Comparison

Chordality vs Escutando

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

Head to head
About

Chordality

This app helps musicians build chord progressions and sketch song structures quickly. It offers a tactile interface for exploring harmony, generating rhythmic inspiration, and outputting MIDI to external synths and DAWs. Capture ideas on the go and bring them into your studio workflow.

Highlights
  • Chord progression builder
  • Rhythmic inspiration modes
  • Live guitar tabs and piano roll
  • MIDI output to DAWs/synths
  • Chord discovery for various genres
  • Unlimited idea storage
  • Rewind recording functionality
Features
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Chordality is a chord explorer and songwriting app for creatives! Build rich chords, discover new progressions, and sketch song structures in seconds with a tactile, hardware-inspired interface designed for music-making fun. - Explore the Circle of Fifths easily with dozens of augments - Use strum and arpeggio modes for rhythmic inspiration - See instant guitar tabs + Piano roll - Send chords to external synths and music apps with MIDI output - Discover progressions for pop, ambient, electronic, jazz, and more - Store unlimited ideas for free - Rewind recording: Never lose a moment of inspiration ON THE GO Use Chordality on the train or at the park. Think of it as pocket harmony calculator, bubbling with possibility. Then bring your ideas into the studio. WITH YOUR SYNTHS Connect Chordality to any MIDI-compatible DAW or Synth. Works with iOS, iPad OS, Mac OS (M-series), Windows MIDI COMPATIBLE - Bluetooth MIDI / BLE - USB MIDI - Inter-app MIDI - Network MIDI (1.0) - Motion MIDI: Use device tilt to send CC values for expressive performances BUILT-IN ARP - Loads of creative patterns - Swing, Gate and BPM control - Instantly explore harmonic ideas PLAY FOR FREE Chordality is free to use with the built-in sampler. MIDI Output is available as one-off lifetime purchase - no subscriptions, no catch! HARDWARE INSPIRED Chordality is inspired by 80's FM Synths. Controls are tactile, and the UI reflects the state of the app. It's as much a toy and game, as it is an instrument; designed to inspire happy accidents of harmony. A harmonic fidget toy for sketching ideas, and a studio companion for your MIDI devices, Whether you are writing songs, producing tracks, learning harmony, or experimenting with chord movement, Chordality helps you find ideas quickly and stay in the flow. Terms of Use (EULA): https://chordality.app/terms Privacy: https://chordality.app/privacy Support: https://chordality.app/support

About

Escutando

Features
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Thirty thousand radio stations. One app. And an AI that actually understands what you want to hear. Escutando connects you to over 30,000 live radio stations from every corner of the world — organized by country, filtered by genre, and searchable in plain English. Type "something mellow for a Sunday morning" or "high-energy Latin beats" and the AI finds the right station. No menus to dig through. No guessing. Every station comes with an AI-generated cultural briefing: the city it broadcasts from, the community it serves, the music that defines it. It turns a random frequency into a window onto somewhere real. Escutando classifies every stream by audio quality — HD, Standard, or Low — so you always know exactly what you're hearing. Audiophile Mode filters the catalog to only the highest-quality streams. Live ICY metadata surfaces the current song and artist in real time, updating as tracks change, right on your lock screen. The Now Playing screen is built for long sessions: lock screen controls, AirPlay support for speakers and receivers, and a sleep timer with a gentle fade-out. Whether you're working, cooking, or winding down, Escutando stays out of the way. At the end of each month, a personalized listening report reflects back what you explored — hours logged, countries visited, genres favored — with a short AI-written insight that makes the numbers feel like something worth reading. Escutando is completely free. No trial period. No premium tier. No ads anywhere in the app. No subscription, now or ever. It's made possible by a single sponsor — PCA Airworthiness — whose support keeps the experience clean and the catalog open for everyone. The world is on the air. Tune in.

Screenshots

Chordality4 screens
Escutando4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Escutando at none against Chordality's 1. Chordality's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Chordality sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Escutando asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chordality ships an update weekly, Escutando every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Chordality versus Escutando: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChordalityEscutando
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (26 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews92.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings26 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size100 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChordality Pty LtdMarcelo Fernandes

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Chordality

One-time1
  • Lifetime$12.99
None

Escutando

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Chordality free?
Chordality is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Escutando free?
Escutando is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Chordality or Escutando have ads?
Neither Chordality nor Escutando shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Chordality or Escutando?
Chordality ships an update weekly, and Escutando every 5 days. Most recently, Chordality was updated on October 28, 2026 and Escutando on October 25, 2026.

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