Comparison

Music Tutor Plus vs ChordDeck

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Music Tutor Plus

Master sheet music and enhance your sight-reading abilities. Practice identifying musical notes across various clefs with timed or untimed sessions. Review your performance to track progress and correct mistakes.

Highlights
  • Learn sheet music identification
  • Improve speed and accuracy
  • Practice treble, bass, and alto clefs
  • Timed and untimed sessions
  • Mistake review and progress tracking
  • Customizable note practice range
  • MIDI keyboard support
  • Companion Apple Watch app
Features
Currently charting
Read full description

Learn to read sheet music and improve your sight-reading skills with Music Tutor. Develop your speed and accuracy in reading sheet music by identifying music notes in timed sessions. Choose to practice with notes in treble, bass and alto clefs in timed or untimed sessions. After each test, you can review your mistakes and see your progress. Other features of Music Tutor include: • Custom Practice Range - Set your own range of notes that you want to practice with. • Supports notes up to 4 ledger lines above or below the staff on any of the clefs. • Notes Reference Charts - For Treble, Bass and Alto clefs. • MIDI Support - Connect your keyboard or digital piano using Lightning to USB Camera Adapter and respond directly from your instrument. • Companion Apple Watch app using which you can practice recognising music notes on the go.

About

ChordDeck

This app provides jazz chord flashcards for musicians to practice chord recall. It displays chord symbols, tones, formulas, and keyboard highlights, with audio playback. Users can mark difficult cards for later review.

Highlights
  • Practice jazz chord qualities
  • Circle-of-fourths or random root order
  • Continuous or one-pass practice sessions
  • View chord tones, formulas, and keyboard highlights
  • Built-in audio playback
  • Mark and review difficult cards
  • Local storage for settings and marked cards
Features
Read full description

ChordDeck is a compact flashcard app for practicing jazz chord recall. Choose the roots and chord qualities you want to drill, then move through a focused deck one card at a time. Each card starts with a chord symbol so you can recall the answer mentally or on your instrument before revealing the details. Reveal a card to check the chord tones, a short formula, a compact piano keyboard highlight, and built-in audio playback. Mark difficult cards during practice and review them again later from the first screen. ChordDeck is designed for musicians who already know basic chord concepts and want a fast, repeatable way to build fluency. It keeps practice visual and direct instead of turning each session into a lesson page. Features: - Practice common jazz chord qualities across selected roots. - Follow circle-of-fourths root order or use random card order. - Choose one-pass sessions or continuous practice. - Reveal chord tones, formulas, and compact keyboard highlights. - Hear chord tones followed by the full chord. - Mark difficult cards and review them in a focused deck. - Use swipe navigation, previous and next controls, and timed autoplay. - Keep practice settings and marked cards stored locally on your device. ChordDeck is useful for jazz students, pianists, guitarists, bassists, arrangers, and other musicians who want quicker recognition of chord symbols, tones, and formulas.

Screenshots

Music Tutor Plus4 screens
ChordDeck4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: ChordDeck at 5.0 against Music Tutor Plus's 4.5. ChordDeck also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 82%). Music Tutor Plus's advantage is ratings volume (240 vs 1) and chart position (#154 vs unranked). On ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Music Tutor Plus costs $2.99 and ChordDeck $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ChordDeck holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Music Tutor Plus has 240 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Music Tutor Plus's written reviews are positive against 100% of ChordDeck's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Music Tutor Plus ships an update every 2 months, ChordDeck weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and August 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 2 level
Music Tutor Plus versus ChordDeck: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMusic Tutor PlusChordDeck
Price$2.99$0.99 — better
Rating4.5 (240 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews82.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings240 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
Best chart rank#154 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBijoy ThangarajShinhye Lee

Customer experience

Music Tutor Plus

All ratings240 ratings
Positive85.8%
Neutral7.9%
Negative6.3%
Written reviews292 reviews
Positive82.2%
Neutral6.5%
Negative11.3%

ChordDeck

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Music Tutor Plus

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Sound sometimes stops working
  • Ads still present in paid 'Pro' version

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add support for chords and chord recognition
  • Implement a landscape mode with larger keyboard
  • Allow MIDI input from connected instruments
  • Provide more detailed progress tracking and statistics

ChordDeck

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Music Tutor Plus

No in-app purchases

None

ChordDeck

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Music Tutor Plus free?
Music Tutor Plus costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is ChordDeck free?
ChordDeck costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Music Tutor Plus or ChordDeck?
ChordDeck is rated higher. Music Tutor Plus averages 4.5 out of 5 from 240 ratings, while ChordDeck averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Music Tutor Plus or ChordDeck have ads?
Neither Music Tutor Plus nor ChordDeck shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Music Tutor Plus or ChordDeck?
Music Tutor Plus ships an update every 2 months, and ChordDeck weekly. Most recently, Music Tutor Plus was updated on September 29, 2026 and ChordDeck on August 28, 2026.

Other comparisons