# Harmonauta: Music Maker — Chords & Harmony from Feeling > Chords & Harmony from Feeling (iPhone/iPad app by Evandro Guedes Machado.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/harmonauta-music-maker/id6809853292 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Evandro Guedes Machado](https://appshunter.io/developer/1882816684) - Category: Music, Productivity - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 3 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-09-17 - Data updated: 2026-10-08 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/harmonauta-music-maker/id6809853292/reviews.md ## What is Harmonauta? Harmonauta is a music maker for songwriters that starts where songs actually start: with a feeling. Instead of scales, wheels and chord tables, you get a living galaxy of sixteen emotions. Tap Longing, add a little Joy, pull Serenity closer, and the Core hums the key it hears. Forge it, and Harmonauta lays out a chord progression that carries that feeling: the right mode, the right movement, the right extensions, voiced and played back so you can judge it by ear. Then keep shaping. FORGE A TONE • Blend up to four emotions and weight them by dragging them toward the Core • Progressions built from a library of emotional archetypes across seven modes • Depth control: Pure triads, Rich sevenths, or Lush ninths and colour tones • Feel control: hold, pulse, strum, picked or piano comping, plus tempo and key • Genre: Pop, Rock, Hip-hop, R&B, Electronic, Folk, Jazz, Lo-fi, Bossa nova, MPB, Reggae or Blues, or let the feeling decide • A melody line written over your chords, shown as a piano roll, rerollable • Reroll for another take on the same feeling HEAR IT PROPERLY • Ten instruments (pad, glass keys, pluck, electric piano, nylon guitar, crunch guitar, organ, bells, strings, flute) and three basses • Drums with sixteen grooves, from a soft pulse and bossa to boom bap, swing, samba, one drop, four on the floor and a blues shuffle • Bass lines that play a real part: a pedal under calm, lush chords, root and fifth, octaves when it gets loud, a walking line through the key; genres bring their own, from a blues boogie to samba and bossa • Five spaces from dry to cathedral and plate • Binaural beat for headphones: a quiet tone in each ear around the key note, pulsing in time with the song • The screen stays awake while anything is playing • Auto picks all of it from the feeling or the genre; override anything in the Sound sheet RESHAPE ANY CHORD • Shards: smart substitutions for every chord, from relative minors and mediants to secondary dominants, tritone subs and borrowed colour • Change chord lengths, add and remove chords • See the guitar shape for every chord, with alternatives one tap away GROW IT INTO A SONG • The Journey builds an intro, verse, pre-chorus, chorus, bridge and outro from your seed • Tint any section with a different feeling and Harmonauta rewrites its harmony to match • Reorder, duplicate, repeat and regenerate sections • Play the whole arrangement end to end; the trail scrolls itself to the section being played TAKE IT WITH YOU • Guitar sheet PDF: chord diagrams above every bar, fingerings, barres, positions • MIDI export for any tone or full song with chord, bass line, melody and drum tracks, ready for your DAW • Copy a chord sheet as text • A library that remembers every tone and song with its mood Harmonauta is built for songwriters, composers, producers and anyone who has a feeling before they have a chord. It runs entirely on your device, with no account and no internet required. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.5 — 2026-10-02 A new name, and something for your headphones. • Harmonaut is now Harmonauta. Same app, same library: your tones and songs are right where you left them • Binaural beat: a new switch at the foot of the Sound sheet. A quiet tone in each ear, tuned around the key note and a few hertz apart, so a slow pulse forms between your ears at the speed of the sixteenth notes • It needs headphones and stays silent on the speaker • Switch it on for a tone and the song you build from it carries it through every section • A headphones mark on the tone and on the song shows when it is on ### 1.4 — 2026-09-30 The bass plays a real part now, and the galaxy sits where it should. • On Auto the bass follows the feeling: a pedal under calm, lush chords, root and fifth at a steady pace, octaves when the energy is high, and a walking line under a shuffle or rich, jazzy harmony • Walking lines move through the key and step into every chord change by a half step, from one section into the next too • A new Bass line picker in the Sound sheet: Roots, Root–fifth, Octaves, Walking or Pedal, for a tone or a whole song • Bass eighths now swing with the drums • MIDI export carries the bass line you hear, genre lines included, instead of held roots • The feelings waiting on the belt now circle the Core instead of hanging above it • The whole sky is framed in the space you can actually see, between the key and the blend, so no feeling hides behind the panel at the bottom ### 1.3 — 2026-09-22 Blues, and a song that follows you while it plays. - Blues joins the genres: a shuffle kit, a boogie bass that walks up the chord and back down through the seventh, a swung guitar shuffle, and a seventh on every chord, because that is the sound - Blues brings its own forms too, twelve bar, quick change, eight bar and minor blues, so a blues idea arrives as a whole chorus instead of a four-chord loop, and its melodies reach for the flat third, fifth and seventh - The Journey scrolls with the music: the section being played comes to you instead of you chasing it - The screen no longer goes to sleep while a tone or a song is playing ### 1.2 — 2026-09-19 Harmonaut now sounds like a band, writes the tune and plays in your genre. • Genres: Pop, Rock, Hip-hop, R&B, Electronic, Folk, Jazz, Lo-fi, Bossa nova, MPB and Reggae. Pick one on the tone screen and the instruments, drums, comping, bass line, tempo and chord voicings follow. The feeling still chooses the chords • A melody line over your chords, shown as a piano roll, with a flute, bells, pluck or crunch lead • Ten instruments and three basses: electric piano, nylon guitar, crunch guitar, organ, bells, strings and more • Drums with fifteen grooves, from a soft pulse and bossa to boom bap, swing, samba, one drop and four on the floor • Bass lines that know the style: walking for jazz, octave for electronic, samba and bossa figures • Five spaces, dry to cathedral and plate • Auto picks all of it from the feeling or the genre; override anything in the new Sound sheet • Strum and piano-comping feels, plus Charleston, bossa, samba and reggae skank figures • Guitar and PDF fingerings favour the shapes players know • MIDI export now includes melody and drum tracks • The galaxy's feelings are planets now, each with its own surface • Tuning and balance fixes throughout ### 1.0 — 2026-09-17 No release notes. ## More apps by Evandro Guedes Machado - [Pinwheel Simulator](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pinwheel-simulator/id6760133781) All apps by Evandro Guedes Machado: https://appshunter.io/developer/1882816684 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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