Fiddler Magazine vs Guitar triads
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fiddler Magazine
This app provides a quarterly digital magazine for fiddle enthusiasts, featuring articles on various styles, tune histories, and transcriptions. It offers subscription options for ongoing access to its educational and entertaining content.
- Quarterly digital issues
- Articles on various fiddle styles
- Fiddle tune history
- Improvisation techniques
- CD, book, and DVD reviews
- Tune transcriptions
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Founded in 1994, Fiddler Magazine is an informative, educational, and entertaining resource for fiddlers, accompanists, and appreciative listeners. Each quarterly issue (now approx. 60 pages each) features a variety of different styles of fiddling, as well as plenty of other articles and columns. Regular columns include: Bluegrass Fiddling, “The Practicing Fiddler,” Fiddle Tune History, On Improvisation, Irish Fiddling, Cross-Tuning Workshop, Cross-Canada Fiddle Tour, and reviews of CDs, books, and DVDs. Each issue also includes transcriptions of several tunes. Magazine Subscriptions are available for purchase inside this app. Three months subscription - $6.99 (automatically renewed until canceled) Six months subscription - $12.99 (automatically renewed until canceled) One year subscription - $24.99 (automatically renewed until canceled) Your subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Your iTunes account will automatically be charged at the same price for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period unless you change your subscription preferences in your account settings. You can manage your subscriptions through your account settings after purchase on your device. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period. Please visit http://www.magzter.com/ns/privacy-policy.html for our Privacy Policy and http://www.magzter.com/ns/terms_condition.html for our Terms & Conditions
Guitar triads
Master guitar chords across the entire fretboard. This app helps intermediate players visualize and practice chord shapes, inversions, and progressions. Learn to connect shapes, understand harmonic color, and improve your playing.
- Learn triads, 6th, and 7th chords
- Visualize chord shapes across the neck
- Practice inversions and progressions
- Guided lessons on chord theory
- Adjustable BPM and metronome
- Full-neck chord reference
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The fretboard gets easier when you can see the small chord shapes inside it. Guitar triads is a practice app for learning triads, 6th chords, and 7th chords across the neck. Not as diagrams to stare at. As shapes you actually drill, hear, and move through in time. If you already know open chords and barre chords, this is the next layer: smaller voicings, cleaner movement, and more options when you comp, write, improvise, or learn songs by ear. Practice one chord everywhere Choose a root, chord quality, and string set. Guitar triads shows you the inversions of that chord across the neck, then cycles through them at your tempo. Use it to stop learning one grip at a time. See where the same chord lives on different string sets and in different positions. Practice chords inside a key Pick a key and work with the chords that belong together. Run the diatonic chords in order, or drill common progressions like I-IV-V, ii-V-I, I-V-vi-IV, and minor-key movements. Stay in one fret range, or move through the neck as you play. Go beyond basic triads Triads are the foundation, but the app does not stop there. Pro includes 6th chords and 7th chords, so you can practice richer voicings and start hearing how those colors fit into real progressions. Guided lessons Use short lessons to understand what you are practicing, not just where to put your fingers. Learn how triad shapes connect, how inversions work, and why the same chord can feel completely different depending on where you play it. Features • Major, minor, diminished, and augmented triads • 6th and 7th chord practice with Pro • Guided lessons — Major & Minor free, all chords with Pro • All 12 keys with Pro • Four three-string sets: 321, 432, 543, 654 • Fret-range presets from open position up to the 15th fret • Common progressions inside each key • Custom progressions with Pro • Note names or Roman numerals • Pentatonic scale overlay • Hint dots for the next shape • Full-neck chord reference • Chord playback and metronome • Adjustable BPM from 40 to 200 • Optional count-in and beat haptics Built for intermediate guitarists This is for players who are tired of the neck feeling like a set of disconnected boxes. Triads help you see the chord tones. 6th and 7th chords give you more harmonic color. Progression drills make the shapes feel musical instead of random. Practice a little every day and the neck starts to open up. Chords become nearby choices, not shapes you have to search for. Free and Pro Start free in the key of C, including guided lessons for Major and Minor triads. Guitar triads Pro includes all 12 keys, 6th chords, 7th chords, guided lessons, custom progressions, fret-range cycling, and the full Key Mode practice system. Available monthly, yearly, or as a one-time lifetime purchase. Privacy Policy: https://triads.app/ios-privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://triads.app/ios-terms-of-service
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Guitar triads at fortnightly against Fiddler Magazine's every 8 months. Fiddler Magazine's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.6). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Fiddler Magazine sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Guitar triads sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Fiddler Magazine against 5.0 for Guitar triads. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively.
Fiddler Magazine ships an update every 8 months, Guitar triads fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fiddler Magazine | Guitar triads |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Magzter Inc. | karlis krauklis |
Customer experience
Fiddler Magazine
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In-app purchases
Fiddler Magazine
- Summer 2019$6.99
- Fiddler Magazine - Fall 2015$6.99
- Fiddler Magazine - Spring 2016$6.99
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- Fiddler Magazine - summer 2016$6.99
- Fiddler Magazine - Fall 2016$6.99
- Fiddler Magazine Fall 2017$6.99
- Fiddler Winter 2021$6.99
- Fiddler Magazine Spring 2022$6.99
- Fiddler Magazine Summer 2022$6.99
- Fiddler Magazine Fall 2022$6.99
Guitar triads
- Triads PRO Monthly$3.991 Month
- Triads PRO Yearly7 Days trial$23.991 Year
- Triads PRO Lifetime$38.99
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