Refraktions vs ChordWeaver
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Refraktions
This app is an 8-track generative MIDI sequencer that uses AI to create personalized loops based on user input over time. It offers a unique approach to music creation, adapting to individual preferences.
- 8-track generative MIDI sequencing
- Artificial intelligence processing
- Time-based input adaptation
- Personalized loop creation
- User-tailored output
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Refraktions is an 8-track generative MIDI sequencer with artificial intelligence that processes input over time to create loops tailored to each individual user.
ChordWeaver
Compose music using advanced harmonic techniques with this app. Explore 3636 chord resolutions and 10 instrument ensembles. It guides you through chord progressions, allowing you to listen, transpose, and save your compositions.
- Modern harmony composition
- 3636 chord resolutions
- 10 instrument ensembles
- Listen to chord resolutions
- Transpose chords
- Save as .chords or .mid
- Mirror to main system
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ChordWeaver is a music composition app based on 5-part modern harmony extensively used in symphonic scores, cinematic soundtracks, jazz chord changes and contemporary songwriting. ChordWeaver offers 3636 chord resolutions/combinations and 10 instrument or ensembles with 1920 sound files. The techniques used include altered chords (or unresolved appoggiaturas), parallel ninths, giant steps, tritone substitutions, bi-tonal ambiguities as well as traditional chord progressions. For some composers ChordWeaver will provide a fast, easy way to work with modern harmony. For other composers it offers a whole new world of possibilities and variations on traditional progressions. For the seasoned pro, it is a huge time saver. Here is how ChordWeaver efficiently guides you through the composition process. You choose your starting chord, and ChordWeaver instantly shows you and lets you listen to multiple resolutions to that chord, traditional ones and more creative, unusual ones. With each subsequent chord choice, the process is repeated. ChordWeaver seamlessly guides you to multiple possible chord options (some you will be familiar with and others you will not have considered), lets you listen to your work in progress, offers the option to transpose up or down and allows you to save your final product as a .chords file or .mid file and export or share it. You can also mirror ChordWeaver on your main system, play back the audio and improvise on your favorite instrument. Likewise, you could import the MIDI file into your sequencer and play back the harmonies using your preferred sample libraries. These chord options in ChordWeaver are the result of decades of studying the scores of the masters in various genres. They reflect the actual use of these chord progressions and resolutions by these composers and are not simply based on purely theoretical considerations.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ChordWeaver at 5.0 against Refraktions's 4.5. ChordWeaver also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 90%). Refraktions's advantage is price ($5.99 vs $9.99) and ratings volume (28 vs 5). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Refraktions costs $5.99 and ChordWeaver $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ChordWeaver holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Refraktions has 28 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 90% of Refraktions's written reviews are positive against 100% of ChordWeaver's.
Refraktions ships an update every 2 months, ChordWeaver every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Refraktions | ChordWeaver |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 — better | $9.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (28 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 90.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 28 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.3 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 474 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jason Snell | Jeannot Welter |
Customer experience
Refraktions
ChordWeaver
In-app purchases
Refraktions
No in-app purchases
ChordWeaver
No in-app purchases
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