Best Chord Recognition Apps

Earpeggio

Musical Ear Training Exercises

Free

Enhance your musical abilities by training your ear to recognize intervals, chords, scales, and rhythms. This app offers various exercises and tests to help you improve your musical hearing and track your progress with detailed statistics.

Chord Catcher

Real-time Music Analysis

Free

This intelligent music tool analyzes live audio from your device's microphone to instantly identify chords. It helps musicians, singers, and listeners by capturing every chord change in real time, fostering creativity. The app offers on-device processing for privacy and visual feedback.

Capo - Learn Music by Ear

Get chords for any song

Free

Learn songs by ear without needing sheet music or tabs. This app analyzes your music to identify beats, chords, and key, allowing you to slow down playback, isolate instruments, and edit chord progressions to master any song.

Chords Pad

Music Chords Sampler

Free

Explore musical chords with an interactive keyboard display and customizable pads. Visualize chord tones, experiment with progressions, and play notes via MIDI. Unlock advanced features and sounds through in-app purchases.

Reverse Chord Finder Pro

Identify guitar & piano chords

Free

Identify chords by inputting notes from various instruments or music notation. Discover chord names, hear them played, and analyze their construction. Supports multiple instruments and customization options for musicians of all levels.

TONALY: Songs, Scales & Theory

Chord Progressions & Practice

Free

This app helps musicians of all levels write songs, find chords, and learn music theory. It offers tools for chord and scale practice, MIDI and PDF export, and collaboration features for songwriters and producers.

Chord Pickout

Get Chords for Any Song

Free

This app uses AI to automatically detect and transcribe chords from any audio file on your device. It's designed for musicians to easily get chord progressions for songs, with features like a chromatic tuner and score scrolling.

OtoTheory - Chord Progression

Songwriting & Chord Detection

Free

Create music theory-correct chord progressions intuitively, even without prior knowledge. Features AI song analysis, real-time editing with backing tracks, and MIDI export for digital audio workstations.

Chord Detector

Realtime chord tracker

$1.99

This real-time music recognition app uses your device's microphone to identify chords and individual notes. It displays detected chords prominently and offers an experimental MIDI recording feature for solo instruments.

ChordFlow: Piano Chord Trainer

Sight-Reading, Improv & MIDI

Free

This app helps you practice piano chords and improve your sight-reading skills. It offers real-time chord recognition, various practice modes, and the ability to connect a MIDI keyboard. Unlock advanced features like custom progressions and an accompaniment machine with a subscription or one-time purchase.

AI Note & Chord Recognition

Convert Audio to Sheet Music

Free

Transform audio recordings of melodies into editable sheet music using AI. Capture your singing or instrument playing, or import audio files, to generate readable music notation. Review, edit, and playback the transcribed notes to refine your musical ideas.

ChordScanner

Scan chords from music sheets

Free

Instantly identify chords from sheet music using your device's camera. Generate creative chord progressions in various styles and hear them played back with accompanying notation. Learn and save chords and progressions privately on your device.