Acchordion vs Cantus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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!
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
| Parameter | Acchordion | Cantus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 0 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Oojoo Studio, LLC | Jason Zachariah |
In-app purchases
Acchordion
No in-app purchases
Cantus
No in-app purchases









