** No. 1 music app in more than 20 countries **
Write songs, find chords, and learn scales based on the circle of fifths! For every skill level!
FOR WHOM?
This app is for musicians of all kinds, songwriters, and producers. Beginners and advanced. No matter if it's your intention to get better on your instrument or playfully find chords and inspiration for your songs or productions.
WRITE SONGS & FIND CHORDS
▶ Chords within a key are highlighted, they will sound great together, just combine them.
▶ Lookup how chords are played on the guitar, piano, ukulele, or bass guitar! With Left-Hand mode!
▶ Export songs as MIDI and use them in Ableton, Reason, Garage Band, or any other DAW.
▶ Thirds? Fifths? Mixolydian??? Don't panic! You don't need to know or learn any music theory!
PRACTICE & LEARN
▶ Learn chords and scales*, get easy access to music theory!
▶ Practice your own songs or popular songs. Analyze them and understand chord relations.
▶ Learn how chords and scales are played on the guitar, piano, ukulele, bass guitar, violin, viola, or cello! With Left-Hand mode!
▶ Display the names of the scale tones in the staff. Improve your sight-reading!
▶ Display scale patterns (intervals) in the staff. Learn scales more effectively!
*basic scales are included, unlock more than 80 additional scales as Add-on if you are hungry for more!
MIDI EXPORT
Export songs as MIDI and work with them in Ableton, Garage Band, or any other digital audio workstation.
PDF EXPORT*
Export chords as PDF lead sheet. Get your songs printed, share PDFs with your bandmates or simply bring the sheets to the rehearsal. Lead sheets are an excellent way to make your music playable for other musicians!
*available as Add-on
PROS AND TEACHERS
▶ Have fun with modal interchange and customized chords!
▶ Check out chord statistics related to the current mode.
▶ Display and playback 4-note chords in the circle of fifths.
▶ Use the app to teach your students and let them practice chord progressions and scales.
FURTHER FEATURES
▶ Song templates: Common Pop-, Jazz-, and Blues templates are integrated
▶ Share & collaborate
Share song links with bandmates or your teacher. Receivers can open and work on them in the TONALY app.
▶ Chord symbols and chord structures are explained.
▶ Integrated instruments: guitar, piano, ukulele, bass, violin, viola, and cello in different tunings.
▶ Interactive keyboard
Check out melodies or practice scales on the go.
▶ Interactive circle of fifths
▶ Display chords, roman numerals, Nashville numbers, and colors.
▶ Transposed playback for Bb or Eb instruments.
▶ List of popular songs
▶ Songwriting
Easily pick chords out of the circle of fifths. Create custom chords, change time signature (4/4, 3/4, 6/8, 7/8, 5/8), change the tempo (40-350bpm), and adjust the flexible song structure.
Once you've composed a song, you can quickly change the key to find the right one for you.
▶ Scales
Available modes/scales:
▻ Ionian (Natural major)
▻ Aeolian (Natural minor)
▻ As well as Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Locrian, and Major & Minor pentatonic.
▻ Unlock more than 80 additional scales as Add-on.
Different clefs:
▻ G clef
▻ F clef
▻ C clef
▶ Different playback sounds:
▻ Grand Piano
▻ Acoustic Guitar
▻ E-Bass
▻ E-Piano
▻ Synth Pad
▶ App settings:
▻ Four color themes, including a color blind theme.
▻ Display minor chords in small letters.
▻ Display 4-note-chords.
▻ Display german note names (B will be H).
▻ Data can be backed and synced by iCloud.
▶ No registration (account) needed!
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Love the app, been using it for about 10 years. Ive always used it to reference other modes to ionian but was wondering if its possible to display two modes simultaneously? Like two sets of dots, separately color coded, and may have the ability to set one mode as home via color choice (no extra clutter needed. Instructions in preferences tab) and the parallel mode of home would be the opposite color displaying your intervals as a palette of color as opposed to separate palettes.
开发者回复
Wow, 10 years — thank you so much, that means the world to me! The idea of displaying two modes simultaneously with color-coded dots is really interesting. For now, I want to keep the UI as simple and focused as possible, so this might be a bit much — but I'll definitely keep it in mind!
Great, but MIDI In and Out, and a better notation engine would make this 5-stars.
stevesteele.com
This app is good for teaching chord progressions, chord progressions in keys, using substitutions, borrowing, and modulations, etc. But one clear omission is MIDI input and output. It seems so obvious, the need for midi in and out, I’m surprised that years in it hasn’t been added. An example use case would be, using external instruments for playback, like Pianoteq for example. MIDI input could be used to hear piano while using the app, but also to choose chords by root, or inversion. For example, if I’m going to pick a CMaj in 1st inversion, being able to just play it on a keyboard and Tonaly inserting that chord into the arrangement would be handy. Also, the PDF sheet music could use a more refined engine. It’s a bit cheep looking. Not something I’d use to give to another professional. But good enough for teaching. Other than that, I’ve been using Tonaly since it was released and it’s a good tool for teachers and musicians learning the skill of putting chord progressions and songs together.
开发者回复
Thank you very much for the detailed and thoughtful feedback — it’s greatly appreciated.MIDI output is already available and can be enabled from the sidebar menu, allowing you to use external instruments for playback.MIDI input is a great suggestion and is currently on my list for future app extensions. I’ll definitely keep your use cases in mind as development continues.Thanks again for your long-term support and for using Tonaly as part of your teaching and musical work.
Pretty good
BBP PC
Certainly is easier to to just play the piano with one thumb, if you understand music theory enough it’s pretty exciting to do all this very easily. I like the features that structure the song writing easily, even down to the small things like being able to see the mini piano as the chords play. Which brings me to something I would love to see in the future (I have searched to see if this is a feature, I haven’t found anything about it). So sometimes I’ll play a chord once, for example, Dmaj7/F#, one time, play something else and back to Dmaj7/F# again but the second time the F# is an octave above from the first one. I would like to be able to control the octave of the bass notes as well. I would also like to see if we can play a chord on the piano that shows when sideways and get it to appear as a chord, and implement it into the song, in case we wanted a more spread out chord per se. I would like to see us be able to write melodies in these chord progressions with this app. I was hoping it would do that since it was the price it is, although its pretty good for its price now, it would really make it better if it had the ability to write melodies with these chord progressions.Despite all of that I do believe this app is brilliant with its features on not only being able to exercise your knowledge in music theory by creating beautiful chord progressions, but also teach music theory to beginners while also giving both beginners and advanced users inspiration for creating something new, and giving ideas when we hit a creative block. Overall, great app, could be better but good enough.
开发者回复
Thank you for your review! One of he next bigger updates will bring own inversions and octaves for chords. The app creates automated inversions and fits that into an octave range. so it may apparent that the second time it plays the chords back it moved up to another octave due to creating inversions. Thank you for your feedback! I'll keep it in mind for upcoming updates!
Fun and super helpful for writing songs!
wckreation
Great little app, very helpful for composing and actually hearing chord progressions back for those who don't have relative and perfect pitch. The only thing is that I would love for more customizations of the chords, namely inversions (even in combination with four note chords) and different rhythms that aren't 4/4. Right now, the root of the chord is always on the bottom. Inversions add a different color to the chord and are very widely used in songs and compositions. Some chords in the context of a certain progression just aren't the same sound without inversions. As for rhythms, it would be helpful for more control over how many bars a progression is and how many beats are in a bar. Right now, it's always 4 beats to a bar. Either 4 or 8 bars. I don't think adding different time signatures would be incredibly difficult nor adding custom length of bars any amount between (2-8). Also, adding chord changes within a bar would be awesome. That would add more complexity, sure, but the app for have so much value for making fully realized chord progressions for a song or composition. Other than those things, a solid app with lots of potential for improvement. I'm sure the inversions and rhythms features can be included in a future update.
开发者回复
Hey wckreation, thank you for your detailed feedback! The latest update of the app includes a more flexible song structure, as well as different time signatures! Enjoy!
New personalized onboarding that adapts to your instrument and goals. Plus bug fixes and improvements.
