Guitar Notebook 4+
All Your Songs In One Place
SonaMetro LLC
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Keep all of your songs and ideas together in one place! Add chords, scales, audio recordings, lyrics, and more. Import songs from photos with SongSight AI! Perfect for songwriters and guitarists of any skill or music theory level.
IMPORT YOUR SONGS
With SongSight AI you can bring in chord diagrams, lyrics, and chord names from your handwritten notebooks or your favorite song sheets, so you can keep all your songs together in one place.
ADD EASY NOTATION
Add standard chord diagrams, or use FlexFrets to show extended scales, arpeggios, or any pattern across the entire fretboard. Click to place unlimited notes on the virtual fretboard. Pro Users can also add a capo and create custom string tunings.
RECORD AUDIO & LYRICS
Record your song to capture rhythm and tempo. Use the Text Editor to add notes and lyrics. With audio, text, and notation you have everything you need to save and recreate your idea, whether that’s a new song or part of a multi-track GarageBand or other DAW project.
ORGANIZE YOUR SONGS
Streamline your songwriting workflow with customizable Labels and Tags. Group songs by Writing Phase, Category, Rating, Album, Mood, Instrument, and more. Move songs from Ideas, to Recorded, to Released. Separate personal songs from cover songs. Create set lists or organize by artist. It's up to you!
PRINT & SHARE
Share your songs as PDFs via email, text, AirDrop, and more! (Coming soon: Print & Export in the File menu. For now, you can download the PDF from the shared email for printing or saving to files.)
YOUR SONGS ARE SAFE
No need to create an account or worry about service shutting down. SongSync ensures your songs are private, secure, and available on all your devices using your personal iCloud account. You can even work offline, and SongSync will upload any changes to your account when you come back online.
Guitar Notebook was created by guitarists at SonaMetro. We understand how important your songs are to you.
BEAUTIFUL PAGE STYLES
• Paper: Crisp white and a maple fretboard
• Maple: Neutral off-white with maple fretboard
• Rosewood: Graphite with rosewood fretboard
• Blue Steel: Twilight blue with metal fretboard
• Dark Studio: Ultra-dim and easy on the eyes during late night sessions
• Sunburst: Classic orange sunburst with hardwood fretboard
The FREE version of Guitar Notebook gets you started with:
• Up to 5 Songs
• 1 Page per Song
• Up to 8 Chords/FlexFrets per Page
• Import songs from photos with SongSight AI
• Up to 3 minutes per recording
• All Page Styles with Auto Light/Dark Modes
• Professional audio monitoring
• Custom labels and tags to organize songs
• Tap/strum fretboard with sound
• SongSync between devices
• Work Online or Offline
Get Guitar Notebook PRO with a Lifetime Upgrade or Yearly Subscription and get all current and future Pro features!
• Unlimited Songs
• 32 Pages per Song (great for backup copies, drafts, or multi-track documentation)
• 64 Chords/FlexFrets per Page
• SongSight up to 500 photos
• Guitar Capo
• Custom Tuning with 128 note range
• Up to 30 minutes per recording
• Universal Purchase - Works on iPhone, iPad, and Mac
• Family Sharing support
Questions? Contact us at support@sonametro.com
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Privacy Policy: https://www.sonametro.com/privacy
What’s New
Version 2.8.1
Print and Export from the File menu!
Chords in PDFs are no longer gray.
Ratings and Reviews
Such a time saver
Keeping the stacks of paper with my lyrics and chord sketches clean and organized has been a nightmare. Where are they all? Is this page a continuation of that one? One slip of the pen or pencil and everything becomes sloppy after an erasure. Two slips and it can become an unrecognizable mess. Guitar Notebook changes all that. Everything is digital, right there, completely ready. Want to change a lyric or a chord? Easy. Want to hear the strummed chord or individual notes ? Done. Want to import song sheets from other sources? Yes, please.
I do, however, have three suggestions: Turn the fretboard vertical, so it naturally matches the string configuration of the chord boxes. Add a way to designate the names of chords after you include them in the song. And add a rhyming generator. Roll out these changes, and Guitar Notebook becomes the indispensable app for songwriters. Period.
Developer Response ,
Well said! Thank you for this great review, and your suggestions! So glad the app is making a difference in your songwriting! On the suggestions - there is a way to name the chords, but maybe you mean in the lyrics section? You can also make the fretboard vertical in portrait mode (rotating the device), but I can definitely see how it would be useful in landscape mode as well. Love the rhyming generator idea, and we are already connected to AI so that is on our list. Contact us at support@sonametro.com if you want to share more or clarify the chord naming. More good stuff is in the works. Thanks for your support!
The song that got away
There are some full-featured and complex score editors for making sheet music, but if you just want to capture your song idea quickly, this app is perfect. I come up with song ideas all the time, but I don’t want to take the time to make sheet music out of it. I just need to capture the chords and my voice. Then later I can keep working on it in my DAW, when I have the time. Highly recommend this for any guitarists that write songs. Even if it saves one song you would have lost, that could be THE song!
Recently Found • Greatly Appreciated
While, searching for an App to replace the dying Guitar Tool Kit, to assist with songwriting, I came across Guitar Notebook. Am I ever glad for that. The developer is top-notch, updating frequently and unbelievably wonderful to work with and reply. There are features in this App, like including recordings and even AI recognition from your notes or printed page that go beyond anything I expected. Being someone who sketches out song ideas with text and chord grids, (I’m not a huge tab guy), this app works great for my workflow. Many Thanks!
Developer Response ,
Grateful for this review! It was great talking with you through our support channel and I encourage all users to reach out to us and tell us about their songwriting experience and where they would like to see us go next. Thank you!
App Privacy
The developer, SonaMetro LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
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Information
- Seller
- SonaMetro LLC
- Size
- 56.8 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 12.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2024 SonaMetro LLC
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Guitar Notebook Pro $19.99
- Guitar Notebook Pro - 1 Year $4.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.