Really a great app! I use it often as a sketchpad for song development then I export to a midi file for further development on computer.

The same way it has the copy and paste function of "copy from this chord", "copy to this chord", and "paste after this chord", it also needs a "mark from this chord", "mark to this chord", and "DELETE" function to delete entire group of chords not needed.

When I attempt to remove s chord and touch that particular function key, it rotates very fast to some unmarked chord, causing to lose my position on the song. You need to fix that glitch and make it stay on the same position after deleting. Why don't you show the empty space with the tag "Deleted" as a Position Mark; give the user the option of touching on "Delete" a second time to delete the "Deleted" space alto grado ether if desired. No keeping with some kind of marks causes the losing the positioning on the song, and the light blue color markings are disappearing after a function...this ca uses further losing song positioning.

Chordbot has finally got the formula exactly right. With all of your chord elements available on one screen along with your progression, this is the most intuitive and user friendly chord progression app I've seen yet.

This is a great overhaul of the old version but it still needs a new song-o-matic! Great work

This app is great for flushing out song structure rapidly, and it works well on my rather ancient Ipad2.

Wow this developer just made this 1000x better. I liked the app before. However it involved too much flipping though menus. But now, this new interface has made things so much easier. In the iPad, it's really really good. 5/5 for sure. Amazing design upgrade. Good job dev!

The screen is not resizing properly (too zoomed in) when first installing on an iPad Pro and there is no access to anything, so I restarted the iPad Pro 12" and it's working. I love the new updated interface and the program is really brilliant for the money. Highly recommended.

Chordbot is THE chord app. You might feel like you are cheating. Lots of fun

Updated!

Great app for composing any kind of music. One of the very best apps to create songs from start to finish. Glad that they finally included an undo button.

This is one of my favorite apps, and I'm looking forward to a fix.

I have a 6th gen. iPod touch, and I have the latest iOS installed, but it's saying this version is not compatible with this iPod touch. I don't know what's going on, or what the problem is, but please fix it. I loved this app.

As a solo singer songwriter who lives in a rural community with a busy life that doesn't allow me to jam much with other musicians, this app has changed my life.

I have spent so much money on apps that, to be honest, are not even useful and are eventually deleted.

This app allows you to get so much done and fast. Composed about 4-5 songs in one night. I'm loving this app! My new favorite. I literally only use this app and Vocalive for working on my song ideas.

This app does so much.

1. You can set the tempo to each section individually.

2. You can copy and paste sections, chords, and you can even copy the entire audio and paste it in other apps, like Vocalive!

3. The song plays in a loop.

4. You can have 8 instruments playing at one time.

5. Dozens of options for each instrument and how it sounds.

Amazing app!!!

I am so happy I bought this app. The sounds and arpeggios are great, not to mention the wealth of chord types. Only thing that could make this better would be to search for chord substitutions by melody notes or the ability to specify chords that share a common note. Still, though, this gets a 5/5 easy! Buy it!

Dude, you can Angel two acoustic guitars on separate tracks and mix all these picking patterns...then you got so many interval and inversion choices that it sounds better than what a straight 12 string would do...ingenious! You may even use these instruments in your production. Trust me, if you're a song writer and don't have this app, it's the next one to blow you away!

This app is an amazing tool for creativity. As a musician I have dropped a decent amount of money on related apps but this has been my number 1

Pros:

1. Versatile: the chord selection is awesome (major, minor, 7th, aug, sus, dim, +many more)

2. You can export files

3. Random chord generator for those moments of "writers block"

Cons:

1. Needs an "undo" button" (very easy to accidentally edit all sections of your song when you meant to only edit 1)

2. Guitar sounds are a bit weak, I never use them, but there are plenty of other sounds o work with so no biggie.

Despite those I still rate this app 5 stars, this has been a big tool for inspiration.

Tip: save often! Save often! Save often! And wouldn't hurt to save 2 files of the same song.

Great app to work out chord progressions and changes. Fantastic for writing songs on the work commute and lunch breaks. Keep this little jewel alive, please. First music app I ever bought and still one of my main 'go to apps.'

App crashes need update

I just bought it and it always crashes. It doesn't work at all on my iPhone iOS 8.3. I don't even have any chance to check this app out. I thought it's very helpful 'cause I saw some instructional videos on YouTube.

The power of lazy creativity in this app is mind blowing, but to catch up with the times

direct MIDI out, not just export, should be an added feature for this program. Will give it seven stars then.

For someone like me that has a lot of music in my head but no ability to play the piano.

I needed an easy way to make modal backing tracks in all keys because it would have taken forever to make them myself. This app has many options and sounds good. You also have the ability to have a bass note of your choosing under the chord which is essential when creating modal jam tracks. I'm very please to have found this app.

Very easy to throw together scratch arrangements of songs in many styles. Great tool for saving my ideas, but the Random song generator also help me generate new ideas what I'm stuck. This won't be your recording platform, but it's a great way to play with ideas.

I love it

I find this to be an essential app, but I had an earlier version and I liked that one much better. I wish the comping styles were broken down into sections and guitar/piano, to make it easier to find the right style. Anyway I don't know of any other app that does what this app does, but I still wish it cost less.

I use it everyday for putting together backing tracks for my solo act. Has all the chords I use for jazz and blues backing. Great for exchange of ideas with my band too. I'm able to put together grooves in less than 15 minutes. Great app. Look forward to improvements like addition of eighth notes.

Very disappointing upgrade. I had hoped for something more, considering that other apps of this type are doing much, much more.

This is an amazing app. You can select chords from a large range of chord types (some pretty exotic (Min7(#11) or 6/9 anybody?), voicings (inversions, slash chords), time values; set tempo; arrange them into sections and sections into complete songs; hear them with various instrument combinations and styles; transpose; export as audio or MIDI; and other things. I bought this as a way to play around with chords, but now I actually rough out songs on it, import the MIDI files into Logic, and build whole recordings around it. It’s really an amazing Swiss amy knife of song creation. Couldn’t recommend it more highly.

This is one of those apps you realize you’ll want to keep using from the moment you open it. Uncluttered and not overloaded with features that get in the way of building a chord progression. It’s an excellent song-writing idea-tester and practice tool. The sections area lets you arrange your song with various iterations of verse, chorus, bridge, etc. The sounds are good enough for practice.

Just bought it and found it either crashed or froze on iOS 8, please fix this!

Chordbot is an excellent chord sequencing app. Sounds that are built in are of top quality. It would be neat to be able to export as a mp4 or Mov file. I write my own songs and would like to be able to add lyrics to my works. This would be done by editing in a video editing program like Finl Cut Pro.

This app hasn't worked on the iPad (I'm using 3rd gen) since the update at the beginning of last November! It's now mid March and it's still not fixed?!! I want my 5 bucks back!

This app allows you to quickly create chord progressions as well as compose great sounding songs. It has some minor bugs such as resetting some of the previously entered chords while making edits to a track.

The interface provides quick navigation to all the features, but you need to read the documentation to understand all the sections that the program offers.

The ability to export both a MIDI file as well as a WAV file is very nice.

I would easily pay 5 times the cost of this program.

I loved this application and used to use it in portrait mode (The lite version) For whatever reason, they changed to only landscape. I will give it 5 stars if they enable portrait mode again.

I had put together several chords, while attempting to change one of them the screen froze & the app became unresponsive. After it recovered, it had deleted all of my chords.

I am so blown away by this app -- the musicality built into this program. It is sooo useful to the songwriter. And the variety of comping styles is amazing. An incredible amount of homework was done for sure! One ask: ability to drag chords around to easily change the progression.

Giving it 2 stars for now until they fix the bug! Doesn't play sound!!! Just paid five bucks help!

Okay, I don't usually review anything but as I have been using your tool to sketch songs over the last few weeks I have been thinking man, I love this so darn much I simply must go tell this guy thank you and offer him some good feedback.

Just now I noticed that your app is in reviewed. Please let me be the first to offer you my sincere apologies from everyone who hasn't seen this app yet, this is a huge sin simply not being featured by Apple, I can only guess they are embarrassed that Logic (I own this and a million other apps too) doesn't have anything at all capable of electronically sketching ideas and as you say creating a music pallet to write with.

I would write on forever but iOS 7 has a review window that doesn't let you type much more, it is below the keyboard, how Apple missed this is beyond me but I promise you if you write songs you will love this app and you will use it often. Please add audio us, I will pay for a version 2 if you do.

This is a fantastic app if you are looking to practice soloing over chord changes. You just program the chords in whatever configuration you'd like and start playing... It's that simple. For jazz players, this is superb. It not only lets you use seventh chords in any key, but also provides extensions, all the inversions, and even some altered chords to challenge your playing. Moreover, you can choose from dozens of styles, from Latin to electronica... Just a great, useful tool.

I create my own backing track to improv to!

Sorry, Won't work on iPad After update!

I use most of the best ios music apps from Cubasis to Nave and SoundPrism........this is still one of my favorites. Best songwritting app for laying out chords and getting songs started. Hope Lars keeps on going with this and more...........

This app is amazing! It is exactly the tool I have been looking for. Thank you!

Hey guys, I was wondering if you guys could add maraca's, sandbox sounds like that that would go with the acoustic guitar. The drums are awesome electric guitar the acoustic guitar I don't know what legacy means if you would get back to me about that I would appreciate it there's nothing that comes up on my iPhone or iPad for that matter. The app is marvelous and has all the features that I like and a music production I can take it and save it and imported to my drum machine unfortunately the drum machine I have on my phone does not have maracas so you can see the difficulty there also if we had maracas on the on Chordbot I could add it and sequence it with the acoustic guitar. Thanks for a great app

As a guitar player this is GREAT app for practice. Allows you to have your own backup band. I found it very intuitive and easy to use. I was able to put together my backing tracks quickly and easily. Love it! Well worth the money. Highly recommended.

With new mixingng, and inst levels and styles this has got better. If youre good with cut and paste you'll make great songs. I use it for songwriting chord progression ideas and practicing my piano and guitar with"

Exporting to midi and futzing with a song on your DAW is fun and useful too.

This app has really grown up since I installed it on iOS 4.2.1 and it was great then too. They've added features while maintaining simplicity. I can't wait til I can apply styles to individual chord patterns. Excellent. Buy it!

I bought this app last week. I like it a lot. Lots of chords to experiment with, and that's great, but I have one problem. When adding another chord to the song structure, it changes other chords along with it! That's a bummer. This happens almost every time. I have had to save after every chord addition. Why is it doing this? Please fix it and five stars for sure. This also has some nice sounds without having to go Midi and that's a plus too! Oh and a way to quickly undo would also be a plus. Thanks for your quick attention. Nebben

The app works very well and I really like it. I was having a problem and emailed the developer, within a few hours I had an answer from them, and it was really just as simple as clearing up some space on my iPad. (Admittedly, I should have thought of this myself). So if your play button is non functional, just erase some unused stuff from your device.

This is a really fast way to prototype a progression and hear it with a complete 'band', rather than a bunch of bleeps and bloops. It has an awesome "Export MIDI To.." function which lists all the apps on you pad that can import MIDI. In may case the output went straight to Cubasis …. each instrument on its own track…. then I could reassign sounds, edit the MIDI, add effects and do a fader based mix. WOW!

I kind of assumed I would be able to drag/rearrange to chord blocks … but the dev has a feature request link on the web site. Also good.

Get it.

Don't plan on getting much sleep after buying this. It's incredible. The more you use it, the more you will get in to it, although its great for a beginner. All that music that rolls around in your head you know you could create suddenly becomes a reality. Yes - Its that good.

Chordbot offers excellent export options though the .midi file option does need more general midi export refinement so each track is exported and subsequently able to be imported cleanly. Also an undo button is needed as the interface does not allow for easy and accurate deletion of chords without frequently worrying about careful timing of delete button pressing.

Aside from these simple improvements that can be addressed in update, chordbot unlocked offers compelling options to create interesting and dynamic chord and song creation.

enhancements like additional chord suggestion options that harmonize well and naming or displaying notes in each chord along with chord name would help the package sell even better

I like the layout, like the ease of use. The multiple instruemnts help write chords, since writing for piano is different then guitar. I love the support and the cheap price. However, there are a few things missing that other apps do and some weird, albeit unneccesary hiccups. Not being the best on the spot music theorist, it would be nice to know chords are in and out of scope of whatever key id like to record in. Suggester tells me after a few chords which keys my chords would fit in, restricting me from being too outside the box progression wise. Also, I understand after talking to a very quick and responsive help support, big big plus, that I have 9 tracks to work with, being able to add many layers of instruments to write an entire ensemble, however, I am annoyed that when I export my midi track all 9 tracks, even if I didnt use them, export. I.e. I write a simple C maj to D Maj chord progression in a piano tone, I export it as a midi file, when I import that midi file in Ableton or Logic it adds 9 seperate tracks, in fact in logic it creates 8 extra virtual instruments shutting down my workflow, Ableton is easier to delete. But why? Why does it always have to import 9 midi tracks, 8 of which that are empty?

A wonderful way to compose on the iPad and iPhone as well as a hands-on approach to learning theory. The sounds within the app are very good and the "Open In" feature for sending midi data into other apps feature is very well implemented. Chordbot has fast become one of my favorite apps for composing on the go. 5 stars.

This app is precisely what I went looking for, only better. If you're a songwriter, it is perfect for sketching out & experimenting with chord progressions. I had tried other more fully-featured sequencing apps but they were all just too complicated & time-consuming for the kind of "sketching" I wanted to do. Chordbot nailed it in terms of intuitive interface, fast, smooth performance, more than enough stylistic options (in the paid version) to help you visualize the song you have in mind to create.

Even the free Lite version is excellent and completely usable as-is. I was so grateful for having found it that I wanted to buy the full version in part just to thank and reward the developer. The additional functions in the paid version are well worth the price.

Unlike some of the other reviews, I personally would not want to see more features crammed in. As-is, it works perfectly well as a songwriter's companion (or as a backup band for improvising over) and I'd hate to see it get bogged down and more complicated.

I remember downloading this app several months and then deleting. I saw some good reviews of the latest version. I picked it up again, and yep, it's headed in the perfect direction.

4 stars because there are some crashes and because there seems to be no effective auto-save I end up losing work.

More patterns, comps for strings, some fill patterns for each comp, support for more rhythm patterns, more comps for non 4/4 times will make it even better.

Whole heartedly recommend for any composer, arranger, performer figuring out chords for any number etc.

Way to go mate!

I've been waiting for an IPad version... it's finally here and it's unbeatable. It was worth the wait. It does a great job and is fairly intuitive as well.

Update One day later... the more I use it, the more I like it. In some ways it's better than Band-In-A-Box, which has been around for decades.

Best music app anywhere? Maybe.

I love this -- have been waiting for this for years. I just got it today and have already written and saved 3 songs. It is very intuitive. This is just what I need for practice, and composition. If you can get sections to play on command like ableton live (waiting for the previous section to finish) in the section view, this would become the default application for performance.

So glad to see this app in iOS. It is the perfect tool for working out chord structure for your melodies. I would venture to say there's nothing better or easier for the price on any operating system.

This app is a songwriters dream. If you are interested in a tool that will allow you to easily map out the structure of a song in an easy and comprehensive manner, this is the app to do it. The sounds are more than good enough for their purpose and the selection of chords and inversions seems to cover every possible variation. If you are a songwriter and don't have this app you are missing out. This app is awesome!!!

Thank you for the thoughtful update. This app was serviceable at first, but now it is irreplaceable. The new features and workflow are very practical. I use this as a quick and dirty way to brainstorm a song before trying it live in GarageBand. I also use it to practice scales and melodic ideas over harmonies.

I'd call it quick and dirty, but it's quick, clean and mean! The workflow is easy and logical where most comparable apps are confusing and frustrating. Sure, MIDI out would be interesting bit it's not necessary if you have a DAW i.e. GarageBand, Logic, Ableton Live, etc. The export options are fantastic. You could spend a lot more for a less intuitive program. This is a must for any computer musician!

Some things I'd like to see added however is a key or mood selection because I don't see one. Also, I don't see scale selections. I think scale selection with an on/off ability would be useful. Also, the scales and templates could use more variation beyond Western styles to include Eastern influenced scales and World music templates as well as more Modern but less mainstream or conventional template, scale, and rhythmic choices. Lastly, I don't know if the suggestion of adding melodic development would ruin the ease of using Chordbot, but this is another area that I could use help in my compositions. Thanks for this major leap forward!

This app is just about perfect for what it does and in my experience, there are none better on the app store right now for playing with chord progressions. The developers keep adding awesome new functionality in upgrades. definitely among my top 5 music apps.

The latest version adds some cool new functinality with the stylle mixer and chord inversioms with auto or manual inversion sekectin. This really helps in making good-sounding progressions. The interface is still elegant, but I do wonder why they exposed the mixer as the top-level style ui (new users may have trouble with the mixer) but at least the presets are still available (though slightly buried),

An intuitive, creative, and streamlined app just got better...and this from an app that was already just about perfect. The mixer and abundance of styles allows the user to tweak chord progressions for a more song-like experience. And the developer wisely improved the app without bogging it down with lots if fluff or changing up the workflow that was already a fast and spontaneous experience...I don't need a studio, after all; just an app that allows me brain-storm chord progressions and song ideas. This is that app--it simply works!!!

Now this is an app that is worth the purchase...as a contemporary synth player...I am constantly writing soundscapes for new tunes...this is a great app for sketching ideas...I particularly like the ability to use slash chords...all the critiques for improvement I agree with...even without those improvements I am definitely getting my money's worth as a working pro musician...buy it!

Just started the app and made a simple progression with a verse, chorus, and chorus 2.

Playback glitches and will start in the wrong section (I want to start on the 3rd but it begins 1/2 way through the 2nd every time). I read the manual and it seems to be a glitch, not a user error. What gives?

Also needs an easy way to move sections around in a song (change their order)

This is really a wonderful app. It's easy to use but the results are incredible! I use it to set up chords to songs and send them to friends so they know how the song goes. I also use it to practice leads and licks. The Song-O-Matic option is great for coming up with interesting chord progressions and for practicing. The export feature is icing on the cake. The app works flawlessly.

It almost sounds too good, but unlike most instant-hero apps that make you feel good, this one really carries your true signature. As you play with it, and if you play enough, even if you have nothing but ears and no musical education, you will start sensing patterns that just make sense.

This app is amazingly underrated. Export to any other app (midi, audio copy, etc).

Billiant

I'm a music producer and songwriter with very limited key skills. The ability to plug in my chord progression and choose a styling makes songwriting a breeze. And for those times I can't figure out what chords I need to compliment my melody, it's perfect!

And the Auto Inversion feature is GENIUS! I discovered that on accident and almost crashed my car when I figured out what it was doing!

This app is already a staple in my music, as I've used it for 3 songs already. I can't wait to see what's in the update!

Truly excellent for sketching out ideas anywhere. Portions of the UI could use refinement (tapping on the main area to return from an option menu, dragging and dropping chords, maybe, measure dividers to remind me where I am.) This is a fundamentally excellent app, though, and I love using it.

I've used Band in a Box a lot on PC for songwriting support, to try out chord progressions and styles (zillions available) and sometimes even to make a starting track for recording demos (MIDI transfer to SONAR). Chordbot is similar but on a smaller scale (with a lot cleaner interface). The concept and interface are great, and what styles and sounds exist are very good, but it would be nice to have more, even as an in-app purchase since making more styles is clearly more work (and a potential income stream) for the developer. Also for those styles that have drums, a check box to turn drums off would be nice. And also a way to insert a duration with "no chord" (rest or break) would be great. Allowing user-defined styles via MIDI would be cool but probably would require a more complex UI.

So room to grow but I still have to give it 5 stars!

Few apps keep my attention - let alone deliver on their promise. This will be my first review. In fact, I usually don't bother to rate Apps as I delete them. But - ChordBot deserves the recognition!

Now, you can easily compose custom progressions, jot down ideas or just browse the rich content for an accompaniment to match your message and mood.

Need inspiration? Don't wait. Install now.

It's a somewhat useful app, but for $4.99 (!) I expected it to be far more robust than the free version, which it's not. At all. The only real difference ended up being the number of available sound-sets (which is nice).

Problem: It does not have iOS4 multitasking support, so sound stops when you switch away from the app - very annoying.

Will give it five stars when the day comes that it offers support for different tempos per measure, downward transposition, the ability to assign a different style to a different chord, and a wider variety of sound styles/genres (NOT just a greater number of sound sets) as it is very stylistically myopic at present.

This is an excellent and highly useful app for song creation. Thank you the audio copy/paste, that's extremely useful.

A couple of suggestions:

1. If its possible, it would be great to set a play pattern (dramatica, hammered, reef, etc) for each chord, so you could create a track with multiple styles;

2. Being able to select an octave for a chord would also be great, although your built in octave selection algorithm does a fairly intuitive job of that. Still, having that control would be great;

3. add the ability to create multiple sets of chord progressions per song, then have the ability to arrange and trigger those groups in whatever order you want. See Xenon for an example of a very good pattern editor and sequencer, as well as iSequence. But that's a big "next step".

Great job, thanks!

This app is relatively easy to flesh out a song and/or try out different chord progressions. IMO, there has been a lot of thought put into this app. It has a good design and clean interface, and MIDI and WAV export via File Sharing. Yes! Future versions can only expand on what is an already great start.