Chord! app for iPhone and iPad


4.4 ( 3424 ratings )
Reference Music
Developer: Thomas Grapperon
4.99 USD
Current version: 2.8.2, last update: 1 year ago
First release : 14 Mar 2013
App size: 18.41 Mb

Chord! is a chord and scale reference that works with any fretted instrument like guitar, basses, ukulele, banjos,… It computes and analyses all the possible fingerings for chords, scales, and arpeggios.

With Chord!, you can also write a song by simply dragging and dropping chords, transpose it in any key, compute the fingerings with any tuning and generate a beautiful print-ready PDF, etc.

You can also import your existing songs in text format (please note that the app does not ship with songs). You can also link audio tracks from your music library and play them at the same time while adjusting their pitch and/or speed.

You dont even have to know music theory to use it: behind its brute force, the app knows how to handle by itself some subtleties of music to give meaningful results.

If you dont have to be an advanced player to use the app, you can however take a look under the hood and tweak the parameters if you like! Whatever is your level or your instrument, Chord! will adapt and give you the most precise answer.

You can search for any chord, split (like D/F#), or not. If youre a beginner, you can choose the chord from a list, but you can also use the intelligent keyboard to enter the chord as it is written. If this keyboard is a great way to enter chords, it is also very useful to discover and understand how the chords are formed. You can also enter some notes on a neck to find which chords it can be. You can hear how each fingering sounds. Chord arpeggios are also supported, as well as drop voicings (drop 2, drop3, etc.).

The app also ships with the biggest list of named scales (and you can create your own scales). It analyses and presents them with nice interactive views (scale, score, and keyboard). Of course, it can also lay down these scales on a neck (with sound) and compute their fingerings. Like for chords, you can even search for a scale from its fingering!

Each scale can be harmonized (decomposed into chords). You can also enter a sequence of chords to find which scale you can use to improvise onto.

You can use one of the hundred tunings that ship with the app, or you can add your own ones, for any instrument, with or without a capo, even with broken strings if you want!

The app uses custom and unique algorithms to generate charts, easily input complex harmonic structures, extract chords from fingerings, determine finger positions, compute keys of scales, generate chords from scales and find scales that go well with some chords.

For example, Chord! is the right tool in these situations:
• You want to have your songbook available at any time, in your pocket;
• Youre a beginner and you want to know how to play easily a D/F# chord;
• One gave you a ukulele and you want to know how to tune it and how to play the G Hawaiian scale;
• You want to know on what scale you can improvise for some chord sequence (and the answer can be different than the Pentatonic minor!);
• You want to print your song and share it with your band.
• You want to experiment with this nice open tuning, moreover with a bottleneck;
• Your little sister cant make bar chords and you want to show her how she can do without bars, with three (little) fingers only;
• You want to impress your little sister by showing her how you can play the same chords with two bars!
• You want to understand how this fingering for C13 is actually a fingering for C13;
• You broke a string and want to know how to play some chords without;
• You want to know how Django managed to play with two and a half fingers.

The app fully supports left-handed instruments.

Main functions of the app:
- Write, transpose, fingerize, print, and share songs;
- Search chord fingerings (or chord charts);
- Search chords from fingerings;
- Search scale fingerings;
- Search scales from fingerings;
- Search chords from scale;
- Search scales from chords.

Pros and cons of Chord! app for iPhone and iPad

Chord! app good for

Great app just perfect. It would be great adding support for screen rotation and 3D touch.
This is the most complete guitar app in my collection. It is complex and it has many uses. I use it mostly to review chord fingerings and I would highly recommend it.
Fabulous well-rounded tool. Clearly loving meticulous attention has been invested in conceptualizing music theory from a world-wide perspective. Intuitive. Thoughtful. Serious leverage.
If you dont feel like taking the time to learn an app, then download something else. If you want to take the time to learn everything this app has to offer, you are in for a treat. My favorite option on here is the ability to open tabs up from the Ultimate Guitar Tabs app with the click of a button(literally) and have it copied into the songbook. Then be able to add and edit it. I love this app and havent even discovered half of what it can do. I would of paid double the price.
Been using this for a week now, love it. Yes a bit of a learning curve (30 minutes to fully explore and get the hang of it), like any good tool. Ive been making song sheets for the boys, you can fully customize output and save your templates, all elements on a page can be sized and margins and fonts adjusted. Sync over the cloud between devices... Had a few questions, the developer got back to me quickly. All in all this is worth more than the asking price.
I love this app ! It is very easy to use and you have every chords, scales and infos you can deam of ! Moreover, the app developpers really hear what users have to say to improve their product. Ill recommand this app to any guitar player. Keep up your good work :)

Some bad moments

Unlike advertised, it is NOT compatible with an iPad. Is it too much to ask to make the app universal?
Awesome app. Best of its kind for any device. Much better than GuitarToolkit, recommend it to every musician I play with. Great developer support too, love that this is one of the first apps to be updated for my 6+!!
I am not a stringed instrument player, they have confounded me for decades (honestly its a cognitive disconnect). But with this tool I finally feel in command. I tell it what I want to play and how I want to play it and it shows me how to accomplish that goal. I tell it that I want to see what that song would look like on a completely different instrument or tuning and it shows me... Fantastic. The app itself is deep and complex and could benefit from some simplification in the UI. If I had not been someone who has been using computers for music since the 80s I might have been a bit more lost. As it turned out, I still found it challenging. The developer needs better documentation and a good set of how to movies right away. To avoid people getting frustrated. I did have a problem with the app not showing me common fingerings of basic mandolin and ukulele chords but I emailed the developer and got a response that was honest and clear the same day. I am confident he is actively working on this project and dedicated to making it better. Good thing too, because it is great. If this had been available 30 years ago I would be calling myself a string player today.
This app is truly incredible. I still cant believe how much information and how many features it has, and youll be able to learn as much or as little about music theory as you want. Great for writing and covering songs! If youre a musician, you need this app!
Ive been playing guitar for 30 years, self taught. This is the best reference for stringed instrument chords Ive come across. Any chord that is possible, and some that almost arent, can be found here. Its amazing. I could live without the songbook aspect of it. For that I would prefer Songbook pro or onSong.
Also has some problems when generating chords for ukulele. The accuracy can be a bit off - Am for example

Usually Chord! iOS app used & searched for

guitar scales, bass scales, and other. So, download free Chord! .ipa to run this nice iOS application on iPhone and iPad.