D'Chords vs Fender Pro Control
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
D'Chords
Access a vast library of over 7800 guitar chords with detailed fingerings and virtual fretboard displays. Explore chords in various positions, hear them played, and switch between left and right-handed views.
- Over 7000 guitar chords
- Virtual fretboard display
- Multiple fretboard positions
- Strum and hear chords
- Left and right-handed diagrams
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D'Chords is the quintessential hand-held guitar chord library brought to you by D'Addario & Company, Inc., the world's largest designer, manufacturer and distributor of musical instrument accessories. D'Chords is a companion to D'Addario's complete guitar scale and arpeggio app, "D'Scales." The D'Addario D'Chords puts a comprehensive and accurate library of over 7800 guitar chords into the palm of your hand. The D'Chords displays the notes and fingerings on a virtual fretboard, and allows you to view each chord selected in every position up and down the guitar neck. You can even strum the virtual strings to play and hear each chord in pristine audio. The library is separated into Root, Chord Type and Chord Variants, allowing you to navigate to any chord easily and quickly. The D'Chords even has a "lefty mode" for the often-ignored left handed guitarist. Enjoy exploring and expanding your chord vocabulary with this easy-to-use, comprehensive library. FEATURES: - More than 7000 chords in the Library - Displays notes and fingerings on a virtual fretboard - Displays chords in multiple fretboard positions - Strum strings to play and hear chord - Includes left-and right-handed diagrams D'Chords was developed by Audiofile Engineering, a leading developer of audio software for Mac OS X and the iPhone.
Fender Pro Control
This app provides remote control for a multi-effects guitar workstation via Bluetooth. Users can create, edit, and share custom presets, organize them into songs and setlists, and access a community library of tones. It also offers backup and firmware update capabilities.
- Remote control via Bluetooth
- Create and edit user presets
- Organize presets into songs and setlists
- Access community-shared presets
- Backup and restore presets and settings
- Update device firmware
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Fender Pro Control is the ultimate companion app for the Tone Master Pro multi-effects guitar workstation. REQUIRES A TONE MASTER PRO. Fender Pro Control allows remote control of Tone Master Pro via Bluetooth for creating, editing and sharing your own presets or for auditioning and downloading thousands of tones created by Fender’s community of players and artists. MANAGE PRESETS, SONGS & SETLISTS Easily create and edit over 500 user presets with Pro Control’s intuitive user interface. Organize your presets into Songs. Organize Songs into performance ready Setlists. EASY EDITING Choose from over 100 amp and effect models to sculpt your sounds. Familiar, intuitive interface makes tone creation fast and inspiring. CLOUD PRESETS Share your custom presets directly to the cloud. Audition and download presets from the user community of players and Fender artists. BACKUP & RESTORE Backup and Restore your presets, settings and user IRs to your personal cloud space so you never lose your data. Update your device firmware to get the latest amp/effect/cab models, features and enhancements.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Fender Pro Control at 3.2 against D'Chords's 2.6. Fender Pro Control also leads on ratings volume (59 vs 8) and device support (4 vs 2). D'Chords's advantage is review sentiment (63% vs 49%) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Fender Pro Control holds the better App Store score, 3.2 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fender Pro Control has 59 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 63% of D'Chords's written reviews are positive against 49% of Fender Pro Control's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
D'Chords ships an update every 3 months, Fender Pro Control every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and August 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | D'Chords | Fender Pro Control |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.6 (8 ratings) | 3.2 (59 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 63.1% of reviews — better | 48.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 59 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 846 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | D'Addario & Company, Inc. | Fender Digital |
Customer experience
D'Chords
Fender Pro Control
Bugs and requests
D'Chords
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes on startup
- Chord audio out of tune
- Unresponsive controls
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to create and save custom chords
- Chord progression suggestions
- Interval-based chord voicings
- Capo support
- iPad version
Fender Pro Control
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
D'Chords
No in-app purchases
Fender Pro Control
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is D'Chords free?
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