# Suggester 2 : Chords & Scales — Brilliant chord progressions

> App for creating chord progressions and exploring musical harmony. (iPhone/iPad app by Mathieu Routhier.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/suggester-2-chords-and-scales/id6448964737 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Mathieu Routhier](https://appshunter.io/developer/369283978)
- Category: Music, Education
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.60/5 from 362 App Store ratings · 98 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.4 · 146 MB
- Languages: American English, French (France)
- Released: 2023-06-03
- Data updated: 2026-08-26
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/suggester-2-chords-and-scales/id6448964737/reviews.md

## What is Suggester 2?

Get ready to take your songwriting skills to the next level with Suggester 2 - the ultimate app for creating powerful and emotive chord progressions! Whether you're a seasoned musician or a budding songwriter, this app will revolutionize the way you compose music, helping you to unlock new creative possibilities and reach new heights of productivity.

With its intuitive interface and cutting-edge features, Suggester 2 is the perfect tool for exploring the harmonic relationships between chords and discovering new musical ideas. Whether you're composing for piano, guitar or ukulele, this app will adapt to your needs, providing you with a wealth of powerful tools to help you create music that truly moves your listeners.

With Suggester 2, you can choose chords based on their harmonic function, using the powerful roman numeral notation to create progressions that are both dynamic and satisfying. This app will guide you every step of the way, suggesting chords that fit with your existing progressions and helping you to build your songs from the ground up.

But Suggester 2 isn't just about finding the right chords - it's also about creating tension and resolution, the heart of great music. With its ability to suggest chords that work together, this app is an essential tool for composers looking to create music that truly moves their listeners.

And if you're looking for inspiration, Suggester 2 has you covered there, too. With its library of classic chord progressions, you can draw on the rich history of music to create progressions that are both timeless and contemporary. Whether you're looking to recreate the sounds of your favorite songs or explore new musical styles, Suggester 2 has everything you need to create music that truly speaks to your soul.

And with its seamless integration with other apps and MIDI devices, Suggester 2 makes it easy to bring your music to life. Whether you're exporting your songs as audio, MIDI, or text, or using the app as an AudioUnit plugin (AUv3), you'll be able to create music that truly captures your vision.

Download Suggester 2 today and unlock the full potential of your songwriting skills! With its powerful features, intuitive interface, and endless creative possibilities, this app is sure to become your go-to tool for composing music.

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## Key features

- Create powerful chord progressions
- Explore harmonic relationships
- Discover new musical ideas
- Library of classic chord progressions
- Integrates with MIDI devices
- Export as audio, MIDI, or text
- AudioUnit plugin (AUv3) support

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Monthly subscription | $5.99 | per month |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| macOS Key | $39.99 | one-time |
| Universal Key | $44.99 | one-time |
| macOS Key Upgrade | $29.99 | one-time |
| Universal Key Upgrade | $39.99 | one-time |
| iOS Key | $24.99 | one-time |
| iOS Key Upgrade | $19.99 | one-time |


## What do users think of Suggester 2?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 🚀 Fantastic set of features for endless music exploration
- 👍 Allows for easy chord progression creation and experimentation
- 🎹 Supports MIDI integration and export to DAWs
- 🎨 Versatile chord voicing and inversion options
- 💡 Helpful for breaking out of old chord patterns
- 🎸 Useful for learning chords on various instruments

**Cons**

- 🔒 Paywall locks many key features behind additional purchases
- 🐛 App crashes and loses unsaved work
- 💰 Expensive upgrade from previous version
- 🤔 Confusing pricing structure and cross-platform compatibility

**Commonly reported bugs**

- App crashes unexpectedly
- Unsaved projects are lost when app closes
- Restricted trial version limits ability to fully test the app

**Most requested features**

- Add support for custom tunings on guitar
- Implement visual aids for tracking measures/bars
- Provide more options for organizing and saving chord progressions
- Include a microphone transcription feature

## Recent user reviews (10 of 98)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/suggester-2-chords-and-scales/id6448964737/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Extremely useful app for composers.

*2026-08-04*

A fantastic standalone app that also runs as an AUv3 plugin in MacOS based DAWs.
Recommended to any musician and songwriter who compose music: It will help in many cases such as unblocking complex resolutions or enigmatic modulation issues, or to solve creative block

It will also be super helpful to musicians who are a bit rusty on theory, or to autodidacts who started using instruments or software without learning fundamentals such as scales and chords systems.
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Just pick a scale to get matching chord suggestions, or input your own custom chords sequence to find compatible scales, and much much more. 

I love the dedicated layouts and voicing alterations for both Piano and Guitars (standard or alternate tunings) - oh also… Ukulele,.

You can also export songs as MIDI or text.
Every note heard in the app is sent via Suggester’s own MIDI Out: that you can route to any MIDI devices or softwares..
Suggester’s MIDI input can be used to trigger chords too.

### 5/5 — Great App

*2026-05-12*

I downloaded the first Suggester app in 2020 and I started writing songs again after a number of years due to my band being out of work due to COVID. I love it. I wrote over 250 songs since then using the first app, and I’ve just recently started using Suggester 2. It’s so easy to use and works well with GarageBand. All my songs start with this app. The support is fantastic. He answers my emails immediately and has walked me through a couple of things that I needed help with. I can’t say enough about how great it is. 10 out of 10.

### 1/5 — Belle carotte… à fuir

*2026-03-31*

Achat de l’application il y a quelques années (Suggester 1). Et la version ne marche plus car la deux est arrivé. Mais ça va au lieu de payer 49€ je ne payerais que 44€ pour pouvoir récupérer l’app…A quand la version 3…. Votre application suggère des accords, moi je vous suggère d’arrêter de voler les gens.

**Developer response:** La première version fonctionne toujours!  Elle continuera toujours de fonctionner.  Je ne comprends pas pourquoi vous prétendez le contraire, c’est faux.

Ces insultes ne sont absolument pas méritées.  Vous pouvez me contacter directement si vous avez des questions, le lien pour le support est sans l’appli.

### 5/5 — hands down best of its kind

*2026-01-25*

I hardly ever write reviews but… Where has this app been all my life??? Fantastic set of features for pretty much unlimited exploration of music. You don’t have to know music theory, yet this tool will solidly let you adhere to it, just messing around. If you are feeling stuck in chord progressions with the SAME BORING chords every time, and wish you could just try banging out something that sounds amazing in, say, Lydian mode with a few borrowed chords, in about 2 minutes, this app will make you feel unstoppable.  Love that I can pick from predefined instruments or connect to my own hardware via MIDI. Export MIDI and drop it right into Ableton. And it works equally well on my Mac and my iPhone. Thank you to whomever came up with this little monster. It is now INDISPENSABLE to my songwriting flow.

**Developer response:** Thank you so much for this great review!  You make my day. 😄

### 5/5 — Incredible! Goodbye Writer’s Block

*2026-01-06*

This app is the crown jewel of swiss army knife musical creativity. Its form and function is fantastic. It has already accelerated my creativity at break neck speed. It may seem innocent on its surface, but it has so many layers to be discovered. I was amazed at how I created a great chord progression on piano and when I decided to switch it to guitar, it took minimal effort. I typically use alternate guitar tunings and found every one I could ask for immediately available. Every chord is able to be auditioned, so when you find the progression, you want to work with, you can then start to swap out different voicings and versions which allow you to enhance the sound of your progression. Its like having a multi-instrumentalist at your disposal with the ability to play your progression a ton of different ways. Then once you have your chord progression built it gives you the ability to use the app as an auv3 into another app like AUM or GarageBand and you can then have the app play the progressions for you in perfect time or you can manually tap the chords as needed. You can also use the app as a musical dictionary. Its incredible. To begin meandering on your keyboard and find some initial inspiration or chords and play them into the app with the look up tool function is like having a music scholar right next to you telling you what chord you are playing with and then you have the direction of what key and scale to work in. This app is the key to removing any musical writers' block and acts as a musical translator. I cannot stress the importance of this app as a writing, creating and performance tool. I have to commend the creator not only on an incredible app, but also in the fast and friendly support when submitting inquiries. His response was kind and quickly resolved my concerns.

**Developer response:** Thank you for this amazing review!  You definitely understood the potential of this app.  😁

### 5/5 — Endless creativity

*2025-11-22*

This is a transformative tool for creating new music opportunities. It’s also a great tool for learning new chords on guitar, and hearing what chords go together. I’ve spent over a 100 hundred hours or more, on the phone, on my iPad, and even on the Mac putting these chords together. It also works via MIDI so you can link to a DAW. Amazing product, thank you so much for making this.

### 5/5 — 很好用的和弦辅助工具

*2025-10-27*

基本上列出了所有和弦，可以快速预览效果、选择、调整、替换，用来做速查表也很不错

### 1/5 — DO NOT UPGRADE

*2025-08-19, version 4.0.0*

I lost all my saved compositions. All of my instrument sounds and scales. Everything that I had paid for monthly for five years.

### 5/5 — Nevermind …

*2025-07-20, version 4.0.0*

Figured it out.  Great app!

### 2/5 — Have iOS, but given no MAC access

*2025-06-07*

No MAC unlock even when I’ve bought the iOS version. Disappointing and greedy.

**Developer response:** Thank you for your purchase.  The Universal Key is what you need to purchase if you want access on iOS and macOS.  In case you need access for only one platform, you can unlock only for that platform and the price is reduced accordingly, which is really nice in terms of flexibility.  You pay only for what you use.

## Frequently asked questions about Suggester 2

### What does Suggester 2 do?

Suggester 2 is designed to help musicians and songwriters create powerful and emotive chord progressions. It allows users to explore harmonic relationships between chords, discover new musical ideas, and build songs from scratch. The app provides tools to guide users in creating dynamic and satisfying progressions.

### What are the key features of Suggester 2?

Key features include the ability to create chord progressions based on harmonic function using roman numeral notation, a library of classic chord progressions for inspiration, and seamless integration with other apps and MIDI devices. It also supports exporting music as audio, MIDI, or text, and functions as an AudioUnit plugin (AUv3).

### How much does Suggester 2 cost?

The application is available for free with in-app purchases. Specific features or content may require additional purchases within the app to unlock their full functionality.

### What devices is Suggester 2 compatible with?

The app is designed for musicians composing for piano, guitar, or ukulele. While specific device compatibility isn't detailed, its integration with other apps and MIDI devices suggests it is intended for use on mobile devices that support such connections and potentially desktop applications via AUv3.

### Who would benefit from using Suggester 2?

Suggester 2 is ideal for both seasoned musicians and budding songwriters who want to elevate their songwriting skills. It's particularly useful for those looking to explore harmonic complexity, generate new musical ideas, and streamline their composition workflow.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 5.4.0 — 2026-08-13

Slash chords are now recognized in "Text to Chord".

### 5.3.2 — 2026-08-01

Resolved an issue with the MIDI export in certain cases.

### 5.3.0 — 2026-07-16

- Several user interface improvements.
- Resolved an issue with the note spelling of certain guitar chords.

### 5.2.0 — 2026-06-14

Improvements to the contextual menus:
- chords can now be transposed by any number of semitones.
- sections can now be duplicated and transposed.

### 5.1.2 — 2026-03-19

The fretboard view now takes into account the handedness configured in settings.

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