Chordsheet Maker vs Chord chart editor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chordsheet Maker
Create chord sheets and lead sheets directly on your iPad. Input chords with simple gestures and add extensions, alterations, and rhythmic information. Export your creations as PDFs to share with others.
- Create chord sheets and lead sheets
- Single finger chord input
- Add chord alterations and extensions
- Automatic layout management
- Export as PDF
- Add rhythmic information
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Chordsheet Maker is the quickest and most efficient way to create a chord sheet or lead sheet directly on your iPad. Skip the paper and share it in PDF as soon as it’s done. No complex menus or navigation. All the necessary, offered in an ergonomic way. FEATURES • Triads from a finger Enter chords in a single finger gesture. Be it a C#m or an A, a single tap allows you to enter it. • Alterations and extensions A specific keyboard layout allows you to enter extensions and alterations directly to your chords. • Easy layout Layout is very important on a chord sheet. Chordsheet Maker takes care of it while you transcribe your song. • Share and export Directly export and share a PDF to another musician, another app or the printer. • Rhythmic informations Add punches or breaks to save time to your musicians. Insert rhythmic informations where needed. Download Chordsheet Maker today!
Chord chart editor
Create, store, and view chord charts for music notation using a markup language or a graphical interface. Access your scores from mobile or web, even offline. Organize songs into setlists for live performances.
- Create chord charts via markup language or GUI
- Cloud storage for scores
- Offline mobile access
- Setlist organization for live performance
- Key transposing
- Character size adjustment
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Chord chart is a form of music notation which only specifies harmonies, rhythms, and some structure information(rehearsal marks, repeats etc...), which is used mainly among session musicians (popular, jazz etc...). Fumenbook is a tool for creating and storing and viewing chord charts. - You can create chord chart using the "fumen" markup language (https://hbjpn.github.io/fumen/) for chord chart or using GUI. The markup language of "fumen" is very intuitive and easy to write. You can write chord chart much faster than to write with GUI once you get used to the grammar.a - Scores are saved in the cloud. You can edit and view from either mobile app or web browser clients. Login is needed to save your scores. - Mobile application can be used even when the internet is offline or unstable. This is useful when you are in the place where internet connection is not available or poor such as live bar at the basement. - Basic features like score, setlist searching, character size change, key transposing. - Set of your scores can be grouped as setlist, which is useful for live performances. - Rendering is as per "fumen" rendering engine.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Chord chart editor at Free against Chordsheet Maker's $8.99. Chord chart editor also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Chordsheet Maker's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 2.5) and ads (none vs shown). On review sentiment, update cadence, in-app purchases 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
Chord chart editor is free to download; Chordsheet Maker costs $8.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Chordsheet Maker holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chordsheet Maker has 45 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 83% of Chordsheet Maker's written reviews are positive against 88% of Chord chart editor's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Chordsheet Maker ships an update monthly, Chord chart editor every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on July 4, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chordsheet Maker | Chord chart editor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $8.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (45 ratings) — better | 2.5 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | 87.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 45 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dave Bernier | Maiko Narita |
Customer experience
Chordsheet Maker
Chord chart editor
In-app purchases
Chordsheet Maker
No in-app purchases
Chord chart editor
No in-app purchases
