Guitar Pocketbook

For iPhone, iPad and iPhone Duo

Learn guitar,
one chord
at a time.

Tap a chord, hear it strummed and watch every finger light up on the fretboard. Then play along with songs guitarists have loved for centuries.

Download on the App Store No account. No ads. No tracking.
Guitar Pocketbook on iPhone Duo, slightly folded: the fretboard and G major chord on one screen, the sound and controls on the other
Hear it, see it

See every finger. Hear every string.

Every chord lights up where your fingers go, with muted strings marked and open strings ringing. The notes are synthesized string by string on your device, so a strum sounds like a strum.

An A minor chord ringing on the fretboard, its strings glowing pink
Play along

Play along with timeless songs.

Let the app play the guitar part and follow every chord change on the pad as it happens. Tap any chord to take over.

  • House of the Rising Sun
  • Greensleeves
  • Twelve Bar Shuffle
  • Axis Anthem
House of the Rising Sun playing, the F major chord lit on the pad
Chord sets

Eight chord sets, from first chords to jazz.

Start with the open chords most players learn first, then grow into the rest. Each set puts six chords on the pad, and the app remembers where you left off.

  • Essentials
  • Major
  • Minor
  • Suspended
  • Seventh
  • Major 7th
  • Minor 7th
  • Power
The chord set picker listing Essentials, Major, Minor, Suspended, Seventh and Major 7th
Search

Find any chord in a tap.

Search all 42 chords by name or by sound, like Dsus4, minor or seventh. Tap one and it plays on the fretboard.

Chord search listing major and minor chords with their fingerings
Tab ready

Reads like printed tab.

High E on top, low E below, exactly as songbooks and tabs show it. What you learn here carries straight into the next song you pick up.

An A major 7th chord on a fretboard drawn like guitar tab

Made for iPhone Duo

Two screens. One guitar.

Fold it like a book and the neck sits on one screen with the sound on the other. Open it flat and the body unfolds across the hinge, and the sound opens up with it.

iPhone Duo opened flat: the full guitar body with its sound hole spans both screens
Open flat: the full guitar.
The outer display of iPhone Duo with the E minor chord
Closed: a guitar in your pocket.
Guitar Pocketbook app icon

Pick it up. Start playing.

Guitar Pocketbook for iPhone, iPad and iPhone Duo.

Download on the App Store