Chord Navigator vs Hark
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chord Navigator
Analyze chord progressions and understand music theory with this app. It provides chord function analysis, guitar diagrams for fingering, and visualization of scales and chord tones on a fretboard. Hear chords directly with MIDI playback.
- Chord progression analysis
- Guitar chord diagrams
- Scale visualization
- Piano chord diagrams
- MIDI playback
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Chord Navigator shows you where a progression can go next — in real time, as you build it. Enter a progression and it detects the key, the roman numeral degrees and the function of every chord, then AI suggests the chords that can follow. Guitar and piano fingerings sit on the same screen. Features - AI progression guidance - real-time suggestions for where the progression can go next - Progression analysis - key, roman numeral degrees, and chord function, detected automatically - Scale view - scales and chord tones mapped onto the fretboard - Guitar diagrams - accurate fingerings, slash chords included - Piano diagrams - see the notes on a keyboard - MIDI playback - hear the chords as you build them For students working through theory and for musicians arranging on the spot. 10 languages, matched automatically to your device. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Hark
This app trains musicians to identify notes within a musical key, focusing on their relationship to the tonic. It offers various training modes, including single notes, melodies, and chord progressions, with hands-free operation for convenient practice.
- Identify notes as scale degrees
- Hands-free training mode
- Multiple training modes (degrees, melodies, chords, progressions)
- Visual staff with colored notes
- Explore any note in any key
- Multiple instrument sounds
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Hark trains your ear the way musicians actually hear: every note as a degree of the key, not a distance from the note before it. A cadence — or a drone — puts the tonic in your ear. A note sounds. You answer on a ladder of degrees, with the home note at the bottom like the ground. Then the note walks home, step by step, back to the tonic, so you hear the pull instead of reading about it. That walk is the explanation. There is no lecture. FOUR KINDS OF TRAINING • Degrees — one note at a time, from two degrees up to all twelve • Melodies — short phrases, name every note in order • Chords in the key — I, IV, V and the rest, heard by function • Progressions — three and four chords in a row INSIDE • A ladder of seven colours: tonic gold, dominant blue, leading tone red • Notes on a staff, spelled the way the key spells them • The walk home after every answer • Hands-free: train with the screen off, on a walk or in the car. The key, the note, a pause for your answer, then the answer spoken aloud. • Explore: hold any degree in any key and listen. No score, no history. • Five instruments: piano, guitar, strings, choir, electric piano • Your map: accuracy by degree and by chord, and what your ear mixes up • Ten languages, and a ladder labelled with numbers, movable-do syllables or note names — Do–Si, Do–Ti, H and B where they belong FREE, FOR GOOD Five degree levels in C major — up to all seven degrees across two octaves — two melody levels, two chord levels, the first progression level, hands-free training, the staff, a week of statistics, and all of Explore: every degree in every key, there to listen to. No daily cap, no timers. HARK PRO — MONTHLY, YEARLY OR ONCE Training in all twelve keys, chromatic degrees, minor keys, three octaves, all seven chords with sevenths, progressions, melodies up to five notes, custom drills, and the full map of your ear with four weeks of history. Choose a monthly or yearly subscription, with a one-week free trial for eligible customers, or a one-time purchase for permanent Pro access. Only one free trial is available per subscription group. After the trial, the selected subscription renews at the price shown in the app. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel them in your Apple Account subscription settings. To avoid a charge after a free trial, cancel at least 24 hours before it ends. The free levels stay free either way. NO ACCOUNT, NO ADS No sign-up, no ads, no streaks and no nagging. Your individual answers and detailed training history stay on your device. The app sends a limited set of usage events with a random installation identifier, including session summaries and purchase or free-trial events, to help us understand how it works. The privacy policy lists what is sent. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://hark-ear.pages.dev/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Hark at every 2 days against Chord Navigator's every 11 days. Chord Navigator's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Chord Navigator sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Hark sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Chord Navigator ships an update every 11 days, Hark every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Chord Navigator | Hark |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DOSEONG KANG | Ilia Usatov |
In-app purchases
Chord Navigator
- 월간 구독1 Month trial$0.991 Month
- Lifetime Premium$4.99
Hark
- Hark Pro — Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Hark Pro — Yearly7 Days trial$11.991 Year
- Hark Pro$19.99









