# Suggester 2 : Chords & Scales — user reviews > 98 indexed App Store user reviews of Suggester 2 by Mathieu Routhier, rated 4.60/5 from 362 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/suggester-2-chords-and-scales/id6448964737/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/suggester-2-chords-and-scales/id6448964737.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 298 · 4★ 31 · 3★ 13 · 2★ 9 · 1★ 11 ## 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 ## Newest reviews (10 of 98) ### 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. ### 4/5 — Pretty good, but *2025-04-13, version 3.2.4* The paywall was infuriating! ### 5/5 — Fantastic - But Suggest Bar Lines *2025-02-22, version 3.2.3* Love the app but can be tricky when new to music with keeping track of each bar/measure in the format. ### 5/5 — Best of the bunch *2025-02-13* I’ve used a number of apps for building and playing chord progressions but this is by far the best. If you’re well versed in music theory this will not present many limitations. If you’re still learning theory, this will allow you to apply those principles. If you’re not at all comfortable with theory, this app will accommodate you. I’m particularly fond of how this app assists in playing around with voicings. Other apps I’ve used are much more cumbersome. I also like how it assists with composition or creating a backing track for improvisation by highlighting notes that are non-diatonic to the selected scale. Initially Suggester 2 was maxing DSP % when added to an existing AUM session. Within days the developer had pushed out a fix. Excellent response time. Highly recommended. ### 5/5 — Amazing! *2025-02-08* Just what was looking for and more. Helps break out of old chord patterns into something would not have considered. Write a progression on phone. Thhen export your rig / song as midi file straight to Logic Pro on MacBook and we have seed of studio level song right there. Brilliant ### 5/5 — Brilliant *2024-12-29, version 3.1.0* Best app of its kind, highly recommended!!! Big thx to the dev., amazing work… ### 3/5 — Good program but expensive *2024-11-01* It’s a good program. But I paid for it on Mac OS and now find I have to pay a second time for the IOS version. It was already expensive enough. It would also be good to have modal choices as well. And more classic progressions with the opportunity to save your own progressions into that library or another library. **Developer response:** Thank you for your feedback. What do you mean by modal choices? The app relies a lot on modal theory and it supports all modes in the scale picker. Please contact support so we can discuss it :) ### 5/5 — Best app! *2024-10-24, version 2.8.0* This is the best chord app I’ve ever seen. It has it all. Every scale, mode, inversions, chord editor… you name it. Simply awesome. I would love to have a venezuelan cuatro as an instrument option to use with arpegiator etc. Great job 👏🏻 ### 5/5 — I loved Suggester, but this is impossibly great! *2024-10-21* Hats off to the developers on this, outstanding. For a song writer, this is best in class for coming up with ideas. I love the ability to change voicing on guitar, and all the new features. Worth the money! ### 2/5 — Not Quite There *2024-09-06* I founbd it difficult to figure out what was going on. I think this could be made easier to use? **Developer response:** Did you follow the tutorial? What did you think was difficult? Could you contact support, we would really like to know. Thanks! :) ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 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. ### 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. ### 1/5 — Gets worse everytime *2025-04-28* I’ve used suggester for almost 10 years now and… it’s amazing. It appears to get worse with every new update, now it’s almost useless, it doesn’t let me reproduce chords, denying to play them, or playing only a few notes of its own choosing, this used to be a good app, it’s a great idea, but it is failing rapidly and keeps bringing more stress instead of actually helping me. FIX THIS **Developer response:** This is not representative of the experience. Please contact support, perhaps there is something specific to your device. We can investigate it together and have a discussion if you contact support. ### 1/5 — Can’t do anything *2025-03-26, version 3.2.4* Everything is locked. ### 1/5 — No MIDI with out paying additional *2025-03-17, version 3.2.4* Big disappointment ! ### 1/5 — 50€ *2025-03-05* La version gratuite n’offre que la gamme majeure, pour le reste il faudra payer 50€ … on est à deux doigts de l’arnaque ! **Developer response:** Oui, la version gratuite donne accès à un grand nombre de types d’accords et à toutes les gammes majeures tout à fait gratuitement. Quand vous êtes prêts à aller plus loin, plusieurs options vous sont offertes, et elles coûtent bien moins que 50€... Quoi qu’il en soit, cette application en vaut le coût, vous ne le regretterez pas! ### 1/5 — Loved Suggester 1. This has problems *2025-02-09* Bit the bullet for an iOS key for this expensive update to a very useful app. Should have bought the subscription so I could cancel. As soon as this is loaded into AUM the DSP % goes to MAX and everything – even channels completely separate from the Suggester 2 channel – are badly distorted. Very disappointing. Completely unusable as an AUM plugin as-is. **Developer response:** Thank you for your review, I’m glad you think it’s a very useful app! But I’m sorry to see you gave it the lowest possible score because of an issue? I want you to know that an update was released today which reduces the CPU usage of the audiounit plugin. Let me know if that helps. pOease contact support if you have found a bug or want to discuss an issue. We’ll track that together. Thanks! ### 1/5 — Everything is locked *2024-11-08* Pointless - before purchase a few days to actually try anything is helpful - this isn't. A non starter. **Developer response:** That’s a bit unfair, most features are available completely for free! But if you want to go further, i recommend you buy a key to unlock the app and access the advanced features. You won’t regret it. ### 1/5 — The Dev Reminds me of IK *2024-11-04, version 2.9.2* Putting everything behind only except one little piece of lust and greed for the moonlight! May the future shines brightly! ### 1/5 — Very limited Version *2024-10-25* It isn't obvious that when you buy the standard version that 80% of features will not be available unless you make another purchase which is another 50% on top of the original cost. Not much fun at all. **Developer response:** This is false information. When you buy a key, it unlocks 100% of the features. It’s as simple as that. Please contact support if you have questions or need clarification. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 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. . 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. ### 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 ### 5/5 — Nevermind … *2025-07-20, version 4.0.0* Figured it out. Great app! ### 5/5 — My go to app, would love one more feature. *2025-04-16* Love this app, it really helps not only with songwriting, but also as a way to document. I really wish it allowed for custom tunings. I know there are a number of alternate tunings, but it would be nice to be able to use completely custom tunings. Other than that it’s a near perfect app. **Developer response:** Awesome! Thank you for your feedback. I agree, custom guitar tunings would be a nice addition. Stay tuned. :) ### 5/5 — The best! *2025-03-25* I’ve been using Suggester since version one and it’s an indispensable tool for working out chord progressions on the go. Syncing up with my tablet and desktop app is the cherry on the sundae. A+. ### 5/5 — Love App & a Suggestion *2025-03-24, version 3.2.4* I love this app and it’s helped me greatly. But would really like if there was a way to more clearly and visually organise the bars/measures for those who don’t know notation intuitively. --- *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 2026-09-08.*