Comparison

Guitar Tab Notes vs Furio Guitar

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

Head to head
About

Guitar Tab Notes

Features
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Guitar Tab Notes is a fast sketchpad for guitar players. When a riff or a chord shape shows up, open the app and get it down before it slips away. Instead of finger numbers or fret numbers, every position on the fretboard is shown as the actual note it plays (C, C#, D and so on). You read the sounds, not the shapes, so an idea still makes sense days later and is easy to move around in your head. WHY GUITARISTS USE IT - Capture ideas fast. Tap the fretboard and the note appears. Nothing in the way. - Think in any tuning. Standard, drop, open, or completely custom alt tunings that you type in and save. Every note name updates instantly across all of your chords. - Made for sketches, not for perfection. Group ideas into projects, drop in quick section labels like verse or chorus, and reorder everything by dragging. - Hear it back. Tap play to strum a chord and check an idea on the spot. - Color your voicings. Highlight alternate notes in four accent colors (turquoise, violet, amber, coral) right on the diagram. Colors can even share one spot with the main note: the dot splits into colored sections. - Capo aware. Set a capo and the fretboard and note names follow along. EVERYWHERE YOU WRITE Guitar Tab Notes runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac, and your whole sketchbook syncs automatically through your private iCloud. Start a riff on the couch with your phone, then finish the arrangement on iPad or Mac later. Nothing to set up and no account to create. EXPORT AND SHARE Send a single chord as an image, or a whole song as plain text or as a print-ready PDF: clean black-on-white A4 pages with your section labels, automatic page breaks and a choice of 2, 3 or 4 chords per row. On Mac, exports go through the standard Save dialog. Simple on purpose and quick by design. Keep the guitar in your hands and let the ideas land.

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Furio Guitar

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You either practise or you don't. There is no demo mode. Furio Guitar is a chord and scale library for the instrument you already own. Choose a key, choose a scale, and the neck fills in โ€” not a photograph of a fretboard, the actual positions, laid out along the neck the way every chart you've ever read lays them out. The fretboard. Scales, chords, triads, or a free board you fill in yourself. Degrees or note names. CAGED boxes when you want the window fixed, free position when you want to move it. Guitar and bass, standard tuning or your own. Triads. Pick a quality, a string group and an inversion, then walk the shape up the neck and watch it change under your hand. This is the part most apps skip. The tuner. Pitch in cents, not a green light. Standard, Drop D, half step down, and bass tunings. The metronome. It keeps time wherever you are in the app. Stopped, it folds into the tab bar and costs you nothing. Running, it takes one shelf and hands the rest of the screen back. Today. Yesterday's work comes back as today's first drill. Thirteen minutes counts. What it doesn't do. No account. No ads. No subscription. No analytics. The app never sends anything anywhere, because there is nothing to send โ€” everything runs on your phone, including the tuner's listening. Available in English and Spanish.

Screenshots

Guitar Tab Notes4 screens
Furio Guitar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Furio Guitar at 15.0 against Guitar Tab Notes's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Guitar Tab Notes versus Furio Guitar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGuitar Tab NotesFurio Guitar
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size2 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUnited App Sp. z o.o.Sociedad Comercial E Industrial Tendero Limitada

In-app purchases

None

Guitar Tab Notes

No in-app purchases

None

Furio Guitar

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Guitar Tab Notes free?
Guitar Tab Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Furio Guitar free?
Furio Guitar is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Guitar Tab Notes or Furio Guitar have ads?
Neither Guitar Tab Notes nor Furio Guitar shows ads.

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