Comparison

Cantus vs Counterpoint Dojo

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

Head to head
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.

About

Counterpoint Dojo

Features
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Counterpoint Dojo is a learning app for studying the relationship between independent melodic lines through explanations, playable scores, and writing exercises. FEATURES - Introductory lessons and the five species of Fux-style counterpoint - Additional lessons on melodic writing, suspensions, minor mode, three voices, free counterpoint, imitation, and canon - Play every teaching example and listen to the voices together - Write notes into guided exercises and check the specified conditions - Save completed attempts and replay them later - Review rule violations in the five-species exercises VERSION 1.1 - Added seven advanced lessons with newly created teaching examples - Added twelve guided writing exercises - Added attempt history for reviewing past work PLEASE NOTE The app interface and lesson text are currently in Japanese. Exercise evaluation checks the stated conditions and rules; it does not judge the artistic quality of a composition.

Screenshots

Cantus3 screens
Counterpoint Dojo3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Cantus at every 5 days against Counterpoint Dojo's every 6 weeks. Cantus also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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

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

Cantus ships an update every 5 days, Counterpoint Dojo every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Cantus versus Counterpoint Dojo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCantusCounterpoint Dojo
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJason ZachariahNaoki Chiba

In-app purchases

None

Cantus

No in-app purchases

None

Counterpoint Dojo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cantus free?
Cantus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Counterpoint Dojo free?
Counterpoint Dojo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Cantus or Counterpoint Dojo have ads?
Neither Cantus nor Counterpoint Dojo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cantus or Counterpoint Dojo?
Cantus ships an update every 5 days, and Counterpoint Dojo every 6 weeks. Most recently, Cantus was updated on October 21, 2026 and Counterpoint Dojo on October 20, 2026.

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