Strum: Tabs Made Easy

Write. Tune. Play.

$3.99 · Designed for iPad

Compose, edit, and play ukulele and guitar tabs with chords, frets, strum patterns, a built-in tuner and an auto-scrolling metronome. Syncs across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Strum is a clean, focused tablature editor for ukulele and guitar. Write a song, drop in chords, set a strum pattern, and hear it back—all on the same screen, with a layout designed for the way fretted-instrument players actually think about a song. » Designed for the iPad, made for every Apple device. › Strum scales from a quick lookup on your iPhone to a full editing surface on your iPad or Mac. Your library syncs through your private iCloud account, so a song you wrote on the couch is waiting on your iPad at practice. » Pay once, play forever › No subscriptions, no accounts, no ads. Buy Strum once, and it's yours. » Tab-first editing › You control what you see: standard staff, tablature, beat counters, chord boxes, chord names, strum directions, and lyrics. › Tap any beat to add or edit notes using chords or manual frets. Speed up repetitive parts by duplicating entire measures and sections. › 4-string ukulele (high-G, low-G, Baritone) and 6-string guitar (standard EADGBe) supported out of the box. › Section labels, repeat barlines, and song sections let you structure longer pieces. » Smart Practice Hub & Rhythm Lab › Listen, Train, and Metronome modes are unified in a single, context-aware menu for distraction-free practice. › The in-song metronome automatically locks to your sheet music's exact time signature and subdivision so it never drifts out of phase. › Rhythm Training: Build speed smoothly with automated tempo ramps and track your progress on the live dashboard. › Drop-Out Training: Test your internal clock by setting the click track to play for a few measures, then mute itself to see if you drift. › Follow-tab highlights the current beat and chords as it plays, auto-scrolling your tab hands-free. » Pro-Grade Built-in Tuner › Features an adaptive noise gate that learns your room's background noise, completely ignoring voices or fans for a jitter-free needle. › Instantly snaps to the correct string when you switch notes, making tuning faster and less frustrating. › The microphone is used only inside the tuner—audio is processed on-device and never recorded or sent anywhere. » Chord palette + custom shapes › A library of common ukulele and guitar chord shapes, ready to drop into a beat. › Build your own custom chords with the multi-fret finger editor. › Change finger placements globally, or long-press any chord directly in the Beat Editor to override it for a specific song. » Strum patterns › Build patterns from up/down strokes, arpeggios, fingerstyle, mutes, and rests. › Save your patterns for reuse across songs, or pick from the built-in library. › Per-song and per-section overrides let you use a different pattern without touching your defaults. » PDF Export & Sharing › Export any song as a clean PDF or image you can print and share. › Send the native .strum file to other users for app-to-app collaboration. » Private by default › Songs, folders, sections, custom chords, custom strum patterns, and preferences sync through your private Apple CloudKit database. › No accounts. No analytics. No third-party servers. Your songs never leave Apple's infrastructure.

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Further improvements to tuner plus some small bug fixes and completed refactoring for better stability and performance.

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    Seller
    • Mateusz Dabrowski
    Size
    • 22.5 MB
    Category
    • Music
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
    • iPad
      Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
    • Apple Vision
      Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
    Languages
    • English
    Age Rating
    4+
    Copyright
    • © 2026 Mateusz Dąbrowski