TONALY: Songs, Scales & Theory

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Last verified 31 Jul 2026

4.8 6301 ratings · App Store

1. 5/5Absolutely Brilliant (two suggestions, though)

   Hats off to the developer(s). This app is so well thought out and designed. I’m absolutely in love with it. A great tool for learning, songwriting, and deconstructing popular songs for making your own arrangements. One thing I’d really like to see added is more in depth archive options when you save songs. I’m in the process of building out covers I know and would love the ability to tag songs to a genre, artists, etc. and be able to type in a search bar to jump right to it. It would also be nice to be able to add custom text fields above song parts. If I could just type in the first line of lyrics for versus, choruses, so on that’d be awesome. Then this app will be dang near perfect! 🤙 There are options to export out to PDF lead sheets so you could still use this app as a tool for building a good archive system yourself, but the app design and functionality is so beautiful I don’t wanna leave it.

   GuyGotchu · 31 Jul 2026

2. 4/5Pretty good

   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.

   BBP PC · 31 Jul 2026

3. 4/5Fun and super helpful for writing songs!

   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.

   wckreation · 31 Jul 2026

4. 2/5Pretty confusing so far READ BEFORE YOU BUY

   Not happy there was no trial before purchase, but I guess it makes sense from a business standpoint. I would not have purchased. I’m always looking for helpful tools and this will not be one. You can jam with the chords under “scales” but you can’t record there. In fact, I don’t see a way to record even in “songwriting” . Instead, you need to tap the first measure and select a note, tap the next measure and select a note and so on. If you don’t tap the next measure you just keep changing the note for the first measure. I was hoping for an intuitive app for songwriting that exports midi, which this certainly is not. When I write a song, I don’t strum one chord once per measure, so this midi info is useless. I’ll try downloading this onto an iPad to see if it works any better, but I don’t have high hopes with no sign of a metronome on iPhone. The “instructions” online for this app are just videos online of the developer playing with an older version of the app. If your charging money I think it’s part of the job to record new videos to match the app that is currently sold to consumers. Why aren’t the “scales” automatically matched to the “songwriting” key?

   Captain_Brandy · 31 Jul 2026

5. 4/5So close to being great

   (Updated rating based on dev response- thank you for you being open and responsive! - and appreciate the effort being put in to the app) The app is very promising and fun to use, it feels some areas are incomplete… so close but missing something. (a) For example, when the guitar fretboard is visible some chords can be added to a song but are not displayed on the fretboard e.g. in the key of E minor, Em9, Em11, Em13 do now show on the fretboard - would be great if all chords that can be selected would be displayed on the fretboard. Would prevent needing another app to remember unsupported chord fingerings, not to mention seeing the chord while in the song. (b) Additionally, it would be great if any of the inversions / positions of a chord on the fretboard could be selected and displayed on the fretboard. A few other folks have mentioned this as well. (c) Another request would be to allow changing scales and tempo in a song at the Part level. Borrowing allows adding other chords but feel natively supporting scale and tempo at the part level would make the UX better as the whole UI would reflect it. (d) Maybe it’s just me but I find it hard to find where I am in a song while it’s playing - the underline animation under a chord is hard for me to see when a song is playing. If the chord (on a line) being played could be highlighted visually (pulse animation color change perhaps) on the song chart it would be very helpful. (e) lastly, it would be great to have more metronome options with more realistic sounds (crumbs in different styles like rock, jazz) - would essentially make this app the one stop shop for writing and practicing chords / scales / songs. Love the app but always find I’m missing something when trying to write a song beyond the basic level. A public roadmap or WIP feature list would be nice, btw. Great job and looking forward to updates!

   Nico_lives · 31 Jul 2026

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