Comparison

Incommensurate vs ChordBloom

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

Head to head
About

Incommensurate

Experience a unique, interactive 3D audio music piece designed for headphones. Move the listener and musical elements to create a different auditory journey each time. Record your binaural audio creations for playback elsewhere.

Highlights
  • Interactive 3D audio experience
  • Customizable listener and element movement
  • Dynamic automatic movement modes
  • Background audio playback
  • Record and export binaural audio (AAC M4A)
Features
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Incommensurate is a piece of music composed and performed by Fritz Menzer (using the Chronium app for iOS) that was re-imagined as an interactive 3D Audio experience for headphones. As you move the listener and the individual parts of the piece, every time you listen to it, you will experience it differently. 

Different automatic movement modes give you a dynamic 3D Audio experience even when the app is running in the background. You can record the binaural audio signal by pressing the record button. Press it again to stop the recording and obtain a AAC encoded M4A file that can be used with music players, smartphones, etc.

About

ChordBloom

Features
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ChordBloom turns music theory into a garden. Chords bloom as petals around the key you're in — tap to hear them, wander to neighboring keys, and watch harmony make sense visually. EXPLORE HARMONY BY TOUCH Diatonic chords, the circle of fifths, relative and parallel keys, tritone substitutions, modal interchange — each view lays the theory out as petals you can play. Long-press to cycle extensions (7ths, 9ths, 13ths), choose close, open, or spread voicings, and phrase chords as blocks, strums, or arpeggios. REAL SYNTHESIS, ON DEVICE A full SuperCollider synth engine runs right on your phone alongside classic synth voices — warm pads, plucks, bells, keys, and ambient textures. Every note is synthesized live, and it all works completely offline. AI IMPROVISATION Let the built-in improviser play melodies over your chord changes while you drive the harmony. SAVE YOUR PROGRESSIONS Collect chords into palettes and build progressions you can come back to. MIDI OUTPUT — OPTIONAL UNLOCK Turn ChordBloom into a chord controller for your whole studio: a one-time in-app purchase unlocks BLE MIDI to hardware synths and CoreMIDI to DAWs and other iOS music apps. No account. No ads. No data collected.

Screenshots

Incommensurate1 screens
ChordBloom3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Incommensurate at none against ChordBloom's 1. Incommensurate also leads on iOS requirement (10.2 vs 16.0). On price, ads 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. ChordBloom sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Incommensurate asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Incommensurate versus ChordBloom: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIncommensurateChordBloom
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequency—Every 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS10.2 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFritz MenzerJames Hurlbut

In-app purchases

None

Incommensurate

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

ChordBloom

One-time1
  • MIDI Output$4.99

Questions

Is Incommensurate free?
Incommensurate is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ChordBloom free?
ChordBloom is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Incommensurate or ChordBloom have ads?
Neither Incommensurate nor ChordBloom shows ads.

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