# PocketGuitar - Virtual Guitar in Your Pocket

> Music

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id287965124](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id287965124)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id287965124`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Bonnet Inc.
- **Category:** Music
- **Rating:** 3.90 / 5 (25 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.5.2
- **Last updated:** 2019-02-05
- **First published:** 2019-02-05
- **Size:** 11 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-24
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pocketguitar-virtual-guitar-in-your-pocket/id287965124)
- **Website:** [http://podmap.net/pocketguitar/](http://podmap.net/pocketguitar/)

## Description

PocketGuitar turns your iPhone or iPod touch into a virtual guitar. You can press and strum strings, just like a real guitar.

Along with several guitar sounds, you can also play Electric Bass and Ukulele. You can also create various sounds by using effects such as Distortion, Chorus, Delay and Wah.

## Rankings

- #243,432 — Overall

## Review summary

Reviews consistently praise PocketGuitar as a realistic guitar simulator with warm tones, tunable strings, and handy built-in effects, plus it’s affordable and useful for practice when away from a real guitar. However, multiple users report update-related crashes and stability problems, along with a clunky UI featuring small touch targets and menus that hinder playability on some devices. Overall, it’s a valued tool for guitar ideas and practice, but it needs ongoing maintenance and UI polish.

### Pros

- Realistic guitar simulator feel with good sustain
- Flexible tunings including open and custom tunings (and strings can be tuned individually)
- Built-in effects (reverb, distortion, echo; even wah) for expressive playing
- Portable and usable on older iPhones; great for practicing when a real guitar isn’t available
- Affordable value (roughly $1) with long-standing usability

### Cons

- Stability issues and crashes after updates (update-related crashes on multiple iOS versions)
- Clumsy UI with tiny touch targets and menus; not ideal on small screens and not optimized for iPad

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