Guitar Fretboard User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience83.8% of reviews
Neutral5.4% of reviews
Negative experience10.8% of reviews

~ Based on 37 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Guitar Fretboard Safe?

Guitar Fretboard: Scales appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Guitar Fretboard is 88/100.

This assessment is based on 46 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.8/5.

Safety Analysis

93.5% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.2% of ratings suggest some concerns
4.3% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 46 App Store ratings for Guitar Fretboard.

Is Guitar Fretboard Legit?

Guitar Fretboard: Scales appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Guitar Fretboard is 68/100.

Based on 68 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Amazing app 9/10

Such a under rated app I love it I use it almost everyday just one thing, I wish in the fretboard it had a mode to show both the flats and sharps and not just one of them as I would like to also memorize both notes names

EX: Ab/G# A Bb/A# B C

Response from developer

Thank you, Note trainers have an option “Combine Sharps & Flats” where if you select both C# and Db it will ask you them combined. As for the main fretboard right now there is no option to do that because note names are derived from root note and intervals of a selected scale (one scale may have C#, another Db, for the exact same note). There is an option to make them static (hat icon, in the Menu > Video guide there is a section “Enharmonic settings” where I show how this works) where they will be either all sharps or all flats or whatever else you configure. For this mode I could probably think of something to make it possible to combine for such case. I will do it but unfortunately that will happen later because I am working on bigger features right now and wanna finish them first.

Essential app for a guitarist

If you are serious about expanding your chord and scale vocabulary, this app is the best. The interface is very flexible and you can customize it to focus on shapes vs intervals. You can customize existing scales and chords and save the new ones. Any tuning you play in can be used within the app. Also chord and scales can be saved as photos. It allows you to quickly input a note progression on one string, and it automatically populates them in the rest, and if it matches an existing scale, it will let you know. To shift the key, all you have to do is select whichever key you want and all the notes adapt to the new key. That’s just to name a few excellent features of this app.
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Amazing

Amazing little app. Found it on a Reddit sub and use it daily for memorizing the notes on the fretboard and caged system. 1 ad per day and you have the choice to pay a 1 time fee of $24. App is very much worth it for anyone learning or want to improve their knowledge.

Exactly what you are looking for…

Wow! So well designed and carefully considered. Incredibly useful app for learning scales.

Fabulous

I really enjoy all the small UX and visualization touches. A lot of love went into this app. Very comprehensive and configurable. I’ve gotten a huge amount of value from the pro version.

Everything you need and more

Greatest app/tool for self-teaching. There’s so much to this app, but it shines in getting you into a state of pattern recognition. I wish you could still buy the pro version instead of a monthly subscription, though.

Response from developer

Hi, thank you for such a feedback. There is a lifetime option to buy (one time purchase). You maybe missed it. If you decide to purchase lifetime just cancel your subscription, wait for it to expire (one month since the last renewal/purchase) and then you can find Lifetime option. If you just purchased the subscription you may try to refund it (just google how to do it, I can’t issue refunds myself, Apple doesn’t provide such a functionality to devs). If you have any questions just use Menu -> Report a bug or Menu -> request a feature (it will open email app with my email address pre-filled)

Notas

Excelente

The best scales app I’ve found

I’m pretty sure I’ve tried every scales app out there and this one is the only one that works in the way I want! Being able to input a scale and highlight chord notes so quickly is amazing. Nothing else comes close, I was about ready to build my own until I found this. Nazar is also incredibly responsive to emails, and quickly acknowledged a bug I found. I use this app constantly to identify scales for songs and try out ideas by tapping the fretboard. Get the premium version, it’s well worth the money.
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It’s amazing

Thank you! It’s very useful.

Buggy, do not buy

App randomly deletes your custom scale patterns and has no way to let you rearrange their order. So if you say wrote out the modes for a few different scales in order, then reopen the app and it deletes one at the top, that’s potentially dozens of scales you have to delete yourself just to re-add it so it’s in the correct order. Every single time I’ve opened the app it has deleted patterns I’ve saved. Incredibly frustrating
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Response from developer

Hi, please contact me using menu -> report a bug (that will be via email, or just use email: nazar.vorotnyak@gmail.com) and we can go through everything. Patterns are added for specific tuning and specific scale. If you added a scale, then added patterns and then removed the scale because you want it in a different order (order can't be changed as of now, that's true) then patterns will be removed together with the scale (Right now the app doesn't show any warning, I will add the warning). Patterns can’t magically know that they have to be preserved and then added into a new scale that you will add later. Because the one you removed is a different scale from the one you added later even if they both have the same intervals and the name. Patterns disappearing when you remove the scale is expected. About deleting a scale at the top. I am trying to reproduce it and I can't, I will investigate it more but if you showed me what you do and how that happens it would help. Rearranging patterns is available. Drag and Drop. You can move patterns between different groups too. Rearranging of groups isn't available but the group is just a name. You can rename them and just move patterns around to match whatever you have in mind. In any case, please contact me and with more details I will be able to fix everything or at least explain why something happened the way it did.

Best Tool for learning chords and fretboard

This app is so good I bought on my android and iPad. This is the best beginners tool.

Impressed

This is just what I’ve been looking for! Thank you!

No setting for capo

I believed there was a capo setting. There isn’t. Complete waste of money.

Fretboard learning

If you have any interest at all in learning the fretboard, this app is for you! It is so flexible that you can adapt it to any method you choose. If there is anything about the app that you need help with, the developer is amazingly responsive.

Fantastic App

Impressed me immediately with the clean UI. The wide array of selected forms (arpeggios, triads scales, etc) is useful as a dinghy is when stranded on an island.

Bought the full version, no regrets. Learned a lot already in just a few days with the “trainer” mode. Actually the trainer mode is more like a game.

Great app
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Just Perfect

I have been searching for an app like this for a while, that has everything available without asking you for more money.
while it enables you to change layout and theme of the fretboard, it also lets you zoom and unzoom effortlessly.
I loved it

Amazing!

I’ve been playing guitar for 40 years. This is simply the best tool I have ever used for learning the fretboard. I don’t often write reviews, but I feel compelled to write one for this so that the developer can continue, and that anyone who wants to learn guitar has the opportunity to use this app. It is absolutely free to try and I encourage all musicians who use a fretboard to try it out! You won’t be disappointed. It may not be for the absolute beginner, but if you’re someone who wants really visualize the fretboard, this is the one.
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Great app!

Fretboard Scales is a great app to help learn the fretboard and scales. The trainer function is a great way to improve your ear and ability to identify notes and intervals.

Awesome App

This has just about everything one might need and is highly customizable. Great work. My only request would be a desktop IOS app to make viewing and printing easier. Thanks!

Response from developer

Thank you. There isn’t a separate desktop app but some people told me it is possible to launch It on a Mac (it will look like a usual mobile app). The only problem is that it doesn’t resize much. But that is on the Mac side. I can’t fix that unfortunately.

Awesome App

This has just about everything one might need and is highly customizable. Great work. My only request would be a desktop IOS app to make viewing and printing easier. Thanks!

Response from developer

Thank you. There isn’t a separate desktop app but some people told me it is possible to launch It on a Mac (it will look like a usual mobile app). The only problem is that it doesn’t resize much. But that is on the Mac side. I can’t fix that unfortunately.