Fretwork vs StringForge

Fretwork is a guitar reference that derives everything from music theory — so it isn't limited to the tunings and instruments someone thought to put in a table. Most chord and scale apps ship a fixed database of shapes: standard tuning, a handful of others, six strings, and that's the edge of the map. Fretwork has no database. Every chord shape, scale position, and voicing is worked out on the spot from the notes themselves. Change the tuning, add or drop a string, hand it an instrument it's never seen — and it just keeps working. What's inside: • Chords — every chord type from triads to altered 13ths, with real playable voicings ranked by how they actually sit under your hand. • Scales — major, minor, the modes, harmonic and melodic minor, jazz, altered, symmetric, and world scales, across the whole neck, with the chords and progressions inside each. • CAGED — the five shapes laid out along one neck, color-coded and connected, so you can finally see how they link end to end. • Circle of Fifths — every key, its diatonic chords, and how they pull toward home. • Tab reading — a short, interactive lesson, with every example playable. • Tuner — listens through your microphone and tunes to any tuning, including custom ones. All processing happens on your device. • Metronome — adjustable tempo, beats, subdivisions, eight click sounds, tap tempo, and volume. Any tuning. Any string count. Nothing looked up. No accounts. No ads. No tracking. Nothing you do ever leaves your device.

StringForge is a precision tuning and practice toolkit for guitarists and bass players. Tune quickly and accurately with a responsive chromatic tuner, explore alternate tunings, and practise with a powerful built-in metronome. PRECISION TUNING • Automatic guitar string detection and manual string selection • Chromatic tuning for other pitched instruments • Clear cents meter with live detected and target frequencies • Responsive strobe-style tuning display • Live frequency analyser with harmonic peak labels • Adjustable A4 reference from 430 to 450 Hz GUITAR, BASS AND MORE • Standard, Drop D, DADGAD, half-step, whole-step and open guitar tunings • Seven-string guitar plus 4-, 5- and 6-string bass presets • Ukulele tuning • Custom tuning presets stored locally on your device • Capo support PRACTICE TOOLS • Reference tone playback for each target note • Metronome with tap tempo, time signatures and subdivisions • Configurable accents, click sounds and volume • Optional visual flash and haptic pulse PRIVATE BY DESIGN Microphone audio is analysed live on your device. It is never recorded, saved or uploaded. StringForge includes no accounts, analytics, ads, tracking or cloud sync. Open StringForge, choose your tuning and focus on the music.