Chord NOTE vs ChordWeaver
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chord NOTE
This app helps songwriters find chords that match melodies and provides tools for creating chord progressions. It also includes a scale library and can display vocal pitch to aid in composition.
- Chord finding for melodies
- Chord Progression function
- Scale library
- Vocal pitch display
- Key finding
- iPad Split View/Slide Over support
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Chord NOTE is a Songwriter’s assistant tool. It assists in finding the right chords to match a melody or musical phrase. And it has great Chord Progression function and Scale library. Chord NOTE supports Slide Over and Split View on iPad, and provides the appropriate display and operation for iPhone and iPad. You wrote new melody came into your mind, but you could not apply some chords for your melody… At a time like this, you can get guides to find some chords that match your melody by Chord NOTE. If you have composed some songs already, you know almost melody and chord have some same notes. Because the main part of melody is made up of constituent notes of chord in most cases. In the same way, you’ll be able to find Key to match your melody by Chord NOTE. So Chord NOTE is very useful for finding the chord and key. If you record your singing melody, you can display the pitch of your voice. And you can sketch your songs by Chord Progression function. Chord Progression function will provide numerous features for you. Chord NOTE supports widening the imagination of your wings for real composer. Advanced Option : Chord NOTE works fine without this option. However, when you’ll buy this low price add-on, you can use more Chords and Scales. It will provide a complete set usually. You can read full function description at support page. http://therootage.com/iphone/chord-note-en/
ChordWeaver
Compose music using advanced harmonic techniques with this app. Explore 3636 chord resolutions and 10 instrument ensembles. It guides you through chord progressions, allowing you to listen, transpose, and save your compositions.
- Modern harmony composition
- 3636 chord resolutions
- 10 instrument ensembles
- Listen to chord resolutions
- Transpose chords
- Save as .chords or .mid
- Mirror to main system
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ChordWeaver is a music composition app based on 5-part modern harmony extensively used in symphonic scores, cinematic soundtracks, jazz chord changes and contemporary songwriting. ChordWeaver offers 3636 chord resolutions/combinations and 10 instrument or ensembles with 1920 sound files. The techniques used include altered chords (or unresolved appoggiaturas), parallel ninths, giant steps, tritone substitutions, bi-tonal ambiguities as well as traditional chord progressions. For some composers ChordWeaver will provide a fast, easy way to work with modern harmony. For other composers it offers a whole new world of possibilities and variations on traditional progressions. For the seasoned pro, it is a huge time saver. Here is how ChordWeaver efficiently guides you through the composition process. You choose your starting chord, and ChordWeaver instantly shows you and lets you listen to multiple resolutions to that chord, traditional ones and more creative, unusual ones. With each subsequent chord choice, the process is repeated. ChordWeaver seamlessly guides you to multiple possible chord options (some you will be familiar with and others you will not have considered), lets you listen to your work in progress, offers the option to transpose up or down and allows you to save your final product as a .chords file or .mid file and export or share it. You can also mirror ChordWeaver on your main system, play back the audio and improvise on your favorite instrument. Likewise, you could import the MIDI file into your sequencer and play back the harmonies using your preferred sample libraries. These chord options in ChordWeaver are the result of decades of studying the scores of the masters in various genres. They reflect the actual use of these chord progressions and resolutions by these composers and are not simply based on purely theoretical considerations.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ChordWeaver at 5.0 against Chord NOTE's 3.0. ChordWeaver also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 62%) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Chord NOTE's advantage is price ($2.99 vs $9.99). On ratings volume, update cadence, 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
Chord NOTE costs $2.99 and ChordWeaver $9.99 up front. Chord NOTE sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ChordWeaver asks for nothing beyond the download.
ChordWeaver holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of Chord NOTE's written reviews are positive against 100% of ChordWeaver's.
Chord NOTE ships an update every 2 months, ChordWeaver every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chord NOTE | ChordWeaver |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 — better | $9.99 |
| Rating | 3.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.1 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 474 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hidenori Matsuoka | Jeannot Welter |
Customer experience
Chord NOTE
ChordWeaver
In-app purchases
Chord NOTE
- Advanced Option$1.99
ChordWeaver
No in-app purchases
Questions
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