About Chord and Fret
A pocket studio for anyone who plays a plucked string instrument: it finds the chord or scale on the neck, in the tuning you actually use, and lets you hear what you are seeing, offline and ad-free.
What the app does
You search for a chord and it appears on your instrument's neck, with its other shapes, the fingering and the sound. Or you run it backwards: build the shape your hand is making and the app names the chord. It covers 4 instruments (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, cavaquinho and ukulele), 16 tunings, 57 scales and modes, and 41 chord qualities in 12 keys.
Beyond the dictionary, the app keeps your charts in folders, plays along with a metronome, transposes, finds the capo, suggests chord substitutions and trains your ear. All of it on the device.
What we will not change
- It works with no internet. The chord and scale engine runs on the device: with no signal, chords, scales, audio, tuner and metronome keep working.
- No ads, in the app or on this site. On this site, visit and ad measurement only runs if you accept in the cookie notice.
- Using it needs no account. The account is free and only required to subscribe; taking your library to another device, with syncing, is part of Pro.
- The engine is ours, and it is audited. The shapes are not a table copied off the internet: they are computed, and every one goes through automated tests before it ships.
- Three real languages. Portuguese, English and Spanish, each with its own notation: 7M and ° where that is how people write.
What is free and what is Pro
The essentials are free forever, and that includes hearing. Pro opens what you do AFTER finding the chord: the variations of the sound, the stage for your charts, and the deep catalogue.
| Free | Pro |
|---|---|
| Search and see any chord or scale, with its other shapes | Arpeggio on every shape, campanella on re-entrant tunings, and the whole scale played |
| Hear the chord and share the diagram | Saving chords and starring scales in the notebook |
| 20 saved charts, with transpose, capo and pinned shapes | Unlimited charts, with stage mode, road map and section timer |
| The whole tuner, metronome and rhythm trainer | The tuner's alternate tunings |
| 9 of the 61 cadences, plus one unlocked each week | All 61 cadences, with audio and diagrams |
| The Jazz Lab’s drop 2 | The drop 3 and shell voicings |
| Identify chord, with a daily limit | Identify chord with no daily limit |
| The account, which is optional | Syncing your library across devices, with a copy on our server |
The account is free on purpose: signing in with Google or Apple costs nothing, and it is only required to subscribe. What Pro pays for is taking your library with you: the copy on our server and the sync across devices.
Who makes it
Chord and Fret is made by GROWTHCODE TECNOLOGIA DA INFORMACAO LTDA (company id 59.432.449/0001-71), in Brazil, by people who play.
To reach us (a suggestion, a wrong shape, a request for a new instrument): suporte@cifraebraco.app.