# Fretsy: Guitar Neck Trainer — Fretboard drills, ear training

> Fretboard drills, ear training (iPhone/iPad app by Bill Toner.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fretsy-guitar-neck-trainer/id6795698379 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Bill Toner](https://appshunter.io/developer/6795698381)
- Category: Education, Music
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 10 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-08-15
- Data updated: 2026-10-01
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fretsy-guitar-neck-trainer/id6795698379/reviews.md

## What is Fretsy?

Fretsy turns aimless noodling into focused guitar practice — exercises to play, quizzes to test yourself, and lessons you can build, follow, and share.

PRACTICE EXERCISES
Tap once and Fretsy deals you a challenge — a key, a scale or arpeggio, and a string to start on — so you stop defaulting to the same three shapes and actually cover the fretboard. Every challenge plays back with real guitar samples, and an interactive neck diagram shows the shape with the root and scale tones color-coded.

28 QUIZZES, FOUR WAYS TO LEVEL UP
• Fretboard — name notes, intervals, triads, chords, CAGED shapes, inversions, and scale degrees; tap-the-neck challenges like Find the Note and Spot the Wrong Note.
• Ear Training — identify intervals, scales, and chord quality purely by sound, played on real guitar.
• Theory — key signatures, chord spelling, diatonic chords, extensions, mode parent keys, interval inversions.
• Reading — real staff notation and tablature: read tab licks, chords, and symbols.

Every quiz has three difficulty levels, remembers what you miss and brings it back until you own it, and keeps per-quiz streaks and bests. An optional timer turns any quiz into a speed drill.

LESSONS — BUILD, FOLLOW, SHARE
Pull any mix of the 28 quizzes and tailored practice runs into a lesson, then work through it as a checklist. Building and sharing lessons is completely free: a guitar teacher can hand a whole lesson to a student as a single link — no account needed on either end — and a student can build their own daily routine. Opened lessons are saved right in the app.

BUILT FOR REAL PRACTICE
• Works 100% offline — bundled audio, no internet required.
• No account, no sign-up, and no data collected.
• Real guitar samples, not beeps.

FREE AND PRO
Building and sharing lessons, every quiz, and the practice exercises are free at Beginner level. One $4.99 purchase unlocks Intermediate & Advanced everywhere, plus practice power tools (playback directions, the neck diagram, full-coverage runs, and the timer). One-time — no subscription.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.5 — 2026-09-25

What's new in 1.1:
• Reorganized scale menu — Scales, Modes, and Arpeggios in clear groups, with the full catalog shown and harder scales grayed out until you reach that level.
• New "All Strings" play direction: run the scale as a round trip across all six strings.
• Beginner mode now sticks to the natural keys for an easier start.

### 1.4 — 2026-09-22

NEW: Technique tab! Pick a technique - alternate picking, economy picking, finger independence, or legato - and get a curated video lesson plus a hands-on drill that lights up the neck in time, at your own tempo with a count-in. Down/up picking and hammer-on/pull-off markers show you exactly what your hands should do.

Also: clearer quiz colors, a tidier active-lesson badge, and more reliable practice-share links.

### 1.3 — 2026-09-21

What's new in 1.3 — a big update:

• A real acoustic guitar. Practice playback now uses genuine recorded acoustic samples, so scales and arpeggios ring like a real guitar instead of a synth.

• Redesigned Practice screen. Cleaner, quicker controls you can collapse out of the way, pick any mix of keys and scales at once, a combined Neck view (Notes → Intervals → Off), and a zoom to see the fretboard up close.

• Lessons (new). Build a practice plan from any mix of quizzes and practice runs, work through it as a checklist, and share a whole lesson as a single link. Building and sharing are free — great for teachers assigning homework, or for building your own routine.

• More ways to practice. New quizzes — read notes on the staff (treble and bass clef) and find them on the neck, build scales and modes by tapping the shape, invert intervals, and name a mode's parent key — plus a Progress screen and a Daily Workout.

• Drills up front. The app now opens on Drills, quizzes are grouped (Fretboard · Ear · Theory · Reading) so you're never scrolling a long menu, and it reopens on whichever tab you used last.

• Little things that help. Left-handed fretboard, haptic feedback on iPhone, and you can now rate Fretsy right from the app.

• Fretsy Pro now unlocks Intermediate & Advanced reliably right after you buy or restore, plus stability improvements throughout.

### 1.2 — 2026-09-15

Behind-the-scenes reliability improvements.

### 1.1 — 2026-08-17

What's new in 1.1:
• Reorganized scale menu — Scales, Modes, and Arpeggios in clear groups, with the full catalog shown and harder scales grayed out until you reach that level.
• New "All Strings" play direction: run the scale as a round trip across all six strings.
• Beginner mode now sticks to the natural keys for an easier start.

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