Guitar

Tuner · chords · songs · courses for the guitar

Tune it. Play it. Learn it.

Tune your guitar, play it and learn it, all in one app. The tuner marks the peg to turn, twelve courses take you from your first chord to barre chords, power chords and open tunings, 168 chords come with every finger shown, and a songbook of 47 songs puts them to work.

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Guitar screenshot: the tuner in standard tuning reading G3 in tune, above an acoustic guitar headstock whose six pegs are labelled with each string's note

Then it hands you the instrument

A guitar you can play on your screen

In Simulation the guitar is on your screen: pick a single string, strum across all six, or strum along to a song's chords.

What’s inside

Everything for one instrument

Tune

  • The headstock on screen with the peg to turn marked, and a live needle that never flashes “in tune” early
  • Eleven tunings, all free: standard, drop D, drop C, half step and whole step down, DADGAD, open G, open D, and the 7-string, 8-string and 12-string guitar

Play

  • Simulation: a guitar you can play, pick one string or strum all six
  • Songbook: 47 songs, folk standards, classic rock, pop and Latin favorites, with a chord mode that lets you strum them in Simulation
  • 168 chords (12 roots, 14 types), up to three fingerings each, drawn for whichever of the eleven tunings you are in

Learn

  • Twelve courses (96 lessons), from fundamentals and open chords through intermediate and advanced technique, a songs course, and a course for each alternate tuning and for the 7-string and 12-string
  • 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: the tuner with every tuning, the needle and bar meters, Simulation, major, minor, 7th and minor 7th chords, four starter scales, the Guitar Fundamentals course, the first three songs, the first level of every drill, and the metronome, drone, recorder and capo. No ads, no account, no subscription.

Pro is one optional in-app purchase, paid once: the strobe meter, every other chord type, the other eleven courses, the rest of the songbook with chord mode to strum along, every drill level, every scale, chord and scale, the circle of fifths, overtones, String Health and practice insights. Never a subscription, and the tuner is never gated.

Private

Nothing you play is sent to us

Guitar 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.

Guides

Guitar guides

Exact pitches for every tuning Guitar ships, and the questions players actually ask. Useful with or without the app.