Guitar Tab Notes vs Guitar Chart Maker

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.

Guitar Chart Maker turns the chord charts guitarists scribble on paper into clean, readable charts on iPhone and iPad. WHO IT IS FOR - Band members who bring their own chord charts to rehearsals and gigs - Singer-songwriters who want to keep every song with its key and fingerings - Anyone who has been drawing chord grids in a notebook and wants them on a screen - Players who need the song form (A - B - Chorus x2 ...) on the same page as the chords THE SAME LAYOUT YOU WRITE BY HAND One row is 4 bars, one page is 8 rows. That is the shape guitarists have always used on paper, and it is the only shape this app draws. Tap a bar and pick a chord name: root, type (maj, m, 7, m7, maj7, dim, sus4, add9 and more) and an optional bass note. Fingering candidates come from a built-in dictionary of about 2,000 positions, ordered from the lowest position, so one more tap confirms the chord. Two chords in a bar sit left and right; three or four are laid out by beat. "%" (same as the previous bar) and "x" (rest) are one tap each. After confirming, the cursor moves to the next bar, so an 8-bar section takes seconds. DIAGRAMS YOU CAN ACTUALLY READ - Fret numbers on the left (1-5 for open position, the real fret for higher positions) - Finger numbers inside the dots, a bar for barre chords - x and o marks above the nut If the dictionary does not have the fingering you use, draw your own on a large 6-string, 5-fret grid and save it for the song. SECTIONS AND SONG FORM Mark bars as Intro, A, B, Chorus, Solo or your own label. Each row gets a round section badge on the left and a light color band. The strip at the bottom holds the song form (A B C x2 -> Last (F G C) and so on), entered with a dedicated keyboard. Long forms wrap onto two or three lines, so nothing is cut off while you play. TAB PAGES IN THE SAME SONG Add 6-line TAB pages for the intro lick or the solo. Tap a line, type the fret number on the keypad, and add h, p, s, b or ~ marks for hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides and bends. PLAY MODE - The screen never locks - iPad in landscape shows two pages side by side: 64 bars without turning a page - Diagrams: all, none, or first appearance only - Text size S, M, L; dark (inverted) display; section colors on or off - Turn pages by tapping the edge, swiping, or with a Bluetooth foot switch (PageUp, PageDown, arrow keys) - Build a setlist and swipe up or down to move to the next song SAVE AND SHARE Each song is one file (.gccm) stored on the device. Send it to bandmates with AirDrop or mail from the share sheet; they open it in the same app. Songs moved to the trash can be restored for 30 days. LIGHT AND DARK Follows the system setting: paper tones in the light, inverted for dark stages. PREMIUM (ONE-TIME PURCHASE) - Removes all ads - PDF export (A4 or Letter), AirPrint printing and PNG image export - My Chords: reuse your own fingerings in every song, with export and import The free version has no song limit. Charts, TAB, play mode and sharing are all included. REQUIREMENTS iPhone and iPad, iOS 15 or later. English and Japanese. SUPPORT Questions, requests and bug reports: https://tenmais.jp/contact/