Polychord: Chord Instrument Apple

Polychord: Chord Instrument

By: Apposite App
Songwriting pads, AUv3 MIDI

Overview

Rating:
4.40
(39)
Version:
3.1.1
Last updated: 2026-08-11
Ranking
#194,418 64
Overall

Features & Capabilities

Polychord turns your iPad into a chord instrument — a full band at your fingertips.

Nine chord circles hold every chord in your key — arranged so the right one is always under your fingers. Tap a circle to hear it, and the ring around it offers the colors: sevenths, sixths, suspensions. Strum across the keys like a harp. You can't hit a wrong note, and you never have to stop and think.

Flip on Auto Accompany and a rhythm section falls in behind you: bass and drums that follow every chord change you make, in styles from folk to funk to krautrock. One finger becomes a band.

When something good happens, hit record. Loop, layer, and bounce it to audio, or export multi-track MIDI with chords, strum, bass, arpeggiator, and drums on separate tracks, ready for your DAW.

In the studio, Polychord comes with you. The AUv3 MIDI-effect plugin puts the chord grid inside DAWs like Logic Pro that support MIDI effects, and MIDI in and out means it can play — or be played by — everything else you own.

Whether you've played for twenty years or never learned an instrument, Polychord closes the gap between imagining music and making it.

FEATURES • Nine chord circles covering the full harmony of any major or minor key • Chord palettes for folk, jazz, gospel, bossa nova, soul, cinematic, and more • Strum keys with pitch bend • Auto Accompany: bass lines and drum patterns that follow your chords • Arpeggiator with adjustable direction, rate, and octave span • Built-in wavetable synth with ADSR envelopes, filter, delay, and bitcrusher • Record performances and bounce to audio • Multi-track MIDI export: chords, strum, bass, arpeggiator, and drums on separate tracks • MIDI out to any app or hardware; MIDI in to trigger chords from a keyboard • You can even split your MIDI output to trigger multiple instruments at once in DAWs like Logic • AUv3 MIDI-effect plugin: play the chord grid inside your favorite host • AUv3 works in DAWs like Logic Pro that support MIDI effect plug-ins

Polychord is a one-time purchase. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no account. Your music stays yours.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App
By:
Apposite
Rating:
4.40
(39)
Version:
3.1.1 Last updated: 2026-08-11
Version code:
889573615
Creation date:
2010-11-13
Compatible devices:
Size:
23.17MB
Price:
9.99
URLs:
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Full description:
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Source:
Apple Apps Store
Data ingested on:
2026-08-15
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Contact the developer

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Developed by:
Apposite
Apple Apps Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/polychord-chord-instrument/id402625491
Website:
http://polychordapp.com

User Reviews

love the app & use it with Riff Station, which give me the chords from any song & transpose it to what Polychord can handle. While strumming Polychord, you can accidentally shrink & close it, … so I lock the app down by running it with IPad Guided Access. Thanks sooo much for a great running app. My wish is to be able to select the individual chords to place on the palette.
by pa*****, 2023-12-01

Really dope app! Sooooooooo wish they would update it. I’d pay for an update!!!
by un*****, 2022-12-28
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