Comparison

Songistic vs Chord Memo

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

Head to head
About

Songistic

This app provides a vast library of digital chord charts for various music genres. It offers a full-band play-along experience with customizable styles and an intuitive editor for creating and modifying chord charts. Ideal for musicians of all levels, from beginners to professionals, for practice and performance.

Highlights
  • Extensive song library (2500+ songs)
  • Full-band play-along with customizable styles
  • Intuitive chord chart editor
  • Customizable chart layout and display options
  • Practice tool with adjustable key and tempo
  • Error checking for chart consistency
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Songistic is a pop, rock, jazz, gypsy jazz, latin, etc. digital chord chart, chord sheet library with more than 2500 songs. It is a full-band play-along app with many-many styles, and a new tool for creating and editing chord chart in a real easy way. It is very useful for both beginners, music students, hobbyists, and professional musicians, for both skill development and as a performance aid. 1. The Players The players will simply use the charts, in chart mode, will probably do little or no editing at all. Assemble some playlists for gigs/practice and simply read the charts on their device. In Songistic we enforce correct use of the symbols for both chord and navigation, and we give the end user (the player) the control over how the charts will look on his particular device. The charts we supply with Songistic are all audited to be correct in both form and harmonic content. Options: How the charts will look on your particular device, will depend on your individual settings. The symbols for "minor" or "major" chords will be what you set, how many bars will display in a single line, and many chart layout options will determine how the chart will look on your device. These options will give you deep control on the chart layout regardless of how they looked on the author's machine. The reason for this is very simple: the same chart wants to look very different on a small iPhone screen from what it will look like on an iPad Professional. Our view options and features (including auto-navigation) are far more advanced than anything you would find in the other apps. 2. The practicing musicians Music students of all ages/levels, even professional musicians can use Songistic for practicing. Songistic has many sounds and grooves built in you can choose from. All gooves/groove options can be audited while the song is playing. For instance you can select "Shuffle" for your song then pick the appropriate drum and bass grooves while the song is playing. Songistic is a full featured play-along app, has great sounding grooves, the songs can be played in any key and tempo. 3. The Writes/Editors These are the musicians who will write/customize existing songs for their own purposes. They will use the editing function a lot. Songistic has a first class bar editor that is very powerful, has many features to speed your work in either editing existing music or entering a new song from scratch. Our quick-bar-insert bar lets you enter a new song in matter of minutes. The logical breakdown of harmonies will ensure that you do not have to dig through a hundred obscure chord types to find a minor7. After analyzing thousands of songs we know what the most used chord combinations are, and these are quickly at your fingertips as you edit. Once you are ready to save, another Songistic feature kicks in: error checking. In order to maintain consistency of the charts we enforce many rules in how repeat signs, repeat bars, codas etc.. are used. When you save a song Songistic will warn you if the chart have errors that were detected during the error check. Once you fix these errors and save without warnings, your song is ready to be played or presented as a chart. 4. Performance Songistic is more than a practicing tool. By default, the chart is being repeated in midi-play infinitely. However, there are repeat settings, where you can set the song to just play the song from top to bottom, once. Or, repeat the "form" of the song a predetermined number of times. Even better, using the solo-section feature (which identifies the form, the "meat"of the song between the intro and the outro), a performance can be set up easily where the intro is played, then the middle section is repeated a number of times, then the outro is played, possibly with a fermata (birdseye) at the end. This can be used for performances where a singer or a soloist play along the Songistic backing. Terms of service: https://songistic.eu/terms-of-service/

About

Chord Memo

Compose and arrange music by writing and playing back chords. Practice singing or instruments like guitar and piano with this tool. It offers features for fine-tuning timing, exporting to MIDI, and changing instruments.

Highlights
  • Enter chords with dedicated keyboard
  • Control tempo, beat, and modulation
  • Playback entered chords
  • Display chords as degree names
  • Save notes with name and description
  • Export MIDI file
  • Change instrument
Features
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It's an app that lets you write chords and play them right back! Use it for composing and arranging music, as well as for practicing singing, guitar, piano, etc. Functions: - Enter chords with the dedicated keyboard (including slash and tension chords) - Control tempo, beat, and modulation - Playback the entered chords - Display chords as degree name (I, VI, ...) - Save notes with name and description - Playback with swing - Export MIDI file - Change instrument - Playback with metronome - Place chords fine timings - Copy/paste chords - Zoom score

Screenshots

Songistic3 screens
Chord Memo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Chord Memo at 5.0 against Songistic's 3.0. Chord Memo also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). Songistic's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 7 months) and review sentiment (92% vs 78%). On price, ratings volume and iOS requirement 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. Songistic sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $7.99 per year. Chord Memo asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Chord Memo holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 3 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 92% of Songistic's written reviews are positive against 78% of Chord Memo's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Songistic ships an update every 2 months, Chord Memo every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Songistic versus Chord Memo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSongisticChord Memo
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (7 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews91.7% of reviews — better77.8% of reviews
Number of ratings7 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 7 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size205 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRV Software LTDKiichi Ito

Customer experience

Songistic

All ratings7 ratings
Positive42.9%
Neutral14.3%
Negative42.9%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive91.7%
Neutral8.3%
Negative0.0%

Chord Memo

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive77.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative22.2%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Songistic

Subscriptions1
  • Songistic Yearly Subscription$7.991 Year
None

Chord Memo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Songistic free?
Songistic is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Chord Memo free?
Chord Memo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Songistic or Chord Memo?
Chord Memo is rated higher. Songistic averages 3.0 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Chord Memo averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Songistic or Chord Memo have ads?
Songistic shows ads; Chord Memo does not.
Which is updated more often, Songistic or Chord Memo?
Songistic ships an update every 2 months, and Chord Memo every 7 months. Most recently, Songistic was updated on October 7, 2026 and Chord Memo on October 30, 2026.

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