Chordopia vs EG WaveSHAPER
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chordopia
This app helps musicians find guitar, ukulele, and mandolin chords. Input a chord name to see diagrams and hear its sound, or create a diagram to identify the chord. It supports custom tunings and generates voicings dynamically.
- Chord diagram generation
- Chord identification from diagrams
- Sound playback for chords
- Support for alternate and custom tunings
- Dynamic voicing search
- Extensive chord type library
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Chordopia is a chord finder for guitar, ukulele, and mandolin. Highlights: - It works both ways! You can enter a chord name and Chordopia will show you chord diagrams for many different voicings of that chord. Or you can do the reverse: drag the dots in the chord diagram to different frets, and Chordopia will tell you what the new chord is called. - Sound — Chordopia not only shows you a chord diagram for each voicing, but also lets you hear how it sounds. - Supports alternate tunings such as drop-D and DADGAD, as well as arbitrary custom tunings. - Chordopia is not a fixed chord book of predefined chord diagrams. Instead, it works by searching through all possible combinations of finger positions on your instrument to find the ones that produce the chord you want, all in a fraction of a second. It then ranks them based on how easy they are to play and how good they sound, and shows you the best ones first. - Chordopia knows more than 50 chord types for each of the 12 root notes for a total of more than 600 chords, not counting variants with an out-of-chord alternate bass. The number of voicings varies by chord, instrument and tuning; for example, for a 12-fret guitar in standard tuning, there are more than 100,000 distinct voicings to discover.
EG WaveSHAPER
Create unique sounds by drawing waveforms or shaping built-in ones. Blend them with analog and sub oscillators, and automate parameters with drawable LFOs and envelopes. Explore a hybrid waveshaping and wavetable engine for complex sonic textures.
- Hybrid Wavetable/Waveshaping engine
- Draw custom wavetables
- Assignable LFOs and Envelopes
- Built-in Reverb, Delay, and EG Crush FX
- Core MIDI support
- AUv3 plugin compatibility
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EG WaveSHAPER is the first synthesizer that lets you create your sound with a finger. Draw the waveform on the screen or shape a builtin one, mix it with a classic analog oscillator and a sub oscillator and automate all the knobs with 2 drawable LFOs and 2 ENVs HYBRID WAVESHAPING ENGINE 'Waveshaping is a synthesis-and-transformation technique that turns simple sounds into complex sounds' 2 wavetables can be designed and morphed to create unique and dynamic sounds under your finger, choosing the morph attack and release; complex spectra can be created waveshaping the oscillator and introducing non linear distortion, rich harmonics and a tube-vacuum behaviour. The hybrid Waveshaping/Wavetable engine lets you combine a wavetable oscillator with a classic oscillator and a sub oscillator, to add additional sound layers and depth. LFOs & ENVs 2 Lfo and 2 Envelopes with indipendent time can be assigned to virtually any of the synth parameters. They can also be graphically designed with the touch of your finger or you can choose among the builtin envelopes. OTHER FEATURES - Hybrid Wavetable/Waveshaping engine - Draw your wavetable oscillator with your finger - 100+ presets (Pad, Lead, Bass and Fx) - 30+ builtin waveforms to use and modify - 2 LFOs and 2 ENVs assignable to any parameter - FX: Reverb, Delay and EG Crush - Detune osc to create huge unison sounds - FM and Noise with configurble FM Ratio and Noise eq - VCF and Reso filters - Complete presets management with export and share - Core MIDI: MIDI in, MIDI CC, MIDI channel pressure control - AU3 with full knobs parameters automation - Universal for iPad & iPhone
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: EG WaveSHAPER at fortnightly against Chordopia's every 7 months. EG WaveSHAPER also leads on iOS requirement (9.1 vs 15.6). Chordopia's advantage is price ($3.99 vs $8.99) and review sentiment (100% vs 85%). 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
Chordopia costs $3.99 and EG WaveSHAPER $8.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Chordopia against 4.8 for EG WaveSHAPER. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 60 and 23 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Chordopia's written reviews are positive against 85% of EG WaveSHAPER's.
Chordopia ships an update every 7 months, EG WaveSHAPER fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chordopia | EG WaveSHAPER |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 — better | $8.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (60 ratings) | 4.8 (23 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 84.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 60 — better | 23 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 9.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Waxing Wave | Elliott Garage |
Customer experience
Chordopia
EG WaveSHAPER
In-app purchases
Chordopia
No in-app purchases
EG WaveSHAPER
No in-app purchases









