Comparison

PulseMaster vs Chord Progression Lab

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

Head to head
About

PulseMaster

This rhythm trainer offers four distinct modes to hone your timing and internal metronome. Practice strumming patterns, subdivisions, and custom beat accents with visual aids and adjustable silent bars. All features are unlocked and available offline.

Highlights
  • Silent bars for internal metronome practice
  • Visual strumming pattern training
  • Rhythm pyramid for subdivision mastery
  • Customizable beat pattern design
  • Offline functionality
  • No sign-up required
Features
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Train your inner metronome. Pulse Master is a free rhythm trainer with four modes that help you practice timing and rhythm specifically. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no ads—just open it and practice. SILENT BARS Test your internal metronome. The click plays a few bars, then it stops — you continue playing on your own. When it starts again, you’ll immediately hear whether you stayed in time. Choose freely which bars are loud and which are silent. STRUMMING PATTERNS Internalize strumming patterns by visualizing them. Arrows or DUs show you downstrokes and upstrokes, mutes, and rests. Work in eighths or sixteenths, save your favorite patterns as presets. RHYTHM PYRAMID Climb through subdivisions — quarter notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes, tuplets up to septuplets. The pyramid automatically changes step by step so you can learn to embed subdivisions cleanly into the beat. BEAT PATTERN Design your own accent patterns. Configurable per beat, with different subdivisions per beat. ALSO • Everything stored locally on your device, no sign-up required • Anonymized usage statistics via Amplitude (EU servers), without tracking COMPLETELY FREE Pulse Master is 100% free — no in-app purchases, no subscription, no ads. All modes are unlocked from the start. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://repetude.com/privacy

About

Chord Progression Lab

Features
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Chord Progression Lab turns music theory into a sandbox. Pick a key. Pick a style. Listen. Tweak. Export. That's the whole loop — and it's surprisingly addictive whether you're a songwriter looking for your next progression, a producer hunting for a starting MIDI, a music student studying voice leading, or just a curious listener who wants to know what a Phrygian dominant actually sounds like. 25+ music-theory approaches, from familiar to far-out: • Pop, Doo-Wop, Pachelbel's Canon, Circle of Fifths • 12-Bar Blues and Jazz • Rock and Punk power-chord progressions • Epic Minor and Andalusian cadences • Indian Raga (Bhairav), Arabic Maqam (Hijaz), East Asian Gōng pentatonic • Japanese Hirajōshi, Indonesian Gamelan (Slendro) • Klezmer Freygish, Flamenco Phrygian, Celtic Mixolydian, Slavic minor • Bulgarian 7/8 Balkan, West African Highlife • Bossa Nova, Reggae, Hawaiian slack key • Avant-Garde quartal stacks and tone clusters All 12 keys. Transpose any progression — instantly. Dissonance dial. Great for ear-training, jazz studies, or just hearing how a vanilla I–V–vi–IV mutates when you add tension. Tempo control. Drag from a slow 40 BPM crawl to a 200 BPM sprint. Each style starts at a tempo that fits the genre. See it as you hear it. A piano keyboard lights up with the active chord tones in real time, and the chord sequence scrolls along showing Roman numerals and the actual chord name in the current key. Export MIDI. One tap saves a standard MIDI file you can drop into any DAW — and the share sheet sends it anywhere: AirDrop, Files, email, Messages. No accounts. No ads. No tracking. No internet required. Everything runs on-device with a built-in synthesizer. Whether you're studying theory, writing a song, prototyping a beat, or just curious what a Bulgarian 7/8 progression sounds like — Chord Progression Lab gets you from idea to audio in two taps.

Screenshots

PulseMaster4 screens
Chord Progression Lab2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: PulseMaster at Free against Chord Progression Lab's $0.99. PulseMaster also leads on iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.5). Chord Progression Lab's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4). On 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

PulseMaster is free to download; Chord Progression Lab costs $0.99 up front. PulseMaster sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Chord Progression Lab asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
PulseMaster versus Chord Progression Lab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPulseMasterChord Progression Lab
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.6 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDavid SchulzeDavid Mickey

In-app purchases

4 purchases

PulseMaster

One-time4
  • Small Tip$0.99
  • Nice Tip$2.99
  • Generous tip$4.99
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  • Huge tip$9.99
None

Chord Progression Lab

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PulseMaster free?
PulseMaster is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Chord Progression Lab free?
Chord Progression Lab costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do PulseMaster or Chord Progression Lab have ads?
Neither PulseMaster nor Chord Progression Lab shows ads.

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