Comparison

Chordopia vs Waveguide Flute

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Chord diagram generation
  • Chord identification from diagrams
  • Sound playback for chords
  • Support for alternate and custom tunings
  • Dynamic voicing search
  • Extensive chord type library
Features
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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.

About

Waveguide Flute

Features
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Waveguide Flute turns your iPad or iPhone into a physically modeled wind instrument — a Cook/STK-style waveguide flute you play from an on-screen piano roll or a MIDI wind controller (EWI). FEATURES • Authentic waveguide physical modeling — not a sample library • Deep Sound page: shape jet ratio, reflection, loop damping, noise, and more • Expression controls for live performance: blow intensity, breathiness, pitch bend, auto-vibrato • Built-in reverb with 7 factory spaces • On-screen piano roll with velocity and breath control • Full MIDI support — notes, breath (CC#2), pitch bend • Compatible with Akai EWI and other MIDI wind controllers that send breath and pitch bend • Remembers your last settings, with one-tap reset to defaults • Bluetooth MIDI support, plus a configurable Breath Control input (Mod Wheel or custom CC) for keyboard players without a wind controller Play it like a real wind instrument: breathe into the sound, bend pitch, add vibrato — all rendered by a genuine physical model, not recordings.

Screenshots

Chordopia4 screens
Waveguide Flute2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Waveguide Flute at Free against Chordopia's $3.99. Waveguide Flute also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 7 months). Chordopia's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Waveguide Flute is free to download; Chordopia costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chordopia ships an update every 7 months, Waveguide Flute every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Chordopia versus Waveguide Flute: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChordopiaWaveguide Flute
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (60 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings60 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWaxing WaveTomonori Yamasaki

In-app purchases

None

Chordopia

No in-app purchases

None

Waveguide Flute

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Chordopia free?
Chordopia costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Waveguide Flute free?
Waveguide Flute is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Chordopia or Waveguide Flute have ads?
Neither Chordopia nor Waveguide Flute shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Chordopia or Waveguide Flute?
Chordopia ships an update every 7 months, and Waveguide Flute every 3 days. Most recently, Chordopia was updated on November 7, 2026 and Waveguide Flute on October 26, 2026.

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