Features & Capabilities

Keep the Craic on your iPhone at every session!

Stop rummaging through paper tunebooks - turn your iPad or iPhone into a portable tunebook. Quickly search, display and hear thousands of Irish, Scottish, Cape Breton and other tunes for fiddle, flute, bagpipes, banjo, mandolin, concertina or accordion.

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  • includes a selection of 76 commonly played session tunes (lots more on the Internet!)
  • create, play and print sets of tunes
  • create collections of your favourite tunes and sets, print them as tune books or as incipits
  • import ABC notation via iTunes, cloud services like iCloud and Dropbox, email or the internet
  • bagpipe notation for tunes with HP or Hp key
  • search online or on your iPad or iPhone
  • online search results can be quickly imported into your library
  • simple playback with tempo control and looping
  • choose flute, whistle, fiddle, banjo, guitar, piano, harp or accordion
  • create and edit ABC notation on your iPad with a keyboard extension to simplify entry
  • external keyboard fully supported
  • print
  • share via email as ABC notation or PDF
  • open as a PDF in other applications

Use of the Craic is governed by the standard Apple Terms of Use. You can view this at https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

User Growth & Download Statistics

App
By:
Wil Macaulay
Rating:
4.30
(12)
0.40
Version:
3.9.1 Last updated: 2026-04-15
Version code:
884553059
Creation date:
2013-01-06
Compatible devices:
Size:
60.07MB
Price:
4.99
URLs:
Website ,Privacy policy
Full description:
See detailed description
Source:
Apple Apps Store
Data ingested on:
2026-06-30
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Contact the developer

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Developed by:
Wil Macaulay
Apple Apps Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-craic/id586009292
Website:
http://thecraic.co

User Reviews

Why are all the note heads so small? Would be much easier with larger note heads.
by Sk*****, 2026-01-12

Been using this for the last few years as I’ve gone down the rabbit hole of Old Time fiddle music. So many tunes to learn and so little time... Love the ability to do online searches and download straight from the program. Love having an easily portable memory bank cause I sure can’t remember all these tunes. Love being able to alter notes, add bowings, fingerings, ornamentations. Love being able to save a PDF or print it out to share with friends. My only issue is when I’m editing first and second endings, I often do something that makes the program freeze up. But it’s not the end of the world. I just close out the program and boot it up again.
by Ha*****, 2022-01-15

I love this app for learning tunes and keeping up my tune library. I only wish there was a way to sync with iCloud so that when I add a tune on my iPad, it is automatically in my iPhone’s version of the app the next time I open it too instead of manually adding it there also.
by ae*****, 2021-12-31
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