Comparison

What Chord? vs raydropd

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

What Chord?

Identify chord names by their shape on a guitar fretboard. Quickly name chords you're playing or discover new ones by adjusting finger positions. Ideal for musicians who need to name chords for sharing or understanding song structures.

Highlights
  • Identify chord names by shape
  • Discover new chord variations
  • Name chords for sharing
  • Understand chord progressions
  • Simple and intuitive interface
Features
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Playing cool chord but have no idea what its name is? You'd like to share your song but not sure how to correctly name the chords you are using? You just have slided one of you fingers up a fret while playing familiar chord and wonder what the chord has now become? It is really simple with WhatChord app! Give it a try!

About

raydropd

Features
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raydropd is one song a day. Every day you pick the song that is your day and raydrop it. Rate it with half stars if you want, write a review about it, or just post it. Then the feed opens: the songs the people you follow picked today, and the songs strangers all over the world picked too. Play 30 second previews, open any song in Spotify or Apple Music, like, comment, and save the ones you want to hear later in your hearlist. Raydrop every day and your rays grow. Miss a day and they start over. Look up any song to see how people rate it and read what they reviewed about it. Find the top rated songs and the most raydropd ones. Your profile keeps every raydrop you ever made, day by day, with your three songs of the moment on top. Free.

Screenshots

What Chord?4 screens
raydropd4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: raydropd at daily against What Chord?'s every 4 months. What Chord?'s advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

What Chord? ships an update every 4 months, raydropd daily. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
What Chord? versus raydropd: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWhat Chord?raydropd
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (171 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews86.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings171 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB6 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperPavlo IgnatovValentino Cipriota

In-app purchases

None

What Chord?

No in-app purchases

None

raydropd

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is What Chord? free?
What Chord? is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is raydropd free?
raydropd is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do What Chord? or raydropd have ads?
Neither What Chord? nor raydropd shows ads.
Which is updated more often, What Chord? or raydropd?
What Chord? ships an update every 4 months, and raydropd daily. Most recently, What Chord? was updated on November 6, 2026 and raydropd on November 6, 2026.

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