Guitar Buddha

Every other guitar app wants to turn practice into a game you can lose. Streaks to break. Goals to miss. A notification at 9pm reminding you you've fallen behind.

Guitar Buddha doesn't do any of that. It just waits for you. Open it, and it quietly shows you what you've been playing. Then you play.

No streaks. No goals. No account. No subscription. Just you, your guitar, and the songs you actually want to sit with.

— FIVE QUIET TOOLS —

SONGS — Your library, on vinyl. Add lyrics, chords, and your own takes. It remembers everything you've sat with, in the order it last mattered.

IDEAS — Catch the riff before it fades. Hum it, play it, write it down, tag it. Find it again three weeks later.

JAM — A backing band on tap. Set a key, pick a feel, and drums, bass, and keys lock in behind you. Loop it, change it, record yourself over the top.

TUNER — Standard, drop, open, and dozens of alternate tunings, plus a sweetened mode that makes your acoustic sound right all the way up the neck. A soft display that's easy on the eyes at 6am.

PRACTICE, YOUR WAY - Build a routine and run it with a calm timer. Learn the whole fretboard — a note trainer, a color-coded cheat sheet, and a CAGED explorer that shows all five shapes for any key. Every scale on the full neck, in any tuning. Strumming and fingerpicking trainers. Drills, progressions with a full band, backing loops, and a metronome.

WOODSHED ANYTHING - Bring any audio file in, loop the hard part, slow it down without losing pitch, or shift the key to match your tuning. Tab sheets play out loud with a moving cursor.

KEEP JAM NIGHT IN ORDER - Setlists hold your songs in playing order. Tell the library which chords you know and it shows you every song that's ready — and which are one new chord away.

— ON YOUR WRIST, ON YOUR HOME SCREEN —

Metronome, tuner, and chord diagrams on Apple Watch. Spin the Digital Crown to set the tempo and feel every beat in haptics. A home-screen widget puts Tune, Metronome, and Jam one tap from your home screen.

— NOTHING LEAVES YOUR PHONE —

No accounts, ever — open the app and you're already in.

Works completely offline — on a plane, in a basement, off-grid.

Analytics are off by default — optional and anonymous, never the other way around.

Your songs, ideas, and takes stay on your device. Export to share — never automatic.

— FREE, WITH A TIP JAR —

Every feature is unlocked from day one. No subscription. No paywall. No ads following you between sessions. If the app helps your practice, there's an optional tip jar. No pressure.

Guitar Buddha is for the kitchen-stool half-hour. The hotel-room ten minutes. The morning before anyone else is up. It's a place to put the practice — quietly, without anyone counting.

Sit down and play.

Found something rough? hello@guitar-buddha.com — we read everything.