Chord! (Guitar Chord Finder)
Unlike other chord charts app, the app doesn't rely on a database of charts. Instead, it computes and analyses all the possible fingerings.You don't even have to know music theory to use it: behind its brute force, the app knows how to handle by itself some subtleties of music in order to give meaningful results.
If you don't have to be an advanced player to use the app, you can however take a look under the hood and tweak the parameters if you like! Whatever is your level or your instrument, Chord! will adapt and give you the most precise answer.
You can search for any chord, split (like D/F#) or not. If you're a beginner, you can choose the chord from a list, but you can also use the intelligent keyboard to enter the chord as it is written. If this keyboard is a great way to enter chords, it is also very useful to discover and understand how the chords are formed. You can also enter some notes on a neck to find which chords it can be. You can hear how each fingering sounds. Chord arpeggios are also supported, as well as drop voicings (drop 2, drop3, etc.).
Chords are not all and the app is also shipped with the biggest list of named scales (and you can create your own scales). It analyses and presents them with nice interactive views (scale, score and keyboard). Of course it can also lay down these scales on a neck (with sound) and compute their fingerings. Like for chords, you can even search for a scale from its fingering!
Each scale can be harmonized (decomposed into chords). You can also enter a sequence of chords to find which scale you can use to improvise onto.
You can use one of the hundred tunings shipped with the app, or you can add you own ones, for any instrument, with or without a capo, even with broken strings if you want!
The app uses custom and unique algorithms to generate charts, easily input complex harmonic structures, extract chords from fingerings, determine fingers positions, compute keys of scales, generate chords from scales and find scales that go well with some chords.
For example, Chord! is the right tool in these situations:
• You're a beginner and you want to know how to play easily a D/F# chord;
• One gave you an ukulele and you want to know how to tune it and how to play the G Hawaiian scale;
• You want to know on what scale you can improvise for some chord sequence (and the answer can be different than the Pentatonic minor!);
• You want to experiment this nice open tuning, moreover with a bottleneck;
• Your little sister can't make bar chords and you want to show her how she can do without bars, with three (little) fingers only;
• You want to impress your little sister by showing her how you can play the same chords with two bars!
• You want to understand how this fingering for C13 is actually a fingering for C13;
• You broke a string and want to know how to play some chords without;
• You want to know how Django managed to play with two and a half fingers.
The app fully support left-handed instruments.
Category : Music & Audio
Reviews (28)
One of the best apps I've found for guitar and an invaluable addition to my practise regime. The reverse lookup and harmonization features are great for exploring scales and their use over target chords. Chord lookup feature is rich... This app is much more than a chord catalog! You can't go wrong with adding it to your music toolbox.
Would give this 5 stars if it included a way of building progressions from your favorites that could be played and looped (even a very simple one would be better than nothing) seeing as it already has a sound engine for playing chords. This addition would greatly enhance the utility of the app. Otherwise, I've been using this app for years now and it is my goto for building chords from simple to advanced, would highly recommend for any level of musician.
Love it! This is a great companion program to the "Music Theory for Dummies" book I've been working my way through for the last year. I really love how the chords can be scaled across the fingerboard. That helps see how scales can follow chord progressions.
I really like this app but for months now when you go in to change your tuning and press the "+" icon the whole app crashes. Don't know if it is just me but I've uninstalled and reinstalled the app with no luck. Everything else works though.
Amazing and Powerful Tool! I must shamefully admit that I pirated this app for a few years... Yeah, sorry about that. But, now that I've earned some actual disposable income, I have to come back and buy this to support! Amazing and incredibly deep tool, full of features, and plenty of theory buried in there too. You like a progression but unsure what to solo with? Type in your chords and bam, there's a scale for you. Wanna know what funky chord you just played? Put in the notes and bam!
Powerful tool, but unfortunately not intuitive. It doesn't allow for easy favoriting of chords, scales etc, which is what I'd use this tool for. I'm sure this app could improve in due time.
Great app! Only thing I'm missing is an option to save sets of chords (for songs for example) so I can have all of a song's chords at once.
One of the best ones. I'd love to see it optimized for both landscape and portrait display orientations
great for practicing/learning my scales as well as chords. very clean, informative, and intuitive interface. love it.
A great app that is helping me progress on my guitar playing journey. Chord is a mine of information and once you get your head around the myriad of options you'll be wow'd by the possibilities. Try thr free version and I'd bet a c# you will, like me, purchase the full version.
i had read that you could use this app to put chords to lyrics but that feature either does not exist or was removed. it literally just works out the chords for a key, as in the first fifth etc which is fairly standard even across free apps so i was not particularly impressed. shame, could be much more usable
Outstanding app for learning all your scales, cords and modes, along with quick reference to cords using reverse note searching.
Edited because I was doing everything wrong. Purchased the app but it downloads a separate one not called Free. Excellent study information
muddled confusingly thick I wish it as quicker and more intuitive there are scales I will never use still I muddle on it like the problem was written more by a programmer than a musician I really have to dig through the program to information useful to me ?
Nice app and one thing that you should have added is tuner. It will help us not installing tuner app separately.
Incredibly disappointed free version basically the same... for what I needed it for why I even gave it a 2 star glad I didn't spend a lot
Full featured. Modern interface. Can be improved.
Just the best! Gets more helpful the more I understand music. Thank you!
Even years after the last version change, this is still the best music tool on Play Store!
It's great but when I go to put in a new tuning it just takes me to a black screen and doesn't load or do anything
Hands down the best app for guitar chords
Still the best tuner I've ever seen, I compare every other tuning app out there with this one.
Can't add tunings without the app crashing. Kindly update please!
Finally I have found the app I was looking for :), it is an awesome app, very easy to use, thank you so much :). Definately 5 stars.
Covers everything. A software masterpiece. If I could code, I'd code this.
This is a great reference app. Brill for theory and song writing.
Does what it says on the tin and does it well enough for me to have kept it for years.
This app is a constant joy. Inspirational musically, incredibly useful, and is one of the first things to be installed on any new device. My only desire would be for a chromatic tuner that uses the microphone to be part of this app so that I can tune to the tunings in this app without switching to a different program and so on.