SnapDecks vs ChordCue
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
SnapDecks
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Study your own notes with an offline flashcard library, spaced review, and mock exams. NEW IN 3.0 Search deck titles, questions, answers, and tags. Export a portable deck-library backup through Files, preview a restore, and preserve the previous library before replacing it. Recover unreadable deck, review, or exam-history files explicitly without silently discarding their originals. STUDY YOUR WAY Use flip-and-grade, multiple choice, typed answers, cloze cards, tags, and custom study sessions. Spaced review uses FSRS-based calculations with app-specific learning steps. Exam Lab builds repeatable practice exams with results and confidence comparisons. Exam Countdown shows model-based recall estimates, not a validated prediction of your exam result. CREATE FROM NOTES Import screenshots or PDFs for on-device text recognition, use CSV/TSV, or enter cards by hand. Compatible Apple Intelligence devices can generate cards with an on-device language model when available. Otherwise, or for longer material, labeled rule-based generation selects usable notes. Check generated cards against the original sources. YOUR LIBRARY Included starter decks cover selected geography, arithmetic, elements, language vocabulary, units, roots, geometry, and music topics. They are introductory study aids rather than complete references. Edit cards and tags, keep review activity, and export decks. BACKUP AND IMPORT DETAILS Deck backups include cards, tags, exam dates, and card schedules. They exclude review history, exam results, reminders, and preferences. Restore replaces the whole deck library after preserving the previous file; separate histories remain unchanged. Backups and recovery exports are unencrypted. Backups: up to 25 MB, 2,000 decks, and 20,000 cards. CSV: up to 10 MB and 20,000 cards. Note extraction: up to 12 sources; images up to 25 MB and 40 megapixels each, 75 MB total; PDFs up to 50 MB and 50 pages each; up to 500,000 extracted characters per deck. No account required. iPhone and iPad.
ChordCue
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ChordCue is an interactive app for learning modern (jazz & pop) chords by **hearing, seeing, and understanding them through scale degrees.** Tap any chord to get instant representations: โข Sound โ block-chord and arpeggio playback โข Keyboard โ chord tones highlighted on a piano with note names and degrees (1, b3, #11, โฆ) โข Staff โ notated on the treble clef with accidentals (flats and double-flats included) โข Guitar โ auto-generated fingering diagrams on a standard-tuning fretboard (browse positions and shapes, plus a minimal-voicing view) Highlights โข 34 chord qualities โ from triads and sevenths to major/dominant/minor extensions and altered tensions โข Four grouping modes โ by type, by note count, by characteristic degree, or diatonic (a key's 7 chords + progression playback) โข Guitar fingering diagrams โ a playable voicing for any chord at every position, with multiple shapes per position to toggle โข Diatonic & progressions โ the 7 chords of the current root as a major/minor key, with iiโVโI and other progressions to play โข Accurate note spelling โ it writes Eb, not D#. Degree-based spelling gives the right note name in context โข Horizontal swipe picker for all 12 roots โ check a chord in any key instantly โข Korean & English, switchable inside the app Built for players and songwriting learners who want to master chord theory systematically.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: ChordCue at Free against SnapDecks's $2.99. ChordCue also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). SnapDecks's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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ChordCue is free to download; SnapDecks costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SnapDecks ships an update every 3 weeks, ChordCue every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SnapDecks | ChordCue |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free โ better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 days โ better |
| Ads | No โ better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod โ better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 13.0 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Robert Corbin | S&T Soft |
In-app purchases
SnapDecks
No in-app purchases
ChordCue
No in-app purchases
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