Chord! review
A broad chord-finding reference with reverse lookup, voicings, tunings, and song tools.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
Chord! is a chord, scale, and arpeggio reference app for musicians who play fretted instruments. It computes fingerings for guitar, bass, ukulele, banjo, and cavaquinho, while also supporting custom instruments, tunings, and capos. Its reverse-search tools can identify chords from notes or fingerings, making it useful both for learning established shapes and investigating ideas found on the fretboard. The app is available on iOS, macOS on Apple silicon, and Android.
Its strongest angle is the breadth of its reference and discovery tools. Chord! covers chord and scale fingerings, reverse searches, inversions, drop voicings, scales, arpeggios, scale harmonization, and chord-sequence analysis. That gives players several ways to move from a musical question to a playable answer, whether they are looking for an alternative voicing, checking a scale, or exploring how chords relate within a sequence. Audio playback adds a way to hear material while adjusting pitch or speed.
Song management makes the Apple versions more useful for players who want to keep reference work connected to repertoire. On Apple devices, the app can store, transpose, and import songs, including chord-and-lyric text, then export songs and collections as PDF files. The offering is paid and does not include a free plan. Choose Chord! if you want one reference tool that combines fretboard computation, theory-oriented exploration, and song handling across desktop and mobile platforms. Players seeking a narrowly focused chord dictionary, or song-management features specifically on Android, may prefer a more specialized alternative.
Chord! pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Reverse-searches chords from notes or fingerings
- Supports inversions, drop voicings, tunings, and capos
- Adds song management, PDF export, and audio playback
- Where it doesn't
- Song management is available on Apple devices
- Designed for fretted instruments rather than general music theory
- The listed offering is paid, with no free plan
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