Hello everyone,

I play acoustic guitar on weekend for fun and I was wondering If there are any apps for guitar on smartphone. Now I use tunerly to tune easily the guitar and it’s great. I check tabs on the site of Ultimateguitar with the smartphone but I find it not very easy to use (I have to check it in “Desktop” mode by smartphone to read the tabs better). Do you know any other good apps for guitar? Thanks

  • foggy@lemmy.world
    8·
    11 months ago

    The guitar pro app, in general, is mid. The user experience on it is clunky.

    But, guitar pro on desktop is incredible. Very valuable tool.

    You can download ultimate guitar tabs and play them in guitar pro. You can take those downloaded files and get them on your phone in a very not user friendly way, and then open them on your phone, and the simple feature of playing and seeing that tab is then available to you through the app on your phone.

    I found it was very valuable when I was in a band that me and the other guitarist shared a Google drive of guitar pro files, and we would be able to open them on our respective guitar pro apps to reference parts on our phones during practice.

    Then there’s the songsterr app. Much better user experience, I think it’s free? The guitar pro app is useless if you don’t purchase guitar pro. The trouble with the songster app is that you don’t get to make or modify any of the tabs, it’s just a resource.

    But, those are the two that I use.

    • anon6789@lemmy.world
      6·
      11 months ago

      I used Tux Guitar in my Linux days, and that worked well enough for what I needed it for as a Guitar Pro substitute.

      • friek
        2·
        11 months ago

        As a curmudgeon I must ask - why did you abandon linux?

        • anon6789@lemmy.world
          2·
          11 months ago

          No reason in particular, and technically it’s still my most used OS if we’re counting Android.

          Most of my work is on company Windows laptops, and most of my personal things are just done on my phone these days.

          I do have a few old laptops I keep alive with Linux LiveUSBs of various things, but I did live from the end of the XP years until Windows 7 with just Linux at home.

          Still a lover of FOSS, and always try to find a solution there first when I need new software, but I never became a zealot. The older I get, the more I want stuff to “just work,” so I don’t mind if the solution is open or not, for example.

          I would like to play around with a current “full power” distro again, but the next computer I actually purchase will likely be for music production, so it will also probably be Windows just so I don’t need to worry about compatibility.