Cantus vs Beat Remixer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Beat Remixer
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Turn your music into a live remix. BeatRemixer lets you rearrange and perform your tracks on iPhone and iPad. Load a song, explore its eight-beat phrases, and build a new arrangement by moving, repeating, and combining your favorite sections. Keep the original track alongside your remix, jump between phrases during playback, or queue them to play in sequence. Similar phrases are grouped and labeled, making it easy to find variations and try different combinations. Add your own touch with hands-on performance controls. Loop a section, jump between beats, change tempo and pitch, and trigger effects and samples as the music plays. Features include: • Automatic BPM detection with manual tempo and beat-grid adjustments. • Drag-and-drop phrase arrangements with repeats and looping groups. • Live phrase switching and playback queues. • Beat jump pads, loop controls, pitch adjustments, effects, and samples. • Optional colored waveforms showing low, mid, and high frequencies. • Batch BPM analysis to prepare your downloaded music library. • Undo and redo, with arrangements saved automatically for each track. • Layouts designed for iPhone and iPad, in portrait and landscape. • Supports new iPhone Duo, opened and closed, in both portrait and landscape. • Record live remixes and manage recordings. Import audio from Files or choose compatible downloaded songs from your Music library. DRM-protected tracks, including Apple Music subscription downloads, are not supported.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Cantus at every 5 days against Beat Remixer's every 9 days. Cantus also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Cantus ships an update every 5 days, Beat Remixer every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cantus | Beat Remixer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jason Zachariah | Fabio Policarpo |
In-app purchases
Cantus
No in-app purchases
Beat Remixer
No in-app purchases









