Fretwise: Guitar Scales

No ads, for everyone. A new Daily 15 every day, a practice streak, a tuner and a metronome. Plus 65 scales and 56 chord types.

Fretwise is a guitar practice app built on the fretboard: scales, chords, a tuner, a metronome and exercises that play as tab. Every note sounds like a plucked string, so theory becomes something you can hear and play.

PRACTICE • 282 exercises that play as tab with a click: warm-ups, picking, legato, bends, arpeggios, rhythm and fingerstyle, plus exercises in the style of 70 players • Scale sequences, three notes per string, triads, arpeggios and chord changes in any key and position • Routines (Pro): exercises back to back as one scrolling tab, each at its own tempo, with a speed trainer, burst blocks and nine ready-made routines • For everyone: a new Daily 15 routine every day and one Pro exercise open each day • Your best tempo for every exercise, and a Mastered badge after ten full plays • A practice streak: play 5 minutes a day and watch it grow; one missed day a week does not break it • A progress page with five weeks of practice, the tempos you raised and your milestones, and a daily reminder at the time you choose

TUNER • Tune with the microphone in 10 tunings: Standard, Drop D, Drop C, Half-Step Down, D Standard, Open D, Open G, Open E, Open A and DADGAD • Any note mode for whatever you play, with the cents and a reference pitch from 430 to 450 Hz

METRONOME • 30 to 260 BPM, 1 to 12 beats, accents and odd groupings like 2+2+3, and tap tempo • 11 rhythms, from 8ths, triplets and 16ths to swing, dotted and quintuplets • Keeps playing while you move around the app

SCALES & MODES • 65 scales and modes in all 12 keys: every mode of the major, melodic minor, harmonic minor and harmonic major scales, pentatonic, blues, bebop, diminished, whole-tone and exotic scales • Five CAGED positions for every scale • Notes, scale degrees, fingers or dots, spelled correctly for every key • Target tones highlight each scale's chord tones

CHORDS • 56 chord types: triads, 7ths, 9ths, 11ths, 13ths, suspended, added-tone and altered chords • Up to seven shapes per chord, including the CAGED forms, in every key, with fingerings • Tap any voicing to hear it strummed

CHORD & SCALE FINDER (PRO) • Tap the frets of any shape and Fretwise names the chord, with its inversion or slash bass • Tap notes on the neck and see every scale that contains them

PROGRESSION BUILDER (PRO) • Build a progression, give each chord its own length, set the tempo and loop it with a click • Start from 51 genre loops, from blues and jazz to flamenco and metal, and save your own

THEORY LAB (PRO) • Seven short lessons, each on one movable picture: intervals, modes, comparing scales, building chords, scales over a chord and the circle of fifths • Songwriter Handbook: the chords of any key, sorted by mood and tension

MAQAM & MAKAM • 8 Arabic maqamat and 9 Turkish makamlar on the guitar neck, with the quarter tones and commas between the frets • Authentic view shows where each pitch lies; Standard view shows the fret to play and how far to bend • Ajnas and çeşniler, sayr and seyir, and an example phrase for every mode

ALSO • Name the Note: a fretboard game for your note memory • Chord shapes and scale positions in 7 tunings • One search for chords, scales, maqam, exercises and lessons • Note names as letters or solfège (Do Re Mi) • Favorites for the scales, chords and positions you use most • In English, Spanish, Turkish, French, German, Arabic, Russian, Italian and Portuguese

Fretwise Pro is an optional one-time purchase, not a subscription: it adds practice routines and the full exercise library, the Chord & Scale Finder, the Progression Builder, the Theory Lab and the Songwriter Handbook.