Riffshed vs Reharmonizator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Riffshed
This app helps musicians improve their practice by focusing on deliberate repetition and structured work blocks. It includes a metronome, sheet music viewer, and links to music streaming services, all designed to enhance focused instrumental practice.
- Rep-based practice tracking
- Focus-block timer
- Built-in metronome
- Sheet music integration
- Links to streaming services
- Curated starter libraries
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Riffshed is a practice journal for jazz musicians, built on the card system. See whether you're actually getting better — or just spending more time with the instrument. THREE PHASES. ONE CARD. Every exercise is a card that moves through three phases — Explore, Integrate, Master — each with its own color and rep counter. You decide when a card is ready to move forward; Riffshed remembers when it did and how long it stayed in each phase. REPS, NOT MINUTES A timer rewards sitting with the instrument. A rep counter rewards doing the work: running a phrase through twelve keys, taking a head clean. Minutes are still tracked — but reps are the unit you optimize. FOCUS BLOCKS A 20/5 focus cycle tuned for instrumental practice: twenty minutes on one card, five minutes of mandatory break. Both intervals are configurable; the open-ended mode drops the clock entirely for jams and lessons. START FROM ANYWHERE (new in 1.1) A Home Screen widget starts a session in one tap and shows today's minutes, your streak and the weekly goal. The live timer follows you to the Lock Screen and the Dynamic Island — pause and finish without unlocking; the session saves itself. Map practice to the Action Button, ask Siri, or add a Control Center switch. A METRONOME YOU'LL ACTUALLY USE Full-screen metronome with pendulum, subdivisions and swing. Configure click and accent per beat and per subdivision: silence the "and" of 2, accent any sixteenth, build polyrhythm grids. EVERYTHING LIVES IN THE CARD Notes, target tempo, separate rep counters per phase, PDF sheet music that opens full-screen (pages flip with a swipe while the metronome keeps playing), and one-tap links out to iReal Pro, YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music and more. SEE A YEAR OF WORK A calendar heatmap of your practice. Tap any day to see what you played, for how long, and which cards moved forward. CURATED LIBRARIES TO START Jazz Piano Fundamentals (67 cards ordered by difficulty) and iReal Pro — Essential Standards (30 standards with deep links) are pre-installed. Build your own libraries, or import a curriculum a teacher shared as a single file. YOUR DATA IS YOURS Fully offline. Full JSON backup including scores. Library export and import in one tap. No account, no ads. Free. Built for daily practice — for iPhone and iPad.
Reharmonizator
This app is a professional tool for musicians to create, analyze, and reharmonize chord charts. It offers intuitive chord building, real-time playback with multiple instrument sounds, and melody composition features. Export your musical creations as MIDI files.
- Intuitive chord builder
- Automatic chord detection
- Real-time harmonic analysis
- Jazz reharmonization techniques
- Real-time playback with multiple instruments
- Melody composition and editing
- MIDI export
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Harmonizator is a professional chord chart editor and reharmonization engine for musicians, composers, and jazz students. BUILD YOUR CHART Enter any chord progression using the intuitive chord builder or tap notes on the piano keyboard — the app detects the chord automatically. Supports all chord types: triads, seventh chords, extended harmonies, slash chords, and more. ANALYZE YOUR HARMONY Get instant harmonic analysis of your progression: key detection, Roman numeral notation, chord function (tonic, dominant, subdominant), and II-V-I pair highlighting. REHARMONIZE WITH PROFESSIONAL TECHNIQUES Apply jazz reharmonization tools used by professional arrangers: Secondary dominants Tritone substitution Related II (ii-V) Modal interchange Bass change & inversions Hybrid / polychords Chromatic approach Parallel voicing Cadential 6/4 & Sus Backdoor dominant HEAR IT IN REAL TIME Play back your progression with Rhodes, Synth, Guitar, or Choir sounds. Adjust tempo, time signature, chords per bar, and individual volumes for chords, bass, and drums. ADD A MELODY Write, record, or generate a melody over your chord chart. Edit notes in a piano roll or view them on a staff. Export your work as a MIDI file.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Riffshed at Free against Reharmonizator's $4.99. Riffshed also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 weeks). Reharmonizator's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On ratings volume, ads, 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
Riffshed is free to download; Reharmonizator costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Riffshed holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
Riffshed ships an update every 2 days, Reharmonizator every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Riffshed | Reharmonizator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 93 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Anton Rozhkovskiy | Martin Adler |
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In-app purchases
Riffshed
No in-app purchases
Reharmonizator
No in-app purchases









