Comparison

ChordFanta vs Scouter Synth

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

Head to head
About

ChordFanta

Features
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ChordFanta is the quickest way to find clear guitar chord diagrams. Type a chord name (C, F#m, Bb, G7, Cmaj7, etc.), preview a clean diagram instantly, and get back to playing. Sharps (#) and flats (b) are supported, along with common qualities like minor, 7, maj7, m7, dim, dim7, aug, sus, 6, m6, 9, m9, 11, and 13. Why musicians like it: - Instant search: Type and tap—no menus to navigate. - Clean diagrams: Easy-to-read fingerings at a glance. - Smart coverage: Common roots and qualities, sharps and flats. - Dark mode: Looks great in low light. - Lightweight: No account, no ads, minimal permissions. - Offline friendly: Diagrams are bundled; works without a connection after install.

About

Scouter Synth

Create music with a retro handheld console interface. Compose melodies, add synth sounds or samples, and mix tracks with effects. Perform live with a touch-sensitive pad and punch-in effects.

Highlights
  • Eight-track music composition
  • Multiple synth voices and sample playback
  • On-board effects and mixing console
  • Performance pad for live parameter control
  • MIDI and Bluetooth controller support
  • Import and record audio samples
Features
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ScouterSynth is a music tracker built like a handheld console. Eight tracks, a D-pad, two buttons, and no menus — every operation is a chord you can play with your thumbs. WRITE Phrases of sixteen rows, chains of phrases, and a song made of chains. Write a bassline once and place it four times with different transposes; change it later and every one of those places changes with it. Phrases can be shorter than sixteen rows, so six-eight is as easy as four-four. SOUND A synth voice per track — saw, pulse with PWM, triangle and sine, through a resonant filter and an envelope — or a sample, played whole or sliced. Wavetables for the sounds a plain oscillator cannot make. Per-tick tables for automation that runs faster than a row. SAMPLE Import from anywhere on your phone, or record straight into a slot from the microphone. MP3, AAC, M4A, AIFF and WAV are all converted on the way in. Whatever you choose is copied into your project, so a saved song carries its audio with it. MIX Ten lanes on one screen — eight tracks and two send buses — with level, pan, mute and solo, and three effect slots on each: filter, bitcrush and a tempo-synced delay. Watch the desk as a set of numbers or as ten live traces. PLAY A performance pad wires any two parameters to an X and a Y axis and moves every track at once. A grid of twelve pads holds six punch-in effects — an octave down, tape slow, a stutter, a bitcrush, a high pass and a low pass — held rather than latched, so nothing can be left on by accident, and six one-shot samples to fire over the top. SEE A radar sweep that reads the mix by frequency, a scope on the output, and six palettes to put it all in. INTEGRATE MIDI in and out with clock. A Bluetooth game controller, mapped button by button to whatever pad you own. Export the whole arrangement to a WAV. Songs, samples and exports all sit in the Files app where you can reach them. No accounts. No subscriptions. No network. The manual is inside the app — press SELECT and B on any screen.

Screenshots

ChordFanta3 screens
Scouter Synth4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: ChordFanta at 15.1 against Scouter Synth's 17.0. On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 7 level
ChordFanta versus Scouter Synth: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChordFantaScouter Synth
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYifei LiAndrew Scott

In-app purchases

None

ChordFanta

No in-app purchases

None

Scouter Synth

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ChordFanta free?
ChordFanta is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Scouter Synth free?
Scouter Synth is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ChordFanta or Scouter Synth have ads?
Neither ChordFanta nor Scouter Synth shows ads.

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