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Some iOS apps for theory and playing

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I recently created a few iOS (not Android 😢) apps for my own use that filled a gap in terms of my having quick access to the tools that I want to use with my own guitar journey.  I liked them so much, that I decided to put them on the Apple App Store:

 

Guitar Toolkit
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/gtk-guitar-toolkit/id6749509640

A set of tools that I find useful, and still use today:

  1. Tuner
  2. Metronome
  3. Scales - around 100 different scale types together with a visualisation of these on a fretboard
  4. Circle of Fifths - interactive CoF tool allowing you to choose your root, and determine your diatonically related chords
  5. Position finder - Want to play in a specific key, but in a place on the fretboard that suits you? Want to play without having to slide your hand up and down the fretboard? Use this
  6. Mode converter - convert from one musical mode to another in any key
  7. Note practice - use this to help you practice and become intimate with where every note is across the entire fretboard.  Hear the note as it sounds on your guitar and choose a speed that suits you
  8. Triad practice - some idea as note practice. Pick your string sets, inversions and chords. Practice at a speed and range of chords that suits you.
  9. Chord master - work out how to play a specific chord, or find the name of a combination of strings/frets
  10. Chord Transposer - take an existing set of chords for a song, and just pick a new key to play it in.  It will transpose every chord. 


A comprehensive song book app:
 

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/gtk-songbook/id6759207277
 

  1. Imports ChordPro songs from cloud storage
  2. Transpose your songs into different keys.
  3. Different views including Nashville Notation
  4. Link your chordpro songs with your device music library and play along.
  5. Has an autoplay function that allows you to customise speed.
  6. Has a visual metronome
  7. Has song/genre categories and allows you to create multiple songlists for gigs
  8. Export and share your songs with other GTK-Songbook users.
  9. A comprehensive chord database (~1200 guitar chords) and ~1200 piano chords.  You can also create your own custom chords.
  10. Good backup and restore allowing you to migrate to other devices.
  11. Comprehensive help manual.


All offline, not relying on any online services.

 

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