
Fretwise: Guitar Scales
Chords, Tuner & Metronome
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Fretwise is a guitar practice app built on the fretboard: scales, chords, a tuner, a metronome and exercises that play as tab. Every note sounds like a plucked string, so theory becomes something you can hear and play.
PRACTICE
• 282 exercises that play as tab with a click: warm-ups, picking, legato, bends, arpeggios, rhythm and fingerstyle, plus exercises in the style of 70 players
• Scale sequences, three notes per string, triads, arpeggios and chord changes in any key and position
• Routines (Pro): exercises back to back as one scrolling tab, each at its own tempo, with a speed trainer, burst blocks and nine ready-made routines
• For everyone: a new Daily 15 routine every day and one Pro exercise open each day
• Your best tempo for every exercise, and a Mastered badge after ten full plays
• A practice streak: play 5 minutes a day and watch it grow; one missed day a week does not break it
• A progress page with five weeks of practice, the tempos you raised and your milestones, and a daily reminder at the time you choose
TUNER
• Tune with the microphone in 10 tunings: Standard, Drop D, Drop C, Half-Step Down, D Standard, Open D, Open G, Open E, Open A and DADGAD
• Any note mode for whatever you play, with the cents and a reference pitch from 430 to 450 Hz
METRONOME
• 30 to 260 BPM, 1 to 12 beats, accents and odd groupings like 2+2+3, and tap tempo
• 11 rhythms, from 8ths, triplets and 16ths to swing, dotted and quintuplets
• Keeps playing while you move around the app
SCALES & MODES
• 65 scales and modes in all 12 keys: every mode of the major, melodic minor, harmonic minor and harmonic major scales, pentatonic, blues, bebop, diminished, whole-tone and exotic scales
• Five CAGED positions for every scale
• Notes, scale degrees, fingers or dots, spelled correctly for every key
• Target tones highlight each scale's chord tones
CHORDS
• 56 chord types: triads, 7ths, 9ths, 11ths, 13ths, suspended, added-tone and altered chords
• Up to seven shapes per chord, including the CAGED forms, in every key, with fingerings
• Tap any voicing to hear it strummed
CHORD & SCALE FINDER (PRO)
• Tap the frets of any shape and Fretwise names the chord, with its inversion or slash bass
• Tap notes on the neck and see every scale that contains them
PROGRESSION BUILDER (PRO)
• Build a progression, give each chord its own length, set the tempo and loop it with a click
• Start from 51 genre loops, from blues and jazz to flamenco and metal, and save your own
THEORY LAB (PRO)
• Seven short lessons, each on one movable picture: intervals, modes, comparing scales, building chords, scales over a chord and the circle of fifths
• Songwriter Handbook: the chords of any key, sorted by mood and tension
MAQAM & MAKAM
• 8 Arabic maqamat and 9 Turkish makamlar on the guitar neck, with the quarter tones and commas between the frets
• Authentic view shows where each pitch lies; Standard view shows the fret to play and how far to bend
• Ajnas and çeşniler, sayr and seyir, and an example phrase for every mode
ALSO
• Name the Note: a fretboard game for your note memory
• Chord shapes and scale positions in 7 tunings
• One search for chords, scales, maqam, exercises and lessons
• Note names as letters or solfège (Do Re Mi)
• Favorites for the scales, chords and positions you use most
• In English, Spanish, Turkish, French, German, Arabic, Russian, Italian and Portuguese
Fretwise Pro is an optional one-time purchase, not a subscription: it adds practice routines and the full exercise library, the Chord & Scale Finder, the Progression Builder, the Theory Lab and the Songwriter Handbook.
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What's New in Fretwise
1.6.0
October 31, 2026
Fretwise 1.6 • We removed the ads. Fretwise has no ads now, for everyone. • A practice streak: play 5 minutes a day and watch it grow. One missed day a week does not break it. • A progress page: five weeks of practice, the tempos you raised and your milestones. • A daily reminder, if you want one, at the time you choose. Tap it to open today's Daily 15.
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