Chordio+ vs Easy Note
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chordio+
This music creation and learning tool offers an interactive way to explore chords and scales. It helps users compose songs, store progressions, and connect MIDI controllers for real-time feedback. Ideal for musicians, composers, and educators seeking to enhance their music theory knowledge and creative output.
- Build chord progressions with a sequencer
- Chord and scale exploration modes
- MIDI controller integration
- Custom chord creation and editing
- Export MIDI to DAWs
- Learn songs with adjustable speed and pitch
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Looking for a spark for your upcoming song or unsure about the names of chords to communicate with fellow musicians? Introducing Chordio+, a powerful tool for composition and music theory that offers an enjoyable and interactive experience. This app allows you to explore chords and scales in a fun and engaging way. It also provides a convenient platform for storing all your distinctive musical chord progressions in a single location. As a result, Chordio becomes an indispensable resource for contemporary music producers, composers, and educators. Take your music theory knowledge to the next level and create innovative chord progressions for your latest composition. With a range of internal sounds included, you can explore the tool's features without needing any other external equipment. Connect your MIDI controller to Chordio+ and see chord names appear on the Grand Staff in real-time as you play. Solo over chord progressions using the built-in sounds, and quickly rearrange or transpose chord progressions on the fly for added flexibility. Chordio+ empowers you to unleash your creativity and take your music to another level. The main features are divided into four workspaces: Composition • Build-in sequencer to create chord progressions. • Build-in Chord progression generator. • Create custom chords, edit existing chords, get chord inversions, and extended chords. • Drag & Drop to change the song structure. • Transpose the entire chord progression with a single tap. • Create a playlist of custom chord progressions. • A Chord Types & Voicings panel helps you generate new chords. • Play-along with a backing rhythm track. • Save/load songs, export it as MIDl to your favourite DAW. • Download chord progressions from a growing collection of Chord Packs. • Features a chord transformer that allows you to easily substitute a selected chord with a suggested alternative. Modes • Interactive way to learn what scales are associated with each mode. • Practice modes in Chordio+. • Change tonic, mode, and layout to discover the relationship between musical notes, chords, and scales. Scales • Practice scales with a metronome in all keys. • Contains more than 40 scales you can work with. • Staff view for chords and scales. • Tap on scale notes to show their corresponding intervals. Lessons • Learn to play songs at your own pace. • Download music from a growing collection of Lesson Packs. • Lessons can be slowed down or pitch changed. KEY FEATURES: • MIDI keyboard support. • Build progressions using the chord generators. • Export MIDI to your DAW or sequencer. • Custom chords, edit existing chords, get extended chords. • Play internal sounds. • Arpeggio, strum and performance modes. • Mac version include a detachable resizable Grand Staff, Chord Display, and Keyboard Views. • Customise the Keyboard highlight color. • Select chord, to display a range of related scales and chords. • Tap a note on the Grand Staff to highlight it with a color. • Choose from selection of backing rhythms that fit specific genres. • Chord Pattern playback Always backup your chord progressions!
Easy Note
Practice reading music notes with an on-screen keyboard or your own instrument. The app listens and checks your accuracy, offering adjustable tempos and key signatures. Includes a song library and import options for further practice.
- Instrument note recognition
- Adjustable tempo
- Transposable key signatures
- Metronome
- Note-by-note or full song practice
- Song library
- Import MusicXML, MIDI, Score Creator files
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Easy Note is an app that helps you practice reading music notes. You can practice with the on-screen keyboard or with your own instrument (the app listens to you while you're playing and checks if you play the correct notes). * FEATURES: - Practice in different tempos. You can adjust the tempo of the songs to the speed that are suitable with you. - Practice in different key signatures. You can transpose each song into different keys to practice. - Background music that makes it more interesting to practice. - Metronome that helps you play in time. - Two practice modes: practice note by note separately, or practice playing the song at the correct tempo. - Note recognition by micro. You play the notes with your instrument then the app checks if you play correctly or not. - Song library with many popular songs. - Import more songs. You can import MusicXML, MIDI, Score Creator files into the app for further practice.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Easy Note at 5.0 against Chordio+'s 2.3. Easy Note also leads on review sentiment (50% vs 33%) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 weeks). Chordio+'s advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Chordio+ sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Easy Note sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Easy Note holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chordio+ has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Chordio+'s written reviews are positive against 50% of Easy Note's.
Chordio+ ships an update every 5 weeks, Easy Note fortnightly. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Chordio+ | Easy Note |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 154 MB | 118 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | One In A Billion Ltd | TRAN PHUONG |
Customer experience
Chordio+
Easy Note
In-app purchases
Chordio+
- Free Chord PackFree
- RnB Chords No.1$1.99
- Neo-Soul Tunes 1$4.99
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- Neo-Soul Progressions 1$4.99
- II-V-I Progressions$4.99
- Jazz Progressions 1$4.99
- RnB Progressions 1$4.99
- Chord Progressions 251 No.1$4.99
- Classical Progressions 1$4.99
- Unlock App$6.99
Easy Note
- Easy Note - Full version$4.99









