Strum: Tabs Made Easy
Write. Tune. Play.
$3.99 · Designed for iPad
Compose, edit, and play ukulele and guitar tabs with chords, frets, capo, strum patterns, a tuner, and an auto-scrolling metronome, on real instruments. Syncs everywhere.
Strum is a clean, focused tablature editor for ukulele, guitar, and electric guitar. Write a song, drop in chords, set a strum pattern, and hear it back on a real recorded instrument - all on one screen, laid out the way fretted-instrument players think about a song.
» Tab-first editing
› Choose what you see: standard staff, tablature, beat counters, chord boxes, chord names, strum directions, and lyrics.
› Tap any beat to add or edit notes from chords or manual frets. Copy a measure and paste it anywhere, or duplicate whole sections.
› Section labels, repeat barlines, and per-section time signatures: a 5/4 bridge inside a 4/4 song is a two-tap change.
» Capo, written the way songbooks write it
› Set a capo on any song and playback moves to the real sounding pitch, while the tab keeps showing the frets you actually hold.
› Chord names do not change - a C shape is still "C" - and a "Capo 3" badge sits on the song and on exported PDFs.
› Standard notation follows the capo, because notation shows what you hear.
› The tuner knows too: tune the open strings as usual, then switch to the capoed pitches to check intonation.
» Real instruments, not a synth
› In Instrument mode nothing you hear is synthesised. The ukulele was recorded note by note for this app, so chords ring and fade the way the real thing does - body taps and muted chucks included.
› Guitar and electric guitar are sampled from real instruments too. If you would rather have the lighter built-in synth, it is one switch in Settings, set per device.
» Pay once, play forever
› No subscriptions, no accounts, no ads. Buy Strum once, and it's yours.
» Every tuning, and a tuner that knows them
› Ukulele: high-G, low-G, Baritone. Guitar and electric guitar: Standard, Eb half-step-down, Drop C, Drop D - each with its own full chord library.
› Build a custom tuning at any open-string pitch, or hide the ones you never use.
› The built-in tuner handles all of them, custom ones included, and can set a custom tuning by ear from a plucked string.
› An adaptive noise gate learns your room's background noise, ignoring voices and fans for a jitter-free needle, and it snaps straight to the correct string when you switch notes.
› Set the concert pitch anywhere from 415 Hz to 466 Hz, so an ensemble at 442 or a baroque group at 415 is one tap away.
» Practice hub
› Follow-tab highlights the current beat and chord as it plays, auto-scrolling your tab hands-free.
› The in-song metronome locks to your sheet music's time signature and subdivision, so it never drifts out of phase.
› Rhythm Training builds speed with automated tempo ramps and a live progress dashboard.
› Drop-Out Training mutes the click after a few measures, to test whether you drift.
» Chords and strum patterns
› A library of common ukulele and guitar shapes ready to drop into a beat, plus your own built in the multi-fret finger editor.
› Change a fingering globally, or long-press a chord in the Beat Editor to override it for one song.
› Build strum patterns from up and down strokes, arpeggios, fingerstyle, chucks, mutes, and rests. Save them, browse the built-in library by time signature, or set per-song and per-section overrides.
» iPhone, iPad, and Mac
› Strum scales from a quick lookup on your phone to a full editing surface on 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.
» PDF export and sharing
› Export any song as a clean PDF or image to print and share, or send the native .strum file to other players.
» Private by default
› Songs, folders, sections, custom chords, tunings, patterns, and preferences sync through your private Apple CloudKit database.
› The microphone is used only inside the tuner - audio is processed on-device and never recorded or sent anywhere.
› No accounts. No analytics. No third-party servers. Your songs never leave Apple's infrastructure.
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» New
› Capo. Set one on any song and playback moves to the real sounding pitch, while the tab keeps showing the frets you actually hold. Chord names stay the ones you know - a C shape is still "C" - with a "Capo 3" badge on the song and on exported PDFs, exactly like a songbook
› Mute and Chuck are now separate strokes. Chuck is the percussive "chk", Mute is a silent damp that just stops the strings ringing. The chuck is a recording of a real muted strum now, so in Instrument mode nothing you hear is synthesised any more
› Tune to any concert pitch. A new "A = 440 Hz" control at the bottom of the tuner follows an ensemble sitting at 442, a baroque group at 415, or 432 if that is your thing
› Baritone ukulele now offers the same chord set as every other tuning - Ab, Bb, C#, Eb, F# and Fadd9 were quietly missing
» Fixed
› The tuner survives unplugging headphones or switching audio device mid-tune instead of freezing
› Rhythm Lab uses the metronome sound you picked, instead of always clicking with the built-in synth
› Custom guitar tunings now appear for electric guitar too, and the other way round
› The "Recovered (Sync Reset)" folder tidies itself away once you have emptied it
› A steadier toolbar while iCloud is syncing
The developer, Mateusz Dabrowski, 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 Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Mateusz Dabrowski
- Size
- 57 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.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Mateusz Dąbrowski

