Alea

A starting point for songs

Alea rolls a starting point for a song and gets out of the way: a few chords, a mood, a theme, a rhythm and a tempo. Hold what you like, roll the rest.

Coming soon to the App Store

iPhone · iPad · Mac · Free, with a one-time Alea Complete unlock

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Alea sparks a song. It never writes one.

Roll

Chords with real names in a key, each with its Roman numeral, spelled the way you'd write them on a chart. A mood and a theme from word lists written for songwriters. A rhythm on a sixteenth-note grid, a tempo and a time signature.

Hold

Long press any block, or any single chord, to hold it and roll the rest. Calm at 160 bpm is a brief, not a mistake.

Hear

Tap a chord to hear it, so you can find it on your instrument. Tap the rhythm to hear it on a woodblock, at the roll's tempo.

Keep

Save a roll with a title and notes. Your ideas live in your own iCloud and follow you to iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Everywhere

A home screen widget with a die that rolls in place, today's roll on the lock screen, and Siri and Shortcuts.

Share

Send a roll as an image to a bandmate or a feed.

A native Mac app, with your ideas beside the roll.

Alea

Coming soon to the App Store