FretPilot vs Modes Guitar

Most guitarists can play — but they never truly learn the neck. They get stuck in the same box shape, hunting for notes, guessing where a C# lives on the D string. The players who break through all share one habit: they see the fretboard as a map they know by heart. FretPilot is the trainer that gets you there — and it works nothing like a flashcard app. It doesn't ask you to tap a screen. It calls out a note, listens through your mic as you find and play it anywhere on the neck, and times you. Then it shows that time falling, session after session, until the whole fretboard is instant. That's the skill serious teachers keep coming back to: not just knowing the notes, but knowing them instantly. It's what frees you to improvise, to build chords and scales anywhere on the neck, to make sense of theory, and to speak the same language as other musicians. And it takes only a few focused minutes a day. HOW IT WORKS • We call a note. You play it anywhere on the six-string neck. Your guitar does the talking. • FretPilot times every answer and tracks your average and personal best for each string. • Watch your recall speed drop as the neck becomes muscle memory. BUILT TO MOVE YOU FORWARD • Four learner modes — Novice (open strings), Beginner (shows the position), Improver (it fades in slowly), and Mastery (pure recall). • Per-string speed and accuracy stats, with progress charts across days and weeks. • "Focus on my weak spots" steers practice toward the notes and strings you're slowest on. • A note timeout keeps the pace honest and sharp. • One-tap Optimise tunes the listening to your guitar and your room. WORKS WITH YOUR GUITAR • Acoustic or classical — just the built-in microphone. • Electric — through an amp, or plugged in with an audio interface. • Every note is analysed live, on your device. CLIMB THE SCOREBOARD — IF YOU WANT TO • Opt in to the online scoreboard and see how you rank: overall, by your learner mode, or against your own guitar school. • Choose a nickname — your real identity is never shown. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Your microphone audio is analysed in real time on your iPhone. It is never recorded, stored, or sent anywhere. • The online scoreboard is entirely optional and opt-in. Whether you're a beginner who wants to start the right way, or an intermediate player finally ready to break out of the box, FretPilot turns the one practice that changes everything into something fast, measurable, and genuinely hard to put down. Download FretPilot and start owning the neck. — FretPilot Pro is an auto-renewing subscription. • Start with a 3-day free trial. It then becomes an auto-renewing monthly subscription (£0.99/month, or your local equivalent). • Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. • Terms of Use: https://fretpilot.pro/terms • Privacy Policy: https://fretpilot.pro/privacy

Modes Guitar is a hands-on fretboard lab for iPhone and iPad. Tap the notes you're fingering to find out what you're playing, lay any scale out in CAGED or three-notes-per-string positions, browse playable chord shapes in any tuning, and practise it all against a built-in metronome. SCALE & CHORD FINDER Tap the notes you're holding down straight onto the neck. Modes Guitar names the chord in real time — major, minor, diminished, augmented, extended, suspended and more — and ranks every scale that fits by note coverage. Filter by scale family to narrow the list, then jump straight to that scale's chords. SCALES ON THE FRETBOARD Pick a root and a scale and watch every scale tone light up across the neck. Switch to CAGED positions or three-notes-per-string runs, drag a box up and down the neck to change position, and narrow the notes to triad, seventh, pentatonic or the full scale to see the shape behind the shape. CHORD SHAPES Every degree of the scale gets real, playable grips, complete with open- and muted-string markers, barre indicators and a fret-number gutter when the shape sits up the neck. Step through positions along the neck, choose an inversion, or force any scale tone into the bass for slash chords. TRIADS ON THE NECK Take any chord in the key apart and put it back on the neck. Pick a degree of the scale and Modes Guitar lays out every close voicing of that chord as a grid of diagrams, grouped by string set and running root position, first inversion, second inversion. Choosing one puts it on the fretboard with the rest of the chord tones around it for context, and you can drag it up the neck to walk the same grip through every position. 20 TUNINGS, PLUS YOUR OWN Standard, Drop D, Drop C, Eb Standard, DADGAD, Open G, Open D, seven-string, baritone, four- and five-string bass, ukulele, banjo (five-string, tenor and plectrum) and mandolin. Shapes, grips and note names are recalculated for the tuning you choose, and retuning keeps your fingering so you can hear what the same shape becomes. Or build your own: pick 3 to 8 strings and tune each one by ear, starting from any preset. STROBE TUNER A stroboscopic tuner is built in. Play a string and three rings of segments drift one way when you're flat and the other when you're sharp, standing still the moment you land on pitch — far finer than a needle can show. It follows whichever string you play, or pin one and work through them in order, and it reads in whatever tuning you're in, so a guitar, bass, ukulele, banjo or mandolin is tuned from the same dial, custom tunings included. Set the reference A anywhere from 415 to 466 Hz to play alongside older or non-standard pitch. Everything is analysed on device and nothing is recorded. PRACTICE METRONOME A full metronome comes along for the ride: time signatures, subdivisions, swing, per-beat accents, four click voices, adjustable volume and haptics, plus quick tempos and saved presets for the passages you're drilling. WIDGETS, CONTROL CENTRE & LIVE ACTIVITIES Put the metronome on your Home Screen or Lock Screen and start or stop it without opening the app. Add a Control Centre toggle, keep an eye on the tempo from a Live Activity while you play, and get a fresh Scale of the Day and Chord of the Day to work on. Everything runs on device. No account, no tracking, no internet connection required. Localised in 11 languages with light and dark appearances throughout. Try free for 7 days! After the trial, unlock full access with a one-time purchase — no subscriptions.