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Guitar Companion app for iPhone and iPad


4.6 ( 3056 ratings )
Music Education
Developer: Infinaut Technologies, Inc
Free
Current version: 4.3.2, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 22 Jun 2011
App size: 68.52 Mb

While weve received alot of great feedback about Guitar Companion, there were some complaints.

"In landscape mode the fretboard is backwards!", people complained.

"What about lefties?", several of you asked.

"How about European notation?"

"This isnt really a teaching app."


Weve fixed a lot of these problems. The fretboard now turns the correct way on the iPad landscape. Lefty mode for Lefties. European and Japanese notations.

The "teaching app" part is more difficult. But we have come up with a couple of tools that wed love you to check out:

* Patterns - learn scales up and down the neck, and cool ways to play them. These are almost like song idea generators. Seriously, randomly switch through a few, and see if you start to hear a song.
* Favorites - create songbooks. Jot down interesting chords (or scales) youre trying to remember.

Weve also simplified the pricing. The All Access Pass gives you everything. Ad free, all the skins and beat packs, all the alternate tunings. And in the new Patterns feature, youll see some "advanced" patterns - these are also included with the All Access Pass. And just think - if we can sell enough of these passes, we can make a living at it, and spend all day thinking about how to make YOU a better Guitar player. Its like... seeing into the future, and being awed at how good a guitar player youve become. In the future, Guitar Companion keeps getting better and better, and you use it, like, all the time. Future You seems really happy. And your future self looks at you through the time portal, and happily shouts "Its worth it! The All Access Pass is totally worth it!"

And like before, there are some other features worth mentioning:

- Huge lists of chords and scales, and a ton of alternate tunings
- Zoom mode. See everything bigger.
- On the neck, display notes, intervals, finger positions
- Metronome and drum beats. Accompany thyself. (Beats go great with Patterns, by the way!)
- Manually strum the chords (and now scales), and hear how its supposed to sound
- Skins. Several flavorful colors to choose from
- Tuner pegs. Simple. Effective. Within the mathematical reaches of our programmer.

Thanks for checking us out! We would love to hear what you think of Guitar Companion, and things you need that would make you a better Guitar Player.

Pros and cons of Guitar Companion app for iPhone and iPad

Guitar Companion app good for

Wonderful guitar reference. Also see their Mandolin and Bass companions.
I use this for the tuner. I have tried all of the free tuners on the app store, this one is the best.
Its better than some other guitar apps that I had to pay for.
Its great. Its got everything you need to know for free, and lots of extras if you want to buy them, and why not?
Great tool for checking scale patterns at a glance. Plus, its free!
Awesome app, love all the easy to use and understand features!

Some bad moments

The layout is barely legible for iphone users and other apps do a better job displaying. Star scales and chord bank are much better apps. This is barely worth buying it without ads.
Absolutely the worst app I ever got and the worst part is..... I bought it! Avoid it, I emailed for support and got no reply hence the negative report.
I have installed into iPad2. unfortunately I could not use it because of the stupid add interruption every 5seconds and you are not able to stop this. just waste your time.
Tuning up, then a quick flash of the app to whet my appetite, then the Infinaut logo, a strummed chord... and thats all it does. Looks like a good, useful app, but theres no point for anyone to download it until its fixed in the next update. Ill review it again then and give more stars. iPhone 4S running IOS6
Ive found the scales for multiple instruments to be very useful. The chords are basic and once learned seldom use. But the scales when working through new ideas and patterns are of great help and easy to find my way around problems Im having.
This app help me learn the fundamentals that every guitar player needs. Anybody whos trying to learn guitar should definitely download this app.