Comparison

Harmony Cloud Pro vs Beat

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Harmony Cloud Pro

This app helps musicians of all levels develop their ear for harmony and improvisation. It generates endless, unpredictable chord progressions based on user-selected chords, allowing for personalized learning and exploration of musical concepts.

Highlights
  • Ear training for musicians
  • Improvisation exploration
  • Generates unpredictable chord progressions
  • Customizable tempo, volume, and key
  • Tailorable to all skill levels
  • Patented harmonic algorithm
Features
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Understanding harmony is an essential skill for any musician. Harmony is the springboard that elevates melodies to their full emotional potential. Harmony Cloud™ is a revolutionary step forward in the world of ear training created by world renowned jazz vibraphonist and music educator Stefon Harris, and software engineer and jazz trombonist Kate Jiang. It is designed to help all musicians, from beginner to professional, expand their ears, deepen their understanding of harmony, and fearlessly explore the world of improvisation. Its underlying patented harmonic algorithm stitches together chords you select into an unending source of unpredictable, yet musical, chord progressions. Harmony Cloud can be tailored to any musician's or teacher’s needs. Chord progressions can range from very simple I, IV, V to progressions that include hundreds of chords. This makes it easy to learn and grow at your own pace. You have control of all aspects of the music including tempo, volume, sounds, key signature, and much more. Privacy Policy: https://harmonycloudmusic.com/privacy Terms & Conditions: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Beat

Develop pitch sensitivity and harmonic awareness through interactive exercises focused on just intonation. Explore intervals and chords, tune by ear, and enhance your musical listening skills in a focused environment. Ideal for musicians seeking to refine their understanding of pure tuning relationships.

Highlights
  • Interactive interval training
  • Chord tuning and harmonic awareness
  • Progressive ear-training exercises
  • Customizable interval and chord building
  • Focus on just intonation
  • Designed for real musical environments
Features
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Core Features Interactive Interval Training Develop sensitivity to pitch relationships by exploring intervals tuned using just intonation. • Hear intervals begin perfectly aligned • Adjust pitch in real time to hear beats appear and disappear • Tune intervals by ear using guided listening exercises • Practice intervals across multiple keys and registers Chord Tuning and Harmonic Awareness Understand how scale degrees shape harmony by exploring chords built from pure tuning relationships. • Major, minor, diminished, and augmented triads • Seventh chords including dominant, major, minor, half-diminished, and fully diminished • Isolate chord tones to hear how each pitch affects resonance • Adjust individual notes to hear chords stabilize or destabilize Challenge Mode Strengthen listening accuracy through progressive ear-training exercises. • Tune intervals by ear with adjustable difficulty levels • Customize time limits and precision targets • Unlock intervals through guided progression • Track improvement and share results with teachers or directors Lab Mode Experiment freely with pitch relationships and harmonic structure. • Build custom intervals, chords, or harmonic textures • Assign independent tuning values to each pitch • Explore consonance, dissonance, and overtone interaction Designed for Real Musical Environments In rehearsals and performances, musicians rarely hear themselves in isolation. Beat-Less Tuning removes ensemble noise and allows you to focus on deliberate listening, helping you build reliable tuning instincts that translate directly into real musical situations. This app is ideal for: • Band and orchestra students • Choir and vocal ensemble singers (especially Straight-Tone singing) • Drum corps and marching musicians • Barbershop and a cappella performers • Music educators and ensemble directors Why Just Intonation? Most modern instruments use equal temperament, which balances pitch across all keys but slightly compromises many intervals. Beat-Less Tuning introduces just intonation, where intervals follow natural harmonic ratios that create clarity, depth, and resonance. The listening skills developed in this app strengthen tuning awareness in any musical tuning system. Built by Musicians and Educators Beat-Less Tuning was created by Grammy Finalist and Recording Academy Music Educator of the Year Jeremy Bradstreet, in collaboration with software developer Noirit Ghosh Choudhuri. Together they combined decades of teaching experience and advanced software design to create a powerful and intuitive listening tool for musicians at every level. Train your ears. Build your sound. Hear music more clearly.

Screenshots

Harmony Cloud Pro3 screens
Beat4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Harmony Cloud Pro at Free against Beat's $4.99. Harmony Cloud Pro also leads on ratings volume (65 vs 3). Beat's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and review sentiment (100% vs 87%). On rating, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Harmony Cloud Pro is free to download; Beat costs $4.99 up front. Harmony Cloud Pro sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Beat asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Harmony Cloud Pro against 5.0 for Beat. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Harmony Cloud Pro has 65 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 87% of Harmony Cloud Pro's written reviews are positive against 100% of Beat's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Harmony Cloud Pro versus Beat: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHarmony Cloud ProBeat
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating5.0 (65 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews86.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings65 — better3
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size194 MB223 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThe Melodic Progression Institute LLCJeremy Bradstreet

Customer experience

Harmony Cloud Pro

All ratings65 ratings
Positive98.5%
Neutral1.5%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive86.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative13.3%

Beat

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Harmony Cloud Pro

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly7 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Annual7 Days trial$59.991 Year
None

Beat

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Harmony Cloud Pro free?
Harmony Cloud Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Beat free?
Beat costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Harmony Cloud Pro or Beat?
Harmony Cloud Pro and Beat are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 65 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Harmony Cloud Pro or Beat have ads?
Neither Harmony Cloud Pro nor Beat shows ads.

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