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Autoharp

Autoharp

by Arlo Leach

9 ratings
56 reviews
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$1.99
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Released
May 5, 2010
Updated
August 17, 2025

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Developer

Arlo Leach
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About

Experience the realistic sound of an autoharp with intuitive chord buttons and strumming. Enhance your music with built-in effects and use it as a MIDI controller. Customize string and chord layouts for advanced control.

✓Realistic autoharp sound
✓Chord buttons and strumming
✓Built-in chorus, delay, and reverb effects
✓MIDI controller output
✓Customizable string and chord layouts
✓Save and switch effect programs
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What users say about Autoharp

Reviews of Autoharp are mixed: the Music app is rated 3.8/5 from 9 App Store ratings. What users like most: lovely, natural sound, addictive to fidget with. Top complaints: app crashes, app won't open. Summarized from real user reviews.

Positive things

  • 🎶Lovely, natural sound
  • 🤩Addictive to fidget with
  • 📚Great for learning chords
  • 💰Free and not collecting data
  • ✨Rich and full sounds
  • 🛠️Fully customizable
  • 👍Love the love for detail
  • 💯Works flawlessly
  • 🎵Perfect for background practice
  • ✍️Great for songwriting
  • 🎛️Familiar with autoharp
  • 🚀Amazingly expressive
  • 💡Innovative MIDI controller potential
  • 🎛️Easy to configure and play
  • 🎚️Good for melody playing
  • 🎧Silent practice with earbuds
  • 🎶Great practice features
  • ✨Top-end sparkle
  • 🔊Great volume
  • 🎶Realistic sounds
  • 🎚️Captures real autoharp feel
  • 🌟Charming and delightful
  • 🎚️Easy to finger chords
  • ✨Crisp sound
  • 🎛️Works well with MIDI
  • 🚀Speedy and spot-on support
  • 🎶Great sound quality
  • 🎚️Dynamic range
  • 🎵Touch sensitive strings
  • 💯Worth the purchase
  • 🎶Fun to play
  • 🎚️Realistic simulation
  • 🎵Great for old-time music
  • 🔊Great sound quality
  • 🎚️Touch-sensitive option
  • 🎶Looks and sounds fun
  • 🎶Great taste of autoharp
  • 🎵Instant music creation
  • 🎚️More "me" than guitar apps
  • 💰Complete bargain
  • 🎶Good sound
  • 🚀No lag in response
  • 🎚️Fluid two-handed operation
  • 🎶Crisp sound
  • 🔊Belts out sound
  • 🎛️Latest update effects are welcome
  • 🎶Great sounding app
  • 🎶Sweet singing sustain
  • 🎚️Easy to finger chord bars
  • 💡Highlights active strings
  • 🎚️Good for combining techniques
  • 💖Developer responds quickly
  • ✨Keeps making app better
  • 💖Developer gives 5 stars
  • 🎶App gets 5 stars
  • 👨‍👧‍👦Granddaughter loves it
  • 💯For that joy, priceless
  • 🎶Great for writing songs on the go
  • 🤩Fun for old-time musicians
  • 👍Good idea
  • 🚀Great start
  • 💡Lovingly created virtual instrument
  • 💰Well worth the money
  • 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Great for non-musicians
  • 🤩Great for autoharp enthusiasts
  • 👍Keep up the good work
  • 🚀Updated for improvements
  • 🎚️Improves playability
  • 🎶Great sound
  • 👍Works fine on iPad 2 and iPhone 4
  • 🤩Everyone loves it
  • 🎶Sounds good
  • 🎚️Touch sensitive for dynamics
  • 🎶Works perfectly
  • 💡Good for recording
  • 🎚️Zoom feature works fine
  • 🎶Fun to play
  • 🎚️Added flexibility to iPad version
  • 🎶Charming and very fun
  • 🎚️Good when on the go
  • 🎶Great little program
  • 👍Good idea
  • 🎚️User interface is faster
  • 🎶Chords sound great
  • 🎚️Great job
  • 🎶Fine start
  • 🎚️Very playable

Negative things

  • 💥App crashes
  • 🤔App won't open
  • 🗑️Custom tunings lost on reinstall
  • 📱Chord buttons too hard to control
  • 📏Chord buttons too small
  • 🎛️Too limited
  • 🔌No audio integration
  • 🔋Drains batteries significantly
  • 🤏Buttons too small for iPhone
  • 🎛️Buttons could be easier to hit
  • ⚙️Needs easier chord button reconfiguration
  • 🎛️Strings seem backwards on iPad
  • 🔇Unwanted loud volume blasts
  • 🎚️Volume has a mind of its own
  • 🐛Full of bugs
  • 🎛️Choppy performance
  • 🎛️Annoying to strum for sound
  • 👆Strings not completely responsive
  • 👆Does not respond to simple touch
  • 👆Hinders application
  • 👆Difficult to keep tune going
  • 🚫Doesn't work
  • 🎶Strings are NOT working
  • 🚫Program doesn't work
  • 🚫Não funciona!
  • 🚫Rubbish
  • 🎛️Volume issue
  • 🎛️Stuck on loud volume
  • 🐛Too many sound 'cutouts'
  • 🎛️Polyphony not sufficient
  • 🎛️New chord doesn't always cut out previous
  • 🎛️Sound level sometimes drops suddenly
  • 🎛️Zoomed-in mode doesn't detect off-screen swipes
  • 🎛️Too random related to what you play
  • 🎨Slightly cheesy graphics
  • 🎛️Eb still odd sounding
  • 🎛️Chord keys small even when enlarged
  • 🎛️Not enough room to pluck strings
  • 🐛Bugs
  • 🎛️Random increase and decrease of volume
  • 🐛Sound 'cutouts' when played fast
  • 🎛️New chord doesn't always dampen previous
  • 🎛️Needs ability to damp individual strings
  • 🎛️Needs ability to pluck or strum above keyboard
  • 🎛️Latency problems
  • 🎛️Does not work most of the time
  • 💸Feel ripped off
  • 🎛️Broken on iPad 2
  • 🎛️Almost painful to play
  • 🐛Sound cutouts
  • 🎛️Chord transition issues
  • 🎛️Zoomed-in mode issues
  • 🎛️Randomness in playing
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What's New in Autoharp

2.2.9

August 17, 2025

- Fixed the initial display when the app is launched in landscape orientation. - Updated for iOS 18.

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Subscriptions & In-App Purchases

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Save Multiple Effects Programs

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User reviews

Most RecentHighest RatedLowest Rated

Really fun, and such a pretty sound!

Nice job on the latest version! I like the way the autoharp is now positioned against a background because when it previously filled the screen I ran into frequent trouble with accidentally swiping the app away when strumming. 😂 Now I have a little room to overshoot. Also the gear icon no longer gets in the way. Well done! I have a lot of fun with this app. It makes a lovely sound, natural enough to record with, even, and it’s addictive to fidget with. I’ve also learned a lot from it in terms of chord transitions and tritone substitutions. I also LOVE that this FREE app is NOT collecting any of my personal data! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🤗💕
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UUrdgtwdgyrd

Absturzgefahr…aber sonst toll.

Ich habe sie geliebt und oft benutzt, mit eigenen Tunings versehen etc. Aber jetzt kam der Absturz. Die App ließ sich nicht mehr öffnen.🤔Neustart nix genutzt. Also dout, der Vogel…🫣.
Bei der Neuinstallation gehen alle Custombemühungen perdue.
Schade. Für den professionellen Einsatz mir jetzt zu heikel.
Bitte mehr Stabilität! Dann 5 Sterne.
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GIGero Fury i.t.s.

chord buttons way too hard to control

not sure if the chord buttons are not well supported on size of iphone 12 pro max but impossible to play this with any accuracy☹️
MMinimurr

Too limited

The least I would have expected would be for major and minor chords to be available in all 12 keys, this is pretty useless musically
EGEyre guitar

Amazingly expressive and richer sounds but no integration

I’ll give this five stars if it had any way of being able record the audio in GarageBand as an audio unit or in Audiobus.

Really rich and full sounds and fully customisable. So for example I created a customer set of chords for the circle of fifths.
BBoxabirds
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Reported Bugs

61 issues

App crashes

Bug

App won't open

Bug

Custom tunings lost on reinstall

Bug

Chord buttons too hard to control

Bug

Chord buttons too small

Bug

No audio integration

Bug

Drains batteries significantly

Bug

Buttons too small for iPhone

Bug

Buttons could be easier to hit

Bug

Needs easier chord button reconfiguration

Bug

Strings seem backwards on iPad

Bug

Unwanted loud volume blasts

Bug

Volume has a mind of its own

Bug

Full of bugs

Bug

Choppy performance

Bug

Annoying to strum for sound

Bug

Strings not completely responsive

Bug

Does not respond to simple touch

Bug

Hindering application

Bug

Difficult to keep tune going

Bug

Doesn't work

Bug

Strings are NOT working

Bug

Program doesn't work

Bug

Não funciona!

Bug

Rubbish

Bug

Volume issue

Bug

Stuck on loud volume

Bug

Too many sound 'cutouts'

Bug

Polyphony not sufficient

Bug

New chord doesn't always cut out previous

Bug

Sound level sometimes drops suddenly

Bug

Zoomed-in mode doesn't detect off-screen swipes

Bug

Too random related to what you play

Bug

Slightly cheesy graphics

Bug

Eb still odd sounding

Bug

Chord keys small even when enlarged

Bug

Not enough room to pluck strings

Bug

Random increase and decrease of volume

Bug

Sound 'cutouts' when played fast

Bug

Chord transition issues

Bug

Zoomed-in mode issues

Bug

Randomness in playing

Bug

Latency problems

Bug

Does not work most of the time

Bug

Broken on iPad 2

Bug

Almost painful to play

Bug

Sound cutouts

Bug

New chord doesn't always dampen previous

Bug

Needs ability to damp individual strings

Bug

Needs ability to pluck or strum above keyboard area

Bug

Fix Eb tuning

Bug

Fix chord transition dampening

Bug

Fix zoomed-in mode swipes

Bug

Fix randomness in playing

Bug

Fix volume adjustment on iPad 2

Bug

Fix sound cutouts

Bug

Improve polyphony

Bug

New chord automatically cuts out previous

Bug

Model strings individually

Bug

Add ability to pluck strings

Bug

Add ability to strum above keyboard

Bug
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Requested Features

40 requests

More stability

Feature

Integration with GarageBand/Audiobus

Feature

Larger chord keys

Feature

Major and minor chords in all 12 keys

Feature

Record audio in GarageBand

Feature

Audio unit or Audiobus integration

Feature

Make chord keys bigger

Feature

List note names for selected chords on enlarged screen

Feature

Ability to transpose chords

Feature

Full 21 chord implementation

Feature

Ability to pluck individual strings

Feature

Ability to play like a real autoharp

Feature

Add ability to pluck or strum in area above keyboard

Feature

Fix Eb tuning

Feature

When transitioning chords, new chord should dampen previous

Feature

Ability to damp individual strings

Feature

Ability to pluck or strum above keyboard area

Feature

Dark mode option

Feature

Advanced analytics dashboard

Feature

Connectivity and additional MIDI and audio connectivity

Feature

Save audio as mp4 or wav

Feature

Wifimidi support

Feature

Audio copy paste

Feature

Record functionality

Feature

Soundcloud integration

Feature

Make strings responsive to touch

Feature

Allow simple touch response

Feature

Fix non-responsive strings

Feature

Fix volume adjustment on iPad 2

Feature

Fix sound cutouts

Feature

Improve polyphony

Feature

New chord automatically cuts out previous

Feature

Model strings individually

Feature

Fix zoomed-in mode swipes

Feature

Fix randomness in playing

Feature

Tidy up cheesy graphics

Feature

Fix odd sounding Eb

Feature

Fix chord transition dampening

Feature

Add ability to pluck strings

Feature

Add ability to strum above keyboard

Feature

FAQ

What is Autoharp?

Autoharp is a mobile application that simulates the experience of playing a real autoharp. It allows users to push chord buttons and strum to produce high-quality audio samples. The app also offers built-in audio effects and can function as a MIDI controller.

What are the key features of Autoharp?

Key features include realistic autoharp sound with volume matching strumming speed, built-in chorus, delay, and reverb effects, MIDI controller functionality with velocity sensitivity, and advanced customization of string and chord layouts for experienced users.

How much does Autoharp cost?

The base application is free to download and use. Additional features, such as saving multiple effects programs and customizing string/chord layouts, are available through in-app purchases.

Can I use Autoharp with other music software?

Yes, Autoharp can be used as a MIDI controller. You can connect it to other devices or software to generate virtually any sound, with MIDI commands including velocity values determined by your strumming speed for expressive playing.

Who would benefit from using Autoharp?

Autoharp is beneficial for musicians who want to practice or experiment with the autoharp sound without owning a physical instrument. It's also useful for those looking for a versatile MIDI controller with unique strumming capabilities or for advanced users who want to customize instrument layouts.