Comparison

Negative Harmony vs Harmony Calipers

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

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About

Negative Harmony

Features
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Negative Harmony lets you explore one of music theory's most fascinating transformations: reflecting any chord or progression across a tonal axis to produce its harmonic mirror image. TAP ANY CHORD Select a root and quality on the interactive Circle of Fifths. See the original chord and its negative simultaneously, with voice-leading automatically applied. BUILD PROGRESSIONS Add chords to a progression and play them back โ€” originals or negatives โ€” with smooth voice leading between every chord. Common tones are held, not re-attacked. UNDERSTAND THE THEORY Built-in theory section explains the concept from first principles: the axis, the transformation formula, voice leading, and the history from Hugo Riemann to Jacob Collier. 5 SOUNDS Choose from Rhodes, Strings, Choir, Organ, or Synth Pad โ€” the same high-quality soundfont used by professional music apps. MULTILINGUAL Full support for English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese.

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Harmony Calipers

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Harmony Calipers is a visual songwriting companion for musicians. Use the Circle of Fifths as a harmonic map to explore chord relationships, build progressions, arrange song sections, and export clean chord charts or PDF song packs. Harmony Calipers is designed for musicians working with a real instrument nearby. Sit at a piano, hold a guitar, mandolin, ukulele, banjo, or another chordal instrument, and use the app to organize harmonic ideas into playable song forms. What you can do with Harmony Calipers: Explore chord relationships Use the harmony wheel to see how chords relate across the Circle of Fifths. Select tonal centers, compare harmonic distance, and view relationship paths directly on the wheel. Browse suggested progressions Start from suggested chord progressions organized by musical function, mood, and relationship type. Color badges help identify functional harmony, stable diatonic movement, dominant tension, caliper-derived ideas, and progressions that may need review. Customize progressions Send any suggested progression into the Custom Progression builder. Edit the title, chord sequence, tonal center, mode, and harmony type, then validate the result. Build songs by section Use Song Builder to arrange progressions into song forms. Add sections such as Intro, Verse, Chorus, Bridge, Break, Interlude, and Outro. Reorder sections to shape the structure of the song. View chord charts Harmony Calipers includes piano keyboard charts, piano staff notation, combined staff/keyboard views, and fretted instrument charts for guitar, mandolin, mandola, ukulele, baritone ukulele, and banjo. Export your work Export full song charts, individual section sheets, traditional chord chart layouts, modern Harmony Calipers layouts, and PDF song packs. Designed for visual writing Harmony Calipers does not try to replace your instrument. It helps you see harmonic relationships, organize chord ideas, and create usable charts so you can play, revise, and develop songs with your own instrument. Good for: - Songwriters building chord progressions - Guitarists, pianists, and multi-instrumentalists - Music theory learners - Teachers creating chord examples - Players exploring the Circle of Fifths - Musicians who want clean printable chord charts - Anyone turning harmonic ideas into organized song forms New in this version: - Optional piano staff notation - Combined piano staff and keyboard view - Improved piano voicing display - great for beginners and all skill levels - Better piano chart exports - More reliable export pagination for staff/keyboard chart packs Harmony Calipers turns harmonic ideas into organized song forms.

Screenshots

Negative Harmony3 screens
Harmony Calipers4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Negative Harmony at $2.99 against Harmony Calipers's $4.99. On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Negative Harmony costs $2.99 and Harmony Calipers $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Negative Harmony versus Harmony Calipers: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNegative HarmonyHarmony Calipers
Price$2.99 โ€” better$4.99
Update frequencyโ€”Monthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size32 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMartin AdlerSalvatore Angelone

In-app purchases

None

Negative Harmony

No in-app purchases

None

Harmony Calipers

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Negative Harmony free?
Negative Harmony costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Harmony Calipers free?
Harmony Calipers costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Negative Harmony or Harmony Calipers have ads?
Neither Negative Harmony nor Harmony Calipers shows ads.

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