Comparison

Chord Progression Manager vs Jazzlore Chords

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ€” 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. โ€” BUILD YOUR PROGRESSION โ€” 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. โ€” PLAY IT BACK โ€” Hear your progression immediately with the built-in synthesizer. Adjust tempo and transpose the entire progression up or down by semitone โ€” no need to rebuild from scratch when you change keys. โ€” SAVE & ORGANIZE โ€” 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. โ€” AI MUSIC ASSISTANT โ€” Stuck on what chord comes next? Ask the built-in AI chat. Get suggestions for chord substitutions, borrowed chords, reharmonization ideas, and more โ€” 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

Jazzlore Chords

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The chords every jazz musician should know, drawn and played. Most chord apps are encyclopedias โ€” thousands of chords, hundreds of variations, an entry for every alteration you'll never use. Jazzlore Chords is the opposite: a focused reference for the chords that actually appear on every page of every real book. The ones you need to recognize on sight, hear in your inner ear, and voice without thinking. Both notations, side by side. Cmaj7 and Cโ–ณ. C-7 and Cm7. We show you both because the jazz world uses both, and pretending otherwise is how students get confused at jam sessions. Audio for every voicing. Tap to hear the chord played cleanly, in a register that lets you sing the changes back. Staff notation. See the chord written out, not just labelled. Reading is part of the practice. Clean, distraction-free interface. Large, legible, dark by default. Made to sit on top of the piano while you work. No accounts, no ads, no tracking, no analytics. The app does one thing โ€” show you the chord, sound the chord, get out of the way. Part of the Jazzlore family of jazz reference apps. Free, open source, ad-free, made for musicians.

Screenshots

Chord Progression Manager4 screens
Jazzlore Chords4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Jazzlore Chords at none against Chord Progression Manager's shown. Jazzlore Chords also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

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

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Chord Progression Manager versus Jazzlore Chords: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChord Progression ManagerJazzlore Chords
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsโ€”
AdsYesNo โ€” better
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.016.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size7 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJun TsudaAurelien Fontaine

In-app purchases

None

Chord Progression Manager

No in-app purchases

None

Jazzlore Chords

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Chord Progression Manager free?
Chord Progression Manager is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Jazzlore Chords free?
Jazzlore Chords is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Chord Progression Manager or Jazzlore Chords have ads?
Chord Progression Manager shows ads; Jazzlore Chords does not.

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