CrossChords vs MingScorify
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
CrossChords
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Level up your ear training with CrossChords β Ear Trainer, the only app that mixes crossword-style chord puzzles with professional ear-training tools. Whether you're a beginner learning intervals or an advanced musician refining complex chord recognition, CrossChords gives you a fun, structured way to grow. What Youβll Find Inside β’ Crossword-like grids built from real chord audio β’ Practice modes for intervals, chords, scales, and progressions β’ Guided ear-training courses with increasing difficulty β’ Daily challenges & progress tracking β’ High-quality audio samples for accurate learning β’ Shared premium across CrossChords and PTK β Tuner & Metronome Perfect For β’ Musicians, producers, students, singers, guitarists, pianists, and anyone who wants to improve their musical ear. β’ Daily training sessions, practice routines, or fun musical breaks. Boost your aural skills, improve your musical intuition, and make practice enjoyable with CrossChords. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
MingScorify
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Ming Scorify is a staff notation editor and score management app designed for piano learning, composition, teaching, and practice. You can create piano grand staff scores directly on your phone or tablet, and quickly enter notes, rests, chords, lyrics, dynamics, slurs, ties, pedals, repeat markings, octave shift markings, tempo terms, and other commonly used musical symbols through the score area, virtual piano, and editing panels. Built-in playback helps you listen while writing, review while editing, and confirm changes instantly. The app includes professional score file management features. You can save, open, rename, duplicate, tag, filter, and access recently opened local scores. Ming Scorify supports MusicXML import and export, making it easy to exchange scores with other notation software. It also supports exporting high-resolution images and PDFs, or sharing sheet music for lessons, practice, printing, and communication. The biggest highlight of Ming Scorify is its professional βscore truth + layout overridesβ file structure. Score content is stored as standard MusicXML, while layout adjustments are recorded separately. This allows the same score to maintain consistent pagination, line breaks, and page layout across phones, tablets, previews, image exports, and PDF exports, instead of changing the score structure simply because the screen size is different. Compared with many score tools that focus only on editing or file management, Ming Scorify emphasizes a complete workflow from creation, editing, playback, organization, and export, bringing a more reliable piano score production experience to mobile devices.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MingScorify at none against CrossChords's 2. MingScorify also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs monthly). CrossChords's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17). On price and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. CrossChords sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 3 months. MingScorify asks for nothing beyond the download.
CrossChords ships an update monthly, MingScorify every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 12, 2026 and August 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CrossChords | MingScorify |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 days β better |
| Ads | Yes | No β better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No β better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod β better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 β better | 17 |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 78 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Robert Mengual | Beijing Zhiyue Qiming Technology Co., Ltd |
In-app purchases
CrossChords
- Quarterly Subscription$2.993 Months
- Annual Subscription$6.991 Year
MingScorify
No in-app purchases





