# Uberchord \| Guitar Learning — user reviews > 50 indexed App Store user reviews of Uberchord | Guitar Learning by Uberchord Engineering GmbH, rated 4.60/5 from 1,748 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/uberchord-guitar-learning/id952669753/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/uberchord-guitar-learning/id952669753.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,372 · 4★ 224 · 3★ 57 · 2★ 27 · 1★ 68 ## What do users think of Uberchord | Guitar Learning? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Helps with learning guitar basics - 🚀 Motivates regular practice - 👍 Provides good structure and progression - 🎨 Intuitive and user-friendly interface - 💡 Useful feedback and chord recognition **Cons** - 🐛 Inconsistent chord/note recognition - 🤔 Frustrating when app doesn't register correct playing - 🤔 Locked content behind progression system - 🤔 Warm-up exercises too difficult for beginners - 🤔 Lack of clear instructions and explanations **Commonly reported bugs** - Tuner not working properly - App crashes or freezes during use - Microphone issues preventing chord detection **Most requested features** - More comprehensive song library - Ability to access any lesson/song without progression restrictions - Better instructions and explanations for features - Improved chord/note recognition accuracy - Support for iPad and other devices ## Newest reviews (13 of 50) ### 4/5 — Newb, but having fun *2020-04-12, version 2.9.3* I’m brand new to guitar. Figured the quarantine was better spent learning a new skill rather than just sitting around. The exercises so far have been easy and as long as I’m honest about whether I really nailed an exercise, nothing is ahead of my pace. I do wish there was more instruction on hand placement and finger placement, I had to look at outside sources to fix my left hand position but beyond that this has been a great app so far. ### 3/5 — Premium content is still locked *2020-01-01, version 2.9.1* Hiding songs behind an a pseudo-XP meter is beyond frustrating for players who already possess moderate ability on the guitar. If I want to play a song, I SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO PLAY IT ESPECIALLY WHEN I'M PAYING. EDIT: Thanks for the timely response devs. However, it's a little bit confusing since the most obvious thing I want to do is "play-along" which *IS* locked until you play the full song with 80% accuracy... ### 5/5 — It Works *2019-12-17, version 2.9* This app is absolutely phenomenal. I had never pocked up a guitar in my life. Im now 42 and learning to play. Ive been using this app for 2 months now and have learned so much. My family and I have noticed the progress and its all thanks to uberchord. This app is easy to use and teaches you in a way thats fun and works through progression and repetition without being annoying. I am not following along with songs. Learning new songs and loving every minute of it. The app is affordable for what it does and os worth every penny. Thank you for creating this app. Looking forward to making it to the very end and learning as many songs as possible from the library. ### 5/5 — Great to learn guitar *2019-05-27, version 2.7.8* I don’t have time right now to find an instructor and go to a lesson so this is a great way to learn on my own. I enjoy the structure of the lessons and the ratings. The complaint I have is the warm ups pull in chords I don’t know at all and are too hard (the bar chords are really hard for me. I have pretty small hands). Otherwise love this app. ### 5/5 — Great for getting into guitar *2019-05-02, version 2.7.8* It’s free it’s easy and there’s no ads or membership you just need an account and I’m just beginning and it’s really easy to start. I just hope you don’t need to pay for a membership ### 5/5 — Really great use of technology *2019-03-21, version 2.7.7* I am just starting to learn guitar taking lessons and need a structured practice system Tried the demo and decided to subscribe and am so impressed and glad I did I am using the cord from Rocksmith and so far it works on my iPad. You have to use the camera doggle to plug in to the iPad Eventually going to get a irig for the other features So far mostly all chords are recognized but occasionally it has me replay the chords maybe Operator Errors:) I did find that Re-Tune helped recognizing my chords Thanks Developers great program and appreciate your time ### 4/5 — Pretty good *2019-03-15, version 2.7.7* It’s a good app for learning the basics and it makes you drill and drill until your basic skills become polished. I’m still st the beginning, but I will keep at it. I am already experienced at playing, but I always like to keep learning. As my parents once told me this joke, I think of this app: Tourist in Manhattan, New York: Pardon me, sir, if you could help me, how do I get to Carnegie Hall New York native: Practice, man, practice! ### 5/5 — Very pleased! *2019-02-26, version 2.7.6* I’ve played classical guitar (nylon strings) for years in the classic style (footstool, reading notes, etc), but never really learned how to strum, play chord patterns and develop right hand rhythm. I am happy to report that I am really encouraged by my progress through these exercises. I’ve learned maybe 10 chords now, played through a few songs on the app and have greatly improved my right hand function, not to mention my confidence! These skills are a wonderful and welcome addition to my guitar experience! ### 5/5 — Great app to start learning the guitar *2019-02-19, version 2.7.6* So far, it has been great experience. One has to go to songs and learn the other hidden course it has which helps you solidify what you learnt in the course. The start up warm up can be hard as you go along and discouraging. Songs are ok. It just teaches you rhythm. No lead stuff here. No theory either. It just helps you with the technique, somewhat, as you got to learn how to strum and use chords on your own. Tons of areas of improvement. ### 5/5 — Definitely recommend. *2019-01-07, version 2.7.5* This app actually motivates me to practice everyday. I feel like it starts you off with a good foundation and builds from there. I’m already feeling comfortable. I feel like this app will actually allow me to stick with it and learn guitar. ### 5/5 — Do NOT get yousician! DO get Uberchord. *2019-01-04, version 2.7.5* They are very similar but Yousician will charge you for a full year if you don’t cancel the free trial. I feel that is shady as it gets, only the worst scam companies do that to people. They seem fraudulent. After my year subscription charge, I figured I’d make the best of it but then they terminated the feature for users to submit their own songs. They also removed the majority of their premium songs to an even more premium subscription. Do not support them. You can get a similar style of learning with Uberchord. They have a better price. And my experience with costumer service has been exceptional. They actually communicate with you like s person and not a money grabbing robot that says , too bad. ### 5/5 — A beginner’s dream come true!!! *2018-12-19, version 2.7.4* Simple, straight forward, friendly, patient, dummy proof. If you have struggled with a guitar before, struggle no more. Uberchord is the app for you! In a few minutes it will take you from zero to play familiar sounding songs. Almost like magic!!! ### 5/5 — Been trying for 15years *2018-12-19, version 2.7.4* I have been trying to play guitar for 15 years with ZERO success.... this app makes it feel like a game I am trying to win. In less than a week, I am switching chords and playing like I have been doing it for months.... I love that there is a reminder to remind you to practice, all it takes is 10 mins a day. I am in love with this app ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Frustratingly bad *2020-10-23, version 2.9.3* You can’t back out of anything if you’re accidentally tap it. (There’s no back button or X button). You can’t look at anything without physically playing it on your guitar. (It will yell at you that it can’t hear you.) Update: Reply to the offensive Developer Reply: There is no pause button. Perhaps that’s a bug. But in general, the UI and UX are still pretty bad. I used it with my guitar yesterday, or attempted to. The note recognition is quite cool, but the UX is the worst of any app I’ve used. I’m a certified music teacher, have used thousands of apps, (over 370 on my phone right now) and I’d never recommend this to a student if I can’t even make it work myself. **Developer response:** Josh, apologies - we should not have assumed that things are working for you, simply because they are working for us. There should be a pause/exit option the moment you tap anywhere on the screen. If you cannot make it appear it’s a bug indeed.  After your initial frustration you might not want to give Uberchord another shot, but if you change your mind, please reach out to me and I’m happy to assist and figure it what’s wrong.  Also I’d love to hear your other feedback - with your experience as both music teacher and power user we have a great opportunity to make Uberchord (even) better. Shoot me a message to eckart@uberchord.com.  Best, Eckart (Co-Founder and CEO) ### 1/5 — Deleted Uberchord after 3 minutes *2020-08-01, version 2.9.3* After the first time signing up, the first lesson is tuning. There is a tuner that uses a graphic of the strings and arrows show which direction, up or down, tighten or loosen the string and a moving tick line that indicates sharp or flat. The mic picks up the sound. The problem is the tuner does not wait until the string is tune accurately and skips to the next higher string. Something as basic as that should work flawlessly not just because they they put it right up front in your face the first time you use their app, but because it is a foreshadowing of problems to come. Now I will retune my guitar with my Korg, or Polytone. But I was interested in the app. Uberchord, needs to work the problem. **Developer response:** Hi J, sorry to hear that you had problems with our tuner. Normally, there should have been a circle in the middle that fills up when your string is in tune before it moves on to the next string. Wasn't this the case? Besides the "guided tuner" in the beginning, we also have another open tuner in the app that does not automatically jump to the next string. Maybe you want to give this a try. You can also reach us directly under support@uberchord.com. Best, Simon ### 1/5 — Issues with the microphone *2020-02-18, version 2.9.2* I've used 2 iPad minis (4th and 5th gen), 1 iPad Pro (2019) and an iPhone 11 Pro Max with the app. Using three different guitars and two different amps or no amp at all, the app consistently misidentifies notes played. I've been playing guitar for well over a year and have used the built-in tuner, a Boss tuner and Kliq clip on tuner, thinking that there was some issue with the tuning. The app's tuner is just not as precise as the others I use and wasn't sure if this contributed to its consistent misidentification of notes played. I've not found a combination that produces reliable results. The Eleanor Rigby lesson is a especially problematic with the E minor chord. Third fret G on the first string seems to ge reported a bunch for different chords. My acoustic with the pick up unused and electric guitars produce the same problem for the same notes. I have a PRS Silver Sky and a Gibson Les Paul traditional and whether I use my thumb nail, no nail or guitar pick, I cannot get the chord. Using the cleanest tone on the amp with no effects, changing volume, etc. don't seem to have any effect. The chord identification portion of the app is unreliable as well. There's probably a specific type of acoustic setup that works okay with the app and I'm not sure what it is and don't really care. **Developer response:** Dear S.o.S, I am sorry to hear that you have problems with the chord and note recognition. For electric guitars, we highly recommend using an adapter like the iRig2 from IK Multimedia. It is inexpensive and you get nearly 100% accuracy. Acoustic guitars are normally recognized well (about 95% accuracy). However, the iPad Mini 4 and 5 are a bit too slow for the complex audio processing tasks. I would rather use the iPhone 11 Pro instead. If you want to give it another try and still have problems, you can always reach us at support@uberchord.com. We will happily help you to get everything up and running. We have a lot of happy users and I am sure that we can sort this out for your setup, too. Sorry again for the inconveniences. Simon (Uberchord co-founder) ### 1/5 — No support option available, says your not playing the chord correctly even when you are *2020-01-15, version 2.9.1* This app has a decent tutorial to get you started and convince you to spend your money, but a horrible mic for reading chords. I thought it was just me being the beginner that I am playing the notes wrong even though I am following the exact instructions on how to play a chord. Turns out my frustrations were real. I had a music teacher come over so i showed him the app. He had similar difficulties (not as bad as me I’ll admit), but when you play a chord the app doesn’t read it properly. This can leave you stuck on a particular level and frustrate you out of your mind. I am now out of the two week period to get my money back and I just learned that it’s not me, it’s the app. Anyway, still not sure how I would contact support as there is no option in the app. Maybe this review will entice them to make it easily available or at the very least to contact me. I would not recommend this app to any beginning to learn guitar **Developer response:** Dear Evan, sorry to hear that you have problems with our app. You can always contact us at support@uberchord.com (there is also a support button in the app under settings). I am sure that we can figure out what the problem is with your setup and solve it together. There are some easy tips to get nearly perfect recognition. Please contact us so that we can sort this out. Thanks! Simon …and if you just want your money back, no questions asked. We are in for the music, not for the money. ### 1/5 — Trash and a RIPOFF *2019-08-06, version 2.8.1* Even if you PAY, this stupid app won’t allow you to take the lessons you want, if you don’t earn enough “picks” first. The developer will give some bs response about learning in order - but a paying customer should be able to access ANY lesson they choose. It’s not YOUR call on what I am “ Ready” to learn! Save your money and get a real teacher. UPDATE - even if you pay 89 bucks - it STILL wont give you access if you dont do it in order. This is outright fraud. ### 2/5 — Amazing when it actually works. *2021-07-13, version 2.9.9* I have loved this app and almost thought it was too good to be true. Paid $70 for the year and now I can’t get through a single practice because the exercises refuse to pick up what I’m playing. I can play a perfectly tuned A chord and I’m setback or stuck for “not playing it right.” When it all works it’s amazing how it can really help push you. Right now I just want my money back because I’m “playing wrong” apparently. Using an 12 pro Max. No mic issues. ### 2/5 — Like having a real-world teacher. A terrible real-world teacher. *2018-08-09, version 2.6.13* Put simply: this is one of the most aggravating, annoying apps I’ve ever used. It doesn’t really you what you did wrong, and it wastes your time. Instead of taking the time to fix your mistakes during many of the “progress-bar” based lessons, it just takes progress away and screws you over, as a post to taking the time to help you play the freaking chord. It feels as though they were giving out they’re app for free, so they saved their own time, by having these problems. But you know what? It’s one of the only free guitar teaching apps that’s even the slightest bit good, so, many people come crawling back to this, and guess what! I probably will too, and get ticked off all over again. Pay for Yousician or something, unless you like this then good for you! You probably knew guitar previous, unlike Me, who thought this highly regarded app could teach how to play with causing so much annoyance. Try it, if you feel so inclined, but I don’t recommend it. ### 2/5 — Disappointing *2018-06-07, version 2.6.10* I had high expectations but the app does not even hear my guitar correctly. I can play a chord correct and it will make me play it over and over again cause it thinks it’s wrong. Or it will tell me to stop playing a note on one string when I’m not even touching that string. The exercises are lame and it is not applicable to real songs. Maybe if you get further up you will start to learn more but there are better apps out there than this. ### 2/5 — Can't Detect Correct Notes *2017-12-07, version 2.6.3* I wouldn't pay to upgrade until the app can correctly detect notes. For the past 2 months I've tried using the app - it just sits there telling me to play a G - while I'm playing a G - nothing ever happens - just sits there. The tuner part of the app works but not the teaching part. Doesn't matter if I'm using an Acoustic or Electric the app just sits there. Have no problems with Yousician or Fender. All of my third party tuners detect just fine. So clearly Uberchord is the problem. ### 3/5 — Great idea but flawed execution *2021-04-28, version 2.9.8* I really like the idea of getting feedback on chords and rhythms while playing. However, The app does not always recognize when something is being played correctly. It gets stuck on repeatedly showing the same cord, and indicating a mistake. It is quite frustrating! I plan to try it a couple of more days to see if the app learns. Otherwise, it will be unusable. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — So impressed *2021-03-29, version 2.9.8* I’ve taken the 7 day trial and find Uberchord to be extraordinary! It has brought me from true beginner to something more. It’s gamification interface motivates me to practice longer and harder to get the chords right and on tempo. I can’t live without this app,👍 ### 5/5 — Gentle Introduction and Great Content *2021-01-02, version 2.9.5* I’m a complete guitar beginner, and this app has helped me go from the basics of playing chords to being able to comfortably strum the chords to several songs with varying rhythm patterns. The pacing of the lessons is very good, and the instant feedback is invaluable. ### 5/5 — Helps me learn to play without looking *2020-09-25, version 2.9.3* Just on the free version for now. Want to train myself not to look at fretboard. This helps because I don’t have to turn my head to verify I’m playing a note or chord correctly. Obviously I’m a beginner. With experience I hope to be able to do this by ear but in the meantime this helps. ### 5/5 — UPDATE: Feedback Is Key *2020-05-16, version 2.9.3* I have been using the app for a month now and if you are like me and want to know how you are doing with something you are learning, this is the app for you. I took some group lessons which was a big help, but this program has really upped my desire to practice which is the key to getting better at pretty much anything. Whatever gets your axe in your hands will help you get to where you want to be. I look forward to playing with this app and that is saying something if you knew me. Thanks to the developers. UPDATE: I am now using a Rockband microphone with the apple camera adaptor and i think it helps with chord recognition issue. ### 5/5 — Awesome way to learn guitar! *2020-05-04, version 2.9.3* Wow! This app is incredible. I have been playing for about a week & I can already strum chords that sound recognizable. This is a game changer for me. Totally addictive & makes learning fun! My only regret is that I didn’t buy this app sooner! Thanks! ### 5/5 — Look elsewhere *2020-05-01, version 2.9.3* This app does not work with iPad Pro. Can’t tell the difference between E notes especially and take 20 to 30 seconds to register a chord strum. Checked levels on the an all was good so something is wrong with the note recognition. Couldn’t get past the Em first chord exercise could barely tune my guitar. Guitar tuna on my iPhone next to my ipad was able to pick up everything. **Developer response:** Hello Ernie, sorry to hear that you have problems with your setup. Let's solve this together. Can you please send me an email to support@uberchord.com. There are a few easy things that improve recognition when using an iPad Pro. For example to use a stand so that the mic is facing the guitar. I am happy to help. Thanks. Simon ### 5/5 — Definitely recommend *2020-04-15, version 2.9.3* I have been trying to teach myself to play the guitar for about 6 months. I tried several different apps but this is the only one that actually taught me not only the chords but strumming and rhythm. ### 5/5 — Uberchord Guitar Lessons *2020-04-07, version 2.9.3* I am a 52 year old first timer to playing electric guitar. While I was trying to look for ways to learn, I came to realize I would want a very structured yet economical and on demand system. Uberchord has been good to me last 4 months. I am almost past “Beginner” and just started playing easy songs that comes with the program. PS. Apology to Ann Lennox for butchering her Sweet Dreams”. Will get better someday. ### 5/5 — Excellent for my beginner self! *2020-01-29, version 2.9.1* I started playing guitar about 2 years ago and i was horrible at practicing regularly. For a variety of reasons i just sucked at it. Uberchord was just what i needed and since Christmas i think I’ve made a lot of progress in very little time. I sound like a commercial. I think you are the only paid product i have ever bought! Great stuff, keep it up, I’m at almost 100 pics now!!!! You have to earn pics in the various exercises to open up more advanced exercises. Great visualization with finger numbers on strings & frets. You can also slow down drills which is key when i hit a hard one. The simple discipline of practice i needed of going between two chords, or more as i progress is what was missing from my lesson to lesson. Even at 5 stars this is under rated! Get started with the free parts and for me it was simple to buy it as i progressed and was for once excited to move forward. My set up for this is: Telecaster, cable to an iRig, iRig to iPad... iRig to Amp. I use an external Bluetooth speaker for output from the iPad (or iPhone) but use the mic in from the irig. So i had to buy a 2nd cable and iRig, but it can work with out that. Over Xmas i actually just went guitar to irig to iPad since i was at my in-laws. Also the chord finder is pretty cool as well. ### 5/5 — Provides a good structure to learn chords *2019-12-17, version 2.9* Really like this application as it gives me a good learning structure (never taken lessons) to learn guitar chords. The app forces me to play the correct tempo, is a wicked task master for correct fingering, and is very intuitive. Only downside is the program “hears” every little mistake better than the human ear. Some chords, particularly barre chords, can be frustratingly difficult to play to UberChords satisfaction. Overall, in the absence of a guitar teacher, this is an excellent way to learn and measure your progress. I recommend this app --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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