# Kord: Chord Machine — Play chords. Make music. > Play chords. Make music. (iPhone/iPad app by Abhinav Dimri.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kord-chord-machine/id6789934552 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Abhinav Dimri](https://appshunter.io/developer/6772557550) - Category: Music, Entertainment - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 373 MB - Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Japanese, Chinese (Simplified, China) - Released: 2026-08-18 - Data updated: 2026-08-25 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kord-chord-machine/id6789934552/reviews.md ## What is Kord? You can't play a wrong note. That's the whole idea. Tap a pad and you get a full chord, not a note. Every pad on screen belongs to the key you picked, so there isn't a wrong one to hit. You literally cannot mess it up. I built this because I kept getting ideas in my head with no way to get them out. Learning piano to test a four chord loop is ridiculous. So is opening a DAW and staring at an empty grid. WHAT IT DOES Tap chords with one finger. Pick a genre and the pads become a progression that already works together. Play a melody or a bassline over it and those snap to the right notes too. Record it, layer up to four tracks, drop in a beat, and export a WAV when you're happy. The chords aren't generated on the fly. They're hand voiced sets, the kind you find in a hardware chord box, so a Cmaj9 is voiced the way a keyboard player would actually reach for it instead of stacked up mechanically from the root. I went through every set note by note against the source tables. Found five that had been typed in wrong. Fixed them. GENRE LAB Pick a mood and a style and Kord invents a set of chords you've never heard, voiced properly, playable straight away. Roll it again if you don't like it. This is the part I use most. 42 INSTRUMENTS Grand and upright pianos, electric pianos, organs, pads, analog and FM synths, basses, plucks. All levelled so they sit in a mix instead of fighting each other. FREE AND PRO Free is a real instrument: chords in any key, genres to play through, a two track looper, beats, reverb and delay. Pro opens all 42 instruments, every genre, the four track looper, the full effects rack, unlimited Genre Lab, and WAV export. Subscribe or pay once for Lifetime. If you've ever hummed something and wished you could play it, this is for you. Privacy: https://minoraudio.com/privacy Terms: https://minoraudio.com/terms ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | Kord Pro — Monthly | $2.99 | per month | | Kord Pro — Yearly | $14.99 | per year | **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Kord Pro - Lifetime | $17.99 | one-time | ## Version history (last 2 releases) ### 1.1 — 2026-08-23 Genre Lab, rebuilt. Generated genres now sound like something a player would actually put their hands on, and every existing preset was rebuilt to match. You can also start a generation straight from the LAB list instead of backing out to find the button. Better chords. Pop, Jazz, Blues and Gospel sound noticeably better across the pads, and a few wrong notes are gone. Velvet EP is now free. The free instrument set is Grand Piano, Chorus Pad and Velvet EP. The arpeggiator works properly. Style and Time are separate controls now, and Time drives the strum family too. Named patterns live in one flat picker. Random is genuinely random. Swing actually swings. Missing shapes are back, and controls that would do nothing are visibly disabled instead of quietly ignoring you. Effects that move evenly. The FX faders change the sound in even steps from 0 to 100 instead of doing almost everything in the last third of the throw. Audio that behaves. Kord takes priority over other apps now and reclaims the audio session when you come back, so it no longer returns silent after a call or a switch away. Drum loop levels. Boom and Dust are level matched with the rest of the library. Full screen. The status bar is hidden, so the instrument gets the whole display. ### 1.0 — 2026-08-18 No release notes. ## More apps by Abhinav Dimri - [Kassette: VHS & Retro Camera](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kassette-vhs-and-retro-camera/id6772557548) All apps by Abhinav Dimri: https://appshunter.io/developer/6772557550 --- *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 2026-08-25.*