Chordio vs ChordProgressions.org

Chordio is a music composition and theory app for iOS and macOS, with workspaces for composition, scales, modes, sheet music, music theory and lessons. Its library includes more than 40 scales. Connect a USB, MIDI or Bluetooth MIDI keyboard and it identifies chords in real time, naming them on the grand staff. Harmony Explorer finds matching scales and suggests diatonic and borrowed chords, secondary dominants and tritone substitutions. Progressions can be dragged into Logic Pro, Ableton Live, FL Studio and other DAWs as MIDI; MIDI chords can also be imported for re-harmonization. Sheet Music includes tempo adjustment, looping, separate-hand practice, transposition and PDF printing. Lesson Packs let users play pieces in any key and at any tempo. The free download includes built-in sounds, an on-screen keyboard and every workspace. Full Unlock costs $14.99 as a one-time purchase and includes Mac, iPad and Vision Pro, plus lifetime updates. The iPhone version is purchased separately, and there is no Android app.

ChordProgressions.org is a free browser studio for creating, hearing, analyzing, customizing, and exporting chord progressions for guitar and piano. Its tools include generators, builders, finders, identifiers, analyzers, and transposers. Guitar shapes and piano voicings can be adjusted for tuning, capo position, difficulty, inversions, and fingering. Theory views show Roman numerals, Nashville numbers, chord functions, cadence points, borrowed chords, and an estimated key with confidence. The studio accepts MIDI input and imports MusicXML, project files, and plain-text chord sheets. Browser audio analysis creates an editable chord timeline with a confidence score. Exports include MIDI, WAV, chord-chart PDF, PNG and SVG diagrams, plain text, CSV, JSON, MusicXML, and share links. Projects autosave on the device, and imported files are read locally. Practice tools loop progressions with metronome and count-in, plus ear and playing exercises in every key.