Chord Progression Manager vs Cantus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chord Progression Manager
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Chord Progression Manager is the fastest way to build, play, and save chord progressions on iPhone, putting a live, playable chord lane right in your pocket. — BUILD YOUR PROGRESSION — Pick a root note, chord type, and tension, then add it to your progression with a single tap. Reorder or delete chords freely. Use the voicing editor to fine-tune individual notes on an interactive piano roll and craft exactly the sound you want. — PLAY IT BACK — Hear your progression immediately with the built-in synthesizer. Adjust tempo and transpose the entire progression up or down by semitone — no need to rebuild from scratch when you change keys. — SAVE & ORGANIZE — Save as many progressions as you like and keep your favorites just a tap away. Reopen any saved progression into the editor and keep building. — AI MUSIC ASSISTANT — Stuck on what chord comes next? Ask the built-in AI chat. Get suggestions for chord substitutions, borrowed chords, reharmonization ideas, and more — powered by any OpenAI-compatible endpoint you configure. Chord Progression Manager is free to download and use. AI chat features require your own LLM API key.
Cantus
This interactive tool helps musicians explore harmony and chord voicings on a virtual piano. It allows users to visualize how notes move within chords, understand modal relationships, and develop a feel for harmony through focused practice.
- Interactive chord and voicing exploration
- Piano keyboard visualization
- Modal and scale-based harmony practice
- Voice-leading movement analysis
- Tone.js audio playback
- Account-free operation
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Cantus - Voicing Lab is an interactive harmony and chord-voicing tool by Nathaniel School of Music for pianists, composers, producers, and music theory students. Explore how notes move inside chords, hear voicings in context, and study color, tension, and modal relationships from the keyboard. Cantus is designed as a focused practice lab: pick a sound, inspect the voice leading, and build intuition for how harmony feels under your hands. FEATURES * Interactive chord and voicing explorer * Piano keyboard visualization * Modal and scale-based harmony practice * Voice-leading movement and pinboard-style comparison * Tone.js audio playback * Self-hosted fonts and bundled web assets * Works without an account BY NATHANIEL SCHOOL OF MUSIC Built for practical harmony learning, composition practice, and deeper chord fluency.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Cantus at none against Chord Progression Manager's shown. Cantus also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 4 months) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Chord Progression Manager ships an update every 4 months, Cantus every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chord Progression Manager | Cantus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jun Tsuda | Jason Zachariah |
In-app purchases
Chord Progression Manager
No in-app purchases
Cantus
No in-app purchases
Questions
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