Chords Trainer vs Poco a Poco
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chords Trainer
Learn to recognize and play musical chords quickly. This app offers a comprehensive chord dictionary and practice modes, including games, to enhance your music learning journey. Improve your understanding of chords represented by symbols, notes, or keyboard layouts.
- Comprehensive chord library
- Customizable learning options
- Practice, watch, and game modes
- Intelligent question generation
- Real sample sound
- Chord lookup dictionary
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This app is to help us get familiar with all kinds of chords so that we are able to recognize or play them as quick as possible, no matter they are represented by chord symbols, music notes in the stave, or keyboard keys. Improving this ability will definitely benefit all aspects of our music learning. Also, the app can be used as a dictionary to look up chords. Main Features: • Cover almost all chords we can encounter • Allow to customize the learning by chords' roots, forms, quality, inversion, and voicing (open or closed position, doubling) • Practice mode to learn at our own pace • Watch mode to learn by watching the "chords movie" • Game mode to challenge ourselves and have fun by winning high score, trophies, and medals • Search mode to loop up chords • Questions generated intelligently based on your performance • Intuitive interface • Studio quality real sample sound
Poco a Poco
Improve your music sight-reading with personalized exercises and interactive theory guides. Track your progress and test your skills with daily challenges.
- Personalized practice exercises
- Interactive music theory guides
- Progress tracking (daily, weekly, monthly)
- Daily challenge game
- Sight-reading skill improvement
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PRACTICE Start practicing Notes with Poco a Poco and you will see how your sight reading skills are improving over time. EXERCISES The smart algorithms in Poco a Poco will create specially designed exercises targeted to your skill level. THEORY Learn and refresh your music theory knowledge with interactive guides designed for each kind of exercise. PROGRESS Track your daily, weekly and monthly progress to find how you are improving and what you still need to practice. CHALLENGE Play daily challenge game to see how long you can go without making a single mistake.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Poco a Poco at 100% against Chords Trainer's 50%. Poco a Poco also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Chords Trainer's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 8 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Chords Trainer costs $2.99 and Poco a Poco $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Poco a Poco holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Chords Trainer's written reviews are positive against 100% of Poco a Poco's.
Chords Trainer ships an update every 2 months, Poco a Poco every 8 months. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.
| Parameter | Chords Trainer | Poco a Poco |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Plearn LLC | Notagram, LLC |
Customer experience
Chords Trainer
Poco a Poco
In-app purchases
Chords Trainer
No in-app purchases
Poco a Poco
No in-app purchases









