ChordBud - Chord Progressions at Mac App Store analyse

App power index: 330 (based on ranks around App Stores today)
Utilities Music
Developer: Cem Olcay
Price: 0 free
Current version: 1.1.1, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 15 Nov 2017
App size: 37.53 Mb
4.8 ( 4368 ratings )
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Estimation application downloads and cost

> 7.26k
Monthly downloads
~ $ 2.97k
Estimation App Cost


ChordBud is an all in one app that combines most important concepts when sketching a song. You have tons of scales, their harmonic fields, option to choose triads, 7th and extended chords with their inversions, most common chord progressions with the ability to creating your custom progressions and even notes if you want to sketch a melody or bass, all under your hand.

ChordBud does not generate sound but has a built-in MIDI sequencer that sends MIDI to other MIDI-enabled apps in your iOS device, connected MIDI hardware and CoreMIDI enabled software on your Mac or PC via network session. It auto-detects available MIDI destinations and lets you choose which one you want to connect. Also, it supports Ableton Link as well!

You can add up to 16 tracks to your projects, add chords or notes to your tracks and assign different MIDI channels to them and sketch your ideas into a real song.

Lots of scales, chord progressions, harmonic fields, triads, tetrads and extended chords with rich editing features are waiting for you to create your next awesome song.

ChordBud also offers its core components open sourced on GitHub. Feel free to fork them, send a pull request to make it better, open an issue to share your ideas or give them a star if you like them.
MusicTheory: https://github.com/cemolcay/MusicTheory
MIDISequencer: https://github.com/cemolcay/MIDISequencer
MIDITimeTable: https://github.com/cemolcay/MIDITimeTableView
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Available in countries
Country Price
Canada 3.99 CAD
China 18 CNY
France 3.49 EUR
Germany 3.49 EUR
Italy 3.49 EUR
Netherlands 3.49 EUR
Portugal 3.49 EUR
Spain 3.49 EUR
UK 2.99 GBP
India 249 INR
Japan 370 JPY
Korea, Republic Of 999.99 KRW
Poland 13.99 PLN
Russia 229 RUB
Turkey 19.99 TRY
USA 2.99 USD
Korea, Republic Of 2.19 USD
Ukraine 2.99 USD
Available for devices
iPad2Wifi, iPad23G, iPhone4S, iPadThirdGen, iPadThirdGen4G, iPhone5, iPodTouchFifthGen, iPadFourthGen, iPadFourthGen4G, iPadMini, iPadMini4G, iPhone5c, iPhone5s, iPadAir, iPadAirCellular, iPadMiniRetina, iPadMiniRetinaCellular, iPhone6, iPhone6Plus, iPadAir2, iPadAir2Cellular, iPadMini3, iPadMini3Cellular, iPodTouchSixthGen, iPhone6s, iPhone6sPlus, iPadMini4, iPadMini4Cellular, iPadPro, iPadProCellular, iPadPro97, iPadPro97Cellular, iPhoneSE, iPhone7, iPhone7Plus, iPad611, iPad612, iPad71, iPad72, iPad73, iPad74, iPhone8, iPhone8Plus, iPhoneX,