Live Chords vs Chord Tracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Live Chords
This app listens to music and automatically identifies the chords being played. It's a useful tool for musicians looking to learn songs by ear or understand musical structure.
- Real-time chord detection
- Listens to music and identifies chords
- Useful for learning songs
- Helps understand musical structure
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Magically guess the current playing chord as you hear it!
Chord Tracker
This app analyzes audio songs from your device's music library to display chord symbols on screen. It offers graphical piano keyboard and guitar tab views to aid practice and performance. It's designed to help musicians play along with their favorite tunes.
- Audio song analysis
- Chord symbol display
- Graphical piano keyboard
- Guitar tab display
- Practice and performance aid
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The Yamaha Chord Tracker app for iPhone/iPod touch/iPad helps you practice and perform songs by analyzing the audio songs stored in your iOS device and then displaying the chord symbols for you. ■Features Chord Tracker analyzes the audio songs stored in your iOS device's music library and then displays the song's chords on the screen, allowing you to play your favorite songs. And now, with both graphical piano keyboard and guitar tab display options, Chord Tracker is even more powerful. ■Note 1. The chords displayed by this application will match the mood of the original song very closely, but may not be an exact match for the original chords used. 2. Chord Tracker will not work for songs in iCloud or protected by DRM (Digital Rights Management). 3. Chord Tracker will not work with Music Streaming services such as Apple Music.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Chord Tracker at 3.6 against Live Chords's 2.8. Chord Tracker also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (170 vs 6). Live Chords's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (6.1 vs 16.0). On price 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
Both are free to download. Live Chords sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Chord Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.
Chord Tracker holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chord Tracker has 170 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Live Chords's written reviews are positive against 49% of Chord Tracker's.
| Parameter | Live Chords | Chord Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (6 ratings) | 3.6 (170 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 48.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 170 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 6.1 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 175 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Major Seven Lab | Yamaha Corporation of America |
Customer experience
Live Chords
Chord Tracker
Bugs and requests
Live Chords
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Chord Tracker
Reported bugs
13 issues- App crashes when detecting chord sections
- Audio playback out of sync with score on iPad Pro
- Black screen with only alphabet visible on some devices
- Songs disappear from User Songs after import
- Cannot load songs from local device files
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- Dropbox connection fails to display songs
- Apple Music songs show as 'This data cannot be selected'
- Playback produces artifacts when slowing tempo
- VoiceOver doesn't follow chord tracking
- Bluetooth headphone playback not working
- Only 2 songs displaying from library
- License recognition failure for newly downloaded songs
- App incompatible with iOS 13 and later versions
Requested features
16 requests- Restore real-time microphone chord detection
- Support for Spotify and Google Play Music
- Local file import from device storage
- Bluetooth speaker output support
- Print or export chords as PDF
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- Ukulele chord display
- PC/Web version of the app
- iCloud Drive support for file imports
- Auto-metronome feature
- Save edited versions (transposed, etc.) to favorites
- Sync favorites across multiple devices
- Support for Bb and Eb instruments
- Negative capo/pitch shift options
- Advanced chord detection (7th, 9th, 11th, 13th chords)
- Playback of chords-only instrumental version
- Direct contact/support channel with Yamaha
In-app purchases
Live Chords
- Remove ads$0.99
Chord Tracker
No in-app purchases
Questions
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