# Suggester 2 : Chords & Scales

> Brilliant chord progressions

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6448964737](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6448964737)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id6448964737`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Mathieu Routhier
- **Category:** Music
- **Rating:** 4.70 / 5 (371 ratings)
- **Version:** 5.4.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-13
- **First published:** 2023-06-03
- **Size:** 146 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-20
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/suggester-2-chords-scales/id6448964737)
- **Website:** [https://www.mathieurouthier.com/suggester2/ios](https://www.mathieurouthier.com/suggester2/ios)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://www.mathieurouthier.com/suggester2\_ios/privacypolicy.html](http://www.mathieurouthier.com/suggester2_ios/privacypolicy.html)

## Description

Suggester 2: Chords & Scales helps songwriters unlock new possibilities by generating expressive chord progressions with an intuitive interface. It reveals harmonic relationships and supports piano, guitar, and ukulele workflows.

Key features include roman numeral-based chord selection, intelligent suggestions that fit your progressions, a library of classic progressions for inspiration, and easy export as audio, MIDI, or text with AUv3 compatibility.

## Rankings

- #81,840 — Overall
- #24 — suggestion

## Review summary

Users broadly praise Suggester 2 as a powerful, portable toolkit for chords, scales, voicings, and progression experimentation, with strong MIDI/DAW integration, a helpful chord lookup/dictionary, and cross-device syncing across Mac, iPad, and iPhone. The biggest downsides are a paywall/upgrade model that locks features and varies by platform, plus stability issues like crashes and occasional data loss. Other concerns include inconsistent Mac/iOS parity and usability gaps for beginners in organizing bars/measures.

### Pros

- Extensive, feature-rich toolset for chords, scales, voicings, and progressions, ideal for on-the-go songwriting.
- Boosts creativity and helps overcome writer's block with quick exploration of modes, borrowed chords, and voicings.
- Strong MIDI/DAW integration: export MIDI, use with external gear, and AUv3 support for routing into DAWs like AUM or GarageBand.
- Chord lookup/dictionary that identifies chords and suggests keys/scales, with easy auditioning of voicings.
- Cross-device compatibility and instrument options with easy syncing across Mac, iPad, and iPhone.

### Cons

- Paywall and unclear upgrade pricing: many features are locked behind purchases, with additional costs when moving between iOS and Mac.
- Stability issues: frequent crashes and, in some cases, data loss of saved compositions or sounds.
- Platform parity issues and inconsistent capabilities: Mac version restricts fret range (1-3) vs iOS (1-12) and separate unlocks across platforms.
- Usability concerns for beginners: difficulty organizing bars/measures and notational workflow.

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