ChordSaver vs Pedal Book
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
ChordSaver
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ChordSaver turns any chord chart on the web into a clean, stage-ready song your whole band can play from โ no more squinting at cluttered tab sites or fighting with ad-covered pages mid-set. IMPORT ANY SONG IN SECONDS Paste a link from Ultimate Guitar, Cifra Club, or almost any chord/tab site, and ChordSaver strips out the ads, tablature, and stray text automatically โ leaving just the chords and lyrics, cleanly aligned and ready to play. Chords are detected and color-highlighted automatically, even in tricky notations, and in Spanish, Portuguese, and English chord sheets. BUILD YOUR SHOWS Group songs into Shows โ one per gig, rehearsal, or set list. Reorder songs with a tap, and copy or move any song between shows when your setlist changes. Add a new song mid-rehearsal and the list scrolls right to it. PLAY WITH CONFIDENCE ON STAGE โข Auto-scroll glides through the song at your speed โ swipe anytime to jump ahead or back without breaking the flow. โข Stage Mode goes full-screen with high-contrast text built for stage lighting, and keeps your screen awake for the whole set. โข Jump to the previous or next song in your show without ever leaving the reader. โข Transpose on the fly and zoom the text to whatever's comfortable from where you're standing. EDIT EVERYTHING YOUR WAY Didn't come out perfect? Open the built-in editor to fix the text, chords, or song info by hand. Title and artist swapped on import? One tap fixes it. Made a change you regret? Revert to the original imported version anytime. SHARE A WHOLE SHOW WITH YOUR BAND Send an entire show โ every song, every chord, every order โ to your bandmates in one share. Everyone shows up with the exact same setlist, so nobody's scrambling for the right key or the right song order at soundcheck. A GUITAR TUNER, BUILT RIGHT IN Tune up without leaving the app. Built for iPhone and iPad, with a clean dark interface designed for rehearsal rooms and stage lighting alike. ChordSaver โ your chords, ready for stage.
Pedal Book
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Your pedal settings, saved for good. Dial in a tone on an analog pedal and it's gone the moment you touch the knobs again - unless you write it down, or try to remember it. Pedal Book fixes that. Build a digital copy of your analog pedals, and dial in the settings to match your favourite sounds, then save for later! -- HOW IT WORKS -- BUILD YOUR OWN PEDALS - Replicate your analog pedals by taking a photo or building them from scratch - Place knobs, footswitches, toggles, sliders, and labels exactly where they appear on your pedals - Start from a classic stompbox preset with a working on/off LED - Unlock sparkle, metallic, and hand-painted finishes with Premium CAPTURE YOUR SETTINGS - Match knob, switch, and slider settings to your actual guitar pedals - Save the tone to your library to access whenever needed - Add what guitar, amp, and other gear you used - Organize tones into folders you'll actually use - Unlock unlimited tones with premium SAVE YOUR SIGNAL CHAIN - Lay out your pedals on a pedalboard to save entire signal chains - Create different pedalboards for different occasions (i.e. gig, home, studio, etc...) TRACK YOUR GEAR - Log every guitar, amp, and pedal you own - Tie your gear directly to the tones you save YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS - No account, no sign-up, no cloud - Everything stays on your device โ nowhere else Free to use, with room to grow: Free tier - 3 Pedals, 5 Tones, 1 Pedalboard. Pro tier - 10 Pedals, 25 Tones, 3 pedalboards. Premium - Unlimited Pedals, Tones, and Pedalboards + NO ADS + Custom Pedal Finishes. Just want the ads gone? That's available on its own too.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Pedal Book at Free against ChordSaver's $2.99. Pedal Book also leads on update cadence (daily vs weekly). ChordSaver's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and ads (none vs shown). On device support and iOS requirement 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
Pedal Book is free to download; ChordSaver costs $2.99 up front. Pedal Book sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. ChordSaver asks for nothing beyond the download.
ChordSaver ships an update weekly, Pedal Book daily. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ChordSaver | Pedal Book |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free โ better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Daily โ better |
| Ads | No โ better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No โ better | Yes |
| Best chart rank | #176 โ better | โ |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad โ better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 โ better | 17.6 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Juan Toran | Malcolm Lowy |
In-app purchases
ChordSaver
No in-app purchases
Pedal Book
- Remove Ads$1.99
- Premium Upgrade$3.00
- Pro$6.99
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- Premium$9.99
Questions
Is ChordSaver free?
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