GuitarChords vs Pocket Guitar Chords
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GuitarChords
Learn 16 essential guitar chords with interactive charts and audio playback. This app helps you discover chord combinations for songwriting and provides clear instructions on how to play each chord. It's designed to enhance your guitar playing and creative process.
- 16 basic guitar chords
- Interactive chord charts
- Audio playback for chords
- Chord combination discovery
- Songwriting assistance
- Learn and Listen modes
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GuitarChords features 16 basic chords to help boost your learning and creativity when playing guitar. Use GuitarChords to help you write songs. Listen to a list of 16 basic chords to find a combination you like. Once you've found all the chords you like, learn how to play them with beautiful chord charts. Tips: • In the chord selection menu, press the Learn button at the bottom of the screen to toggle between 'Learn' and 'Listen' modes. • Tap chord charts to hear what your selected chord sounds like. The guitar chords featured in this app are commonly used in many of today's popular music. Find the chords needed for your song, then learn to play them with GuitarChords. Note: GuitarChords currently features iAds, but a planned update is coming which will allow users to remove ads with a small purchase.
Pocket Guitar Chords
Access a comprehensive library of common guitar chords, including major, minor, diminished, and seventh variations. This app provides essential chord diagrams for guitarists of all levels.
- Collection of common guitar chords
- 15 different chord types
- Major chords
- Minor chords
- Diminished chords
- Seventh chords
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Every chord you need, and your songs ready for the stage. Pocket Guitar Chords is a fast, clear chord reference with everything you need to play your songs live: chord charts, set lists, and a stage view built to be read at arm's length. CHORDS • 180 chords: every root with 15 chord types, from major and minor to 7ths, sus, 6/9, augmented and diminished • More than one shape for most chords, with finger numbers • Hear every chord: strum it, or play it string by string • Capo control that shifts the sound to match • Search by name (try “Bm7”) and keep your favorites one tap away • “Sounds great with” suggests chords that go together • Left-handed diagrams NAME THAT CHORD Tap where your fingers are on the fretboard and the app tells you what you’re playing, then lets you hear it. SONGS • Chart the chords for each song, section by section • Transpose up or down, set a capo and tempo • Tap any chord to hear it • Auto-scroll while you play SET LISTS • Put songs in running order for a gig, with the venue and date • Play the set: big, high-contrast chords on a dark screen that stays awake, with the next song shown at the bottom • Step through the set song by song WIDGETS • Next Gig: your upcoming set list and its songs on your home or lock screen • Chord of the Day: a new chord every day ALSO • Designed for iPhone and iPad • Light and dark appearance • No account needed. Your songs and set lists stay on your device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Pocket Guitar Chords at every 9 days against GuitarChords's every 2 months. Pocket Guitar Chords also leads on ratings volume (1.4K vs 2). GuitarChords's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 15.0). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
GuitarChords holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pocket Guitar Chords has 1.4K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of GuitarChords's written reviews are positive against 96% of Pocket Guitar Chords's.
GuitarChords ships an update every 2 months, Pocket Guitar Chords every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GuitarChords | Pocket Guitar Chords |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.8 (1.4K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 96.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 1.4K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | David Seitz Jr | John Walbolt |
Customer experience
GuitarChords
Pocket Guitar Chords
Bugs and requests
GuitarChords
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Pocket Guitar Chords
Reported bugs
2 issues- Crashes when accessing certain augmented chords
- Issues with chord display in split-screen mode
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to save/bookmark favorite chords
- Option to hear chord samples
- Improved navigation between chords
- Expanded chord library with more variations
In-app purchases
GuitarChords
No in-app purchases
Pocket Guitar Chords
No in-app purchases
Questions
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