Comparison

ChordBloom vs Aethron

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

Head to head
About

ChordBloom

Features
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ChordBloom turns music theory into a garden. Chords bloom as petals around the key you're in โ€” tap to hear them, wander to neighboring keys, and watch harmony make sense visually. EXPLORE HARMONY BY TOUCH Diatonic chords, the circle of fifths, relative and parallel keys, tritone substitutions, modal interchange โ€” each view lays the theory out as petals you can play. Long-press to cycle extensions (7ths, 9ths, 13ths), choose close, open, or spread voicings, and phrase chords as blocks, strums, or arpeggios. REAL SYNTHESIS, ON DEVICE A full SuperCollider synth engine runs right on your phone alongside classic synth voices โ€” warm pads, plucks, bells, keys, and ambient textures. Every note is synthesized live, and it all works completely offline. AI IMPROVISATION Let the built-in improviser play melodies over your chord changes while you drive the harmony. SAVE YOUR PROGRESSIONS Collect chords into palettes and build progressions you can come back to. MIDI OUTPUT โ€” OPTIONAL UNLOCK Turn ChordBloom into a chord controller for your whole studio: a one-time in-app purchase unlocks BLE MIDI to hardware synths and CoreMIDI to DAWs and other iOS music apps. No account. No ads. No data collected.

About

Aethron

Features
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Aethron is a minimal oscillator instrument for observing sound as waveform. Rather than a full music production app, Aethron is designed as a small sonic device for touching, layering, and reshaping oscillating sound. Add oscillators, tune frequency and amplitude, switch waveforms, invert polarity, sync phases, randomize signal states, and store the sounds you discover. Features * Multiple oscillators * SINE / SAW / TRI / SQR waveforms * Frequency and amplitude control * Fine frequency adjustment * SUM / SPLIT waveform display * RANDOM signal generation * POL +/- polarity inversion * SYNC phase reset * SOLO monitoring * STATES / STORE for saving setups * Automatic restoration of the last oscillator state Aethron is not a conventional synthesizer or a waveform viewer. It is a small instrument for touching invisible vibration through sound and waveform.

Screenshots

ChordBloom3 screens
Aethron3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Aethron at none against ChordBloom's 1. ChordBloom's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.5). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. ChordBloom sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Aethron asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
ChordBloom versus Aethron: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChordBloomAethron
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPad โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 โ€” better26.5
Further details โ€” not scored
Size4 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJames HurlbutNaoto Suetsugu

In-app purchases

1 purchases

ChordBloom

One-time1
  • MIDI Output$4.99
None

Aethron

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ChordBloom free?
ChordBloom is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Aethron free?
Aethron is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ChordBloom or Aethron have ads?
Neither ChordBloom nor Aethron shows ads.

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