Sight-reading skills open the door to reading written music and familiarizing yourself with various music styles. Sight-reading is not a daunting task, and with sufficient practice, anyone can develop this valuable skill.
Our app is designed to help you quickly identify notes across every part of the fretboard, with a special focus on positional playing.
By enhancing your sight-reading abilities, you'll find it easier to focus on other musical aspects like harmony and rhythm.
Features:
PRACTICE & TEST MODE
- Four different modes of use:
1. Locate notes on the fretboard based on the notes in staff.
2. Locate notes on the fretboard based on note name and pitch.
3. Find the names of notes on the staff (without the fretboard)
4. Identify the names of notes presented on the fretboard.
- Automatic detection of problematic notes.
KEY SIGNATURES & SCALES
- Key signature support, from 1 to 6 sharps or 1 to 6 flats.
- Automatic selection of the enharmonic notes for each scale to prevent double sharps or double flats in the key signature.
- Scales include major, minor, melodic minor, harmonic minor, blues, pentatonic, and all modal scales.
FRETS, STRINGS & NOTE SELECTION
- Frets are grouped to limit the number of notes to practice and test.
- Predefined fret groups, e.g., 0-3, 4-6, 7-9, 10-12, 0-12, 13-17, etc.
- You can define custom fret groups.
- The highlighted fret group is displayed on the fretboard.
- Your sight-reading progress is tracked per fret group.
- The longest streak record per fret group measures your sight-reading accuracy.
- You can select specific strings for the highlighted area.
- Test notes can be limited to naturals or notes from a selected scale.
READ AHEAD
- Reading ahead is a crucial skill for effective sight-reading.
- You can adjust the number of notes to read ahead.
OTHER
- More than 15 alternate guitar tunings e.g., drop D, NST (new standard tuning) and all fourths tuning.
- Support for left-handed guitars.
- Option to display the fretboard in perspective (in landscape mode).
- A universal app compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch.
- Supports all screen sizes.
- No ads or in-app purchases.
- Dark mode support (iOS 13+).
- Tested on iOS and iPadOS 26.
This app is extremely useful for brushing up on single note site reading or focusing on some weaker positions on the fretboard. The interface is excellent and very simple to use. A great feature is the ability to reduce the "think time" (time to name the notes). Another is the ability to zero in on a couple of frets. Areas for improvement - 1. the app is limited to single notes. It would be great to use sheet music to learn how to actually sight read. Combine it with your rhythm trainer and you would have the total package. 2. A stand alone chord trainer using the principles of this app would be excellent.3. A real guitar interface would allow the user to use his guitar to play the notes.
Great App
Futnuh
Nicely thought out application. As a lefty, I really appreciate the support for left-handed players. There's plenty of customization available so you can focus on problem areas of the fretboard/staff. Areas for improvement?1) Allow settings to be saved and restored. My daughter is a righty and just learning guitar. It takes me a good few minutes to reconfigure the settings to suit her needs. Being able to restore a group of settings would be great.2) Better visualization of stats. Look at typing tutor programs for inspiration.3) Frequently get the same note twice in a row. Suggest tweaking the random generator to avoid this. 4) On a similar point, I don't feel like the app is concentrating on problem notes. #2 might help with this.Enough reviewing though, going back to earn gold circles on the 9-12 position ...
Great way to learn
99Lynn99
Can work with different tunings and learn to read ahead. Imagine if you had to read the news one word at a time! 🙂
Great
CoolHand-79
This is a great app for learning individual notes of the fret board. I've known lots of finger shapes to play chords but always wished I knew the note named in those shapes! This app made that wish come true (with alot of practice) Thanks for a great app.
Fixes a text display issue on iOS 26.4.
Version 6.18
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