ChordWeave vs Anacru

Your AI songwriting partner. Chords, lyrics, and music theory guidance. ChordWeave helps you write songs: chord progressions for any key and mood, lyrics for your theme and style, and music theory you can hear. The AI runs on your device. PLAY & NAME CHORDS Play on the on-screen keyboard or a connected MIDI keyboard, and ChordWeave names the chord you play. Build a progression by playing, then get suggestions for what comes next in pop, jazz, blues, and more. AI CHORD PROGRESSIONS Pick any of 24 keys and a mood, and get a progression with a tempo and an explanation of why it works. Reorder chords, hear every chord, and see its notes. LISTEN FOR KEY (iOS 27) Play or sing for a few seconds, and ChordWeave detects the key and tempo on your device. LYRIC WRITING AI writes verses, a chorus, and a bridge for your mood, theme, and style, streamed as they are written. Edit and refine them in your library. SONG PROJECTS Arrange a song in sections (intro, verse, chorus, bridge, and more), reorder them, and play the whole song. EXPORT TO YOUR DAW Export any progression as a MIDI file for GarageBand, Logic, or any DAW, or share it as text. MUSIC THEORY REFERENCE Scales and modes in every key, the chords of each scale with Roman numerals, and common progressions. SIRI & SHORTCUTS Ask Siri for a chord progression, or see your recent compositions, without opening the app. 100% PRIVATE — ON-DEVICE AI All AI features use Apple Intelligence and run entirely on your device. Your songs are never uploaded to a server. When Apple Intelligence is not available, ChordWeave uses built-in music theory instead. No account. No sign-up. No tracking. No ads. PREMIUM Free: save up to 3 compositions and 3 sets of lyrics. Premium: unlimited saves, Song Projects, and the Music Workshop with explained progressions. Terms of Use: https://portfolio-legal.pages.dev/terms Privacy Policy: https://portfolio-legal.pages.dev/privacy

Anacru is a scratchpad for constructing advanced rhythm. Most rhythm apps measure time — Anacru builds it. Instead of tapping along to a click, you assemble the rhythm you're hearing in your head from its parts: interlocking meters, tempo modulations, phase shifts, and tuplets nested inside tuplets. Then you play it back, watch it move, and export it to your DAW. Built for composers, drummers, producers, and teachers who work past 4/4 — and for students trying to finally *feel* how these ideas fit together. WHAT YOU CAN BUILD • Polymeter — stack independent layers, each with its own meter, subdivision, accent pattern, and phase offset. Watch 5/4 drift against 4/4 and snap back into alignment, locked to one shared pulse. • Metric modulation — pick the note value before and after a tempo change and get the exact new BPM instantly, with the direction never ambiguous. Chain modulations into a timeline the playback steps through as it loops. • Nested tuplets — put a quintuplet inside a triplet inside a bar. The engine handles the math; you just stack them. • Phase & accents — tap a pulse to accent it, or drag a layer's ring to rotate its phase. The wheel is the instrument. THE INTERACTIVE WHEEL Every layer is a ring of pulses on a single wheel, color-coded and voiced so you can follow each stream by eye and by ear. A playhead sweeps the cycle so you can see the relationships, not just hear them. HEAR IT PROPERLY Each layer gets its own pitch, stereo position, and selectable voice — woodblock, marimba, pluck, sine, or a kick/hi-hat drum kit — so interlocking parts read as separate instruments instead of one wash. SEE IT NOTATED Each layer is rendered on its own staff with correct meter, beaming, accents, and tuplet brackets. TAKE IT WITH YOU • Save and recall your patterns on-device. • Export a MIDI file — a clean tempo map carrying your modulation timeline, plus one track per layer — and drop it straight into any DAW. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No sign-up. No tracking. No internet required. Everything lives on your device. One purchase, yours to keep.