Guitar Notepad - Tab Editor 4+
Fantastic Guitar tab editor
Codefad
Designed for iPad
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- HK$ 18.00
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Description
Guitar Notepad helps you easily and quickly jot down song ideas in guitar tab, save them to the cloud and email them to band mates.
I created this app as I found that when playing around with ideas on my own, or after a jam session, I was still using paper to jot down ideas. I have tried some of the other tab writing apps out there but none of them used the touch screen like a guitar fret board which really speeds things up. I'm keen to make this app as useful as possible so please feel free to contact me if you want any new features added.
Create and Edit Tab:
- Edit song details like title, artist, transcribed by and tempo
- Add time signatures, lyrics and performance notes
- Add chords, strum patterns and lyrics above your tabbed notes (no other apps I've seen support this!)
- Add any number of strings and custom tunings including 4,5,6 and 7 string guitars/bass guitars
- Use touch screen to quickly add notes with a single tap
- Choose from common chord patterns to save time
- Add techniques likes slides, hammer ons, pull offs muted notes, harmonics, tremolo, vibrato, ghosts/ties, tapping and more
- Backspace as well as delete button for faster editing
- Cut, copy and paste sections of tab, even between different songs
- Undo button - the last 10 actions are recorded and can be undone
- Continuous chord mode - saves having to perform an extra tap to start adding chords
- Option to view notes on the fret board
- Supports repeated bar notation
- Tab Playback (no note modulation for now)
- Can change guitar neck to left handed view
- Supports note lengths from whole notes to 1/64, dotted notes and triplets
- Add a capo
View, Export and Share:
- Export to PDF or text
- Transpose songs up and down
- Organize songs by artists or use tags to create albums and setlists
- Use autoscroll to view tabs and play along
- Layout optimised for both tablets and phones
- Zoom in and out depending on your screen size
- Print from device
- Save songs to file in your cloud storage like Dropbox, or export via email.
- Ability to perform a full backup and restore - useful if you are switching devices
- Import songs shared from other people's Guitar Notepad apps
- View and search through your songs by title, artist name or last modified time
What’s New
Version 3.6.4
ios 15 fixes for some users
Ratings and Reviews
Not a native iOS app
It is clear from the interface and the interaction with the app that this is not a native app and only a web view wrapped in the application. It makes totally no difference by using the website of the developer, except that you actually PAID for this "app".
The functions are fine, but it really does not worth the money when it is not a native iOS app for one. Secondly, this tab writer can only be used to write solo tabs. If you are trying to write tabs for folk fingerpicking where you are going to pluck more than one string at a time, this app is not what you are looking for.
If you are finding a basic tab writing app which can only tab for solo lines (no plucking two string simultaneously though) and you don't mind paying for what can be accessed without fee on the browser (Safari), go ahead.
Developer Response ,
Hi, I am sorry you were disappointed with the app. You are correct that the app is written using web technology (Apache Cordova), but this enables me to keep the cost of app lower as it is available on android and apple using the same implementation. Many apps use the same approach and it seems unfair to say that the app is not worth paying for because of this. In fact the majority of users would not know the difference. The app is definitely different from the web version though as it integrates with your cloud services, and also doesn't require internet access. I left the web browser version available for free so you can still share and view your songs with Blackberry and desktop users. Also bear in mind if you use the web version your songs are not saved to disk so a browser upgrade could delete your work.
Regarding your issue with solo tabs, it sounds like you were not in Chord mode as multiple notes at once has always been supported. I have subsequently made this mode the default setting so it is more intuitive for users.
I hope that you will accept my feedback and maybe reconsider your rating.
App Privacy
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Information
- Provider
- Philip Withey
- Size
- 10.5 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 11.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Codefad
- Price
- HK$ 18.00
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.