Singing Fingers vs Functional Harmony
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Singing Fingers
Create vibrant visual art by fingerpainting with sound. Touch the screen while making a noise, and watch colorful paint appear. Tap the paint to replay the original sound, turning your creations into interactive musical instruments.
- Fingerpaint with sound
- Colorful paint visualization
- Tap paint to replay sound
- Create musical instruments
- Experiment with sounds
- Voice interaction
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Singing Fingers lets you fingerpaint with sound. Just touch the screen while you make a sound, and colorful paint appears. Touch the paint to play back the sound again! You can paint your own musical instrument and play it, play with your voice, experiment with sounds, or create whatever else you can imagine.
Functional Harmony
This music theory app helps users spell chords and scales by entering a root note. It also identifies intervals when two notes are provided. Learn music theory concepts quickly and easily.
- Spell chords
- Spell scales
- Identify intervals
- Enter root note for chords/scales
- Enter two notes for interval identification
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Functional Harmony is a fast music theory desk for players and students. Build chords and scales from a root and quality. Identify harmony from notes. Or just Ask—type a chord, scale, or note stack in plain English and jump straight to the answer. SCALE FINDER • Choose a root and scale quality—major, minor, modes, pentatonic, and more • See every degree spelled clearly for practice and ear training • Perfect when you need a quick scale finder without flipping textbooks CHORD BUILDER & CHORD ID • Spell major, minor, sevenths, suspended, augmented, diminished, and more • Stack notes in the Notes tab to identify chords and intervals (reverse lookup) • Piano-friendly note entry with accidentals—great as a chord identifier ASK • Natural-language queries: “C major 7”, “F# dorian”, “C E G” • Live preview before you open Chords, Scales, or Notes • Built for homework, rehearsals, and songwriting sessions WHY FUNCTIONAL HARMONY • Chords, scales, and note identification in one app • Clean, bottom-anchored controls designed for one-handed practice • No accounts, no clutter—just theory when you need it Whether you call it a scale finder, chord identifier, or harmony lab, Functional Harmony keeps tonal music theory at your fingertips.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Functional Harmony at Free against Singing Fingers's $0.99. Functional Harmony also leads on rating (4.9 vs 3.5) and review sentiment (83% vs 47%). Singing Fingers's advantage is chart position (#199 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 18.0). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Functional Harmony is free to download; Singing Fingers costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Functional Harmony holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 24 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 47% of Singing Fingers's written reviews are positive against 83% of Functional Harmony's.
Singing Fingers ships an update every 96 months, Functional Harmony every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Singing Fingers | Functional Harmony |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.5 (10 ratings) | 4.9 (24 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 47.4% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 24 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 96 months | Every 6 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #199 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Beginner's Mind | Dylan Shade |
Customer experience
Singing Fingers
Functional Harmony
In-app purchases
Singing Fingers
No in-app purchases
Functional Harmony
No in-app purchases
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