Comparison

Harmonaut vs Dico Pattern

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

Head to head
About

Harmonaut

Create music by feel without needing music theory. This app generates rich chords and smooth progressions, allowing you to shape the mood with intuitive controls. Save and reorder your musical ideas effortlessly.

Highlights
  • Play by feel, no theory required
  • Shape mood with tension and brightness faders
  • Smooth voice leading for flowing progressions
  • Chords named for musicians
  • Save and reorder progressions
  • Works on iPhone and iPad
Features
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Harmonaut™ is a chord instrument you play by feel. Press a key and hear a rich chord, voice-led smoothly from the last one, no theory needed. Build a progression, shape its mood, and export it as MIDI for your track. Two faders let you shape the mood as you play: more tension or less, brighter or darker, even major to minor. Chase a moody electronic progression, a warm lo-fi loop, a jazzy turn, a cinematic swell, or a simple pop hook. It all comes from your intent, not from naming chords. HOW IT PLAYS • Tension that actually resolves: chords that lean, pull home, and land, so your progression goes somewhere instead of just floating • Every one of the twelve keys is in play: reach past the obvious chords for richer, more surprising color, and it still sounds right • Build a whole progression, not just four chords: every chord you play lands in your trail, ready to reorder or duplicate to try new versions in seconds • Pick up right where you left off: your ideas are saved for you TAKE IT TO YOUR TRACK • Export any progression as a MIDI file and drop it into BandLab, GarageBand, or any DAW that opens MIDI, then play it through any instrument you like • Export to iReal Pro format to keep a chord chart or practice over the changes • Harmonaut Pro unlocks MIDI export, iReal Pro export, and unlimited saved progressions IT SOUNDS GOOD FOR A REASON Every chord is voice-led from the one before it, live, as you play: the notes move the shortest way, so a progression flows instead of jumping around. That's the finished feeling you hear in the songs you love. Push Intensity and the voicings open up: lush 9ths, bright 13ths, and altered dominants like G7#9b13, the colors session keyboard players reach for. And Harmonaut names every chord the way musicians actually write it, like Ebmaj7, so you can hand your progression to a session player, a bandmate, or a producer and they'll play it back exactly, first time. No box to buy, nothing to charge, no menus to dig through. It's already in your pocket. Whether it's your first progression or a sound you can hear but can't name, Harmonaut meets you where you are. See the end user license agreement at the following link: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Dico Pattern

Features
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Years of playing, but your picking hand still holds you back? Dico Pattern is a guitar teacher's method in your pocket: 150 technique patterns, worked from slow to fast, with your progress tracked pattern by pattern. WHAT YOU GET - 150 patterns graded by difficulty, with tab - Built-in metronome, 3 tempos per exercise (slow, medium, fast) - Guided mode: levels unlock as you master them - Practice journal and progress grid - Lab: build your own exercises - Works offline, no account needed HOW IT WORKS Pick a pattern. Play it slow until it is clean, then medium, then fast. Tick the box. The grid fills up, the next level opens. That is the whole method - the one a teacher would give you. WHO MADE IT Cedric, guitar teacher for 20 years and host of the "A la Loop" podcast, where guitar solos are analysed step by step. PRICING Free for 7 days, then a single one-time unlock. No subscription, ever.

Screenshots

Harmonaut4 screens
Dico Pattern4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Dico Pattern at 15.0 against Harmonaut's 17.0. On price, update cadence, 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Harmonaut ships an update every 10 days, Dico Pattern every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Harmonaut versus Dico Pattern: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHarmonautDico Pattern
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size117 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDistrict One Mobile, LLCCEDRIC RAOU

In-app purchases

None

Harmonaut

No in-app purchases

None

Dico Pattern

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Harmonaut free?
Harmonaut is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dico Pattern free?
Dico Pattern is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Harmonaut or Dico Pattern have ads?
Neither Harmonaut nor Dico Pattern shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Harmonaut or Dico Pattern?
Harmonaut ships an update every 10 days, and Dico Pattern every 8 days. Most recently, Harmonaut was updated on October 8, 2026 and Dico Pattern on October 11, 2026.

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