Comparison

StrumForge vs Guitar triads

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

Head to head
About

StrumForge

This app helps guitarists expand their playing with over 1,000 riffs, exercises, and chord progressions. It features animated fretboard diagrams, synchronized TAB, and customizable backing tracks for improvisation and songwriting. Explore scales, triads, and arpeggios with dedicated trainers.

Highlights
  • 1,000+ riffs and exercises
  • Theory-based chord progressions
  • Animated fretboard diagrams
  • Synchronized TAB
  • Customizable backing loops
  • Scale and triad trainers
  • 23 sampled drum grooves
Features
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Expand your playing vocabulary with over 1,000 riffs and exercises in StrumForge Pro, from blues and rock phrases to focused technique drills. Explore scales, triads, and arpeggios with dedicated trainers, using synchronized TAB and animated fretboard diagrams to connect the notes you hear with the shapes you play. Put those ideas into practice with over 1 million unique, theory-based chord progressions across every key. Choose your guitar sound, customize the rhythm, and build a backing loop for improvisation, songwriting, or exploring something new. No ads. No account required to get started. CHORD PROGRESSIONS • Choose 2, 4, 8, 12, or 16 chords for focused loops or longer sessions • Set your key, mode, chord types, tempo, and guitar sound • Lock chords, change voicings, or build your own progression • Browse roots, chord families, and exact types, and choose which chord colors Generate can use • Explore open chords, barre chords, triads, and power chords • Explore major, minor, diminished, augmented, suspended, sixth, seventh, ninth, 11th, and 13th chords—including add9, 6/9, and maj7#11 • Get helpful suggestions for compatible chord options and musical styles • See chord shapes outlined on the fretboard during playback or preview EXERCISES & RIFFS • Explore over 1,000 riffs and technique drills, from beginner to advanced • Practice picking, legato, slides, bends, blues, country, jazz, and more • Follow synchronized TAB and an animated fretboard • Hear ringing notes, sustained chord tones, bends, and prebends • Adjust tempo and key, loop with a count-in and metronome, and save favorites • Search by name or reference, and filter by difficulty, technique, and type • Use All keys for variety and triad or interval colors to highlight chord tones RHYTHM & DRUMS • Play along with 23 sampled drum grooves, including Rock, Jazz Swing, Driving Rock, Half Shuffle, and Pocket Funk • Explore rhythms in 4/4, 3/4, and 6/8 with the full Pro collection • Customize drum parts from light to busy and add fills • Choose guitar strumming patterns independently of the drum groove • Balance guitar and drum volumes, and save rhythm settings with favorites TRIADS & ARPEGGIOS • Explore triad inversions and how shapes connect across the fretboard • Practice with the Triad Trainer and Arpeggio Trainer • Practice nine arpeggio types across all five CAGED positions • Follow animated TAB and adjust tempo, direction, and rhythm SCALES & FRETBOARD • Improvise with matching mode and pentatonic scale diagrams • Choose a scale manually with separate root and scale selections • Explore individual CAGED shapes or the full fretboard • Show note or interval labels and highlight triads or characteristic intervals • View suggested chord fingerings and move diagrams along the fretboard • Use left-handed diagrams in portrait or landscape MAKE IT YOUR OWN • Preview a collection of light and dark themes • Create and save custom color themes with Pro UNLOCK STRUMFORGE PRO Unlock unlimited progression generation, longer progressions, musical styles, the full drum collection, trainers, exercises, and advanced scale tools. Pro also includes: • Save, revisit, and share favorite progressions • Sync favorites and preferences across devices with an account • Automatic practice tracking, session stats, and streaks • Guitar tuner with alternate tunings and reference tones • Metronome with tap tempo, subdivisions, swing, and saved presets • Additional 12-string, overdrive, and arpeggiated guitar sounds • Saved practice preferences Put music theory into practice and discover ideas for your own songs with StrumForge. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

Screenshots

StrumForge4 screens
Guitar triads4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: StrumForge at every 2 days against Guitar triads's fortnightly. StrumForge also leads on ratings volume (62 vs 3) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). Guitar triads's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. StrumForge sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Guitar triads holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: StrumForge has 62 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

StrumForge ships an update every 2 days, Guitar triads fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
StrumForge versus Guitar triads: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStrumForgeGuitar triads
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (62 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings62 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size70 MB66 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAdam Spainkarlis krauklis

Customer experience

StrumForge

All ratings62 ratings
Positive95.2%
Neutral3.2%
Negative1.6%
Written reviews29 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Guitar triads

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

StrumForge

Subscriptions3
  • StrumForge Pro Weekly7 Days trial$2.997 Days
  • StrumForge Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • StrumForge Pro Annual$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Pro$49.99
3 purchases

Guitar triads

Subscriptions2
  • Triads PRO Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Triads PRO Yearly7 Days trial$23.991 Year
One-time1
  • Triads PRO Lifetime$38.99

Questions

Is StrumForge free?
StrumForge is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Guitar triads free?
Guitar triads is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, StrumForge or Guitar triads?
Guitar triads is rated higher. StrumForge averages 4.8 out of 5 from 62 ratings, while Guitar triads averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do StrumForge or Guitar triads have ads?
Neither StrumForge nor Guitar triads shows ads.
Which is updated more often, StrumForge or Guitar triads?
StrumForge ships an update every 2 days, and Guitar triads fortnightly. Most recently, StrumForge was updated on November 5, 2026 and Guitar triads on October 31, 2026.

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