The Chord Detector User Reviews

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A total waste of money

Do not waste your money on this app. They no longer support IOS 13 and will not reply to support queries, but they will still take your money. Don’t be fooled.
I have used this app for many years and it has served me well.
Many times it has solved problems I was having figuring out which chords are being played etc. Now Apple In all its wisdom decide to upgrade the iPad software and rendered my Chord detector useless. It will not detect the correct chords and will only detect for the first 30 to 60 seconds of songs from my iTunes library.
Tried contacting support....nothing. Still waiting a week later.
I’m not holding my breathe. I will have to look elsewhere for a new app I think.

Now three weeks and still waiting.
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Very helpful!

Simplicity is more often than not, both elegant and beautiful. Add too those, the characteristic of utility and you can nearly, see into the promised land with clarity and resolution the pathway found within the "lay of the land" arrayed before you so resplendently! Step out and then in - to know what and where you are & then could, will must be!

Your app is awesome! Very helpful by making possible a good, sound & solid place too start!
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Won’t work

Trying it for hrs won’t load any of my music wast off money

Love it, but you need to make changes

When I press the share button, it closes the app

SoundCloud song chords unlocked!

Thank you soooo much, as a very novice banjo and Uke player I am so grateful to have this tool! In just a few moments I wa able to find and retrieve chords for my favorite songs. 🙌

I Totally Love It

This is a dream come true. Just play any song you have always wanted to play but couldn’t figure out.
This app does it beautifully.
Highly recommend for everyone.

Très bonne application pour accompagner sur YouTube etc..

Je l’utilise avec les chansons sur YouTube, excellent.

Too Basic to be useful for serious transcription

I am a working professional jazz musician who has experience transcribing songs. I bought this app out of curiosity, just to see how accurate it is. I selected a basic three chord 1-4-5 blues progression in Am. It detected the basic chords mostly correctly, but failed 100% of the time if any coloration was added. It will detect an Am played in the first position, but will not detect an Am6 played in the 5th. It will detect a first position Dm, but will transcribe a 10th position Dm6 as a first position Dm. For dominant 7 chords, it transcribed them as 1st position major. Verdict: may be useful for beginning players trying to learn very basic, first position folk songs; useless for serious transcription because it does not accurately detect chord extensions, slash chords or chords above the 3rd position.
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Five Stars ... very useful

It does more than I expected an app could do. Not perfect and only first few frets on my banjo but I love it when I sort of know a tune and not sure how to start it or end it.

Great apt

Updated version is great . A must have for anyone who wants to be ahead of the game. To those don't know much it bases the chords on the voicing of the whole band . So the chords are right on to help you learn . Thanks for the update to 64 bit works great!

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