# Polychord: Chord Instrument

> Songwriting pads, AUv3 MIDI

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id402625491](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id402625491)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id402625491`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Apposite
- **Category:** Music
- **Rating:** 4.40 / 5 (39 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.1.1
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-11
- **First published:** 2010-11-13
- **Size:** 23 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-04
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/polychord-chord-instrument/id402625491)
- **Website:** [http://polychordapp.com](http://polychordapp.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.apposite.ai/metaballs-privacy.html](https://www.apposite.ai/metaballs-privacy.html)

## Description

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.

## Rankings

- #195,085 — Overall

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