Great for playing Uke, Guitar, Mandolin…
Other instruments can play along as well, if they know the chords.
The songs I’ve tried are chorded correctly.
Songs can be broken down by skill level, artist, etc.
In the app you have to do an extra step to feed the words into the song but it’s super slick and only takes a moment. This prevents device crashes from carrying MB of data for songs you never play.
I really like the demo of the strum pattern. Most of my Ukulele group just uses the Swiss Army Strum because we can’t get a feel for “D-u-u-d-U-d-d etc” so to be able to hear it is golden.
I haven’t tried the purchased version yet but will likely buy the app or the web version, as I’m looking forward to transposing and the auto-scroll which is a great feature, especially if you play with groups.
This is an awesome music app.
For Uke there is a whole section which teaches how to play the Ukulele. This app has everything!
Exactly what I needed
Not free
I looked at some of the songs and each one said I needed to upgrade to the + version.
Response from developer
Hi! Every song is free to read: chords, diagrams and the strumming pattern, no upgrade needed. What you probably hit is the Play button, which starts autoscroll and that is a UkuTabs+ tool. Reading that as the song being locked is fair and I am renaming that button so it says what it does (Sroll instead of Play). Sorry for the confusion. If you give it another look I would be grateful if you revisited the review, but either way, thank you for writing this up. It is how I find these things. - Jonas.
Fabulous
Response from developer
Thank you, that means a lot. The strumming patterns were the most requested thing for years and took a long time to get right across the whole catalogue, so I am glad they are doing their job. And you are welcome to keep the questions coming!
A little disappointed.
Response from developer
Your songs and favorites are safe. They live on your UkuTabs account, they are still there and opening any of them is free, both in the app and on ukutabs.com. Lyrics are not behind the paywall. Paying does not unlock them, for anyone. I do not have a license to publish song lyrics in an iOS app, so every song shows chords only. You can add your own to any song in a few taps: tap "Add lyrics", copy the song from its page on ukutabs.com, paste it in, and the app lines the words up under the chords and keeps them there. The old app was the website in a wrapper, so autoscroll and the instrument switcher came free with the site. This one is a native app that I built from scratch and supported by me alone, and those tools are what pays for it. The $50 you saw is the one-time option, there is a monthly one too and the website itself is unchanged and still completely free, in your phone browser as well. Sorry for the frustration. If you would consider revisiting the review after another look, I would appreciate it, and if something is genuinely not working, do reach out personally please. I answer every message. Happy strumming! Jonas
