Comparison

Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro vs Pathways to Parker

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

Head to head
About

Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro

This comprehensive music theory tool helps musicians analyze, reharmonize, and create music. It offers AI-powered harmonic analysis, play-along practice, and score printing. Ideal for students, performers, composers, and teachers.

Highlights
  • AI Harmonic Analysis
  • Reharmonize Songs
  • Play-along Practice
  • Create Harmonic Progressions
  • Print/Export Scores
  • Study Tonal Harmony Concepts
Features
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Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro is the most INNOVATIVE and EXTENSIVE music tool for musicians out there. This app is invaluable for students of all levels, as well as professional performers, composers, arrangers, and teachers. There are plenty video tutorials and an online manual accessible within the app. The ANALYZER ADD-ON is here! An A.I. tool like no other. The Analyzer can do an entire harmonic analysis of any song/piece from a text file. Finds key centers, pivot chords, secondary dominants, modulations, etc. Import MusicXml files directly from iReal Pro Play-along, Practice Improvisation. Reharmonize any song with the tap of a button. Create 12-keys workouts to practice. Study Target Notes and Upper Structures. Print Scores with Full Harmonic Analysis, or just as the chord changes or Export as MIDI. Play-along in different styles with the option to personalize chord voicings, styles including several piano comping, bass lines and rhythm variations to choose from. The only play-along that uses functions and chord-chordscales pairings to create the accompaniment track. Map templates with different styles from Jazz to Traditional Harmony and Contemporary Harmony. The app comes loaded with jazz workouts, jazz harmony, traditional harmony and jazz standard progressions. Also available on mDecks.com ready to import into the app: 1000+ Jazz Standards Progressions, 1000+ Jazz Standards Reharmonized and The complete Bird Bebop Progressions. All fully analyzed by savvy musicians with tons of experience. Study Tonal Harmony like never before! Learn all functions and cadences in all keys. Write your own music using a map that reveals the secrets of tonality. Use it as a Fake Book on your gig or Practice Improvisation. You can do all this and much more with Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro. You will not find anything like this on the market today. This app is a no-brainer for musicians and music teachers. Some reviews of Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro: "...This app wins our strongest recommendation for an app so far." - Berklee Groove "...an app that blew my mind." NoteTreble "If only Brian Wilson had this music app when he ..." - FeedmyApp "I've been looking for a harmony/chords/tonal app that is functional, deep enough, and with a great interface. Well, I'm not looking any further. This app just blew me away... " - KVR "...an App I’d never teach high school (or college) music theory without!" "An innovation beneficial to students, teachers, and composers alike..." - NoBrainerAppReviews So, what can you do in Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro? • Create Harmonic Progressions and Songs. • Load Chord Progressions, Songs & Jazz Standards. • Study Harmony from the Beginning, to the most Advanced concepts used by Bach, Beethoven, Bill Evans and John Coltrane. • Practice Ear Training and Learn Functions in every Key • Practice Improvisation using it as a Play Along • Study Jazz Standards • Study Classical Pieces • Learn Classical Functional Notation • Learn Jazz Functional Notation and Arrows and Brackets Analysis • Study Modulations: Common Tone, Common Chord & Direct • Learn ALL harmonic functions and cadences in ALL Keys in Major and Minor • Chord-Scales for every function • Learn classical concepts such as the Neapolitan 6, the German augmented six, secondary dominants, etc • Learn jazz concepts such as the SubV7, the related IIm7, the passing half diminished, etc • Create and Print Scores & Workout Sheets in any key, notated as Chord Progression and/or Functionally • Transpose the Map to fit your instrument’s transposition • Balance voices independently and concentrate in the study of Bass-Lines, Inner-Lines and any other combinations • Work in THREE different modes: Browse Mode, Progression Mode, Audio Mode • Create Progressions using Song Structure with Section, Repeats, Intros, First Endings and Exits • Teach your Harmony Class with ease using your favorite audio tracks, performers and composers

About

Pathways to Parker

Explore melodic patterns for jazz improvisation organized by chord. This educational tool provides solo material for musicians to enhance their playing over various chord changes. Designed for treble clef instruments.

Highlights
  • Organized solo material by chord
  • Melodic patterns for improvisation
  • Treble clef instrument focus
  • Charlie Parker solo analysis
  • Chord change application
Features
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This app was created to organize the solo material of 60 Charlie Parker solos by the chord over which he played. The app is meant for the jazz soloist to have melodic material to use on any given chord change. Treble Clef Instruments

Screenshots

Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro4 screens
Pathways to Parker3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro at 49% against Pathways to Parker's 0%. Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months). Pathways to Parker's advantage is price (Free vs $14.99) and rating (4.4 vs 4.1). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Pathways to Parker is free to download; Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro costs $14.99 up front. Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Pathways to Parker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pathways to Parker holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro has 65 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 49% of Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro's written reviews are positive against 0% of Pathways to Parker's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro ships an update every 10 days, Pathways to Parker every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro versus Pathways to Parker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMapping Tonal Harmony ProPathways to Parker
Price$14.99Free — better
Rating4.1 (65 ratings)4.4 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews49.4% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings65 — better7
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size280 MB62 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMDECKS MUSIC, LLCTerry Rowlyk

Customer experience

Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro

All ratings65 ratings
Positive73.8%
Neutral7.7%
Negative18.5%
Written reviews237 reviews
Positive49.4%
Neutral6.8%
Negative43.9%

Pathways to Parker

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro

Reported bugs

20 issues
  • App crashes on play button press
  • Crashes when touching chords on map or staff
  • Voicing keyboard not showing during playback
  • Transposition not working properly
  • Repeat signs non-functional on iOS
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  • Reharmonize feature crashes the app
  • Settings not saving between sessions
  • Chord edits not persisting after saving
  • Audio output distorted or missing
  • Import analysis creates single-line songs
  • Analyzer feature requires repurchase
  • Background activity causing excessive battery drain
  • MIDI out crashes the application
  • Restore purchases not working
  • App freezes on startup or during use
  • Slash chords not functioning properly
  • Chords disappearing in secondary dominant mode
  • Modulation entry causing error messages
  • Audio playback not syncing with visual elements
  • Tiny play button difficult to activate

Requested features

20 requests
  • Simpler, more intuitive user interface redesign
  • In-app written manual and better documentation
  • Pause button in playback controls
  • Easier loop and measure selection functionality
  • Support for more time signatures beyond 4/4 and 3/4
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  • Ability to import XML files from iRealPro
  • Metronome integrated into play-along
  • Drum volume control
  • Virtual MIDI output for inter-app communication
  • Ability to edit and customize jazz standards
  • Export to PDF and image formats
  • Split-screen iPad support
  • Sync between iPhone and iPad via iCloud
  • More rhythm styles and variations
  • Rootless chords information
  • Simple chord input panel like iRealPro
  • Better guitar fretboard and voicings
  • Ukulele chords and custom tunings
  • Melody line addition capability
  • Lead-in bar customization

Pathways to Parker

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro

One-time5
  • The Analyzer$5.99
  • Target Notes$6.99
  • Upper Structures$6.99
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  • 1000+ Jazz Standards$9.99
  • Bird Bebop Progressions$9.99
1 purchases

Pathways to Parker

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$12.99

Questions

Is Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro free?
Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro costs $14.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Pathways to Parker free?
Pathways to Parker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro or Pathways to Parker?
Pathways to Parker is rated higher. Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro averages 4.1 out of 5 from 65 ratings, while Pathways to Parker averages 4.4 from 7 ratings.
Do Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro or Pathways to Parker have ads?
Pathways to Parker shows ads; Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro does not.
Which is updated more often, Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro or Pathways to Parker?
Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro ships an update every 10 days, and Pathways to Parker every 2 months. Most recently, Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro was updated on October 29, 2026 and Pathways to Parker on October 24, 2026.

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