ChordBaker vs Calm Loop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ChordBaker
Create professional chord charts quickly and efficiently. This app focuses on harmony-first composition, offering advanced notation and smart rules to ensure accuracy. Ideal for songwriters, educators, and musicians learning new pieces.
- Build chord charts quickly
- Harmony-first workflow
- Advanced notation support
- Transpose instantly
- Smart chord combination rules
- Export to PDF or share editable files
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Build harmony-oriented chord charts faster. Whether you’re writing songs, teaching, arranging, or learning covers, ChordBaker helps you create clean, accurate charts in seconds — with tools designed for musicians who think in chords, not lyrics. Features: • Build chord charts quickly • Harmony-first workflow: lyrics optional • Advanced notation (slash chords, sus/maj/add/altered voicings) • See chord tones at a glance • Choose a key and view chord degrees • Transpose instantly • Smart rules prevent impossible or nonsensical chord combos • Export to PDF or share editable files • Clean, print-ready formatting • Great for practice, teaching, rehearsals, or creating setlists You can also use the free web version (core features included) at ChordBaker.com. By using ChordBaker, you agree to Apple’s Standard Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Calm Loop
This app provides a variety of ambient sounds like white noise, rain, and fan sounds to aid sleep. Users can mix two sounds, set a fade-out timer, and use a gentle night light. It also includes original ambient music and bedtime stories with a Pro unlock.
- Mixable ambient sounds
- Customizable sleep timer
- Background playback
- Lantern night light
- Nursery volume limiter
- Original ambient music
- Bedtime stories
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Calm Loop plays steady sounds for sleep: white noise, rain, fan, brown noise and pink noise. Mix two sounds, set a sleep timer that fades out, and turn the screen off. The sound keeps playing. Some sounds are included. The rest come with Calm Loop Pro, a one-time unlock with no subscription, and every Pro sound has a preview so you can listen first. SOUNDS Rain in the woods, distant thunder, soft vacuum, ocean, wind, airplane cabin, fan breeze, brown noise, pink noise, white noise, forest after dark, gentle heartbeat, rain and fireplace, and a slow breathing rhythm. These are some of the 46 sounds, sorted into Nature, Everyday and Noise. MIX TWO SOUNDS Rain under thunder, a fan with brown noise, ocean with wind. Each layer has its own volume, plus a master volume. Save a mix with a name and it's ready tomorrow night. Mark the ones you use most as favorites. A SLEEP TIMER THAT FADES OUT Pick 15, 30, 45, 60, 90 or 120 minutes, or set your own time. At the end the sound fades out slowly instead of cutting off. KEEPS PLAYING WITH THE SCREEN OFF Calm Loop plays in the background, and you can pause it from the lock screen. LANTERN NIGHT LIGHT Turn the screen into a soft night light. Choose a light style, like a lantern, a candle or a moon lamp, pick a color and set how bright it glows. Useful for a 3am feed or a late trip to the kitchen without switching on a lamp. FOR THE NURSERY Set a maximum volume in settings, so the sound in the baby's room stays at or below the level you picked. MUSIC, STORIES AND WINDING DOWN Original ambient music for bedtime, plus bedtime stories and short relaxation scripts, read aloud. The stories and relaxation scripts come with Calm Loop Pro. MAKE IT YOURS Record a sound you already know, like your own fan at home, trim it and use it in a mix. A bedtime reminder on the weekdays you choose tells you when it's time to start winding down. WORKS OFFLINE Every sound comes with the app, so it plays without a connection, on a plane or in a room with bad signal.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: ChordBaker at daily against Calm Loop's every 6 weeks. ChordBaker also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. ChordBaker sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Calm Loop sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for ChordBaker against 5.0 for Calm Loop. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
ChordBaker ships an update daily, Calm Loop every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.
| Parameter | ChordBaker | Calm Loop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 181 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tomas Ferrari | Future Software Solutions S.R.L. |
Customer experience
ChordBaker
Calm Loop
In-app purchases
ChordBaker
- ProMonthly$0.991 Month
- ProYearly$8.991 Year
- Johann Sebastian$19.991 Month
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- Johann Sebastian$199.991 Year
- ProLifetime$49.99
Calm Loop
- Calm Loop Pro$3.99
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