Tuner · chords · courses for the 5-string, tenor and plectrum banjo

Tune it. Play it. Learn it.

Five strings, five pegs, and one of them sits halfway up the neck. Banjo shows you the headstock, marks the peg for the string you are tuning, the fifth-string drone included, and tells you exactly how far off it is. Retune to double C or sawmill and it still points at the right peg.

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Banjo screenshot: the tuner in open G, with a 5-string banjo headstock whose pegs are labelled with each string's note, the fifth-string peg sitting on the neck

Every string, peg by peg
Nine tunings
Works offline
No subscription
The tuner is never locked
Collects no data

Then it hands you the instrument

A banjo you can play on your screen

In Simulation the banjo is on your screen: pick a single string, or strum across all five. Play a tenor or a plectrum banjo? Pick its tuning and the headstock turns into the four-peg one.

Play a banjo right on your screen
168 chords, drawn for every tuning
Eight courses, first roll to clawhammer

What’s inside

Everything for one instrument

Tune

All five strings, peg by peg, with a live needle that never flashes “in tune” early
Nine tunings: open G, double C, sawmill, open D, double D and drop C on the 5-string, plus tenor (CGDA and Irish GDAE) and plectrum (CGBD)

Play

Simulation: a banjo you can play, pick one string or strum all five
168 chords (12 roots, 14 types), up to three fingerings each, drawn for whichever of the nine tunings you are in

Learn

Eight courses, 64 lessons: four for the 5-string, from your first roll through clawhammer, melodic and single-string style, and four for the tenor banjo
Ten practice drills: ear training, melodic dictation, fretboard, intervals, chord changes, timing, rhythm, scales, sight reading and strumming

Tools

Metronome, drone, scales, chord and scale, circle of fifths, capo and transpose, practice recorder, overtones and String Health
12 color palettes, light and dark themes, left-handed mode

Free, with Pro

Free to download. Pro is one optional purchase.

Free for everyone: the tuner with every tuning, Simulation, the major, minor, 7th and minor 7th chords, four starter scales, the two fundamentals courses (5-string and tenor) and the first level of every drill, plus the metronome, drone, recorder and capo.

Banjo Pro, paid once and never a subscription, adds the strobe meter, every other chord type, the other courses, every drill level and every scale. No ads and no account either way.

Private

Nothing you play leaves your device

Banjo collects no data: no accounts, no analytics, no advertising. It does not use the Internet, and everything works offline. Audio is analysed on the device and immediately discarded. The details are in the privacy policy (en español).

Questions? See Support.