Rippin: Guitar Tuner & Chords
MICHAEL STUART KAIN Music iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Rippin: Guitar Tuner & Chords is a free Music app for iPhone and iPad by MICHAEL STUART KAIN. Requires iOS 16.6. Updated November 2, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 91 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Nov 2
- 2026 · v3.0.1
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About Rippin: Guitar Tuner & Chords
Rippin is a guitar app for people who want to play, not do homework. Seven tools in one, built around the thing that actually holds most guitarists back: not knowing the fretboard. Rippin fixes that with games instead of lectures. NEW IN RIPPIN 3 — ROCK STYLE A full stage-ready redesign: vintage VU-meter tuner, reactive stage lighting and gold-record achievements. Try every Premium tool free for 30 days. No account, no card. FREE FROM THE FIRST TAP TUNER — Professional real-time pitch detection for acoustic and electric guitar. Standard, Drop D, DADGAD, Open G and more tuning profiles. SCALES — Pentatonic, modal, blues, exotic and symmetric scales across all 12 keys. CAGED patterns with full fretboard diagrams and the theory behind each shape. METRONOME — 30 to 400 BPM with tap tempo, multiple time signatures, custom accent patterns and several click sounds. Keeps running in the background while you play. CHORD LIBRARY — Every chord you will ever need, with multiple voicings each: fretboard diagrams, finger positions, intervals and full chord theory. PREMIUM — TRAIN LIKE YOU MEAN IT NOTRIX — Note recognition using your microphone. It asks for a note, you play it, Rippin listens and tells you whether you nailed it. This is how fretboard knowledge actually sticks. NOTIFY — See the note, play it fast. A fretboard reaction game with timed rounds, streaks and score bonuses that sharpen how quickly you find any note. SLASHBOARD — Your practice dashboard. Day streaks, session history, accuracy, reaction time and a fretboard heatmap showing exactly which notes you keep missing. WHY RIPPIN Most guitar apps either tune your strings or sell you a course. Rippin does the unglamorous part that actually makes you better — fretboard knowledge, ear, timing — and makes it something you will open twice. No account. No feed. No homework. Just the tools, and an honest record of whether you are improving. Play more. Suck less. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
What’s new
Version 3.0.1 · Updated November 2, 2026
Tuning and scales stay free forever. This update polishes Rock Style and fixes a few small things. Loving Rippin? A rating helps a tiny indie app get found. Keep rippin.
App privacy
The developer, MICHAEL STUART KAIN, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Location: Coarse Location
- Identifiers: Device ID
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
- User Content: Customer Support
- Diagnostics: Other Diagnostic Data
Used for: Analytics, App Functionality
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| App | Rating | Price | Last updated | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rippin: Guitar Tuner & Chords | – | Free | November 2, 2026 | |
| Mongsang Recording Studio | – | Free | Jul 30, 2026 | Compare |
| Riffroutr | – | Free | Sep 12, 2026 | Compare |
| KeyJ: Music Theory | – | Free | Aug 28, 2026 | Compare |
| Fretone: Guitar Tuner & Chords | 5.0 / 5 (4) | Free | Sep 29, 2026 | Compare |
| Riffo: Guitar Scales & Solos | – | Free | Oct 30, 2026 | Compare |
| GOTronome | – | Free | Sep 28, 2026 | Compare |