Chords Trainer vs Rootless Voicings
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
Rootless Voicings
This app assists musicians in learning and practicing rootless voicings. It offers features like random chord generation, note display options, filtering by key and voicing type, and a timed practice mode. Users can also listen to chords, play bass notes, and follow the circle of fifths.
- Random chord generation
- Optional note display
- Chord filtering by key and voicing
- Timed practice mode
- Listen to chord sounds
- Bass note playback
- Circle of fifths guide
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Do you need help learning your rootless voicing chords, or just need a helping hand when practicing them? If so, then look no further. This app is just for you! It allows you to: - Generate a random chord for you to play - Enable or disable the display of the notes for that chord if you are still learning - Enable you to filter the chords generated based on key type, and/or voicing type - Use a timed mode to test your knowledge - Listen to the chord as it should sound - Play a bass note either by itself, before the chord, or with the chord - Follow the circle of fifths anti-clockwise for your rootless voicings - Learn your 2-5-1 chord progressions
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Rootless Voicings at 100% against Chords Trainer's 50%. Rootless Voicings also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Chords Trainer's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 1). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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 Rootless Voicings $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Rootless Voicings holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chords Trainer has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Chords Trainer's written reviews are positive against 100% of Rootless Voicings's.
Chords Trainer ships an update every 2 months, Rootless Voicings every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chords Trainer | Rootless Voicings |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | $1.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Plearn LLC | Paul Toal |
Customer experience
Chords Trainer
Rootless Voicings
In-app purchases
Chords Trainer
No in-app purchases
Rootless Voicings
No in-app purchases
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