Updated for the latest iPhones and iPads. Strum real chords on four guitars, shape your sound with 10 effects, and play your synths over MIDI
Over a million downloads. 4.5-star average rating. Get it now!
"I have spent all of my life wanting to play the thoughts in my head through a guitar, but I could never grasp playing... When I connected this app to GarageBand and recorded a tune, I cried... From the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU." - 5 star user review from the United States
"My guitarist friend had a stroke that paralyzed the left side of his body and left him unable to play. I fired up Guitarism and handed my iPhone to him. A minute later he was singing and playing, his wife began to tear up and the smiles filled the room. Thank you thank you thank you." - 5 star user review from Canada
"After losing a finger in an accident, I have searched for a way to play guitar again. The first time I played with this app, I cried; I was finally playing guitar again. Thanks so much." - 5 star user review from the United States
Time.com: "simulates the experience of strumming away on six strings"
MacLife.com: "beautiful acoustic tones"
"Everyone I show this to - WANTS it!" - 5 stars
"feels like a real musical instrument" - 5 stars
"can't make it sound bad" - 5 stars
"Don't need any musical knowledge, you will gain it as you play" - 5 stars
Featured on MacLife's "8 Apps for Guitar Enthusiasts" and Music App Blog's "25 iOS music apps to get you started"
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A guitar app for those who love the physical, visceral experience of playing guitar! guitarism offers a highly tuned strumming interface integrated with spectacular guitar samples. The result of years of iteration, improvement and polish, you won't find a better-sounding or more playable guitar app on the App Store.
- Unrivaled sound quality - people will think you're playing a real guitar! Other guitar apps don't compare
- The most natural interface around - literally play with your eyes closed
- Four guitars included: acoustic, electric, 12-string acoustic and 12-string electric
- 10 concert-quality effects, including Distortion, Chorus and Auto Wah, plus a powerful electric guitar amp
- 18 active chords at a time, from hundreds to choose from
- Real playing techniques: fret muting, hammer-ons and pull-offs
- Lefty mode
- Beautiful skins and a diverse range of presets to give you maximum control over your tone and sound
- Beautiful artwork from graphic artist Ryan Hemeon
- Play along with songs from your music library, and save chord presets per song
- Record your performances and export them to GarageBand or the Files app
- Universal app for iPhone and iPad. Hold your iPad like a guitar and fret the chords!
- Audiobus compatible, plus Inter-App Audio - play live into GarageBand
- Quadroplay MIDI out: simultaneously control guitarism and up to 3 additional MIDI-compatible apps (e.g. GarageBand) in complementary roles: guitar, bass and chords. Quadroplay turns guitarism into an advanced multi-channel MIDI controller, and can send MIDI over Wi-Fi to your Mac or PC
- Demo videos at www.youtube.com/rhismnation
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I am an independent developer, working hard to make guitarism the best guitar app possible. If you have any issues please email me at support@rhism.com
On both phone and pad this is a game changer for me. With midi out I can bring my other sound apps and even Mac VSTs to life. A few things I would change for a paid Pro upgrade: 1 moving chord boxes position on-screen. 2 Adding more chord boxes to the vacant screen real estate on the pad version 3 Keeping only and changing the chords you set up when transposing. Not recording chords when you go to a minor key. 4 Modal support 5 Allowing all the positions of easy chord type 6 String bending and finger vibrato 7 Midi learn for key boxes so you could change chords with a keyboard and strum with the other hand. MPE capability. 8 Watch support to change alternative chord selection
Lots to Love But Seems Orphaned
Onomasticator
Pros: great sound. Lots of toys! And when I show my guitarist friends the secondary-chords feature, their eyes pop.Cons: Could really use full CAGED-system support for playing chords in other than first position. You can get part of the way there with the transpose feature, but but I don’t think most of us can make it work on the fly. So you can't, e.g., do a live riff that starts with second-position E and ends with first-position E. Also, without scales implemented it’s not as suitable for playing lead as the GarageBand smart guitars, even though they have a more limited sonic palette.The two things above stem from the bigger worry about this app: it seems moribund. There have been no major upgrades in functionality for two years now, as of late 2017. I do see the developer is releasing a flurry of bug fixes lately, so maybe things will start moving again. I’d be perfectly happy to pay for CAGED chords and scales as in-app purchases.
Made me cry 😭
EPS79
I have spent all of my life wanting to play the thoughts in my head through a guitar, but I could never grasp playing. I have tried so many DAW’s and plugins to mimic guitar sounds through MIDI, but none ever felt right, and now I come across this... When I connected this app to GarageBand and recorded a tune, I cried - not even going to try to act “manly” about it. From the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU.
Needs more chords on the palette
ChristVega33
Sometimes I feel like playing my guitar at work and these solve the problem!! Just needs more chords on the palette at least 12
Guitarism is back with a big update:
• Updated for the latest iPhones, iPads and iOS
• Fixes for crashes and display glitches
• The online Community features (Rhism Nation, Facebook sign-in and sharing) have been retired, as their online service has shut down. Your recordings and presets stay on your device, and you can still export recordings to GarageBand or the Files app
Version 3.39
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