Guitar Permutation Trainer vs Cantus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Guitar Permutation Trainer
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Guitar Permutation Trainer helps you practice finger permutations across your fretboard with a built‑in metronome and adaptive difficulty. Practicing permutation exercises on instruments like guitar, bass, and piano targets the small, intrinsic muscles of the hand and fingers, such as the lumbricals and interossei. These muscles are responsible for fine motor control, finger independence, and strength. Repetitive, structured movement patterns improve neuromuscular coordination by reinforcing neural pathways between the brain and fingers - a process known as motor learning. According to research in kinesiology and occupational therapy, consistent practice builds endurance and prevents overuse injuries by promoting balanced muscle development. For developing musicians, this foundation is essential for achieving speed, accuracy, and long-term technical reliability without strain.
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
The clearest difference is price: Cantus at Free against Guitar Permutation Trainer's $1.99. Cantus also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.4). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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
Cantus is free to download; Guitar Permutation Trainer costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Guitar Permutation Trainer ships an update every 3 days, Cantus every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Guitar Permutation Trainer | Cantus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Benjamin Chouinard | Jason Zachariah |
In-app purchases
Guitar Permutation Trainer
No in-app purchases
Cantus
No in-app purchases
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