Air Melody vs Chordopia
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Air Melody
This app allows users to create music using their device's motion and on-screen controls. Explore various tones and effects to craft unique melodies. It offers intuitive pitch and dynamics manipulation for a creative musical experience.
- Motion-based pitch and dynamics control
- Multiple instrument tones
- Adjustable echo effects
- Pitch correction options
- On-screen wheel for octave control
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Dynamics control: - Tilt your iPhone to forward 45deg: ff Pitch control: - Rotate your iPhone to clockwise or counterclockwise 1oct per half rotation(counterclockwise 90deg, clockwise 90deg). Range: 1oct - Rotate big wheel in the screen 1oct per half rotation. Range: 8oct Tone: t: Theremin o: Ondes Martenot s: Strings h: Harmony v: Vox c: Synth Cat Effect: 0: no effect s: Short Echo l: Long Echo vl: Very Long Echo Correct (Pitch correction): 0: no correction s: soft m: middle h: hard
Chordopia
This app helps musicians find guitar, ukulele, and mandolin chords. Input a chord name to see diagrams and hear its sound, or create a diagram to identify the chord. It supports custom tunings and generates voicings dynamically.
- Chord diagram generation
- Chord identification from diagrams
- Sound playback for chords
- Support for alternate and custom tunings
- Dynamic voicing search
- Extensive chord type library
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Chordopia is a chord finder for guitar, ukulele, and mandolin. Highlights: - It works both ways! You can enter a chord name and Chordopia will show you chord diagrams for many different voicings of that chord. Or you can do the reverse: drag the dots in the chord diagram to different frets, and Chordopia will tell you what the new chord is called. - Sound — Chordopia not only shows you a chord diagram for each voicing, but also lets you hear how it sounds. - Supports alternate tunings such as drop-D and DADGAD, as well as arbitrary custom tunings. - Chordopia is not a fixed chord book of predefined chord diagrams. Instead, it works by searching through all possible combinations of finger positions on your instrument to find the ones that produce the chord you want, all in a fraction of a second. It then ranks them based on how easy they are to play and how good they sound, and shows you the best ones first. - Chordopia knows more than 50 chord types for each of the 12 root notes for a total of more than 600 chords, not counting variants with an out-of-chord alternate bass. The number of voicings varies by chord, instrument and tuning; for example, for a 12-fret guitar in standard tuning, there are more than 100,000 distinct voicings to discover.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Chordopia at 4.7 against Air Melody's 1.0. Chordopia also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 60%) and ratings volume (60 vs 1). Air Melody's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 7 months) and price ($1.99 vs $3.99). On ads, 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
Air Melody costs $1.99 and Chordopia $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Chordopia holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chordopia has 60 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Air Melody's written reviews are positive against 100% of Chordopia's.
Air Melody ships an update every 3 months, Chordopia every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and August 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Air Melody | Chordopia |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 4.7 (60 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 60 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #185 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Masao Suzaki | Waxing Wave |
Customer experience
Air Melody
Chordopia
In-app purchases
Air Melody
No in-app purchases
Chordopia
No in-app purchases









