# Guitar Fretboard: Scales

> Learn guitar scales

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1623791852](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1623791852)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1623791852`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Nazar Vorotniak
- **Category:** Music
- **Rating:** 4.80 / 5 (49 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.3.35
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-29
- **First published:** 2022-06-11
- **Size:** 127 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-19
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/guitar-fretboard-scales/id1623791852)
- **Website:** [https://guitarfretboardapps.com/](https://guitarfretboardapps.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://guitarfretboardapps.com/privacy](https://guitarfretboardapps.com/privacy)

## Description

Guitar Fretboard app is designed to help you learn scales, memorize the fretboard and train your ear via a wide range of fretboard trainer games (note, interval, scale, ear). Allows to customize every aspect of displaying a scale or a chord's notes/intervals on a guitar fretboard. Also shows each scale degree chords and modes with ability to highlight a chord on a scale.
App is catered more to learning scales than chords but chords are also present and have chord shapes for main chords for 6/7 string guitar, 4/5 string bass and ukulele.

Features:
- 45+ scales (Major scale modes, Harmonic minor scale modes, Melodic minor scale modes, Major/Minor pentatonic, Exotic scales, Bebop scales) and 35+ chords
- Ability to add custom scales and chords
- 1600+ patterns for scales (CAGED, 3 notes per string) and shapes for chords (Triads, Barre, Open, Closed)
- Ability to add custom patterns/shapes
- 35+ tunings
- Interval/Note/Scale/Ear trainer
- Metronome
- Ability to add custom tunings
- Allows to change scale palette and add custom scale palettes
- Allows to change fretboard style and add customs styles
- 4 view modes including (no text, notes, intervals, both notes and intervals)
- Allows to highlight intervals of a scale
- Show/Hide notes outside of scale
- Left handed mode
- Zoom (use pinch gesture to zoom fretboard)
- Play notes (guitar and bass)
- Focus on scale notes only on specific area of a fretboard
- Dark theme

If you have any feature requests or encountered bugs please contact me at nazar.vorotnyak@gmail.com

Terms of Use: https://guitarfretboardapps.com/terms

## Rankings

- #173,808 — Overall

## Review summary

Users praise Guitar Fretboard: Scales for its deep customization, intuitive interface, and powerful learning tools—scales, modes, and chords can be built, saved, and visualized; you can enter progressions on one string and have them populate others; it supports any tuning and key shifting; the UX is praised as thoughtful and visually polished. The main drawbacks raised across reviews are pricing concerns (subscription vs one-time Pro) and reliability issues, notably occasional data loss of saved patterns and crashes. Overall, users report strong value and motivation to practice, with room for improvement on stability and pricing.

### Pros

- Extremely flexible and customizable fretboard interface (shapes vs intervals, custom scales/chords, adjustable layouts) with easy saving of patterns.
- Powerful learning features: build scales and chords, train with pattern recognition and trainer games, and enter progressions on one string that populate across the fretboard; automatic key shifting.
- Tuning versatility and export options: supports any tuning and lets you save/export scales and chords as photos, with cross-device usability.
- Thoughtful UX and strong visual design: well-designed, intuitive, and comprehensive with helpful visual cues.
- Perceived value and active development: users appreciate the pro features and ongoing improvements.

### Cons

- Pricing concerns: subscription-based model is seen as a downside; some users would prefer a one-time Pro purchase.
- Reliability issues: reports of data loss (custom patterns) and occasional crashes when changing scale modes.
- Pattern persistence and organization problems: some users note difficulties with keeping saved patterns intact and orderly across app sessions.

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