iReal Pro is two things musicians love in one app: a realistic backing band that plays along with you, and a huge free library of chord charts you can pull up anytime — at practice, at a jam session, or on a gig. Need to transpose a song for a singer? Done. Want to practice with a full rhythm section behind you? Hit play.
Named one of TIME Magazine's 50 Best Inventions and trusted by thousands of students, teachers, and pros at schools like Berklee College of Music — iReal Pro has been helping musicians get better since 2008.
BAND
• 50 accompaniment styles — Swing, Bossa Nova, Blues, Funk, Rock, Bluegrass, Reggae, Latin, Gypsy Jazz, Country, and more
• Customize each style with acoustic or electric piano, Fender Rhodes, guitars, upright or electric bass, drums, vibraphone, organ
• 40 additional styles — blues, salsa, Brazilian — available as in-app purchases
BOOK
• Download thousands of free chord charts shared by the iReal Pro community
• Create your own charts in minutes with the built-in editor
• Organize charts into playlists for gigs, sets, or lessons
PRACTICE
• Adjust tempo, loop difficult sections, transpose to any key
• Automatic tempo increase and key cycling for focused practice
• Global Eb, Bb, F, and G transposition for horn players
REFERENCE
• Guitar, ukulele, and piano fingerings for any chord
• Tap any chord in your chart to see how it's played
• Scale suggestions for improvisation
SHARE
• Share charts and playlists with other iReal Pro users
• Export charts as PDF or MusicXML
• Export backing tracks as audio or MIDI files
• Sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac with iCloud
FOR TEACHERS
• Create playlists of exercises or tunes for students
• Use in the classroom, over live stream, or while screen-sharing lessons
We're a small team of musicians who built this app because we needed it ourselves. We hope you enjoy using it as much as we do.
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This app is awesome for any player of any level
EstudioEspanol
Having the ability to play with other people is an essential skill for a musician and this gives you all the practice you need. It doesn't matter what instrument you play or sing you can play along with this, mute instruments you don't want and put any of the songs in different styles to really stretch your ability and imagination.You can change keys each time around to really level up your ability. I have every one of my piano students on this app too and I've seen their ability and enjoyment of playing increase rapidly. Forget metronomes! Pick any song and style, mute everything but the drums and suddently scales are fun! Can't say enough good things. Just do it!
Developer Response
Thank you so much for the nice review! Enjoy your practice!
Bad learning workflow
Supergenre
This app works fine as a backing track tool once you've already learned the chords and basics of a song, but it's absolutely awful for getting to that point. There's no way to hear individual chords without starting full playback. Stopping resets your position and clears your selected start point (forcing constant re-selection, even if you’re in loop mode). And the real head scratcher: you can't see the actual notes being played by default, or even hear the chord options when you cycle through. These features are such low-hanging fruit and wouldn’t detract from the app’s core workflow / target user in any way. What's most frustrating is that forum posts show users have been requesting these basic learning features for over a decade, but they've been completely ignored. Simple additions like chord preview on-click, persistent selection, note visualization, and better hotkeys would transform this into an actual learning tool, but the developers clearly don't prioritize that use case. If you want to learn new songs from scratch, this isn't worth the money - it's only valuable if you're already proficient and just need accompaniment.
Great App except for lack of documentation
Neubop
Well done. Super tool and super flexible. The single largest issue is when you admirably succeeded in maximizing how many chords can fit on a page, it overcame your otherwise wonderful intuitive user interface.Also I am a beta tester on the iOS version.There is need for some expanation about the relationship between where chord symbols are placed in a measure and when they sound. It appears there are many places where a symbol can be placed which will sound the same number of beats as spaces are ignored except when creating ambiguity. A bit of documentation would be helpful.
Game Changer
rusty71885
I am an intermediate guitar player, learning jazz. This app, after even one week of regular use, has accelerated my ability to learn jazz by orders of magnitude. This is what I have been looking for forever. After a few more years of regular use, I am confident I will become the expressive melodic musician I have always knew I was able to become, I can already feel it starting to build. I am forever grateful to iReal Pro, for the continued gift of learning music. You got a lifelong champion in me. Bravo.
Developer Response
Thank you Rusty for sharing your story! We'll keep on improving the app and adding new features ;) Enjoy your practice!
Minor bugfixes and improvements
Version 2026.4.1
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