Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro vs Pianolytics
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- AI Harmonic Analysis
- Reharmonize Songs
- Play-along Practice
- Create Harmonic Progressions
- Print/Export Scores
- Study Tonal Harmony Concepts
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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
Pianolytics
Master piano notes and chords with engaging games and tools. Practice specific sections of the piano, explore scales, and generate chord progressions. Track your progress with detailed statistics and share your achievements.
- 25+ games and tools
- Explore 950+ scales
- Practice any piano section
- Master chord patterns
- Learn to read music
- Track progress with heat-map
- Ear training
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Pianolytics is the ultimate educational game to learn the notes and chords on the piano. Pick one of the many games available to you to practice the piano until you have mastered every key and every chord pattern. Customize your experience by selecting which section of the piano you want to practice on. Practice the first keys, a section in the middle, or the entire piano. Many games are available. Choose how you want to train. Learn by simply matching random notes with the keys on the piano, or try something different with the Color Matching game! Learn and master all kinds of chord patterns on the piano with the Name Chord game. Choose which chords you want to practice on any section of the piano, and go at your own pace. You will learn to identify any chord pattern very quickly! Learn how to quickly read notes on a staff in the Staff game. Choose whatever section of the staff you want to practice on, choose the staff type, and start training! Or master the piano and staff at the same time in the Staff and Piano game. Select a key on the piano that matches a note on the staff! Explore scales on the piano with the Scale Explorer game. Choose a root note, pick one of the 950+ different scales available, and start memorizing your scale. Change the color of the notes on the piano to identify intervals easier. Create your own songs on the fly and learn how to play them right away using the Chord Progression generator tool. Any popular chord progression can be generated in any scale you want. Play along to the chords of your progression by using the playback feature to practice the shapes. View your progress as statistics are logged for each key. A heat-map is used to show your progress. Share your progress with your friends! More games and features to come! FEATURES - 30+ different games and tools to practice with. - Explore any of the 950+ musical scales with any root note while customizing the scale how you want! - Train any section of the piano. Choose any range of keys that you want. - Learn and master many kinds of chords on any section of the piano! From simple major and minor triads, to more complicated patterns like diminished sevenths! - Use the Staff game to learn the position of notes on the musical staff. Learn to read music! - Follow your progress by viewing your piano heat-map. Each key has its own statistics. - Symbol chords and nashville number system style. - Solfege, Number, German, Japanese, Indian, Cyrillic, and Korean note notations are supported. - Ear training for notes, intervals, and chords. This version of the application comes with free access to train some keys. All features can be fully unlocked via in-app-purchases. https://www.pianolytics.com/terms/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Pianolytics at Free against Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro's $14.99. Pianolytics also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.1). On review sentiment, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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
Pianolytics 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 Pianolytics sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pianolytics holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 65 and 30 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 49% of Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro's written reviews are positive against 55% of Pianolytics's.
Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro ships an update every 10 days, Pianolytics every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro | Pianolytics |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $14.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.1 (65 ratings) | 4.5 (30 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 49.4% of reviews | 54.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 65 — better | 30 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 280 MB | 78 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MDECKS MUSIC, LLC | Strong Apps LLC |
Customer experience
Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro
Pianolytics
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
Pianolytics
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro
- 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
Pianolytics
- Premium$2.991 Month
- Premium$23.991 Year
- Lifetime$49.99
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