Comparison

Acchordion vs Cantus

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

Head to head
About

Acchordion

This app helps you learn seventh chords by listening to you play or sing. It provides immediate feedback to ensure you're practicing correctly, making it easier to read music, learn songs, improvise, and write your own. Master these essential chords to enhance your musical skills.

Highlights
  • Listens to instrument or vocal input
  • Identifies played notes
  • Matches four notes in a chord
  • Filters chords by root note
  • Filters chords by family
  • Provides immediate feedback
Features
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Acchordion is a quiz app for learning seventh chords. Acchordion works by listening to you play your instrument (or sing) into the microphone of your device and identifying the notes you play. Match all four notes in a chord to move on to the next one. You can filter chords by their root note (e.g. C or A-flat) or by chord family (e.g. major or dominant). Why learn seventh chords? Seventh chords are the foundation of jazz and are also common in pop music. Knowing seventh chords will help you: * read music from a lead sheet * learn to play new songs more easily * make new arrangements of songs you already know * improvise over a particular song * write your own songs Acchordion is a fun way to learn these chords! It provides immediate feedback, so you can be confident that you’re practicing the right notes. Once you’ve mastered these basic chords, you’ll be ready to play like a pro!

About

Cantus

This interactive tool helps musicians explore harmony and chord voicings on a virtual piano. It allows users to visualize how notes move within chords, understand modal relationships, and develop a feel for harmony through focused practice.

Highlights
  • Interactive chord and voicing exploration
  • Piano keyboard visualization
  • Modal and scale-based harmony practice
  • Voice-leading movement analysis
  • Tone.js audio playback
  • Account-free operation
Features
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Cantus - Voicing Lab is an interactive harmony and chord-voicing tool by Nathaniel School of Music for pianists, composers, producers, and music theory students. Explore how notes move inside chords, hear voicings in context, and study color, tension, and modal relationships from the keyboard. Cantus is designed as a focused practice lab: pick a sound, inspect the voice leading, and build intuition for how harmony feels under your hands. FEATURES * Interactive chord and voicing explorer * Piano keyboard visualization * Modal and scale-based harmony practice * Voice-leading movement and pinboard-style comparison * Tone.js audio playback * Self-hosted fonts and bundled web assets * Works without an account BY NATHANIEL SCHOOL OF MUSIC Built for practical harmony learning, composition practice, and deeper chord fluency.

Screenshots

Acchordion4 screens
Cantus3 screens

Verdict

The call

Acchordion and Cantus are too close to call on the numbers: across 8 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and ads among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Acchordion against 5.0 for Cantus. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Acchordion versus Cantus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAcchordionCantus
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequency—Every 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size0 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOojoo Studio, LLCJason Zachariah

In-app purchases

None

Acchordion

No in-app purchases

None

Cantus

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Acchordion free?
Acchordion is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cantus free?
Cantus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Acchordion or Cantus?
Acchordion and Cantus are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Acchordion or Cantus have ads?
Neither Acchordion nor Cantus shows ads.

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