# Guitarism - Pocket Guitar — user reviews > 308 indexed App Store user reviews of Guitarism by Rhism LLC, rated 4.60/5 from 57 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/guitarism-pocket-guitar/id409707446/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/guitarism-pocket-guitar/id409707446.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 41 · 4★ 11 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 1 ## What do users think of Guitarism? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🎸 Realistic and playable guitar sounds - 👍 Easy to use and intuitive interface - 🎨 Wide range of guitar models and effects - 🎶 Useful for songwriting and practicing - 🔌 Good MIDI and Audiobus connectivity **Cons** - 🔒 Limited chord options (only 6 at a time) - 🔧 Lack of advanced features like string bending and finger vibrato - 🐛 Occasional crashes and compatibility issues with iOS updates - 💰 In-app purchases required for additional guitar models and effects **Commonly reported bugs** - Crashes when switching between guitar models - Compatibility issues with iOS 8 and later - Inconsistent MIDI and Bluetooth connectivity **Most requested features** - Expand chord selection to 8-12 chords - Add support for custom chord creation and chord inversions - Implement string bending and finger vibrato functionality - Improve Audiobus and MIDI integration - Provide more guitar models and effects without additional purchases ## Newest reviews (14 of 308) ### 5/5 — Made me cry 😭 *2021-03-28, version 3.38* I have spent all of my life wanting to play the thoughts in my head through a guitar, but I could never grasp playing. I have tried so many DAW’s and plugins to mimic guitar sounds through MIDI, but none ever felt right, and now I come across this... When I connected this app to GarageBand and recorded a tune, I cried - not even going to try to act “manly” about it. From the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU. ### 5/5 — Amazing, just...amazing *2020-11-08, version 3.38* I was looking for a new way to play my synth apps and here it is. Really great sounding, powerful, and so easy to use. I can’t speak for how well it recreates the guitar playing experience, as I’m not a player, but this is just great fun. Highly recommended. ### 5/5 — Export settings to new device? *2020-09-25, version 3.38* Love this app so much. I’m just curious if there is a way of exporting settings to another device via airdrop, or iCloud. Thanks. ### 5/5 — Good app for a non guitarist. *2019-05-09, version 3.38* I wanted to use guitar in some of my songs and now I can. For £4.99 I can play acoustic or electric guitar, and it works in Audiobus and AUM as well as it’s IAA. Now if the developer would make it an AUV3 app, that would make me one very happy bunny. ### 4/5 — What this needs is... *2019-03-21, version 3.38* Guitarism sounds wonderful. Great app. Would be 5 star if it had midi in. Nic ### 5/5 — Awesome for strumming! *2018-08-26, version 3.38* Does strumming very well! If it had a solo mode it would be soooooo awesome! And a looper to loop the strumming and then solo mode to solo over the recorded strumming....that would take it beyond 5 stars! ### 4/5 — algumas ideias *2018-07-24* o app é ótimo, e por gostar tanto seguem algumas ideias. . melhorar o visual e funcionamento dos menus, deixando mais direto o acesso, tanto dos pedais, quanto das configurações de escala, etc. mais no estilo do garageband. esse visual e funcionamento de menu de windows 95 é triste. . ter a opção de mudar o tom da primeira corda. . botão rápido de ligar e desligar efeitos. ### 5/5 — Guitarism *2018-07-20, version 3.38* I'm really impressed. This is the most complete and realistic guitar app I have found. It has everything I could think of and lots more. I think I love it. Sounds great too. ### 4/5 — Really close *2018-07-09, version 3.38* This program is great fun, and is good for rock, but the lack of higher voiced chords, like 13ths and 11ths, limits its jazz usefulness. Also, I can find no way to control which inversion of the chord is to be played. Finally, the limit of 6 chords is a bit stifling. However, the guitars sound great and play great. Even with the above limitations the program is worth the investment. Using Guitarism to control other programs is reason enough to buy - I have made some wicked sounds. Make the program a little more flexible, and this app is 5-star all the way. ### 4/5 — Lots to Love But Seems Orphaned *2017-10-29, version 3.37* Pros: great sound. Lots of toys! And when I show my guitarist friends the secondary-chords feature, their eyes pop. Cons: Could really use full CAGED-system support for playing chords in other than first position. You can get part of the way there with the transpose feature, but but I don’t think most of us can make it work on the fly. So you can't, e.g., do a live riff that starts with second-position E and ends with first-position E. Also, without scales implemented it’s not as suitable for playing lead as the GarageBand smart guitars, even though they have a more limited sonic palette. The two things above stem from the bigger worry about this app: it seems moribund. There have been no major upgrades in functionality for two years now, as of late 2017. I do see the developer is releasing a flurry of bug fixes lately, so maybe things will start moving again. I’d be perfectly happy to pay for CAGED chords and scales as in-app purchases. ### 5/5 — Fantastic App *2017-06-02, version 3.36* Been using this for a while and it's fantastic. Such a realistic sound and the options for it are great to. Well recommended. ### 5/5 — Fantastic!!!! *2017-03-01, version 3.36* Especially using 4play!!! And should be improved chord number!!! Now we can see 6 chords But usually we can cover all the song with 8 chords!!! Tilted chords system is very complicated when I play songs!!! Please gather 2 chords box there!! Then we can make it easier and comportable! Very nice app it is!!!!! Thank you!! ### 5/5 — Brilliant *2017-02-12, version 3.36* Guitarism changed my musical life. It is without doubt, the most realistic guitar app on the planet. I'm not a guitarist, but this makes me sound and feel like I am. The developer is always at hand and is super quick to respond. Brilliant. Brilliant. Brilliant. Thank you. ### 5/5 — Playable beautiful so lifelike! *2017-02-10, version 3.36* Responsive friendly developer, wonderful sounding playable guitars, out of all iOS guitar apps if I needed to choose only one, this is the one. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Frustrating *2024-06-27, version 3.38* This is the most frustrating app available on iTunes. While it’s a great realistic sounding guitar app, however, it’s reminiscent of the gimmicky slew of apps that first appeared on the iTunes Store. It’s frustrating because in 2024, this app has stayed in 2012. Again, it’s 2024, and this app falls short on three features we musicians seek. Ability to connect an external keyboard or any arpeggiator/chord and pattern apps through midi-in. AUV3 compatibility. And MPE functionality. The developer has neglected updating and maintaining this app depriving us hopefuls of what could be the greatest acoustic guitar sound on the iOS platform. Avoid till developer addresses these three important features any proper music should have ### 1/5 — Regretted my purchase after 30 seconds. *2021-05-28, version 3.38* An expensive toy compared to the other great IOS instruments. No midi in. Sounds are mechanical. Hasn’t been updated in a long time. An average Review point of 4.6 is what got me. Feel bad for supporting this product instead of products from developers who work hard on creating and maintaining their excellent IOS products at the same price. ### 1/5 — Brat Oppinion *2014-12-27, version 3.31* I can't say that I'm the best person to judge this Application, but there are too many extras that you can download without the thing asking for passwords. It looks more like there might be a scam behind this guitar. ### 1/5 — Ios8 issue *2014-09-18, version 3.24* Crashes when switching guitar under iOS 8. Please fix ### 1/5 — It's not doing anything *2014-08-12, version 3.24* All this app does is gives me a message that says best with headphones. It won't go any further. I'm using an itouch 4g so if you have that itouch don't get this it doesn't work. ### 2/5 — App incompatible with widi master Bluetooth *2024-12-15, version 3.38* I’ve selected widi master on midi multiple times in guitarism and it refused to output through my midi controller, this is unacceptable 😡 ### 2/5 — Chords missing *2024-07-31, version 3.38* In keys options many chords missing to make a proper chord progression,fix this issue please ### 3/5 — STAGNET ! *2018-09-02, version 3.38* THIS DEVELOPER SEEMS TO HAVE LOST INTEREST IN THIS APP. WHY HASNT HE CREATED ANOTHER ROW OF BUTTONS FOR ADDITIONAL CHORDS OR GIVEN US ADDITIONAL OCTAVE POSSIBILITIES? WHY CREATE SOMETHING THAT IS SUBSTANDARD? WHY IS THE DEVELOPER SO INDIFFERENT? ### 3/5 — Only 6 chords in Iphone 7 plus.. =( *2017-05-21* App is great, but in Iphone 7 plus - tilt no work.. and we have only 6 chords... Please correct or make the possibility of 8-10 chords on 1 screen, and we will put 5 stars. ### 3/5 — Chord Options *2016-09-03, version 3.31* This is a very useful and fun app, though you could offer more of the chord options ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great Guitar emulation but no connectivity with other music apps *2025-08-01, version 3.38* This a great acoustic (and electric) guitar strum and arpeggio app. The sounds are v good - the 12 string acoustic is particularly sonorous. It is easy to get a natural playing sound with it. Edit - it does have IAA connectivity into GarageBand but only inconsistently so - try until it works (usually on the second attempt). So upgraded this review to 5 stars. Guitarism is much better than the guitars in GarageBand - so Apple should buy the app and put it into Garageband! [However it has no AU3 or even IAA connectivity so is no use for adding to other music projects in GarageBand (etc) on your phone - you could record into another device using an audio interface, but you might as well use a real guitar if you are going to that effort. A shame anyway - although not surprising as the last update to the app was in 2018.] ### 5/5 — Nice little tool for studio users *2024-04-29, version 3.38* Nice little tool for studio users especially if you can get an older model iPhone with headphone socket I’ve used this since it came out and wii guitar which is no longer supported on new iOS versions Guitarism is one of the reasons to buy an iPhone and it makes my older devices useable as instruments in y studio if you got audio out on your phone or pad defenetly not a toy ### 5/5 — Orphaned app *2023-01-05, version 3.38* No appreciable updates in 8 years. Abandoned app? ### 5/5 — Lasted the test of time *2022-12-02, version 3.38* Love strumming this with no need for the awkward finger positioning. Amazing app. ### 5/5 — Top *2022-09-09, version 3.38* The best ### 5/5 — Muted Strings Feature - yay! *2022-08-30, version 3.38* After a long search, This is only app I’ve found on the modern iOS that has a mode to capture a natural muted strings strumming style, for which I’m very happy. There are of course many positive features that I haven’t mentioned; however my wish list is that the software could be updated with 1. An additional three or more chord tabs 2. A chord modification button for 7ths 9ths Sus etc. ### 5/5 — An on-screen interface worth practicing *2022-08-01, version 3.38* On both phone and pad this is a game changer for me. With midi out I can bring my other sound apps and even Mac VSTs to life. A few things I would change for a paid Pro upgrade: 1 moving chord boxes position on-screen. 2 Adding more chord boxes to the vacant screen real estate on the pad version 3 Keeping only and changing the chords you set up when transposing. Not recording chords when you go to a minor key. 4 Modal support 5 Allowing all the positions of easy chord type 6 String bending and finger vibrato 7 Midi learn for key boxes so you could change chords with a keyboard and strum with the other hand. MPE capability. 8 Watch support to change alternative chord selection ### 5/5 — Я вас уверяю лучше не придумали ещё *2022-03-20* Безусловно лучшее приложение не имеющих аналогов, представьте нет рекламы, нет подписок, разве это не идеально, жаль обновления редко бывают, хотелось бы чтобы звучания разные были и новых функций ) ### 5/5 — Needs more chords on the palette *2021-12-26, version 3.38* Sometimes I feel like playing my guitar at work and these solve the problem!! Just needs more chords on the palette at least 12 ### 5/5 — Awesome *2021-04-27, version 3.38* ☺️ --- *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.*