Songistic vs ZZZ FretHarmony
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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/
ZZZ FretHarmony
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A guitar practice app that draws the relationship between chords and scales on the neck itself. ■ The whole neck, drawn Chord tones, scale tones, extensions and avoid notes, muted and open strings — each told apart by colour and shape. Switch to degrees and a shape becomes the same shape in every key. ■ Every fingering a chord has From the chord book anyone learns first to every position on every run of adjacent strings. Choose by which string the root is on, and narrow it down by arrangement: close, drop 2, drop 3, shell, power chord. ■ Progressions written in degrees Diatonic or not, a progression is built from degrees. Change the key and the whole thing transposes; change key part way through and it modulates. Start from a preset or from nothing at all. ■ Arpeggios with a rhythm of their own Not only up and down: three-finger and Travis-style patterns that have a rhythm in them, and a different pattern for each bar if you want one. ■ Eight recorded instruments Electric, acoustic and nylon-string guitar, piano, organ, harp, cello and flute — each note pitch-corrected one at a time. A synthesised string is there too. ■ More than thirty scales Every mode of the major and minor scales, pentatonics, both blues scales, bebop, whole tone, diminished, altered, Hungarian minor, and the Japanese scales: hirajoshi, in sen, yo and ryukyu. ■ It all stays on your device No account, no sign-in. Settings and saved progressions live on the device only, and nothing about what you play is sent anywhere. On a tablet the neck stays visible while you work; on a phone it stays pinned while the controls scroll under it. ―――――――――― ZZZ FretHarmony Pro (auto-renewing subscription) - Length and price: 1 year / ¥360 - What it does: hides every advert and removes the limit on saved progressions - Renews every year unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends - Cancel any time in your App Store account settings; cancelling takes effect at the end of the period already paid for Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://smolt-stage.com/home/privacy/zzz-fretharmony-privacy-policy-ios-en.html
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Verdict
Songistic and ZZZ FretHarmony are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Songistic sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $7.99 per year and ZZZ FretHarmony sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Songistic | ZZZ FretHarmony |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (7 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 91.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.3 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 205 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | RV Software LTD | SMOLT STAGE, K.K. |
In-app purchases
Songistic
- Songistic Yearly Subscription$7.991 Year
ZZZ FretHarmony
- ZZZ FretHarmony Pro$1.991 Year









