# ChordSmith: Tuner & Chords — Chord Finder, BPM & Metronome

> Chord Finder, BPM & Metronome (iPhone/iPad app by Remnant Workshop, Inc..)

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- Developer: [Remnant Workshop, Inc.](https://appshunter.io/developer/1885670197)
- Category: Music, Education
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.4 · 49 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-03
- Data updated: 2026-10-29

## What is ChordSmith?

ChordSmith is a chord finder, a chromatic tuner and a drum machine built for the same instrument — yours. Sixty of them, from six-string guitar and four-string bass through banjo, mandolin, ukulele, violin, cello and double bass, and on to the bouzouki, oud, guzheng, sitar, koto, nyckelharpa, balalaika, charango and kantele.

CHORD FINDER

Pick a chord and see how to play it on the instrument in your hands, in up to 100 voicings, ordered from the easiest shape upward. Change the tuning and the shapes change with it — every voicing is computed for the strings you actually have, not looked up in a table for standard tuning. DADGAD, drop D, open G and every other preset is one tap away.

CHROMATIC TUNER

Five displays to choose between: a sweep needle, a strobe for last-cent work, chromatic spokes, a continuous note strip, and one you will want to see for yourself. Every instrument carries its own tunings, drop and open included. Set your reference by ear as well as by number — play a note from a piano, a drone or another player's instrument and the app takes its pitch as the tonic, which is how you tune to an ensemble that is not at A=440. Haptic tuning lets you feel the tuning as a gentle tick: quick when you are far off, slowing as you close in, a steady pulse once you arrive. An optional soft cue marks the moment you lock on. Needle response sets how steady the reading is, from Responsive to Steady. Notes, cents and frequency read out in retro LED-style digits.

METRONOME AND DRUM MACHINE

Ten kits — standard, click, electric, 808, Latin, cajón, djembe, darbuka, tabla and taiko — and twenty-seven feels, from straight eighths and a swung shuffle through son and rumba clave, bossa nova, the reggae one-drop, bembé, tresillo, maqsum and malfuf. Tap tempo, a BPM counter, compound and odd meters, and an accent pattern you edit, so 7/8 sounds like the 7/8 you are counting.

CHORD DETECTION

Play a chord and the app names it, tracks the key as you go, and keeps a running transcript of what it heard. The spectrum analyser spans eight octaves, C0 to C8, and runs on the room rather than on a preset, so it works with no instrument selected at all.

NINE TUNING SYSTEMS

Equal temperament, and the ones that came before it: Werckmeister III, quarter-comma meantone, Vallotti, Young II, Kirnberger III and Pythagorean, with a temperament octave for tuning a piano, harpsichord or clavichord by ear. Quarter-tones as 24-TET for maqam, and Thai equidistant 7-TET for the krachappi, the phin and the saw.

SIXTY INSTRUMENTS

Guitar in six, seven and eight strings and the Russian seven; bass in four, five and six; ukulele in three sizes; mandolin, five-string and tenor banjo, violin, viola, cello, double bass and the Hardanger fiddle; cavaquinho, viola caipira, vihuela, guitarrón, bajo sexto, cuatro, charango, bandurria and laúd; Greek bouzouki in tetrachordo and trichordo, the Irish bouzouki, Turkish and Arabic oud, bağlama, gambus; erhu, pipa, guqin, guzheng, koto, gayageum, shamisen, sanshin; sitar, tanpura, veena and the Carnatic violin; balalaika, domra, dombra, morin khuur, nyckelharpa, kantele; krachappi, phin, saw duang, saw u and the đàn ghi-ta phím lõm; piano, harpsichord and clavichord.

BOUGHT ONCE

Fourteen days to try everything, then one purchase, yours for good. No subscription, no account, no advertising.

The tuner and the detector run entirely on your device — nothing you play is recorded, uploaded, or sent anywhere. The app works with no network connection at all, which matters more in a rehearsal room than it does in a shop.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lifetime | $1.99 | one-time |


## Is ChordSmith safe?

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## Is ChordSmith legit?

ChordSmith: Tuner & Chords appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for ChordSmith is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.1.2 — 2026-10-26

New in 1.1.2:
• Chords, spoken: VoiceOver now reads a detected chord as words — "C sharp minor seventh", not a string of symbols — and gets sharps and flats right in every language.
• Reduce Motion, respected: with it on, the Spokes pointer snaps to the note instead of sweeping there.
• Easier on the eyes: dim LED segments, the in-tune lamp, Metronome text and hint text in empty fields all have more contrast, and the in-tune lamp now changes shape as well as color.
• Reference tone: the Hz field stays within its range, and the up/down buttons show when you've hit the end of it.
• Small fixes and translation polish.

### 1.1.1 — 2026-10-15

New in 1.1.1:
• Haptic tuning: feel the tuning through gentle ticks, without looking at the screen.
• Audio cue on lock: an optional soft sound the moment the reading locks on to your note.
• Needle response: choose Responsive, Balanced or Steady.
• All three are under Settings › Accessibility.
• A retro LED-style display for note names, cents, Hz and tempo.
• The spectrum analyzer now covers the full range, C0 to C8.
• ChordSmith now speaks Korean, Bengali, Marathi and Slovenian — and every screen, including chord shapes and the printed chord sheet, is in your language.
• Usability improvements, better screen-reader support, and fixes.

### 1.0.2 — 2026-09-30

New in 1.0.2:
• Keep screen awake — the screen now stays on while you tune, read chord charts or play along with the metronome. It lasts 5 minutes by default; change the time, or pick Always, in Tuner settings.
• Under-the-hood fixes

### 1.0.1 — 2026-09-07

Performance and reliability improvements:

• Smoother navigation into the Info page
• Lower idle power use
• Under-the-hood fixes

### 1.0.0 — 2026-09-03

No release notes.

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