Comparison

Chord Progression Manager vs Cantus

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

Head to head
About

Chord Progression Manager

Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Chord Progression Manager4 screens
Cantus3 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Chord Progression Manager versus Cantus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChord Progression ManagerCantus
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJun TsudaJason Zachariah

In-app purchases

None

Chord Progression Manager

No in-app purchases

None

Cantus

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Chord Progression Manager free?
Chord Progression Manager is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cantus free?
Cantus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Chord Progression Manager or Cantus have ads?
Chord Progression Manager shows ads; Cantus does not.
Which is updated more often, Chord Progression Manager or Cantus?
Chord Progression Manager ships an update every 4 months, and Cantus every 5 days. Most recently, Chord Progression Manager was updated on October 25, 2026 and Cantus on November 5, 2026.

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