# Guitar Scales & Chords Power — user reviews > 105 indexed App Store user reviews of Guitar Scales & Chords Power by Thomas Gunter, rated 4.80/5 from 92 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/guitar-scales-and-chords-power/id647000751/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/guitar-scales-and-chords-power/id647000751.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 82 · 4★ 6 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 3 ## What do users think of Guitar Scales & Chords Power? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Intuitive and user-friendly interface - 🎸 Comprehensive scales and chords reference - 📊 Displays multiple views simultaneously (scale, position, chord info) - 💰 One-time payment with no subscriptions - 🎯 Excellent for all skill levels (beginner to advanced) - 📱 Works seamlessly on both iPhone and iPad - 🎵 Built-in metronome and tuner - 📄 PDF export functionality for scales and chords - 🔄 Circle of fifths visualization - ⚙️ Customizable display options (intervals, note names, finger patterns) - 🎓 Great learning and teaching tool - 💡 Innovative layout showing fretboard comprehensively - 🎶 Audio playback for scales and chords - 🔧 Responsive developer with good customer support - 🎼 Supports multiple tunings and custom tunings **Cons** - 🎨 Outdated visual design and appearance - ⏱️ Lack of recent updates (hasn't been updated in over a year) - 🔊 Limited audio/sound quality options - 📱 iPad version only works in horizontal orientation - 🐛 PDF color printing functionality broken - 📊 Limited chord matching for given scales - 🎵 Volume control unavailable for audio playback **Commonly reported bugs** - PDF color printing no longer works - Drop tuning functionality not fully supported - Auto-play doesn't sync tempo changes with metronome - Sound issues on some devices - Download functionality not working - CAGED system patterns cannot be toggled off (only labels) **Most requested features** - Repetitive playback for chords (like scales feature) - Arpeggios support - 3NPS (three notes per string) pattern support - Support for 4, 5, 7, and 8 string guitars - Diatonic sequences - More harmonic minor and double harmonic major modes - Power chords - Chord trainer similar to GarageBand - Additional guitar sounds (Western, Electric, Piano) - Single octave playback option - Full functionality in all tunings - Drop tuning support - Vertical orientation support for iPad - Exhaustive chord matching for scales ## Newest reviews (18 of 105) ### 5/5 — Quite useful *2024-11-16* I have used this a lot for learning chords and scales and music theory. Very intuitive - user friendly. Can display by individual patterns across the fretboard or all the patterns at once for the entire fretboard. Can show by intervals, note names, or finger pattern. Currently, I'm learning Mixolydian scale patterns and dominant 7 chords and arpeggio patterns. I'd definitely purchase again cuz it's inexpensive for what you get compared with subscription based apps. ### 5/5 — IMHO the best App for Scales *2024-10-26* Awesome App. Really helpful and handy. Thumbs up. ### 5/5 — Great app for beginners through to advanced players *2024-09-13* Been playing (learning) for 40 years and this is one of the best visual learning tools I have seen. ### 5/5 — Love this scales app *2024-08-11* Great features in this app and incorporating scales and chords together is nice. The exercises are useful for practice, but some diatonic sequences would be a great addition. Also hoping arpeggios make it into the app soon. The PDF print functions are awesome too. ### 5/5 — Appreciated *2024-07-30* Great app. Thanks ### 5/5 — Best everything app. Get it! *2024-05-01, version 2.4.5* It has built in tuner, metronome, scales, it has everything. You need to get this! ### 5/5 — Brilliant *2024-04-29* This app is really great and very easy to use and really helpful. ### 5/5 — The perfect guitar app? I think so! *2024-02-27* Guitarists, this is the app you need. It has a comprehensive reference of scales and chords, and it has a nice metronome. It’s easy to use. It just…works. Perfect for what I needed to learn the fretboard and scales - and it’s an affordable one-time payment. This blows away all the other apps I tried. ### 5/5 — Alles in einer App *2024-01-19* Akkorde, Scales, Quintenzirkel, alles was man fürs tägliche Üben braucht. Wenn es zu den Scales noch die Arpeggios gäbe, wäre es perfekt. ### 5/5 — Wonderful ! *2023-07-19* This app gives so much essential information. ### 5/5 — Serious Guitarist need this app. *2023-06-22* Thanks for developing such a great app for guitarist. Everything to learn in three views. This app has helped me reach my goals in understanding scales, chords, and modes. One of the best apps for players. Thanks, Vintag54 ### 5/5 — So useful *2023-04-30* Being able to print out CAGE as PDF is great. Best app I have. Would be good to have option to show scales for 4, 5, 7 and 8 string guitars, and to be able to dial in custom tunings. ### 5/5 — THE BEST GUITAR APP AVAILABLE *2022-12-17* I have been studying and playing guitar for many years. I play blues and other styles and I use many alternate tunings. I have been looking for something like this and am grateful I found it. This app is outstanding for understanding music theory, scales and chords, in any tuning. It allows the user to print out in color all possible scales and chords for any tuning. Even if you only use standard tuning this is a wonderful learning app. I think the developer is a genius for taking such complex data and making it so usable. And the app is free with no additional charges - very unusual. I recommend this for any guitar player no matter the experience level. Thank you Thomas Gunther! Wolfie ### 5/5 — One of the best!! *2022-10-27, version 2.4.1* You will not be disappointed. ### 5/5 — Great utility *2022-10-03, version 2.4.1* Used this app for many years, both iPhone and iPad, one stop, easy access, don’t need much else. ### 5/5 — Simple Magic *2022-05-03* I purchased this App some time ago and suggested a few changes and I was promised that they would come and they did with a whole lot more. Thank you! It is a very Clear, Clean and Uncluttered App which IMO is a must for Teachers & Guitars alike. Well worth the small fee, 5* ### 5/5 — Best tool ever *2022-03-13, version 2.4* Could be 5 if full functions in all tunings. The first easy layout, visual learning aid that simplifies guitar. ### 5/5 — Excellent App *2022-02-07* Thanks for the great app! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Rubbish app *2018-01-05, version 2.1.1* Not good. No sound. Really wanted it to be good - thought it maybe - but wasn’t. ### 1/5 — Mr *2017-02-26, version 2.0* Perfect til last update.Was simple easy to use now - I'm looking for another app.Eggheads just can't keep well enough alone ### 2/5 — Can't print scales as pdf in color anymore. *2024-12-26* Can't print scales as pdf in color anymore. It's a bug I guess. But this was the main function I used it for. **Developer response:** The issue with creating and printing color scale PDFs is fixed in an update that will be out soon. Until then, creating black and white PDFs does work. Sorry about the inconvenience this bug has caused. Thanks for trying the app and providing feedback. ### 3/5 — Needs 3NPS support *2023-08-15* It looks really nice, but it does not support 3NPS, can you you give the App 3NPS in the next release please; with 3NPS it would definitely get 5 stars ### 3/5 — Needs full support for drop tuning *2020-06-21, version 2.3.2* Almost the app I needed... has all the features, but none of them work when you switch to drop C tuning :( ### 3/5 — No downloading *2017-07-07* No downloading possible, i don't no why. Hell! ### 3/5 — Civil Engineer *2017-01-05, version 1.9.1* I like it ....though it would be more interesting if the auto play option works harmonically with the metronome ( when you change the tempo , it doesn't change accordingly) .. overall it is helpful ### 4/5 — Great app *2021-03-26* This app completely unlocked the mode shapes for me, thus unlocking the entire fretboard. Only improvement I wish they had was a complete matching of the available chords for a given scale. It offers a few suggestions but its not exhaustive or complete. Still, this is a fantastic tool for guitarists! Customer support was excellent and Tom responded to my inquiry within an hour! Definitely recommend this. ### 4/5 — Love it but........ *2018-04-22, version 2.2* Need to be able to turn off the “caged sytstem” patterns not just the label: ### 4/5 — Fantastic *2018-01-11, version 2.0* Great app I just wish it had more scales and modes from Harmonic Minor and Double Harmonic Major. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Brilliant *2026-03-11* Everyone should have this app scales in all keys circle of 5ths tuner and the metronome is excellent you get drum beats in various timings much better than a click. I use this with my spark neo headphones a lot 5 stars ### 5/5 — Really good, really useful *2026-01-26* I’ve been waiting many years for somebody to make an app like this. The features, the layout, the options…it’s all done right. This one app replaced four other guitar scale and chord apps on my iPad. This is all I really need to practice and learn. To the developer…nice work and thank you. ### 5/5 — Serious Guitarist need this app. *2025-11-06* Thanks for developing such a great app for guitarist. Everything to learn in three views. This app has helped me reach my goals in understanding scales, chords, and modes. One of the best apps for players. Thanks, Vintag54 ### 5/5 — Great *2025-10-10, version 2.5.2* Best app I have ever used. ### 5/5 — Terrific guitar app *2025-05-18, version 2.5* I haven’t a chance to use it yet, but I did watch and see just a bit of what it’s capable of doing, and I’m excited about it. Thanks ### 5/5 — ✅ *2025-05-13* Great app. Use it all the time. ### 5/5 — Awesome *2025-02-08* This is an awesome app and as far as i am concern the only missing feature to make it perfect is giving it repetitive playback for chords, just like the amazing repetitive playback feature for scales. Users can practice their scales while the chord is ringing out. ### 5/5 — I like the layout and options *2025-01-17* This app does what no other guitar scales app in this app store can do; it displays a full scale, scale position, and chord info at the same time. I love this. I also like that I can orient the fretboards horizontally. Good common sense options and settings available too. That being said, the app cold use a refresh on the look/design. As of writing this, the app has not been updated in a year, a little concerning. ### 5/5 — I like the layout and options *2025-01-12* This app does what no other guitar scales app in this app store can do; it displays a full scale, scale position, and chord info at the same time. I love this. I also like that I can orient the fretboards horizontally. Good common sense options and settings available too. To me, the one time price seems fair for what I’m getting. ### 5/5 — Best guitar app *2025-01-12, version 2.4.5* This is by far the best guitar app I have used in terms of ease of use and functionality --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-12.*