GuitarBeats
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For iPhone & iPad

GuitarBeats

Your Guitar.
Your Sound.
Your Music.

Practice guitar, explore scales, improvise with backing tracks, and develop your own sound.

Free for iPhone and iPad. No ads. No subscriptions.

App Store Link coming soon

Official download link to be added.

Explore GuitarBeats

Find your next idea.

From focused practice to a spontaneous jam.

Solo Assistant

Explore scales, discover notes across the fretboard, and improvise with backing tracks.

Practice

Learn riffs and phrases at your own pace with interactive fretboard guidance and practice tools.

Phrase Editor

Create and edit guitar phrases directly on the fretboard.

Live Jam

Connect a compatible audio interface, play with reverb and delay, and record your sessions.

On your screen

A closer look.

Real screenshots from GuitarBeats on iPhone and iPad. Select an image to view it full size.

Follow riffs and phrases on the fretboard, in landscape or portrait.

GuitarBeats on iPad in landscape with marked finger positions, an Am7/G chord, tempo and loop controls.
Landscape practice: fretboard, chord display, and playback.iPad
GuitarBeats in iPad portrait with a practice track, fretboard, chord display, and playback controls.
The same practice view in iPad portrait.iPad

Explore keys and scales, play along with backing tracks, and take a look at the audio views.

Solo Assistant on iPad with G minor pentatonic in all positions and controls for gain, tone, master, reverb, delay, and feedback.
G minor pentatonic across the fretboard, with guitar tone controls below.iPad
Solo Assistant with a scale display, recording area, and monitoring switch; the status indicates no audio input is connected.
Audio view with monitoring, recording, and audio input selection.iPad
G minor pentatonic on the iPad fretboard above a backing track panel with playback and volume controls.
Play along with a backing track while keeping the scale notes in view.iPad
Solo Assistant on iPhone with G minor pentatonic in position 2, a fretboard, and part of the tone control panel.
Solo Assistant on iPhone: a scale position in portrait.iPhone

View and edit notes and musical phrases directly on the fretboard.

Fretboard Editor on iPad with eight strokes per bar, marked finger positions, and bar controls.
Finger positions, beats, and bars in the Fretboard Editor.iPad

Keep musical content organised in one place.

GuitarBeats library on iPad with a search field, categories for riffs, phrases, songs, backing tracks, and recordings, and a list of riff templates.
Library with search, content categories, and riff templates.iPad

Why is GuitarBeats free?

Because getting started should never stand in the way of enjoying music.

GuitarBeats grew out of a simple belief: everyone should have the chance to discover the joy of making music, whether they already read music or are just beginning to find their feet.

For the developer, making this tool freely available matters. It is a way to help people discover their enthusiasm for the guitar and give it room to grow.

Whether you are a beginner, still learning, practising regularly, or an experienced guitarist, GuitarBeats is meant to be a companion for learning through play, practising, improvising, and developing musical ideas of your own.

The starting point is not studying the many symbols of complex musical notation. It is the experience itself: Pluck a string, hear a note, discover connections, and make music yourself.

A companion to notation, not a replacement

Traditional notation and scores are valuable parts of music. They have an important place, and GuitarBeats does not question or replace them.

GuitarBeats simply takes a different approach. It is an additional tool for people who want to experience music first by listening, looking, trying things out, and playing.

If you want to learn to read music later, that is something to embrace. But nobody should feel they have to master a complex musical language before they can enjoy their instrument.

Playing should be fun!

Music thrives on curiosity, experimentation, and enthusiasm, from those first hesitant notes to the moment a spontaneous idea becomes something of your own.

That is what GuitarBeats aims to make room for.

Sometimes making music is like building a sandcastle: you try something, change it, start again, and enjoy seeing what takes shape.

And when playing stops being fun, the sandcastle comes down.

GuitarBeats is here to help you want to keep building.

Free. For the love of music.

Pick up your guitar

Make Music Your Way.

Bring practice, improvisation, and creative guitar playing together. Explore a scale, shape a phrase, or settle into a jam — and make it your own.

App Store Link coming soon

Official download link to be added.

Free for iPhone and iPad. No ads. No subscriptions.