Guitarist's Reference App Reviews

Ill put it this way: for the amount of features that make this app more educational than all the other guitar apps; even if it was 20 dollars, it still wouldnt be overpriced. Thank you!!!

You guys did a fantastic job with the update. The features are incredible! The new UI is so much better than the last version and the overall educational quality is superb! Thank you for such a great app!

This is a marvelous app. The revamped interface is much more intuitive and I give the developers kudos for that. Its staggering, really, how much is in this app and how much better it is than its competition. The one thing is that I liked the old icon better. Please change it back!

The last update totally revamped this app and has turned it into an incredible tool for learning or advancing an already skilled person. Being able to reference chords is good. But when the app ties the chords into scales that go along with it, you get one powerful tool at a great price! 

The latest update reverts to the flawed interface of much earlier versions. Scroll wheels are okay for choosing between a very few options, but are ill suited to long lists. Worse, this app puts a vast hierarchical list on each wheel. Rather than pick a category with one wheel, and then be taken to another with its members, one is forced to scroll all categories and all members to find what one wants. Its tedious and confusing. The old version was far better, because sheets opened showing all the categories concisely. Tapping one then opened another sheet with just those members. Everything was visible and tappable at a glance, with no annoying wheels showing only five items at a time. Best to delete this and revert to the old version. Prior Review: Vast, Fast Catalog * * * * * Version 4.2 amply delivers on its promise to accellerate all finds. Its insanely fast! When I wrote a detailed eMail to the author stating what was wrong with the interface in version 4.0, he wrote back promising to fix the problem. He did indeed! My message thanking him for version 4.1: "Wow, Khoi; "Thank you! Ive been using the new version of Guitarists Reference and am truly pleased with the button interface. Seemingly millions of chords are all only a few clicks away, in any tuning I want. This is the most comprehensive catalog of guitar chords ever written, far outclassing everything else available." There are a lot of complaints about the apps appearance or the crowding of a few buttons. They are legitimate, but its obvious at this stage that the developers strength is in modeling the guitar with a vastly complex engine able to find all possible chords in all inversions in all positions in all tunings. Id rate this 4.5 stars if I could for the cosmetic faults, but have chosen instead to ignore the trivialities that will not change and just enjoy the superb engine. It is the finest ever created on any platform, period. This is the greatest guitarists reference in history, inexpensively always available on your iPhone.

But love the reverse chord function

Awesome tool. By far the best reference for guitarists for iPad

I can use this app but I find it harder to use to just look up a chord, but ok for finding relative chords.

This is a great reference tool for any serious guitarist. There is only one feature that could be added: a reverse scale lookup...the ability to tap in a few notes of your favorite riff and see what scales match. Other than that, this app does everything but write the songs for you.

It has scales, chords and everything a guitarist could ask for. You can change the tuning which helps. I highly recommend from anyone interested in chord and scale structure for guitar.

This is a cool guitar app. The interface is nice and easy to use. The chords and diagrams with the sound all together is nice.

Good reference for a variety of chords and scales. However, it is missing the G major forms from the CAGED sequence. (The variations may be missing as well, just have not looked yet.) Would be nice to have a comparison mode to show how variations are built (or differ) from the basic form. I.e. to go from major to dominant 7th to major seventh to minor seventh...here are the four variants next to each other, based on the same form. Recommended, but these other features would add tremendously to the usefulness of this app.

Needs landscape k

This is the best designed and most useful of the many guitar apps I have found paid or free.

This App continues to get better and more useful. This gives you the ability to overlay a chords notes over a particular scale...highly useful for those trying to improvise solos. Hands down...best guitar app out there!! Made by the same company as Guitar Chords app and Guitar Scales app....this combines both apps, provides the same graphics, a bit more functionality and much better layout. With both the Guitar Scales and Chords apps, you can only see 6 frets...GR lets you see 15 frets of the neck at once! This is another huge benefit when trying to visualize all the scale forms on the neck. FEATURE REQUEST: One thing that I havent seen any apps provide are fingerings for slash chords, such as D/F# or Ab/A. Not quite sure how you could integrate that, but those chords appear quite a bit in music, but are almost altogether left out of all the apps, Ive seen. That would be my only suggestion for now... FYI... I seem to enter into a loop when trying to access the developer page....goes to website, opens, iTunes, then brings me back to the App store.

I tried their free apps and they seemed pretty good, but missed the sound feature. So I bought it, and the sound feature doesnt seem to work. I tried to go to the web site of maj9.com to look for assistance, but both links in iTunes, and entering the URL manually, just try to load iTunes to take you to one of these pages with no other information than the app advertisements. It has some really good features, but I recommend you stick with the free separate apps until they fix this one and provide some support for their product.

I want my money back! It claims to support alternate tunings when in fact it does no more than acknowledge their existence. There is no support for the product either, if I could rate no stars, I would!

Yeah it shows chords, scales and arpeggios in all keys. But what I dont like about this app is that there is some delay time from when you strike the note and when you hear it. Im a bit disappointed that a $6 app has this flaw. It doesnt have settings for different guitar sounds either. That would have been nice. It dot think its worth it. Especially because there are other apps that do the same for less.

Very nicely done. A guitarist reference resource with just about everything included.

The app contains lots of useful info and Ive benefitted from it but hopefully in the next update theyll add: Landscape view for iPad Alternate tuning cords and scales If youre looking for these, dont purchase until ykou see theyve been added in update notes...