Comparison

Mediant vs Drawtone

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

Head to head
About

Mediant

Generate musically sound chord progressions by selecting a key, mode, and length. Audition, reorder, and export progressions directly to your DAW. Harmonize melodies by drawing or importing them.

Highlights
  • Generate chord progressions
  • Select key, mode, and length
  • Adjust brightness and tension
  • Harmonize melodies
  • MIDI and MusicXML export
  • Offline functionality
  • Producer-friendly voicings
Features
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Chord progressions, on tap. Mediant writes musically sound chord progressions. Pick a key and mode, tap Generate, and get functional progressions — real tonic / subdominant / dominant motion and proper cadences — that you can audition, reorder, and drop straight into your DAW. HOW IT WORKS • Pick a key, mode, length, and voicing, then tap Generate. Mediant offers several progressions, ranked best first — tap Regenerate to cycle them. • Two dials shape the mood: Brightness (major ↔ modal) and Tension — from plain diatonic triads up through 7ths, secondary dominants, borrowed chords, mode mixture, and tritone subs. • Tap any chord to swap it from a full palette, or move, duplicate, and delete. Build a whole progression by hand if you like. • Harmonize a melody: draw one on the grid or import a MIDI or MusicXML file, and Mediant writes the chords underneath it. WHAT'S INSIDE • Producer-friendly voicings — spread pads, close, open, and drop-2 — with smooth voice-leading between chords. • A live chord-symbol notation preview on a staff. • MIDI and MusicXML export — for your DAW, or MuseScore, Sibelius, Dorico, and Finale. • Fully offline. No account, no sign-in, no ads, no in-app purchases. • Private by design — Mediant collects nothing. Your music never leaves your device unless you export it. Mediant is by Songdeed.

About

Drawtone

Create music by drawing lines and colors. This app translates your visual input into unique sounds and melodies, offering a new way to compose without traditional musical knowledge. Explore pre-made soundscapes or craft your own compositions.

Highlights
  • Draw lines to create melodies
  • Use color to define sound qualities
  • Explore pre-made nature soundscapes
  • Support for Turkish makams and Western scales
  • Export music as WAV or MIDI
  • Offline functionality
  • No ads or in-app purchases
Features
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Draw a mountain. Hear a sound climb its slope, rest a moment at the top, then come slowly down. You don't need to read music. In Drawtone, music starts with a line: drag a finger across the paper and it plays before the line is even finished. Whatever you draw is in tune; every line lands in the scale you chose. A long line is one long sound. Not a stutter of beeps; a sound that lasts like a breath and bends wherever your line bends. COLOUR IS THE SOUND A warm colour strikes like a string. A cool colour stretches like a bow. Six voices, six colours; stack them up and they never drown each other, each stays in its own place. OPEN A WATERFALL, THEN DRAW YOUR OWN Fifty drawings from nature are waiting inside. The waterfall is a marimba pouring down. The fireflies are single touches lighting up in the dark. The crane is one long line in Nihavend. Open one, listen, leave your own line on it. Your own drawing is not lost: undo brings it back, key and tempo included. DRAW HICAZ Hicaz, Uşşak, Nihavend, Hüzzam, Saba: the Turkish makams sit in the same list as the Western scales, not hidden in a submenu. The same line is a morning in Lydian and an evening in Hüzzam. THE PULSE The dot in the header beats with what you hear. Tap it: tempo, rhythm, swing. If you like, a light drum kit holds the floor underneath. Off by default; the first thing you should hear is your own line. SEND IT TO SOMEONE Share what you drew as WAV, or take it as MIDI and grow it in any other music app. No account, no ads, nothing to unlock. Every scale, every voice, every export is included. Works without internet. 19 languages. Draw a line. The rest follows.

Screenshots

Mediant4 screens
Drawtone4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Drawtone at $0.99 against Mediant's $4.99. Mediant's advantage is 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

Mediant costs $4.99 and Drawtone $0.99 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 Mediant against 5.0 for Drawtone. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Mediant versus Drawtone: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMediantDrawtone
Price$4.99$0.99 — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequency—Every 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEVAN TRACEN POWERSAhmet Burak Ozyurt

Customer experience

Mediant

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

Drawtone

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Mediant

No in-app purchases

None

Drawtone

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mediant free?
Mediant costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Drawtone free?
Drawtone costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mediant or Drawtone?
Mediant and Drawtone are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Mediant or Drawtone have ads?
Neither Mediant nor Drawtone shows ads.

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