Klimper 4+

I’ve got a bunch of these composition aides — apps that help those of us with no musical training to come up with chord progressions that sound good. Most of them aren’t great. Klimper is far and away the best I’ve found so far. That ability to easily come up with chord progressions and then fill them out with leads, bass lines, drums, etc. Is really outstanding and I know I’ll use this regularly whereas the others were all just used once or twice and then set aside.

So why only four stars? It really needs a manual. The tutorials are helpful, but I don’t want to sit through half a dozen video tutorials just to find out how to do something.

The second thing is the ability to resize the grid manually. I know it’s sort of doable in drum mode, when you zoom in and out, but this is one of those things that needs a menu. I need to be able to switch from quarter notes to eighth notes to sixteenth notes instantly at will. It might be doable, but it’s not easy to figure out how.

But the core stuff you’ll use this for — coming up with great chord progressions— I’ve yet to see a better app for that.

I'm giving this 5 stars because the work that has gone into making an app that helps you find chords of those sorts in each scale is brilliant and this app deserves far more than the 3 stars it's been landed with.
However, the issue lays with the UI and adding a tutorial that is interactive with it. People just don't know what to do with it immediately and, despite there being a tutorial button, in my experience nobody wants to spend more than 30 seconds learning something. The fact that it doesn't show you the DAW-like interface until the second video might be a mistake too. You could probably even edit those videos to give a quick glimpse as a first use/install with 30-40 seconds of its potential and that would be far less daunting.
Finally, I think people should get a chance to try it. Placing a price tag over something before someone uses it outright is no longer expected. I've noticed apps go more and more for subscriptions OR my preferred take is to give a lifetime ownership at a cost after, say, 7 days of having it for free.

The concept of not needing to know theory to play with chord combinations is amazing, it really helps ease the workflow for those of us who have a rough idea of how we would like our music to sound. But even though the chords are there in plain sight they aren’t always available when they need to resolve into a different key. When there is a great chord progression going for example the tonality seems to be leading somewhere but that key is now not present and because we are not pitch perfect we just don’t know what key we need to select in order to find that chord that we can hear in our heads but don’t know where it is in the map. So my solution is that an on-screen keyboard that one can enable and disable could help us bridge the gap between key changes and help us figure out chord progressions much faster with added interest. On a keyboard it’s just easier to find the key that we need and by finding it we can select the key map immediately. Thank you for considering this request.