Comparison

Choral Lab 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

Choral Lab

Compose and study Bach-style four-part chorales. Harmonize melodies with automatic voice generation, explore a library of 410 Bach chorales, and analyze chords in real-time. Offers both score and piano roll views for detailed study.

Highlights
  • Automatic SATB harmonization in Bach style
  • Library of 410 J.S. Bach chorales
  • Interactive soprano piano roll
  • Real-time chord analysis
  • Score and piano roll views
  • MIDI export
Features
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Choral Lab brings the art of four-part Bach chorale writing to your iPhone. Whether you're a composer, music student, or theory enthusiast, explore one of the most refined harmonic styles in Western music. Harmonize your melodies. Draw a soprano line on the interactive piano roll and watch Choral Lab instantly generate alto, tenor, and bass voices following authentic Bach voice-leading rules — avoiding parallel fifths and octaves, resolving leading tones, and building natural cadences. Browse 410 Bach chorales. Explore the complete corpus of J.S. Bach's four-part chorales with full score display, real-time chord analysis, and playback with rich choir sounds. Two ways to read the music. Switch between a traditional four-part score view with proper notation and clefs, or a piano roll view to see the voice leading clearly laid out across time. Mute individual voices to focus on any single part or study how voices interact. Generate original chorales. Let the app create complete chorales from scratch in any key — major or minor — with realistic harmonic progressions, passing tones, and Picardy thirds. Study chord analysis. Follow along with real-time Roman numeral chord labels as the music plays. Features: • Interactive soprano piano roll with tie support • Automatic SATB harmonization in Bach style • Library of 410 J.S. Bach chorales • Score view with Bravura music engraving font • Piano roll view with per-voice muting • Real-time chord analysis • Choir, piano, and organ sounds • MIDI export • AUv3 plugin — works in GarageBand, AUM and other hosts • One-tap host tempo sync in plugin mode • MIDI output per voice (soprano, alto, tenor, bass on channels 1–4)

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

Choral Lab4 screens
Counterpoint Dojo3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Counterpoint Dojo at Free against Choral Lab's $6.99. On update cadence, 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

Counterpoint Dojo is free to download; Choral Lab costs $6.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Choral Lab ships an update every 6 weeks, Counterpoint Dojo monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Choral Lab versus Counterpoint Dojo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChoral LabCounterpoint Dojo
Price$6.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size186 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMartin AdlerNaoki Chiba

In-app purchases

None

Choral Lab

No in-app purchases

None

Counterpoint Dojo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Choral Lab free?
Choral Lab costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Counterpoint Dojo free?
Counterpoint Dojo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Choral Lab or Counterpoint Dojo have ads?
Neither Choral Lab nor Counterpoint Dojo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Choral Lab or Counterpoint Dojo?
Choral Lab ships an update every 6 weeks, and Counterpoint Dojo monthly. Most recently, Choral Lab was updated on October 13, 2026 and Counterpoint Dojo on October 28, 2026.

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