Stringflo vs Tabula Fretboard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stringflo
Master the guitar fretboard with interactive note training, real-time pitch detection, and comprehensive theory tools. Practice with customizable challenges, visualize note positions, and track your progress to build fluency and deepen your understanding of the instrument.
- Randomized note challenges
- Real-time pitch feedback
- Fretboard visualization
- Customizable practice sessions
- Built-in tuner
- Chord and scale theory tools
- Progress tracking
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Stringflo: Master the Guitar Fretboard Stringflo helps guitarists build real fretboard fluency through interactive note training, real-time pitch detection, theory tools, tuning support, and visual progress tracking. Practice with randomized note challenges, get instant feedback as you play, reveal fretboard positions when you need help, and customize your sessions by string, note, and sensitivity level. Then go deeper with built-in theory tools for chords, scales, CAGED shapes, intervals, fret numbers, and full-neck maps. Key Features • Randomized Note Challenges: Build fretboard fluency with dynamic practice prompts • Real-Time Pitch Feedback: Instantly see whether you’re playing the correct note • Fretboard Visualization: Reveal note positions and reinforce spatial memory • Customizable Practice: Select the exact strings and notes you want to train • Built-In Tuner: Tune and monitor pitch directly in the app • Theory Tools: Explore chords, scales, CAGED forms, intervals, notes, and fret numbers • Full Neck Maps: Study patterns across the fretboard with clear visual diagrams • Progress Tracking: Monitor practice history, speed, and consistency over time • Adaptive Sensitivity: Adjust pitch detection for different playing environments • Minimal Interface: Designed for clarity, focus, and fast learning Stringflo combines repetition, ear training, real-time feedback, and visual reinforcement to help you recognize notes faster and understand the fretboard more deeply. Whether you’re learning your first positions or refining advanced fretboard knowledge, Stringflo gives you focused tools for smarter practice.
Tabula Fretboard
This app transforms your device's fretboard into an intelligent musical instrument. It generates in-key riffs, licks, and scale runs based on your chosen scale, tuning, and technique, ensuring every note is harmonically correct. Explore various scales, tunings, and techniques with an interactive fretboard and a backing band for practice.
- In-key riff generation
- Extensive scale and tuning library
- Multiple playing techniques
- Interactive fretboard with labels
- Integrated backing band with chord suggestions
- Guided practice lesson sequences
- Customizable practice library
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Tabula turns the fretboard into an instrument you can think with. Pick a scale, a tuning, and a technique - Tabula generates a riff, lick, or scale run that is guaranteed in key, every note, every time. Not guessed. The engine enforces it. - 13 scales: major, the modes, harmonic and melodic minor, pentatonics, blues, phrygian dominant - 14 tunings: standard, drop, and open, across 6-, 7-, and 8-string - 16 techniques: ascending and descending runs, sweep, legato, tapping, arpeggios, string-skipping, sequences, economy picking, and more - Up to 7 neck positions for restating the exercise up the neck - An interactive fretboard with note, fret, and scale-degree labels - A backing band: hear the chords that fit your riff on 12 voices (piano, strings, organ, and more), tap any chord to hear it, and play riff plus backing together - Practice Packs: guided lesson sequences that play right on the fretboard - starting with Gypsy Jazz. Loop any lesson, slow it down, play along with its backing, and jam the phrase in its own key - A practice Library: keep the riffs you like with a tap and sequence them into your own warm-up sets Free, from the first launch: the whole practice tool - every scale, technique, and neck position, standard and drop tunings (including Drop G#), the backing band, up to three saved warm-ups, and the free module of every Practice Pack. Tabula Pro (one purchase, forever) adds alt and open tunings (DADGAD, open G/D/E), Metric Modulation, unlimited saved warm-ups, and the full Practice Packs. Perfect for: - Metal, djent, and prog players writing in drop and 7/8-string tunings - Students and self-teachers learning how scales, modes, and arpeggios sit on the neck - Songwriters and producers beating writer's block with ideas that are always in key - Lead players building soloing vocabulary and practicing at any tempo No accounts. No guesswork. Just the right notes, anywhere on the neck.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Tabula Fretboard at every 2 days against Stringflo's every 4 months. Tabula Fretboard also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.2). 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. Stringflo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Tabula Fretboard sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. 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 Stringflo against 5.0 for Tabula Fretboard. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.
Stringflo ships an update every 4 months, Tabula Fretboard every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Stringflo | Tabula Fretboard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.2 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Oshry Ben-Harush | Matthew David Scott |
Customer experience
Stringflo
Tabula Fretboard
In-app purchases
Stringflo
- Monthly subscription$0.991 Month
- Monthly subscription3 Days trial$0.991 Month
Tabula Fretboard
- Tabula Pro$4.99
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