# Guitar Riff - Play by Ear

> Learn Your Favorite Hooks

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id520215526](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id520215526)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id520215526`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Learn To Master Ltd
- **Category:** Education
- **Rating:** 4.60 / 5 (94 ratings)
- **Version:** 26.6.2
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-17
- **First published:** 2012-04-24
- **Size:** 55 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-26
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/guitar-riff-play-by-ear/id520215526)
- **Website:** [https://www.learntomaster.com/guitar\_riff.html](https://www.learntomaster.com/guitar_riff.html)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://learntomaster.com/privacypolicy.html](https://learntomaster.com/privacypolicy.html)

## Description

Guitar Riff - Play by Ear helps you learn and play riffs by ear on the electric guitar. It features professionally recorded Fender Stratocaster sounds, 1000+ songs across eras and genres, and a highly configurable guitar with clean and distortion effects.

The app offers a resizable fretboard for all devices, left-handed support, focused sections to master tricky licks, adjustable speed and volume for practice, note highlighting, and standard note tab naming.

## Rankings

- #139,072 — Overall

## Review summary

Reviews show a mix of enthusiasm and frustration. Users praise Guitar Riff for helping beginners learn riffs quickly and for a wide selection of riffs, with fast progress. However, recurring complaints include intrusive ads, occasional crashes or non-functioning playback, and limited tempo control. Many want more songs and improvements to the UI and accessibility (clearer note highlighting, color options). Overall, the app is promising for learning by ear but needs fixes and more content to appeal to a broader audience.

### Pros

- Helps users learn riffs and actually play guitar, with quick progress from simple riffs to more complex ones.
- Large, varied library of riffs/songs to learn.
- Beginner-friendly and accessible for new players.
- Offers useful customization options like adjustable speed and fret width.

### Cons

- Ads are pervasive and annoying.
- The app sometimes doesn’t work or fails to play songs.
- Playback speed is not easily adjustable in real time; it goes too fast.
- Users want more songs; library is limited.
- UI/UX/navigation issues and readability (sticky screens, hard-to-see highlighted notes, desire for color controls).

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id520215526)