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Chord!

Guitar Songbook, Chords&Scales

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2.8.2

November 10, 2022

This update fixes an issue when accessing your songs on iOS 16.1. As always, your feedback is highly appreciated. Feel free to reach me if you have any issues or suggestions.
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2.8.1

October 18, 2022

This update fixes an issue when displaying scales on necks larger than 14 frets using a Fret Zealot device. This update also fixes several display glitches on latest iOS versions. As always, your feedback is highly appreciated. Feel free to reach me if you have any issues or suggestions.
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2.8

May 28, 2022

You can now use Chord! on Mac computers with Apple silicon! This update also fixes several display glitches on latest iOS versions. As always, your feedback is highly appreciated. Feel free to reach me if you have any issues or suggestions.
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2.7.11

October 3, 2021

This update fixes several display glitches on latest iOS versions. As always, your feedback is highly appreciated. Feel free to reach me if you have any issues or suggestions.
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2.7.10

September 19, 2021

- Added a search field when adding songs to collections. As always, your feedback is highly appreciated. Feel free to reach me if you have any issue or suggestion.
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2.7.9

April 24, 2021

This version fixes a chord positioning issue with songs using non-latin characters like Cyrillic or Chinese characters. It also fixes an issue when deleting chords in the harmonizer on the iPhone. As always, your feedback is highly appreciated. Feel free to reach me if you have any issue or suggestion.
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2.7.8

February 3, 2021

Chords extracted from scale harmonization can now be sorted following the scale's notes order instead of fifths. You can control this in "Scales Settings", "Harmonization" section. You can now rotate your device to display scale fingerings in landscape when coming from reverse search or harmonization on iPhones. I've also fixed a glitch in landscape mode for arpeggios and scale fingerings. You can now automatically sort all songs in a collection alphabetically when editing it. Fixes: Fixed an issue when inserting items into collections. Fixed an issue when reimporting song with lines starting with spaces. Fixed collections thumbnails using the wrong tint when using dark mode. Fixed some buttons with text written with the wrong color. As always, your feedback is highly appreciated. If you like Chord!, please rate it in the App Store! Thank you very much!
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2.7.7

December 14, 2020

This update fixes an issue while displaying favorite chords or scales in fullscreen. As always, your feedback is highly appreciated. If you like Chord!, please rate it in the App Store! Thank you very much!
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2.7.6

October 18, 2020

Chord! now supports the Fret Zealot Bluetooth accessory to display chords, scales, and arpeggios directly on your guitar's neck! If you're using my new app SongKit, you can now hide the songbook module from the home screen of Chord! in the "Advanced" section of the settings. This version also fixes an issue with autoscroll controls on some devices; As always, your feedback is highly appreciated. If you like Chord!, please rate it in the App Store! Thank you very much!
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2.7.5

October 16, 2020

Chord! now supports the Fret Zealot Bluetooth accessory to display chords, scales, and arpeggios directly on your guitar's neck! If you're using my new app SongKit, you can now hide the songbook module from the home screen of Chord! in the "Advanced" section of the settings. This version also fixes: - An issue when importing songs by copy/pasting; - Unresponsive controls when editing arpeggios settings on the fly; - Unresponsive controls when reordering front matter components when exporting songs in PDF; - Some Light/Dark mode visual glitches. As always, your feedback is highly appreciated. If you like Chord!, please rate it in the App Store! Thank you very much!
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Description of Chord!

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 don't 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 don't 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 you're 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; • You're 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 can't 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.
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Chord!: FAQ

Does Chord! offer an iPad version?

Yes, Chord! can be used on an iPad.
Thomas Grapperon is the developer of the Chord! app.
The Chord! app currently supports iOS 12.2 or later.
Chord! has an excellent rating of 4.8 out of 5.
The Primary Genre Of The Chord! App Is Music.
The current version of Chord! is 2.8.2.
The most recent update for Chord! was released on July 2, 2024.
The release date of the app was on February 5, 2023.
Suitable for children aged 4 and up, contains no objectionable material.
You can use the Chord! app in English.
No, Chord! is not available on Apple Arcade.
No, Chord! does not offer in-app purchases.
No, Chord! does not support compatibility with Apple Vision Pro.

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Reviews of Chord!

  • Chords in the scales

    Would like to see the chord fingerings in each of the scales
  • Fantastic tool.

    I am not a stringed instrument player, they have confounded me for decades (honestly it's 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.

    *Update May 30th 2022*
    Thanks so much for the Apple silicon version! I don’t have a M1 Mac yet, but I will soon and it’s great to know I will be able to use this there as well.
  • Must-Have

    This is a must-have App for beginners and intermediate guitar players looking to learn a wide variety of chords AND for advanced players looking to arrange and find new ways to play around with theory. ONLY gripe is that the UX can be a little obtuse at first, but you learn it relatively quickly.