iFretless Guitar

This review isn’t from some tester, that got the app for free and gives the dev 5 stars, this is a straight forward love letter to the dev bc it’s the only (that I know of as of November 2025) that can be used as a KILLER electric guitar used in recording guitar parts for Heavy Metal tracks. So when I’m on my iPad Pro late at night around 12am (where honestly I spend most my time laying down demo tracks) when the house is all quiet, kids are sleeping, dogs are stretched out at the foot of the bed or sharing my pillow that’s when I can pop my Sony Studio over the ear headphones on, and quietly start working away on laying down the tracks that have been buzzing in my head all that day! With my wife snoring away beside me. I will open Logic Pro, where earlier that day I had maybe laid down some guitar riffs that were trying to come out, or a bass part that was bouncing around in my head. I will open a drum channel and use the pads to lay out the drums. I will most the time start layering guitar work. Because it’s late and I don’t want to wake the whole house up, I will open iFretless Guitar and click on my own preset that is basically “DI” or direct in, it has no effects, the strings are just being sounded without the acoustic effect, no reverb, no delay, no additives! The guitar sound at this point sounds like my Les Paul Custom ‘57 reissue just being plugged into a direct box. Once I hear that unaffected guitar, I will open the auv3 effects and click the Rhino guitar amp, and dial in a KILLER no Mid range, boosted highs and lows amp. I just use this distortion effect through the bus so it’s not recorded with the effect (but my ears hear it as I lay down the guitar track. (This is done in case I want to change the distortion sound later in post production) But this is the only app on iOS that I know of, that I can play as a killer sounding electric guitar, because of the clean and un-effected sound coming for the string in this Blue Mango app. YES, yes, I know GuitarMistro, and I can always use the SF2 files that are on the web, and DS (decent sampler) has some good guitar sounds that are available. But none of them allow me the option to play and use the fretboard that sounds so dang good when adding distortion, dialed into MY sound! Thank you guys so much for this! Ps I do not understand why iOS doesn’t have apps like the programs on my Mac, apps like Odin and some of the other KILLER guitar apps like “HellRazor” and even a ton of the Kontakt programs. Someone PLEASE make a killer 7 string Metal Guitar… there are so many IOS Metal heads that need REAL instruments for their tracks.

iFretless Apps open up a whole new world of Instruments + MIDI for Guitarists and Bassists! Each iFretless app gives you the ability to play countless lead instruments (Guitars, Brass, Horns, Bass or ANY MIDI instrument) - All without having to learn keyboard! The sounds built into these apps are top notch! The flexibility to setup the number of frets and strings and the note offset between strings is a game-changer! Do you want to instantly apply your skills as a bassist or guitarist to ANY instrument? Would you like to perform a sax or trumpet solo from your virtual bass on the screen? Easy/peasy! Do you just want to play along with some tunes while you on the move? Piece of cake! Would you like to play a local or remote synthesizer from your familiar fretboard instrument? This is an essential app to help make that happen! I’ve wait for an instrument app like this for YEARS! For the lowest possible latency use wired headphones (but it works with Bluetooth headphones as well). Just TRY it!

…guitar emulating experience of one’s that use a touch screen. It certainly helps to have the musicality to play it like a guitar is played because you can do some things with the app that is not possible with a guitar. Strumming is tricky and unique to this instrument though. You have to come up with a strumming technique that works for you. It’s strength is in tapping styles. It’s great on its own, but also great to control pianoteq’s physically modeled guitar with mpe capabilities.