Learn Guitar. See the Fretboard. Compose.
A guitar studio for iPhone and iPad. Jam over any key on a fretboard that actually sounds like a guitar, build progressions, write full tabs, and drill it all until it sticks.
See the Whole Neck
Pick a key and the fretboard lights up with the notes that belong in it, coloured by scale degree. Tap any note to hear it, and see any chord as a real shape anywhere on the neck.
Build Progressions
Line up the chords of your key, reorder them by dragging, and add voicings of your own. Loop the result and play along — or save it to your library and reuse it in a song.
Strums & Fingerpicking
Dozens of strum and fingerpicking patterns, from ballad to funk, with real swing and accents rather than a flat grid. Capture your own patterns straight from what you played.
Real Recorded Guitar
Hand-recorded samples, string by string, with palm-muted and hard-picked variants — not synthesised tones. Clean, overdrive and distortion, each voiced so chords stay clear.
Metronome & Drums
Practise to a click or a real drum groove, in 4/4, 3/4, 6/8, 12/8, 5/4 or 7/8. Change the time signature and the metronome, the grooves and the patterns all follow it.
Tab Editor Built for Touch
Write full songs with a fretboard you play into rather than a keyboard you type on. Hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, bends, palm mutes, triplets — all a tap away.
Multitrack & Drum Track
Lay a drum track under your guitar and switch between them as you write. Select a run of bars and loop just that section while you practise it. More instruments are coming.
Pattern Library
A shelf of ready-made progressions, arpeggios and strum patterns. Preview any of them, send a progression to the jam screen, or drop one straight into a tab and edit it.
Guided Lessons
A step-by-step course through the instrument — shape diagrams, audio you can play back, and exercises to work through. Your progress is tracked module by module.
Practice Games
Timed trainers for finding notes, hearing intervals, spotting scale degrees and running arpeggios — the same ideas the lessons teach, drilled until they are reflex.
Checked by Ear
Turn on “check by ear” and your microphone confirms the note you actually played. The audio is analysed on your device in real time and never leaves it.
Alternate Tunings & Sync
Drop D, DADGAD, Open G and more — the neck and playback follow the tuning. With Pro, your songs and patterns sync across your devices and survive a reinstall.
Free & Pro
The free version is the whole app
No trial, no countdown, no lesson locked behind a paywall. Everything that teaches you the guitar is free. Pro adds a couple of conveniences — and keeps the app being built.
Free
No account required.
- The full fretboard — every key, scale and tuning
- Progressions, strums and fingerpicking patterns
- Metronome and drum grooves in every time signature
- The entire lesson course and every practice game
- The full tab editor, multitrack and drum track
- Up to three saved songs
Fretride Pro
Monthly or yearly. Cancel anytime.
- Unlimited saved songs
- Cloud sync across your devices
- Capture your own arpeggio and strum patterns
- The driven guitar tones
- Whatever comes next, as it ships
Fretride is built by one person. A subscription isn't how you unlock the app — it's the way to support future development.
Download the app
One ride through the app tells you more than any feature list above ever will — so pick it up and hear it for yourself. Would be nice to hear what worked and what didn't: at fretride@icloud.com, and your feedback is what shapes the next version. Let's build Fretride together.
