ChordProgressions.org vs Open—Shape

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.

Open—Shape helps guitarists find playable chord voicings across the fretboard, including in different tunings. Its chord engine searches for shapes, filters them by note count, and supplies difficulty labels and fingering details. Users can chain and reorder chords, play progressions, and save them. The Free plan includes the full chord engine, every voicing, 33 built-in tunings, real acoustic guitar playback, a microphone tuner, and up to three saved progressions. Pro costs $9.99, paid once, billed one-time, and adds unlimited custom tunings and saved progressions. The tuner identifies strings in alternate and custom tunings; capo settings update chord voicings and progressions. A visual Canvas board for connecting chords, tuning, and capo runs in a desktop browser. Open—Shape is available on iOS and the web, and an account is not required. Saved tunings and progressions are stored in browser local storage, with backup export and import in Settings. Its privacy policy says tuner audio is analyzed in the browser and is not recorded or transmitted.