ChordsVault vs Guitar Handbook
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ChordsVault
Create, design, and share guitar and instrument chords and songs. This app offers flexibility for transcribers and performers, allowing on-the-fly chord design, reuse, sharing, and transposition to different keys, tunings, and instruments.
- Create and design chords
- Share songs and chords
- Reuse chords between songs
- Transpose songs to different keys
- Support for various instruments and tunings
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ChordsVault is the mobile entry into the ChordsVault portal for creating, designing and sharing guitar (and other instruments) chords and songs. ChordsVault is easy to use but provides great flexibility for songs transcribers and song readers / performers. Unlike many other sites, ChordsVault lets you design chords on the fly, reuse chords between songs, share songs and chords, and transpose songs to different keys, tunings and instruments.
Guitar Handbook
Master the guitar fretboard by learning note locations, chord shapes, and scale patterns. This app helps you solo in any key and improve your musical understanding.
- Fretboard note identification
- Open chord fingerings
- Pentatonic scale patterns
- Diatonic scale patterns
- Soloing in any key
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Learn where all the notes on the fretboard are, finger positions for open chords, pentatonic & diatonic scale patterns so you can solo in any musical key.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: ChordsVault at 6.0 against Guitar Handbook's 26.4. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for ChordsVault against 5.0 for Guitar Handbook. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
ChordsVault ships an update every 6 weeks, Guitar Handbook every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ChordsVault | Guitar Handbook |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 26.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Volicsoftware, Inc. | Stephen Comstock |
Customer experience
ChordsVault
Guitar Handbook
In-app purchases
ChordsVault
No in-app purchases
Guitar Handbook
No in-app purchases
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