Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro vs MelodyMode
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
MelodyMode
An audio-based memory and ear training game that challenges you to identify musical notes and sequences by ear. Customize your practice with specific pitches and sequence lengths, or follow a guided path through scales and triads to earn badges and track your progress.
- Listen and identify notes by ear
- Customizable note selection and sequence length
- Guided pathways for scales and triads
- Progress tracking with XP and badges
- Cross-device progress syncing with free account
- Guest play option
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MelodyMode is a audio-based memory game and ear training built around one simple loop: listen, identify, repeat. Every session plays a short sequence of notes for you to name by ear — no sheet music, no theory lecture, just focused listening practice that fits into a coffee break. Choose which notes to include and how long each sequence gets, and MelodyMode paces the challenge to match, from quick 3-note warm-ups to longer melodic phrases. FIND YOUR NOTES Pick the pitches you want to work on, set how many appear per challenge, and go — perfect for isolating the intervals or notes that trip you up. CLIMB THE SCALE PATHWAY Prefer structure? Work through a guided path of triads and scales, unlocking new levels as your ear improves. Each pathway ends in a badge — a real marker of a skill you've built, not just a checkbox. TRACK REAL PROGRESS Every note and scale you practice earns XP toward your own leveling curve. Create a free account to sync your progress, levels, and badges across every device you own — or skip the account entirely and play as a guest. Whether you're a beginner learning the scales from scratch, a working musician sharpening relative pitch, or just looking for a fun audio-based memory game, MelodyMode meets you at your level and grows with you. MelodyMode is free to play, supported by ads. Upgrade to Premium anytime to remove ads and unlock premium features. Subscription Terms: By subscribing to MelodyMode Premium (monthly or yearly, auto-renewing), you agree to our Terms of Use (https://levelupmathllc.com/melodymode/terms) and Privacy Policy (https://levelupmathllc.com/melodymode/privacy).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: MelodyMode at 100% against Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro's 49%. MelodyMode also leads on price (Free vs $14.99) and rating (5.0 vs 4.1). Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (65 vs 2). On update cadence, 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
MelodyMode 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 MelodyMode sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
MelodyMode holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro has 65 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 49% of Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro's written reviews are positive against 100% of MelodyMode's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro | MelodyMode |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $14.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.1 (65 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 49.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 65 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| 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 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 280 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MDECKS MUSIC, LLC | Level Up Math LLC |
Customer experience
Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro
MelodyMode
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
MelodyMode
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
MelodyMode
- MelodyMode Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
- MelodyMode Premium Yearly$53.001 Year
Questions
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