Comparison

Choral Lab vs ARPJAM Player

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

ARPJAM Player

This app allows you to queue music tracks and set individual playback durations. It automatically fades out the current track and transitions to the next, ensuring consistent loudness and background playback. Explore a library of published tracks or import your own.

Highlights
  • Queue and time music tracks
  • Automatic track fading and transition
  • Matched loudness for consistent volume
  • Background playback with screen off
  • Browse and import music library
  • Dynamic music generation engine
Features
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ARPJAM Player is a device for leaving your JAMs running. Line up the JAMs you want to hear and give each one a play time. When the time is up it fades out on its own and hands over to the next one. Nothing else to do. ■ For as long as you like Play times run from one minute to twelve hours, set on a reel. Leave one JAM running all afternoon, or cut them short and keep moving. It is built for the kind of listening that lasts a whole opening shift. ■ Matched loudness JAMs vary in level. Each one is measured once when you add it, and matched on playback — the loud ones come down, the quiet ones come up. No sudden jump when the next one starts. Nothing chases the level while the music plays, so the volume never moves mid-performance. ■ With the screen off Background playback is supported. Lock the screen and it keeps going. Play, pause and skip from the Lock Screen or Control Center. ■ JAM Library Open the JAM Library from inside the app and add published JAMs directly. Browse by genre and see the artist, the notes, the BPM and the key. Official JAMs and submitted JAMs sit side by side. You can also import .arpjam files stored on your device, including files written by the earlier ARPJAM. ■ It never plays the same way twice The ARPJAM engine is not playing back a fixed score. It builds the performance as it goes, following rules. The same JAM sounds different every time you play it, so it does not become a loop you get tired of — even after hours. Same engine as ARPJAM Studio. ■ Made for · Saunas, spas, treatment rooms · Cafes, shops, galleries · Working, studying, winding down · Exhibitions and installations — — ARPJAM Player does not create JAMs. To make them, use ARPJAM Studio.

Screenshots

Choral Lab4 screens
ARPJAM Player3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ARPJAM Player at Free against Choral Lab's $6.99. ARPJAM Player also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Choral Lab against 5.0 for ARPJAM Player. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Choral Lab ships an update every 6 weeks, ARPJAM Player every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Choral Lab versus ARPJAM Player: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChoral LabARPJAM Player
Price$6.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size186 MB78 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMartin AdlerTakashi Tsunoda

Customer experience

Choral Lab

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

ARPJAM Player

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Choral Lab

No in-app purchases

None

ARPJAM Player

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Choral Lab free?
Choral Lab costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is ARPJAM Player free?
ARPJAM Player is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Choral Lab or ARPJAM Player?
Choral Lab and ARPJAM Player are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Choral Lab or ARPJAM Player have ads?
Neither Choral Lab nor ARPJAM Player shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Choral Lab or ARPJAM Player?
Choral Lab ships an update every 6 weeks, and ARPJAM Player every 2 days. Most recently, Choral Lab was updated on October 13, 2026 and ARPJAM Player on October 10, 2026.

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