Comparison

Guitar 3D vs Oolimo Guitar Chords

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Guitar 3D

Learn guitar chords, strumming, and fingerpicking with interactive 3D visualizations. Compose your own music using a simple editor and hear real guitar sounds. Ideal for visual learners wanting to play basic guitar quickly.

Highlights
  • 3D right and left hand viewer
  • Chord chain editor
  • Auto play & loop
  • Speed control
  • Chord training game
  • Left-handed guitarist support
  • Chord library
Features
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No Ads! Learn how to play basic guitar chords, strumming and fingerpicking simply with this 3D ultimate guitar learning app just in minutes. Specially Designed for visual learners! Fun and easy way to learn guitar chords or compose songs. Just select the chords you want to learn and add them to the timeline. The virtual guitarist in the application plays the chord sequences you have composed, with strumming or fingerpicking techniques. You can see the correct finger movements from all sides in vivid detail. With the simple and easy-to-use music editor, you can compose your own music just in minutes. Sounds are recorded from real guitars. All animations were made with worlds best academic musicians and education experts. Features of Guitar 3D - Basic Chords App: ▸ Very easy to use ▸ No Ads ▸ 3D right and left hand viewer ▸ Chord chain editor ▸ Auto play & loop ▸ Speed ​​control ▸ Save your songs ▸ First - person and split cam options ▸ Different strumming and fingerpicking techniques ▸ Chord training game with 25 levels ▸ Support for left-handed guitarists ▸ Chord library(2D diagram) including all chords If you want to follow us: https://www.instagram.com/guitar3d https://www.facebook.com/Guitar3D https://www.facebook.com/Polygonium https://www.polygonium.com/music

About

Oolimo Guitar Chords

This app provides an interactive way to learn, understand, and master guitar chords. It offers a structured approach to chord theory, helping users visualize and hear harmonic relationships. Features include a chord finder, analyzer, progression explorer, interactive lessons, and quizzes.

Highlights
  • Interactive chord finder and analyzer
  • Chord progression visualization
  • 22 interactive theory lessons
  • Chord construction and ear training quizzes
  • Interactive fretboard and diagrams
  • Chord playback and note display
Features
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Oolimo is the interactive foundational reference for guitar chords – a learning and lookup app that explains chords clearly, supports songwriting, and inspires fresh sounds on the guitar. – No subscription! Pay once – use it forever and receive updates. – Current languages (included in every app): English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Chinese (Simplified), Indonesian, Japanese. Learn guitar chords and chord symbols as used by professional guitarists in modern pop, rock and jazz – including complex jazz chords. Let the Chord Analyzer name chords you've discovered on the guitar and show you how they are built. – Chord Finder, Chord Analyzer and music theory in one app. – Learn and understand chords – Read chord symbols confidently (including complex jazz chords) – Analyze chords instead of guessing – Apply music theory directly on the fretboard Oolimo clears up nonsense chords and incorrectly or confusingly written chord symbols, and explains with clear logic how chord symbols (chord names) are written unambiguously and how to correctly interpret different notations. When musicians from all over the world play together, it's important that everyone speaks and understands the same language – and that the language is easy and clearly understandable. — The Modules — Chord Finder Find musically meaningful chords instead of random guitar shapes. All fingerings come from a hand-curated database of playable voicings and are intelligently transposed by an algorithm. Every chord adapts automatically to the selected key. With a single tap you can send shapes directly to the Analyzer and explore inversions and different interpretations of the chord. Chord Analyzer Enter any guitar chord into the virtual fretboard and instantly get the correct chord name, including inversions. No "unknown chord" messages thanks to the intelligent recognition algorithm – even for complex chords, slash chords and inversions. The Chord Analyzer also supports alternative tunings (open tunings). Chord Progressions Explore and compare the most important chord progressions with an innovative matrix that visualizes harmonic functions and relationships. Practice the most important progressions systematically in different keys and variations – and master them so well that you can rattle them off in rehearsal to the amazement of your bandmates. Theory Lessons 22 interactive lessons with smart visualizations explain intervals, chord construction, voicings, slash chords, diatonic harmony and all major chord types – from first explorations on the fretboard, through major, minor and dominant 7th to altered, sus, add, 6th and diminished chords. Quizzes Use the quizzes to test and internalize your knowledge through play. The quiz tasks cover many topics: chord construction, intervals, harmonic context, chord types, voicings, tensions and much more.

Screenshots

Guitar 3D4 screens
Oolimo Guitar Chords4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Guitar 3D at Free against Oolimo Guitar Chords's $5.99. Guitar 3D also leads on ratings volume (736 vs 102). Oolimo Guitar Chords's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 7) and chart position (#45 vs unranked). On rating, review sentiment, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Guitar 3D is free to download; Oolimo Guitar Chords costs $5.99 up front. Guitar 3D sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Oolimo Guitar Chords asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Guitar 3D against 4.8 for Oolimo Guitar Chords. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Guitar 3D has 736 ratings behind it against 102, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 99% of Guitar 3D's written reviews are positive against 92% of Oolimo Guitar Chords's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Guitar 3D ships an update every 2 months, Oolimo Guitar Chords every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 11, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Guitar 3D versus Oolimo Guitar Chords: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGuitar 3DOolimo Guitar Chords
PriceFree — better$5.99
Rating4.8 (736 ratings)4.8 (102 ratings)
Positive reviews98.9% of reviews — better91.5% of reviews
Number of ratings736 — better102
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#45 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better16
Further details — not scored
Size145 MB15 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperPolygoniumOliver Mochmann

Customer experience

Guitar 3D

All ratings736 ratings
Positive97.8%
Neutral1.8%
Negative0.4%
Written reviews379 reviews
Positive98.9%
Neutral0.5%
Negative0.5%

Oolimo Guitar Chords

All ratings102 ratings
Positive95.1%
Neutral2.9%
Negative2.0%
Written reviews118 reviews
Positive91.5%
Neutral7.6%
Negative0.8%

Bugs and requests

Guitar 3D

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Login screen freezes
  • Incompatible with older devices

Requested features

7 requests
  • Include more advanced chords and chord progressions
  • Add interval display
  • Incorporate barred chords
  • Integrate with a DAW or guitar pro software
  • Provide a song library with popular songs
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  • Add Bluetooth connectivity
  • Improve song creation and saving functionality

Oolimo Guitar Chords

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Guitar 3D

One-time7
  • Classical Guitar$1.99
  • Acoustic Guitar$1.99
  • Classical Guitar$2.99
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  • Acoustic Guitar$2.99
  • Electro-Classical Guitar$2.99
  • Guitar Bundle$4.99
  • Guitar Bundle$7.99
None

Oolimo Guitar Chords

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Guitar 3D free?
Guitar 3D is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Oolimo Guitar Chords free?
Oolimo Guitar Chords costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Guitar 3D or Oolimo Guitar Chords?
Guitar 3D and Oolimo Guitar Chords are both rated 4.8 out of 5 on the App Store, from 736 and 102 ratings respectively.
Do Guitar 3D or Oolimo Guitar Chords have ads?
Neither Guitar 3D nor Oolimo Guitar Chords shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Guitar 3D or Oolimo Guitar Chords?
Guitar 3D ships an update every 2 months, and Oolimo Guitar Chords every 6 weeks. Most recently, Guitar 3D was updated on September 11, 2026 and Oolimo Guitar Chords on September 22, 2026.

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