Comparison

ChordMapMidi vs Latch Tuner

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

Head to head
About

ChordMapMidi

This app is a MIDI controller for exploring musical chords and progressions in major and minor keys. It sends note information to other synthesizer apps on your device, making it a portable tool for musicians and educators.

Highlights
  • Explore chords and progressions
  • Major and minor keys
  • MIDI controller functionality
  • Sends note information to synth apps
  • Portable music tool
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ChordMapMidi allows you to explore chords and chord progressions in both major and minor keys, one finger tap at a time. Note: ChordMapMidi is a MIDI controller. It doesn't create sound on its own. It sends note information to synthesizer apps you have on your device. ChordMapMidi is useful for songwriters, MIDI musicians, music educators... especially in places where the only instrument you have is the phone in your pocket. Have fun exploring chords and progressions!

About

Latch Tuner

Features
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Know the note. Get the numbers. Back to the beat. Ordinary tuners are built for long, sustained notes. Play a one-shot through one and the needle jumps around during the attack, then goes blank before you can read it. Latch Tuner is built for how producers actually work: it skips the attack, measures the body of the sound, and holds the answer on screen after the sample has ended. How it works. You chopped a bass note from an old record and it's fighting your track. Insert Latch Tuner on the channel, trigger the pad once, and it reads: E3 −26.5 ¢ · 324.6 Hz · MIDI 64 Set TARGET to the note you actually want — say C3 — and it does the conversion for you: SEMI −4 · FINE +27 Those are the two numbers your sampler's pitch controls take. Type them in, retrigger, done. No looping the sample into a phone tuner, no guessing against a piano. Two modes. • LATCH — for one-shots, chops, plucks, vocal stabs and 808s. Transient-aware capture holds the reading until you clear it. Capture history keeps your last few results on screen, so you can work through a whole kit without writing anything down. • LIVE — stop switching apps to tune. A straightforward in-line tuner for guitar, synth and voice, docked in a corner of your session. It tells you when it isn't sure. A gliding 808 or a weak fundamental reads as low confidence rather than a confident wrong answer. A chord reads as its root, flagged rather than asserted. Noise and washed-out chops report no clear pitch, because there isn't one. Tap PLAY to hear a reference tone against the sample and decide with your ears — below ~80 Hz the tone adds an octave-up partial so you can hear it on a device speaker. Speaks sampler. Note name, cents, frequency and MIDI note number, plus the SEMI/FINE correction to your chosen target. Samplers disagree about octave numbers, so the readout shows its convention next to every answer — and a C3/C4 toggle matches it to yours. It can't silently put you an octave off. Adjustable reference pitch (440, 432, 442…). Runs where you work. An AUv3 audio effect — use it in AUM, Koala, GarageBand, or any other AUv3 host. Plus a standalone app that listens through the mic. Audio passes through untouched. One-time purchase. No subscription, no ads, no account. Everything is analyzed on-device; nothing is recorded or uploaded.

Screenshots

ChordMapMidi4 screens
Latch Tuner2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Latch Tuner at every 3 weeks against ChordMapMidi's every 8 months. ChordMapMidi's advantage is price ($3.99 vs $4.99). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

ChordMapMidi costs $3.99 and Latch Tuner $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ChordMapMidi ships an update every 8 months, Latch Tuner every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
ChordMapMidi versus Latch Tuner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChordMapMidiLatch Tuner
Price$3.99 — better$4.99
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews52.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.616.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMalcolm MugglinBruno Santos Marinho

In-app purchases

None

ChordMapMidi

No in-app purchases

None

Latch Tuner

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ChordMapMidi free?
ChordMapMidi costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Latch Tuner free?
Latch Tuner costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do ChordMapMidi or Latch Tuner have ads?
Neither ChordMapMidi nor Latch Tuner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ChordMapMidi or Latch Tuner?
ChordMapMidi ships an update every 8 months, and Latch Tuner every 3 weeks. Most recently, ChordMapMidi was updated on October 9, 2026 and Latch Tuner on October 2, 2026.

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