Mini Chord Sketch vs Tako Kick
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mini Chord Sketch
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Mini Chord Sketch is a simple chord sheet and practice notebook for musicians. Create songs with lyrics, chords, sections, tempo, key, capo, time signature, and strumming patterns. Use it while practicing guitar or piano, preparing a setlist, sketching song ideas, or keeping your personal chord sheets organized. Features: • Create and edit chord sheets • Organize songs with sections such as verse, chorus, intro, bridge, solo, and more • Add chords above lyric lines • Transpose songs instantly • View active chords used in each song • See guitar chord diagrams • See piano chord diagrams • Set BPM, time signature, capo, and strumming pattern • Use the built-in metronome • Import plain text or ChordPro-style chord sheets • Preview songs in a clean read-only layout • Export and share songs as PDF • Track practice progress per song • Save practice sessions with duration, status, target BPM, and notes • Reset practice progress without deleting the song Mini Chord Sketch is designed to be lightweight, focused, and easy to use. It does not try to replace a full music production app. Instead, it gives songwriters, students, teachers, and hobby musicians a fast way to keep chord ideas and practice notes in one place. Your songs stay personal. The app does not include ads, analytics, or tracking.
Tako Kick
This app is an eight-voice generative drum machine that creates complex polyrhythms. Users can independently shape each voice's rhythm and sound, build evolving grooves, and explore synthesized kits. It offers performance controls and the ability to save and share presets.
- Eight-voice generative drum machine
- Independent voice shaping
- Synthesized drum kits
- Evolving groove creation
- Performance and mixing controls
- Preset saving and sharing
- AUv3 instrument support
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What if an octopus could play drums? Tako Kick is an eight-voice generative drum machine excelling in musical polyrhythms. Shape each voice independently, tuning its rhythm and sound across a range of synthesized kits. Build evolving grooves with pattern, density, pitch, accents, and feel controls. Explore each kit’s timbre, and add movement with built-in modulation sources. Keep rhythm and sound independent in each voice's left and right columns - change the timbre without affecting the beat, or change both at once. Performance controls allow interactive mixing/soloing/muting, and global control over drum assignments and pitch. Save and share complete presets to recall your rhythm, tuning, modulation, kit, and mix settings. Presets can be dynamically loaded for another element of in-time performance. Play Tako Kick standalone on iPhone and iPad, or load it as an AUv3 instrument in AUM and other compatible hosts. Sync to the host and use it with MIDI. Tako Kick is a tactile rhythm instrument for finding grooves. Use it to practice drums, get ideas, make beats, or just to have fun.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Tako Kick at monthly against Mini Chord Sketch's every 3 months. 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.
Mini Chord Sketch ships an update every 3 months, Tako Kick monthly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Mini Chord Sketch | Tako Kick |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cetin KELES | Radii Research |
In-app purchases
Mini Chord Sketch
No in-app purchases
Tako Kick
No in-app purchases









