# Voicebraid — Counterpoint under pressure

> Counterpoint under pressure (iPhone/iPad app by Robert Corbin.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/voicebraid/id6794027420 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Robert Corbin](https://appshunter.io/developer/1890247992)
- Category: Games, Puzzle
- Price: $0.99
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 1 MB
- Released: 2026-08-04
- Data updated: 2026-09-09
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/voicebraid/id6794027420/reviews.md

## What is Voicebraid?

Voicebraid is first-species counterpoint as a puzzle: a fixed melody is given, and you shape the voice above it.

SIXTY STUDIES, SIX MODES
The cantus firmi rotate through Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, and Aeolian, in four melodic shapes and lengths from 8 to 12 notes — every study different, every study answerable.

HEAR IT
Play the cantus alone, or both voices together, at any moment. The audition uses a plain synthesizer tone; what you are listening for is the intervals.

A VERDICT ON EVERY NOTE
- The interval against the cantus, named: minor 3rd, perfect 5th, tritone
- The motion type at every step: contrary, oblique, similar, parallel
- Every rule broken, at the note where it broke: dissonance, parallel or direct perfects, leaps beyond a fifth, unrecovered leaps, range breaks, weak openings and endings
- Contrary motion is rewarded where you find it

LEARN THE RULES
A written primer — eight short chapters — explains exactly what the evaluator enforces and why: consonance, perfect versus imperfect, the parallel-perfect ban, motion, leaps and recovery, beginnings and endings, and the modes.

Fully offline. No account, no ads, no tracking — one puzzle, done properly.


## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 2.0 — 2026-08-28

Voicebraid 2.0 — hear your counterpoint.

- Playback: the cantus and your voice, played together (or the cantus alone) — counterpoint is aural before it is visual
- A verdict on every note: the interval by name, the motion type, and the exact rule broken or rewarded at each step
- Sixty genuinely varied studies across six modes — Ionian to Aeolian — with four cantus shapes and lengths from 8 to 12 notes
- A written counterpoint primer: the exact rules the evaluator enforces, from consonance to the parallel-perfect ban, in eight short chapters
- First and final notes now checked the classical way: open on a perfect interval, close on the octave

The image gallery is gone; in its place, tools that teach.

### 1.0 — 2026-08-04

No release notes.

## More apps by Robert Corbin

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- [Renew Guard](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/renew-guard/id6761755447)
- [Receipt to PDF](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/receipt-to-pdf/id6761782025)
- [Route Your Pay](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/route-your-pay/id6761783719)
- [Tip Arbiter](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tip-arbiter/id6761786879)

All apps by Robert Corbin: https://appshunter.io/developer/1890247992

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