Alternatives to Hookpad
Songwriting sketchpad built on music theory, with an AI assistant that suggests chords and melodies. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Hookpad
Songwriting sketchpad built on music theory, with an AI assistant that suggests chords and melodies.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Hookpad.
Scaler 3
A music theory workstation plugin that suggests chords, progressions and melodies for music producers.
Scaler 3 is a paid Windows and macOS plugin suggesting chords, progressions and melodies inside a DAW, with key and chord detection companion tools.
LANDR Composer
An AI plugin that generates chord progressions, melodies, basslines and arpeggios as MIDI for a DAW.
LANDR Composer is a paid plugin generating chords, melodies, basslines and arpeggios as MIDI with a piano roll, but needs DAW instruments to produce sound.
Magenta Studio
A free Ableton Live plugin that uses Magenta machine learning models to generate and transform MIDI clips.
Magenta Studio is a free Apache-2.0 plugin generating and transforming MIDI clips, but requires Ableton Live 10.1 Suite or later and lacks theory guidance.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
AIVA
An AI music composition assistant that generates editable songs in more than 250 styles.
Chordify
An online service that automatically detects the chords in a song so you can play along.
Basic Pitch
A free, open-source audio-to-MIDI converter from Spotify with pitch bend detection, usable in the browser.
Klangio
AI music transcription apps that turn recordings and YouTube audio into sheet music, tabs and MIDI.
ACE Studio
An AI singing voice generator and vocal production workstation for creating sung vocals from notes and lyrics.
