SoundBud: Chord & Key Finder
Alp Kurbetci Music iPhoneiPadiPod touch
SoundBud: Chord & Key Finder is a free Music app for iPhone and iPad by Alp Kurbetci. Rated 5.0/5 from 1 ratings. Requires iOS 15.1.
- Rating
- 5.0
- 1 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 101 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Sep 17
- 2026 · v6.1.0
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About SoundBud: Chord & Key Finder
Hear a song, decode it. Record your voice or drop in a video, polish it. SoundBud is a pocket studio for musicians, podcasters and creators. Record, upload a file, or share audio and video from any app. About a minute later you have the key, BPM, time signature and the full, timestamped chord progression. Play it back, practice it, and get your recording or video ready to publish without a computer. DECODE ANY SONG - Record up to 5 minutes, or upload MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC, AAC, OGG, AIFF and more - Drag the waveform to pick the 15 to 60 seconds to analyze - Genre, instrument and song recognition (Premium) - Tap a value to correct it. Your ear gets the last word. PLAY AND PRACTICE (Premium) - Synth Chords: hear the progression played in time - Slow-Downer: 1x, 0.75x or 0.5x, pitch untouched - Section Looper: tap measures to loop the hard part - Transpose chords and key up to 6 semitones either way - A metronome that follows playback - MIDI export: block chords, or a note-by-note transcription made on your phone - Free on the record screen: a chromatic tuner and a tap-tempo metronome FOUR AI THEORY MODES - Theory Analysis: Roman numerals, harmonic function, tonal center and a practical tip - Solo Guide (Premium): a scale for every chord, target notes, guide tones, tensions and licks - Reharmonize (Premium): tritone subs, secondary dominants, passing diminished chords, color chords and a wild-card idea - Explain Simply (Premium): the song in plain words, with play-along ideas Color-coded chords and a lead sheet that follows playback. POLISH ANY SOUND, EVEN VIDEO Free: on-device noise reduction, ducking (music dips while you talk) with a preview, Bass/Mid/Treble EQ, a one-slider compressor, AI Tips, lossless trim, A/B preview, undo, a ready-to-publish check, plus EQ 101 and Compressor 101 guides. Premium opens the full studio: - Live EQ and Live Compressor: drag the curve while your audio plays and hear every move, with a live spectrum and a gain-reduction meter - 6-band EQ with adjustable frequency and Q, plus 3 slots for your own presets - Manual compressor with threshold, ratio, attack, release and knee, before or after the EQ - AI Tips that apply the exact frequency, Q and compressor settings in one tap - Voice-Over Suite: de-esser, breath removal, clarity, room tone reduction, auto-level, click repair, de-hum, exciter - Tighten: cut long pauses from talk recordings in one tap - Loudness and true-peak targets for Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and podcasts, with a limiter - As many videos as you like, up to 30 minutes each: the picture stays untouched, the sound comes back clean - Audio files up to 90 minutes, WAV or MP3 export CREATE AND SHARE - Sound-reactive visuals, customizable and exported as video - Quick music theory quiz cards while you wait LIBRARY Save decoded tracks, then search, sort, replay and edit them. Export a PDF lead sheet with chords, theory and AI insights (Premium). English and Turkish. Note names as C D E or Do Re Mi. Requires iOS 15.1 or later. FREE AND PREMIUM Free includes 4 song decodes a week, 1 Theory Analysis a day, 5 polished audio exports a week, 5 library saves a month, plus 1 polished video and 1 video export a month (Spectrum Bars visual, watermarked). Premium removes these limits and unlocks everything marked Premium above, plus every visual and watermark-free video. No ads. Premium is a monthly or yearly subscription. It renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel it anytime in your App Store account settings. Privacy: only the part you choose to analyze is uploaded, and it is deleted after processing. Polish runs on your phone, and AI features never receive your audio. Terms: https://soundbud.alpaconaudio.com/en/legal#terms Privacy: https://soundbud.alpaconaudio.com/en/legal#privacy Support: [email protected]
What’s new
Version 6.1.0 · Updated September 17, 2026
What's new in 6.1 - Live EQ and Live Compressor (Premium): shape your sound while it plays. Drag points on the curve, watch the spectrum move, and see exactly how hard the compressor is working. - Sharper AI Tips: they now check 19 frequency bands, point to the exact frequency worth fixing, and let you apply their suggestions in one tap (Premium also sets frequency, Q and compressor values). The measurements behind the tips and the ready-to-publish check are more accurate too. - See where the music dips before you export: the music waveform shows every dip, zoomed in on the part that plays under your voice. The music now dips reliably under quiet or heavily compressed voices, too. - Ducking fixes: if the song ends before your recording, its fade-out now plays and your voice stays at the same level. - More control (Premium): frequency and Q for the Bass, Low Mid, Mid and Treble bands, up to 3 saved presets, a knee control, and your choice of EQ before or after the compressor. - New signal chain map and tonal balance bar. New to EQ or compression? Tap "?" for the EQ 101 and Compressor 101 guides. Thanks for making things with SoundBud!
App privacy
The developer, Alp Kurbetci, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Identifiers: Device ID
- Usage Data: Advertising Data
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Identifiers: Device ID, User ID
- Usage Data: Advertising Data, Product Interaction
- Purchases: Purchase History
- Contact Info: Email Address
- User Content: Customer Support
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data
Used for: Third-Party Advertising, Analytics, App Functionality
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- User Content: Audio Data
- Usage Data: Other Usage Data
- Diagnostics: Other Diagnostic Data
Used for: App Functionality, Other Purposes
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