ChordAid Changelog

What's new in ChordAid 2.5

Mar 12, 2016
  • It is now possible to change the chord name font and distance to chart when dragging and dropping to other applications.

New in ChordAid 2.3 (Mar 2, 2016)

  • Added an option to include the chord name with the diagram when dragging and dropping into other apps.

New in ChordAid 2.1 (Jul 31, 2015)

  • This major update includes a reverse chord finder with support for capo and lefty players
  • Save and load chord sequences
  • Added more tunings

New in ChordAid 1.21 (Apr 2, 2015)

  • Updated for OS X Yosemite
  • ChordAid is the new name for AltiChord

New in ChordAid 1.19d (Aug 19, 2014)

  • Added support for capo
  • New option to show either intervals or notes below the chord shapes
  • New option to show interval qualities using either letters (M, m, D, A) or flat and sharp signs
  • Added guitalele to the predefined instruments

New in ChordAid 1.17 (May 19, 2014)

  • Full screen mode support.
  • Performance improvements.
  • Option to chose the highest note (melodic position) of the chords.

New in ChordAid 1.9 (Aug 30, 2013)

  • Corrected the Default and Strict chord presets to allow tones in triads to repeat twice

New in ChordAid 1.7 (Aug 22, 2013)

  • Support for copying of shapes to clipboard and drag-and-drop to other applications
  • Popup for selecting the bass note/inversion
  • New song transpose feature
  • Option to select how many times a tone may repeat in a shape (in chord presets)
  • Additional chord presets

New in ChordAid 1.5 (Jul 19, 2013)

  • The chord lookup engine has been greatly improved:
  • You can choose which intervals can be excluded from a shape and how many of them simultaneously. For example, you can configure the application to exclude fifth or seventh note when showing eleventh chords.
  • Each chord category (triad, seventh, etc.) can have its own settings.
  • Added options to limit the number of muted and open strings in a shape.
  • The chord structure is shown next to the chord names, some more chords were added.
  • The note names under the charts have been sometimes wrongly named, e.g. showing Db instead of C#. Now the note role is taken into account when choosing the accidentals.

New in ChordAid 1.3 (May 7, 2013)

  • Support for slash chords (Cm/G)
  • Different chord playback styles
  • Support for left handed players
  • Possibility to see individual shapes in tablature notation
  • Auto-completion improvements