Piano Companion PRO: chords App Reviews

Mandatory app for a musician.

Stop thinking about it and just get this app already. You will use it.

This app is the one stop shop for all your chord/scale needs.

Everyday Im at keyboard I do reach out for the iPad to use this app

I use this all the time for scale and chord references! Handy tool, recommend!!

This is awesome! Lots of musical information in the palm of your hand. Great for beginners to advance musicians! Great for everybody! It is well organized and user friendly. Awesome interactive piano that help you hear the chords and arpeggios. : )

To preface, what the app does do, it does well and mostly, kind of intuitively. Its littered with quite a few annoying bugs throughout very basic functionality, that its possible that it would be maddening to some. The devs seem to be improving the app, and taking feedback as far as I can tell. So hopefully one day it will be a great asset as a creative tool, a referential aid, and ect. To list a few bugs that would be very apparent: intermittently throughout normal use, the app will hang. Throughout normal use, the app will also soft crash and restart itself, or hard crash to your home screen. Playback of chords will fail to play under certain or random conditions, such as switching between chords in the left, drop down menu too quickly (this will also sometimes result in a soft crash.) Theres more, but writing a real bug report, and keeping the review brief would probably be for the better. Like others have mentioned, reverse searching chords or scales will not explicitly tell you what it is that youve inputted, and you will have to figure out on your own via the left hand, scrollable items that contain the notes youve inputted. Theres plenty of choices to make this an easy task for simple, general reference, but for scales, the multiple, close logical matches wont always be near each other; for chords, this makes it even more of a chore on top of the app not having different inversions, voicings, or alterations of chords in its library. Having user-definable naming or editing in that sense, would definitely improve the app for my needs as I would be able to preview and save those chords for future reference when Im not near my DAW. To reiterate, what is here in the app is definitely, for most purposes great, but the shortcomings will most likely turn most away.

I really like this app but sometime I find it confusing. Some of that is because there are often several ways to notate a chord and the app doesnt have them all. I do wish it was somewhat more obvious which of the dozen chords they show is clearly yours. So is say for a beginner it may be confusing, but is still a very useful tool.