ChordMapMidi vs Chordopia
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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!
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 review sentiment: Chordopia at 100% against ChordMapMidi's 53%. Chordopia also leads on ratings volume (60 vs 5) and device support (3 vs 1). ChordMapMidi's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, update cadence, 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
ChordMapMidi costs $3.99 and Chordopia $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ChordMapMidi holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chordopia has 60 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 53% of ChordMapMidi's written reviews are positive against 100% of Chordopia's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
ChordMapMidi ships an update every 8 months, Chordopia every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on September 7, 2026 and August 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ChordMapMidi | Chordopia |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | $3.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better | 4.7 (60 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 52.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 60 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 7 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #200 | #185 — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Malcolm Mugglin | Waxing Wave |
Customer experience
ChordMapMidi
Chordopia
In-app purchases
ChordMapMidi
No in-app purchases
Chordopia
No in-app purchases
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