Simply Guitar - Learn Guitar

Name: Simply Guitar - Learn Guitar
Rating: 4.7 (383142 reviews)
Author: Simply Ltd

Guitar Songs & Lessons

Free · In‑App Purchases

383K Ratings
Awards

Editors’ Choice

Apps
Age Rating

4+
Years
Category

Education
Developer

Simply Ltd
Language

EN
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Size

260.6
MB

Learn to play the guitar at your own pace with step-by-step tutorials, made by world-class music teachers, and receive feedback from the app while you learn to play your favorite songs! No experience needed | For all ages | Works with any guitar --- Make your musical dreams come true --- • Play chords & songs straight away! • Learn step by step with high-quality video lessons • Receive feedback from the app and know when you are playing correctly or need guidance • Learn all the necessary techniques to play the songs you love: - Guitar fundamentals - Read and play tabs - Playing chords - Chord switching - Strumming techniques - Invaluable tips and tricks for playing correctly - Technique boosting exercises • Track your progress • Learn to tune your guitar (professional tuner included!) • Receive fast support from our musicians • Have fun and quickly improve your skills --- How Simply Guitar works --- • Place your device (iPhone) in front of you and play; the app will immediately recognize what you are playing • Get feedback on your playing to quickly learn and improve your guitar skills • Discover the magic of music with fun songs and complete lessons to start sounding like a pro • New songs and lessons are added regularly. --- Good to know --- Simply Guitar is developed by JoyTunes, creators of award-winning apps Simply Piano and Piano Maestro. JoyTunes are experts in creating educational and fun music apps for learning to play quickly and easily. Recommended and used by tens of thousands of music teachers worldwide with over 1 million songs learned every week. Awards & Recognition: - “Editors' Choice” by Apple - SF Music Tech Summit Startup Innovators Challenge Winner - Best Tool for Beginners, NAMM - EMI Innovation Challenge Award --- Contact --- Keep your feedback coming! Get in touch with us through the in-app chat and one of our friendly bunch will get back to you. Enjoy playing! Privacy policy: http://www.hellosimply.com/legal/privacy Terms of use: http://www.hellosimply.com/legal/terms

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Ratings & Reviews

4.7

out of 5

383K Ratings

Editors’ Choice

Simply Guitar is all about you: your skills, your pace, and your comfort levels. No experience is needed—the app actually starts by asking if you even own a guitar—and after a few quick questions about your skill level and background, you’ll be on your way to learning with tracks like Queen’s “We Will Rock You,” Aretha Franklin’s “Chain of Fools,” and Billie Eilish’s “Bad Guy.” To help you grow your skills, Simply Guitar uses live feedback: It will recognize what you’re playing and provide real-time tips on your strum patterns and D chords. Start with basics, follow the lessons, and work your way up to power chords—you'll be playing lead guitar in no time.

Editors’ Choice

Simply Guitar is all about you: your skills, your pace, and your comfort levels. No experience is needed—the app actually starts by asking if you even own a guitar—and after a few quick questions about your skill level and background, you’ll be on your way to learning with tracks like Queen’s “We Will Rock You,” Aretha Franklin’s “Chain of Fools,” and Billie Eilish’s “Bad Guy.” To help you grow your skills, Simply Guitar uses live feedback: It will recognize what you’re playing and provide real-time tips on your strum patterns and D chords. Start with basics, follow the lessons, and work your way up to power chords—you'll be playing lead guitar in no time.
Update: Perfect!
04/07/2021

33759grean
Update: I got this to work, I’m not sure how I just did it again so maybe the 30th times a charm? But this app is amazing. The lessons are very engaging and I love the way that you can get instant feedback by just playing. This really helps me to see what I’m doing wrong and fix it I really love is that aspect of the app but everything else is amazing too. One idea/thing I wish you guys could change would be to have more videos because now it seems like I’m just practicing the notes. The videos are really fun and I would like more. Also it would be fun if you guys could have different ability levels for songs like you could search a song and select your ability level for some songs and it would change what you need to play for the song so you can play more songs when you’re still a beginner. Other than that this is amazing and I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to learn guitar. OK, let me just start by saying that this app is completely and perfectly fine except for one thing. The lessons and recording seems engaging and fun and I feel like I’m learning a lot but I subscribed and it’s not unlocking any of the things that it said it would unlock. I’ve tried deleting the app and re-download it, I’ve tried checking my profile, I’ve tried doing it over and over again. Nothing works and I’m really frustrated because I paid all this money for this and now it’s not working. Please somebody tell me how to fix this or I’m deleting this for good. I’ll learn some other way because I’m not gonna put up with an app that won’t give me my full money’s worth.

Developer Response
Happy to hear you were able to make it work! If anything else pops up in the future, get in touch via guitar@joytunes.com
Update: Perfect!
04/07/2021

33759grean

Update: I got this to work, I’m not sure how I just did it again so maybe the 30th times a charm? But this app is amazing. The lessons are very engaging and I love the way that you can get instant feedback by just playing. This really helps me to see what I’m doing wrong and fix it I really love is that aspect of the app but everything else is amazing too. One idea/thing I wish you guys could change would be to have more videos because now it seems like I’m just practicing the notes. The videos are really fun and I would like more. Also it would be fun if you guys could have different ability levels for songs like you could search a song and select your ability level for some songs and it would change what you need to play for the song so you can play more songs when you’re still a beginner. Other than that this is amazing and I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to learn guitar. OK, let me just start by saying that this app is completely and perfectly fine except for one thing. The lessons and recording seems engaging and fun and I feel like I’m learning a lot but I subscribed and it’s not unlocking any of the things that it said it would unlock. I’ve tried deleting the app and re-download it, I’ve tried checking my profile, I’ve tried doing it over and over again. Nothing works and I’m really frustrated because I paid all this money for this and now it’s not working. Please somebody tell me how to fix this or I’m deleting this for good. I’ll learn some other way because I’m not gonna put up with an app that won’t give me my full money’s worth.
Developer Response 04/04/2021
Happy to hear you were able to make it work! If anything else pops up in the future, get in touch via guitar@joytunes.com
Happy so far
04/19/2021

Billy Stumbliene
I decided fairly quickly to give this app a go above others to aid me in finally learning to play guitar and I’m so happy I did. I was immediately draw in: it is fun, helpful, challenging but no so much so that I want to give up. I’ve been playing for a few weeks now and just got to the D chord section. I love that with almost every lesson you get a song or two to practice either a chord or strumming pattern or what have you. It has a feature where it listens to you play and offers correction and here lies the flaw: it often seems to be incorrect in its detection of whether you’re playing a chord correctly or not. This can be amazingly frustrating. But as you see I’m still giving this app 5 stars as this isn’t a deterrent for me. Other people have mentioned the cost and no it’s not cheap! I splurged on this app because I think it’ll be worth it. My gf has played guitar for years and years and she’s impressed with this app and the progress I’ve made. I even asked if she thinks I should add in person lessons at some point and she said the app seems adequate! I don’t know how many more lessons are left but I’m hoping to learn as much as I can and so far, the cost of the app is cheaper than real guitar lessons and I’m very happy and having fun as I go. Recommended.
Happy so far
04/19/2021

Billy Stumbliene

I decided fairly quickly to give this app a go above others to aid me in finally learning to play guitar and I’m so happy I did. I was immediately draw in: it is fun, helpful, challenging but no so much so that I want to give up. I’ve been playing for a few weeks now and just got to the D chord section. I love that with almost every lesson you get a song or two to practice either a chord or strumming pattern or what have you. It has a feature where it listens to you play and offers correction and here lies the flaw: it often seems to be incorrect in its detection of whether you’re playing a chord correctly or not. This can be amazingly frustrating. But as you see I’m still giving this app 5 stars as this isn’t a deterrent for me. Other people have mentioned the cost and no it’s not cheap! I splurged on this app because I think it’ll be worth it. My gf has played guitar for years and years and she’s impressed with this app and the progress I’ve made. I even asked if she thinks I should add in person lessons at some point and she said the app seems adequate! I don’t know how many more lessons are left but I’m hoping to learn as much as I can and so far, the cost of the app is cheaper than real guitar lessons and I’m very happy and having fun as I go. Recommended.
I tbh feel as if the idea of buying premium to practice is a bit messed up
01/16/2025

LittenTheFox
I get apps are trying to make money but i really wanna practice and ill never get better if these apps keep making a premium option the only way to truely learn when i become a musician i may plan to make a counter option to this that will be a completely free music app im not mad about it tho i feel rather dissapointed as i have no one really to teach me im slowly starting to lose hope that ill become an actual musician due to these apps tbh when you have to subscribe just to learn guitar fully it feels as if dreams are being crushed its like its advertised to be so friendly only to hit you with a subscription just to learn the rest once you start learning a bit im sorry to be rude about this its just i really wanna learn guitar but there seems to be no real free option that’ll actually teach me everything i got a guitar ive asked my mom to teach me plenty of times but she wont help me learn so i literally have a guitar rn that i cant use since im not able to get enough skills outta the free options ill end off the review at least suggesting an idea maybe give people with non premium accs more access to some lessons dont just leave em off after basics give them a bit more to learn off of more songs more lessons what ever you guys see fit give us more variety rather then teaching us a small amount :) itll help alot more people more and make them happy and trust be happiness and helping others is better than money
I tbh feel as if the idea of buying premium to practice is a bit messed up
01/16/2025

LittenTheFox

I get apps are trying to make money but i really wanna practice and ill never get better if these apps keep making a premium option the only way to truely learn when i become a musician i may plan to make a counter option to this that will be a completely free music app im not mad about it tho i feel rather dissapointed as i have no one really to teach me im slowly starting to lose hope that ill become an actual musician due to these apps tbh when you have to subscribe just to learn guitar fully it feels as if dreams are being crushed its like its advertised to be so friendly only to hit you with a subscription just to learn the rest once you start learning a bit im sorry to be rude about this its just i really wanna learn guitar but there seems to be no real free option that’ll actually teach me everything i got a guitar ive asked my mom to teach me plenty of times but she wont help me learn so i literally have a guitar rn that i cant use since im not able to get enough skills outta the free options ill end off the review at least suggesting an idea maybe give people with non premium accs more access to some lessons dont just leave em off after basics give them a bit more to learn off of more songs more lessons what ever you guys see fit give us more variety rather then teaching us a small amount :) itll help alot more people more and make them happy and trust be happiness and helping others is better than money

The app needed A MINOR touch-up. It’s now good and ready to go! Keep your feedback coming! Get in touch with us through the in-app chat and one of our friendly bunch will get back to you.

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Seller: Simply Ltd
Size: 260.6 MB
Category: Education
Compatibility: Requires iOS 15.0 or later.

iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.

iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.

iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Languages: English and 10 more

English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
Age Rating: 4+

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