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Learn the neck, play it with your own fingers, and write your own tabs — with real recorded guitar, drums and a full multitrack editor.
Fretride is made by one person who plays guitar, for people who play at home. Every sound in it was recorded string by string, and nothing you play leaves your phone.
Pick a key and the fretboard lights up with the notes that belong in it. Build progressions, jam over them, play the neck with your hands, and turn what you played into tabs.
THE FRETBOARD
• Every key and scale — major, minor, modes and more
• Notes coloured by scale degree; show note names, degrees or both
• See any chord as a real shape, anywhere on the neck
• Alternate tunings: Drop D, DADGAD, Open G and others
A NECK YOU CAN PLAY
A full-screen guitar under your fingers. The neck sinks in faster when you can hear what your hand is on.
• Any chord in any key, standard shape or your own voicing, and a wheel that slides it along the neck as it sounds
• Swipe across the strings and the chord follows your finger, note by note, in the direction you moved
• Solo over the progression as it plays, with the CAGED shapes lit so the notes worth landing on are visible
• Record what you played straight into a tab
HEAR WHAT YOU ACTUALLY PLAYED
Plug in through an audio interface, play a tab, and the app listens to your guitar and tells you how it went.
• Timing and notes measured against what is written, not against a perfect machine
• Palm mutes, slides, bends and hammer-ons are recognised as techniques, not counted as mistakes
• Choose how forgiving it should be, from strict to gentle
• It all happens on your phone. Nothing is recorded, stored or uploaded, and no account is needed
JAM AND PRACTISE
• Build progressions from the chords in your key, or add your own voicings
• Dozens of strum and fingerpicking patterns, played close enough to a real hand to practise against
• Real drum grooves in 4/4, 3/4, 6/8, 12/8, 5/4 and 7/8
METRONOME AND TUNER
• A metronome with a screen of its own: tap tempo, any time signature, drum grooves
• Beat dots that show the pulse as it is felt — 5/4 reads 3+2, 6/8 shows two
• Silent bars: the click drops out for a few bars and returns on the downbeat — you hear exactly how far you drifted
• A chromatic tuner (through the microphone) that follows the tuning you picked
TAB EDITOR
• A full multitrack tab editor built for touch
• Hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, bends, palm mutes and more
• A drum track alongside your guitar
LEARN
• A step-by-step course with diagrams, audio and exercises, still being written
• Practice games for note finding, intervals, scale degrees and arpeggios
LIBRARY
• Ready-made progressions, arpeggios and strum patterns
• Capture your own patterns and reuse them from any root, anywhere on the neck
FREE AND PRO
Everything above is free, including the entire course, every game, the playable neck, the metronome, the tuner and three saved songs.
FRETRIDE Pro adds unlimited songs, cloud backup and sync, capturing your own arpeggio and strum patterns, and every recorded guitar tone (overdrive and distortion; the free version has clean).
The playable neck stays free. Every few minutes of playing it asks whether Pro is worth it — and it waits for a pause rather than cutting you off mid-phrase.
FRETRIDE Pro is a monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription, charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. It renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends, and is managed in your Apple ID settings.
Fretride is written by one developer, and it grows in the direction people push it. If something is missing, or feels wrong under the fingers, write to me — I read everything.
Privacy Policy: https://fretride.com/privacy
Terms of Use: https://fretride.com/terms
Contact: fretride@icloud.com