Resolve vs Guitar triads
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Resolve
This app offers a structured video course and a practice tool to develop a direct connection between your ear and your instrument. It generates random chord voicings for you to play along with, enhancing musical instincts and harmonic understanding.
- Integrated video course and practice tool
- Random harmonic voicings
- Harmonic complexity slider
- Train real musical instincts
- Designed for use with your instrument
- Complements functional ear training
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Resolve is a powerful ear training system, developed by Tom Quayle and David Beebee, combining a structured video course with a custom practice tool. The course and practice tool are designed to work together: the videos explain the concepts and exercises, while the practice tool generates the harmonic material you use to train your ear on your instrument. Reactive Ear Training focuses on developing a direct connection between your ear, your fingers, and your instrument. Resolve generates random, non-functional chord voicings for you to react to by playing over each chord using the exercises taught in the inlcuded course. The Harmonic Complexity Slider lets you tailor the sounds to your ability, from simpler, more consonant voicings at lower settings to increasingly complex and dissonant sounds at higher settings. Practicing this way strengthens the connection between your ear, your fingers, and your instrument. Over time, this develops stronger musical instincts and a deeper, intuitive understanding of harmony that maps directly to your instrument and translates to real musical situations. Key Features ‣ Created by Tom Quayle and David Beebee Resolve was developed as a complete Reactive Ear Training system, combining a structured video course with a practice tool designed to work together. ‣ Integrated Video Course and Practice Tool The course explains the method and demonstrates the exercises, while the practice tool generates the harmonic material you react to on your instrument. ‣ Random Harmonic Voicings Generate non-functional chord voicings to react to in real time. This approach strengthens the connection between your ear, your fingers, and your instrument. ‣ Harmonic Complexity Slider Tailor the sounds to your ability, from simpler, more consonant voicings at lower settings to increasingly complex and dissonant sounds at higher settings. ‣ Train Real Musical Instincts Resolve is designed to be used without naming or labelling chords, scales, or intervals. By focusing purely on sound, you learn to respond directly on your instrument. With some familiarity of major and minor sounds, you can begin immediately. ‣ Complements Functional Ear Training Designed to support your ongoing study of harmony, scales, chords, and functional ear training. ‣ Designed for Use With Your Instrument Built for active playing, helping connect what you hear directly to movement on your instrument. Resolve works for: ‣ Guitarists ‣ Bassists ‣ Pianists ‣ Any instrumentalist developing their ear Whether you’re improvising, composing, or learning music by ear, Resolve – Reactive Ear Training helps you develop faster and more reliable musical instincts.
Guitar triads
Master guitar chords across the entire fretboard. This app helps intermediate players visualize and practice chord shapes, inversions, and progressions. Learn to connect shapes, understand harmonic color, and improve your playing.
- Learn triads, 6th, and 7th chords
- Visualize chord shapes across the neck
- Practice inversions and progressions
- Guided lessons on chord theory
- Adjustable BPM and metronome
- Full-neck chord reference
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The fretboard gets easier when you can see the small chord shapes inside it. Guitar triads is a practice app for learning triads, 6th chords, and 7th chords across the neck. Not as diagrams to stare at. As shapes you actually drill, hear, and move through in time. If you already know open chords and barre chords, this is the next layer: smaller voicings, cleaner movement, and more options when you comp, write, improvise, or learn songs by ear. Practice one chord everywhere Choose a root, chord quality, and string set. Guitar triads shows you the inversions of that chord across the neck, then cycles through them at your tempo. Use it to stop learning one grip at a time. See where the same chord lives on different string sets and in different positions. Practice chords inside a key Pick a key and work with the chords that belong together. Run the diatonic chords in order, or drill common progressions like I-IV-V, ii-V-I, I-V-vi-IV, and minor-key movements. Stay in one fret range, or move through the neck as you play. Go beyond basic triads Triads are the foundation, but the app does not stop there. Pro includes 6th chords and 7th chords, so you can practice richer voicings and start hearing how those colors fit into real progressions. Guided lessons Use short lessons to understand what you are practicing, not just where to put your fingers. Learn how triad shapes connect, how inversions work, and why the same chord can feel completely different depending on where you play it. Features • Major, minor, diminished, and augmented triads • 6th and 7th chord practice with Pro • Guided lessons — Major & Minor free, all chords with Pro • All 12 keys with Pro • Four three-string sets: 321, 432, 543, 654 • Fret-range presets from open position up to the 15th fret • Common progressions inside each key • Custom progressions with Pro • Note names or Roman numerals • Pentatonic scale overlay • Hint dots for the next shape • Full-neck chord reference • Chord playback and metronome • Adjustable BPM from 40 to 200 • Optional count-in and beat haptics Built for intermediate guitarists This is for players who are tired of the neck feeling like a set of disconnected boxes. Triads help you see the chord tones. 6th and 7th chords give you more harmonic color. Progression drills make the shapes feel musical instead of random. Practice a little every day and the neck starts to open up. Chords become nearby choices, not shapes you have to search for. Free and Pro Start free in the key of C, including guided lessons for Major and Minor triads. Guitar triads Pro includes all 12 keys, 6th chords, 7th chords, guided lessons, custom progressions, fret-range cycling, and the full Key Mode practice system. Available monthly, yearly, or as a one-time lifetime purchase. Privacy Policy: https://triads.app/ios-privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://triads.app/ios-terms-of-service
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Guitar triads at Free against Resolve's $17.99. Guitar triads also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and review sentiment (100% vs 86%). Resolve's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3). On ratings volume, update cadence, ads 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
Guitar triads is free to download; Resolve costs $17.99 up front. Guitar triads sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Resolve asks for nothing beyond the download.
Guitar triads holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of Resolve's written reviews are positive against 100% of Guitar triads's.
Resolve ships an update every 9 days, Guitar triads fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Resolve | Guitar triads |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $17.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 89 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Trio Software Ltd | karlis krauklis |
Customer experience
Resolve
Guitar triads
In-app purchases
Resolve
No in-app purchases
Guitar triads
- Triads PRO Monthly$3.991 Month
- Triads PRO Yearly7 Days trial$23.991 Year
- Triads PRO Lifetime$38.99
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