# ChordPolyPad — user reviews > 114 indexed App Store user reviews of ChordPolyPad by Laurent Colson, rated 4.60/5 from 50 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chordpolypad/id694599930/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chordpolypad/id694599930.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 40 · 4★ 6 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 1 ## Newest reviews (16 of 114) ### 5/5 — Perfect! *2023-02-17* Usually I don’t write reviews, but this is EXACTLY what I was looking for! And it’s brilliant! ### 5/5 — Chord Poly Pad *2022-10-12* I'm a GEE-Tar player. Cant read music, dont play a keyboard, just learned enough about MIDI to be extremely dangerous. But, I gotta say, Im having a blast with this app. And the developer seems to understand the things we need and want in EVERY App., such as AUV3, being both stand-alone, being hosted by AUM and most common DAWs, etc., Ableton-Link sync capability, MIDI In/oUT, bla bla, logical layout, intuitive, as simple as possible, both in-App Manual AND a downloadable PDF ( none of that no OFF-line PDF crap!). DUH! We want to look at offline manual on our older Ipads while figuring out the app on our new Ipad. Highly Recommend, one of the best values out there. Thanks Mr. Coulson. Rob H. ### 4/5 — Great first impression!!! *2022-10-08* Just downloaded this app and I am having a great time playing chord progressions. I Can’t wait to get into more of the detailed settings. This seems like a fun and useful tool to use with other apps to make music intuitive and fun again. It seems to have limited built in sounds in the palate, but I’m pairing with other synth apps to yield more variety of sounds. I had to channel the midi output settings a bit. Maybe I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed, but I got this thing making music rather quickly. I’m thinking this has a lot of potential. ### 5/5 — Easy to Use, Easy to Customize, Extremely Useful *2022-07-06* I use this app a lot because it is so useful in so many different work flows. Nice presets, a great chord library, and cool randomization make quick use a breeze. All of the deeper features that I want are there too. Customizing individual note velocities, global transpose, strum settings, MIDI-input of chords as well as midi triggering of chords … this app is really flexible once you get to know it. Great to use when making music on an iPad or iPhone. Also superb to use as a controller for a desktop DAW. ### 4/5 — Wish it had velocity input from Cubasis *2022-01-20* Along with your other apps, I am finding myself wishing it had some realtime velocity control. I know this is possible from playing within the app but I would like to have the same capability with an external keyboard. ### 5/5 — Change of heart. *2021-10-25* I originally gave this 1 star since it was not recording the midi into beatmaker 3. I reached out to the dev and was advised on how to get it going. Now it works “ Beatmaker 3 does not record the MIDI from AUv3 MIDI effects. You need to use Beatmaker 3 virtual keyboard to trigger ChordPolyPad, then it will record the notes played by its own keyboard that will trigger ChordPolyPad. This is not a limitation of ChordPolyPad, but a limitation of Beatmaker 3.” ### 5/5 — Awesome *2021-09-23* Really nice application. I use it with iSymphonic and control it with the op-z sequencer! ### 5/5 — Simply Brilliant *2021-09-03, version 2.0.5* Really nice app, it’s without a doubt one of my favourites. I have loads of plugins that have chords functionality but this lovely little plug-in is just simply excellent, focused only on what it’s designed to do, anything more would be a job for a separate plugin. It’s quick and easy to setup, clear, uncluttered and easily customisable. The only thing I’ve wanted to do that I wasn’t able to is set up the pads with custom midi triggers (midi learn for the pads) but the fact I could trigger the pads via midi was still very handy. Really excellent bit of kit that helps make life easier and stay focused on music creation. ### 4/5 — Missing one, obvious feature *2021-04-24* Almost at 5 stars… this app is great! But why would you not let someone hear a note as they tap the keyboard on screen? Pretty big miss. If I’m building chords, I want to tap between my notes and make sure I’ve got the right tone! ### 5/5 — Amazing tool *2020-12-08* Was great before and now auv3 makes it even more versatile. Great creative tool for playing expressive chords and coming up with new sequences especially if your keyboard skills are lacking ### 4/5 — I still love it, i’m just wondering *2020-12-08* When will there be a real update to the presets? I understand we can create out own, but most users of this just know what sounds good together. Let’s get some more genre specific chord sets. At least name whats there based on key and scale and not sing names. ### 4/5 — Best app for chords *2020-10-20, version 2.0.3* I’ve been using this app for about 3 or 4 years love,i use it in every beat I make. My only problem is using it as a midi effect plugin or Audio unit with BeatMaker 3 doesn’t work.on IpadAir 2 with iOS 14.0.1 It fine as a standalone. The update fixed the audio issue but it won’t record in BM3 or Nano studio. when using as a audio unit.Please fix.Almost five stars just sort the recording problem out. ### 5/5 — A goto must have tool! *2020-10-17* Love the app. Great work. A daily go to. Only one request, an option to display notes as flats and not just sharps. ### 5/5 — Au top du top *2020-10-13* N’ayant pas de grandes connaissances dans la musique il me fallait ce genre d’applis pour générer des suites d’accords riches en harmonie et Laurent COLSON nous a créé cette appli hyper complète et surtout très stable ! J’en ai d’autres dans le genre qui plantent régulièrement ! Et en plus ce développeur sait répondre rapidement et en français ( quel luxe 😀) quand moi pas comprendre tel ou tel petit parametrage mais rien de grave. Utilisé avec un iPad Pro 11 et AUM ( une autre tuerie cette appli) relié en usb-c (MIDI ET AUDIO) vers l’iMac, je fais un routage de l’appli vers des vsti et c’est la magie dans mon DAW ! Pour les néophytes : ne pas oublier de faire reconnaître l’iPad dans le programme interne du Mac Configuration audio et midi Bref, je recommande d’urgence à ceux qui cherchent un excellent générateur d’accords avec une simplicité au top et de pouvoir modifier l’accord si besoin avec le clavier virtuel ! La fonction Random ( choix aléatoire d’accords sur une grille) est très utile... Merci à toi Laurent PS: 6 étoiles quand Maj avec Audio UNit V3 ! 🙂😜😜 Modif : 13oct2020 : AudioUnit ok 👍🏾 6 étoiles ⭐️ 🕺🏼😉 ### 5/5 — Great app *2020-10-06, version 1.8.6* This app seems great, I’m sure it will be massively useful with jazz chord stuff as I’m not a great keyboard player. One question though, would it be possible to hear the notes as you are keying them in? It seems really odd that you can’t. ### 5/5 — La meilleure du genre, il manques juste l’AUv3 MIDI. *2020-05-26* La meilleure du genre, il manques juste l’AUv3 MIDI. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — No Live Velocity Input for Most Devices *2020-10-20* This potentially great app has one glaring and stubborn omission; no performance velocity option. Why this is omitted is impossible to understand. “Touchscreen Velocity” as offered in the settings is ONLY for iPhone 6 screens and screens with 3D Touch. Please...please make this addition. You can offer real time accelerometer and Y-axis velocity and take this app to a serious level. Machine gun repetitions and two and three step velocity input holds it back. Thank you. ### 1/5 — Great product serious limitations *2014-12-26, version 1.2.5* Great sounds and idea, but I have tried for hours and I can't get it to record into GarageBand either via garage bands inter-app or through audio bus... Nope. Will change this to a 5 if it could do this ### 2/5 — Buggy *2020-12-14* I can barely click on any chords on my iPad I’m barely getting any sounds ### 2/5 — Bm3 *2020-04-12* Glitches on Beatmaker 3 to the point I can't even use either software when using it together ### 2/5 — Sad face *2015-10-20, version 1.3.5* Update: I'm told there will be a patch in a week. Hopefully it fixes the iOS 5.1.1 issue and i can give it a 5. Original: I'm sure this is awesome, which is why I purchased it. Crashes immediately on launch. Well technically the program stays active but screen wont come up. If i try to switch to the app it just "crashes" but stays in active apps. Hopefully I have some luck and don't need a new iPad for this. Every other App that supports iOS 5.1.1 runs fine for me. Oh well, been looking for a good chords app and this looked promising ### 3/5 — Увы *2023-10-21, version 2.2.1* Нельзя загрузить свои midi и wav непосредственно в программу ### 3/5 — Great app but the keys *2017-06-10, version 1.5* It's my go to app for chords. The app could do with an additional feature such as allowing us to use the keyboard below to play the melody similar the app chordion. ### 3/5 — Needs a minor update *2015-08-16, version 1.3.4* 90% of this app is perfect but the velocity setting of 127 distorts the sound of when auditioning sounds from the library. I know this can be adjusted once the chosen chord is placed on a pad but can't see why global velocity setting cannot be adjusted by user. Have asked the dev about this but didn't get a response. ### 3/5 — Must. Have. *2013-09-21, version 1.0.1* Audiobus. Lovely thingie. Great idea on the chord progressions etc. But. Must. Have. Yeah, you got it.... Audiobus. Simple as that. ### 4/5 — Tolle App - aber… *2026-04-25* Ich nutze diese App schon sehr lange und bin auch sehr zufrieden damit. Tolle Features, alles was ich so benötige. Mein Problem: in hellen Umgebungen ist der Kontrast leider sehr schlecht, da die Pads doch sehr dunkel sind. Könnte man die Farbgebung der Pads evtl verbessern ? ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — 音を聞きながらコードを作りたい！単音プレビュー機能が欲しいです *2026-06-04* ChordPolyPadを愛用しています。 パッドの反応の良さや、コードの管理のしやすさ、MIDI対応など、全体的にとても使いやすいアプリです。 ただ一つ、強く要望したい機能があります。 コードを作成・編集する画面の下部にある鍵盤で、ノートをタッチした瞬間に単音が鳴る（プレビュー再生）機能が欲しいです。 現在は鍵盤をタッチしても音が鳴らないため、完成したコード全体をパッドで再生して確認しながら、微調整を繰り返す形になっています。 音を聴きながら一つずつノートを決めていけないのは、少し不便にも感じます。外部キーボードで対応できる手段もありますが、純粋にアプリ内だけで完結させたい時もあります。 この単音プレビュー機能が追加されれば、コード作成の作業効率が大幅に上がると思います。 ぜひ検討していただけると嬉しいです！ ### 5/5 — Absolutely Awesome *2026-03-31* ChordPolyPad is awesome! I use it since a few years now, mostly on my iPad and every time it lets me dive deep into the harmonies. Especially the random chord generation is so inspirational. Also the UI is really unique. I like it! The recent update which added chord moods to the randomizer makes it even better! One of the best app on all my devices! Keep up the good work! ### 5/5 — one of my faves for many years *2026-02-22* it’s my favorite way to arrange my chord ideas for songs. it’s just so easy to use, and convenient. ### 5/5 — Great! *2025-10-25* Would be even greater with a simple chord sequencer. ### 5/5 — Great! *2025-05-17* Would be even greater with a simple chord sequencer. ### 5/5 — Great! *2025-02-11* Would be even greater with a simple sequencer. ### 5/5 — Best App of it's kind! *2024-04-13* Perfect handling of notes and chords with MIDI! Get it! ### 5/5 — Secret weapon *2024-04-03* J’ai recommandé cet outil à tellement de personnes ! Je suis ultra fan. Suggestions : S’il vous plaît, réintroduisez le mode full screen sans menu et avec lequel il était impossible de déplacer les pads accidentellement en jouant. C’est dommage à mon sens de l’avoir supprimé. Deux boutons +12 st et -12 st tout simples seraient les bienvenus (le fader pour pitcher est bien mais pas hyper approprié pour un mode de jeu rapide). Une manière d’assigner un #cc au X et Y globalement pour tous les pads. Un mode vélocité (haut du pad forte vélocité, bas du pad faible vélocité) Merci pour cet instrument ### 5/5 — Best iOS Chord App *2023-05-17, version 2.1.3* Been my go to for years for triggering chords. So glad it’s still getting updates ### 5/5 — Great Product And Support *2023-02-26* Really liking this app. Took a little time to understand it. Support was excellent when I e-mailed a question. The support was what sold me on the app. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-13.*