Guitar Licks vs Guitar Codex
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Guitar Licks
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Guitar Licks helps you learn, edit, and build guitar phrases on your phone or tablet. Browse tabs in the feed and save the ones you want to practice. Lock a range, slow it down, and work the lick until it sticks. Open the editor to reshape what you’re playing — transpose, adjust motifs, change meter, and fine-tune feel with tools built for phrase work. Need new material? Use the generators for scales, motifs, riffs, and arpeggios. You choose the musical settings; the app builds from there, and you can keep editing. Also included: tuner, metronome, scale shapes, chord search, Guitar DSP, and more. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://panom.app/gleprivacy
Guitar Codex
This app offers a comprehensive suite of tools for guitarists of all levels, from beginners to experienced players. It includes a tuner, metronome, interactive chord and scale libraries, and a structured 140-lesson course covering theory, technique, and songwriting.
- Chromatic tuner with multiple presets
- Metronome with tap tempo
- Interactive circle of fifths
- Extensive chord and scale libraries
- 140 structured lessons
- Fretboard diagrams with color-coded notes
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Guitar Codex is the app you reach for every time you pick up a guitar. Find a chord, run a scale, tune up, or sit down for a proper lesson. It works for total beginners and for players twenty years in. THE TOOLS Chord Finder: tap the frets on a blank fretboard and watch the chord names appear. Play a shape you can’t name and find out what it is, or build a chord note by note and see how it’s made. Note Map: every note on the neck, lit up by octave. Pick a note and see every place it lives, then open a tip and watch the octave pattern drawn right on the fretboard. Chromatic tuner with a smooth needle and presets for Standard, Drop D, Open G, DADGAD, and more. Reference pitch is adjustable from 432 to 445 Hz. Metronome with tap tempo, time signatures, and a visual beat indicator. An interactive circle of fifths: tap any key and see its seven chords, its key signature, and its relative key. THE LIBRARIES Every chord, scale, arpeggio, and triad renders on the same big, high-contrast fretboard diagram, with each note color-coded by its job in the shape: root, 3rd, 5th, and so on. You learn why a shape works, not just where your fingers go. Chords: every common type and voicing, with CAGED positions up the whole neck Scales: five boxes per scale, a full-neck view, and advice on when to use each one Triads: three string sets, three inversions each, all on one page Arpeggios: chord tones mapped across the neck for every quality THE COURSE 140 lessons in 12 modules take you from holding the guitar for the first time through chords, scales, theory, the CAGED system, progressions, modes, songwriting, technique, genre studies, and fretboard and ear mastery. Lessons teach with diagrams and real songs, and they’re written to be read with the guitar in your hands. All of Module 1 is free. Guitar Codex has no subscription and never will. The free version includes the Chord Finder, the Note Map, the full tuner, the metronome, and a real taste of everything else. Two optional one-time purchases unlock the rest: Pro, the complete reference toolkit, and Complete, which adds all 140 lessons plus every lesson added in the future. Buy it once and it is yours for good.
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Verdict
Guitar Licks and Guitar Codex are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Guitar Licks sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month and Guitar Codex sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Guitar Licks | Guitar Codex |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yusuf Emre KARAYEL | CampCheck Interactive LLC |
In-app purchases
Guitar Licks
- Guitar Lick Exercises Pro7 Days trial$4.991 Month
Guitar Codex
- Guitar Codex Pro$9.99
- Pro to Complete Upgrade$9.99
- Guitar Codex Complete$19.99
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