Tuner · chords · songs · courses for the Andean charango

Tune it. Play it. Learn it.

Ten strings in five pairs, and ten pegs that all look alike: the hard part of tuning a charango is knowing which peg to turn. Charango shows you the headstock, marks the peg for the string you are tuning, and tells you exactly how far off it is.

Charango screenshot: the tuner, with a charango headstock whose ten pegs are labelled with the note each string is tuned to

Ten strings, peg by peg
Works offline
No ads
No subscription
The tuner is never locked
Collects no data

Then it hands you the instrument

A charango you can play on your screen

In Simulation the charango is on your screen: strum across the strings, or pick one of 37 songs and strum its chords yourself.

Play a charango right on your screen
168 chords, with real fingerings
Four courses, first strum to fluent

What’s inside

Everything for one instrument

Tune

All ten strings, peg by peg, with a live needle that never flashes “in tune” early
Nine tunings: temple natural, temple diablo, the transposed temples, and the ronroco and walaycho sizes

Play

Simulation: a charango you can play, free strum or a song’s chords
Songbook: 37 songs, huayños, carnavalitos, pasillos, zambas and more, from El cóndor pasa to El diablo suelto, with the chords for every bar
168 chords (12 roots, 14 types), up to three fingerings each, drawn for the charango’s five courses

Learn

Four charango courses, 33 lessons
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 colour palettes, light and dark themes, left-handed mode

Price

Free on Android, with Pro. One purchase on iPhone.

On Android, Charango is free to download. Free for everyone: the tuner with every tuning, Simulation, the major, minor, 7th and minor 7th chords, the first three songs, four starter scales, the fundamentals course and the first level of every drill, plus the metronome, drone, recorder and capo.

Charango Pro, paid once and never a subscription, adds the strobe meter, every other chord type, the rest of the songbook with chord mode to strum along, the other courses, every drill level and every scale. No ads and no account either way. Bought Charango before? Pro is already yours when you update.

On the App Store, Charango is one purchase with every Pro feature included and nothing to buy inside.

Private

Nothing you play is sent to us

Charango collects no data: no accounts, no analytics, no advertising. It makes no network requests, and everything works offline, songs included. Audio is analysed on the device and immediately discarded. The details are in the privacy policy (en español).

Questions? See Support.