Beat Kitchen Harmony Wheel
Realtime chord function finder
$9.99 · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
You can hear when a chord does something. It lifts you. It pulls you back home. It takes you somewhere new. Naming what you just heard is the hard part. Meet the Harmony Wheel.
The wheel listens to your mic or uses your MIDI keyboard. It works on piano or guitar and even on recorded music (with clear harmonic movement). It identifies chords, contextualizes them within a key, and displays what it thinks those chords are doing using the Beat Kitchen Ten Chord Toolkit (thoroughly explained within a guidebook included in this app): the one (I) you keep coming back to, the IV that opens things up, the V that wants to resolve, a V/vi setting up a detour, a bVII pulled from the parallel minor. It lights the wedge that explains what's happening while you play.
Think of it as a tuner for harmony — point it at the music and it names the role each chord is playing, not just the chord itself.
What it does (v1.0)
Hears chords from your mic in real time, right on your device — nothing leaves your phone
Labels the wheel by function, not just by chord name: I, ii, IV, V, V/vi, bVII, and the rest
Records what you played so you can study the path a progression took
Tap any wedge to hear the chord
Takes MIDI in, wired or over Bluetooth, with a built-in synth
Locks to your key so the wheel orients to the music you're in
A Learn tab that walks through what you're looking at
If you've reached for a circle of fifths, a Camelot wheel, or a key finder before, you're in the same neighborhood — except this one works in real time, while the music is still playing.
Who it's for
Producers, songwriters, students, and anyone who can tell a progression is doing something to them but can't always say what. You don't need to read music. You need to be curious about why a few chords in a row can move you. It's theory you can hear before you can spell it.
Pro Pack (coming in v1.1)
More modes are in the works and will arrive later as an optional upgrade inside the app.
Beat Kitchen is a school that teaches harmony by ear and by function first. Harmony Wheel puts that same way of listening on your phone.
Ratings & Reviews
Get hands-on with harmony: explore scales and modes in the Tetrachord toolkit, spin up fresh chord progressions in the Random generator, and hear all of it played back on-device. Chords now use the correct enharmonic spelling, with a batch of fixes and a louder built-in synth.
The developer, Beat Kitchen LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Beat Kitchen LLC
- Size
- 44.4 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 14.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 14.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 14.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Age Classification
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Beat Kitchen
