thanks, I don’t want to improve as a musician” whoever thought that wording was the BEST for the last option is wild. Some of us want to improve as musicians but don’t have $90 or even $12 to be able to afford the premium features. I’m sure just a simple “No, Thanks” would be been good enough lol like y’all are mad petty for that.

## Frequently asked questions about ChordChord

### What does ChordChord do?

ChordChord is a service designed to help musicians create chord progressions for their songs. It generates catchy and interesting sequences, assists in improving musical compositions, and suggests harmonic sequences to make music.

### What are the main features of ChordChord?

Key features include a chord progression generator, the ability to generate chords that sound good together, customization options for instruments, key, and scale, and serving as an inspiration storage for harmonic music.

### Is ChordChord free to use?

The application is free to use, but it does offer in-app purchases. This means you can access core functionalities without cost, with optional purchases available for enhanced features or content.

### What music genres does ChordChord support?

ChordChord is designed to be versatile and can assist with chord progressions for a wide range of music genres, including Trap, EDM, Blues, Jazz, R&B, Rock, and Pop.

### What platforms is ChordChord available on?

The service is available on all major platforms, making it accessible to musicians regardless of their preferred device or operating system.

## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.0.9 — 2020-02-11

-Fix Google Sign In

### 1.0.7 — 2020-02-01

- Fix Audio Recording
- Other bug fixes & improvements

### 1.0.3 — 2020-01-07

No release notes.

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