Fretride: Learn Guitar & Jam
Yauhen Kuchynski Music iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Fretride: Learn Guitar & Jam is a free Music app for iPhone and iPad by Yauhen Kuchynski. Requires iOS 18.0. Updated October 9, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 99 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 9
- 2026 · v1.2.1
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About Fretride: Learn Guitar & Jam
Learn the neck, play it with your own fingers, and write your own tabs — with real recorded guitar, drums and a full multitrack editor. Made by one person who plays guitar. Every sound was recorded string by string, and nothing you play leaves your phone. THE FRETBOARD • Every key and scale on a circle of fifths, with each key's sharps and neighbours • Notes coloured by scale degree, named or numbered • See any chord as a real shape, anywhere on the neck • Alternate tunings: Drop D, DADGAD, Open G and others A NECK YOU CAN PLAY A full-screen guitar under your fingers. • Any chord in any key, standard or your own voicing, slid along the neck as it sounds • Swipe across the strings and the chord follows your finger, note by note • Solo over the progression as it plays, with the CAGED shapes lit • Record what you played straight into a tab LEARN A course written by hand, in plain language, out of cards you play rather than paragraphs to picture. • Chords, scales, CAGED, keys and progressions, then technique: picking, palm mutes and riffs, bends, slides, vibrato, legato and sweeping • Interactive cards: chord shapes heard string by string, neck diagrams, strum arrows, technique drills with a tempo dial • Checkpoints that listen: play the chord or the bend and the app says whether it landed • Practice games for note finding, intervals, scale degrees and arpeggios PRACTICE THAT IS NEVER THE SAME TWICE Pick a key and a level; the drill generator writes you an exercise with a band under it. • Scales, chord tones and target notes, melodic phrasing, alternate picking, legato, sweeping and arpeggios • Ten levels, from one note a beat to seventh-chord sweeps • Not AI: a few hundred practice routines, plus some combinatorics HEAR WHAT YOU ACTUALLY PLAYED Plug in through an audio interface, play a tab, and the app tells you how it went. • Timing and notes measured against the tab, with bends, slides and mutes heard as techniques • It happens on your phone: nothing recorded, stored or uploaded, no account needed JAM AND PRACTISE • Build progressions from the chords in your key, or add your own voicings • Dozens of strum and fingerpicking patterns played close to a real hand • Real drum grooves in 4/4, 3/4, 6/8, 12/8, 5/4 and 7/8 METRONOME AND TUNER • A metronome with a screen of its own: tap tempo, any time signature, drum grooves • Silent bars: the click drops out and returns on the downbeat, so you hear how far you drifted • A chromatic tuner that follows the tuning you picked TAB EDITOR • A full multitrack editor built for touch: hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, bends, palm mutes • Drums, piano, bass, strings, winds and synths on their own tracks • Standard notation over the tab, and a score for every track but drums • Print a song as notation and tab, or share it as a PDF • Import .gp files from Guitar Pro 7 and 8, then read, play or edit them like your own ANALYZE SONG SCALES AND HARMONY • Detects and explains the scale and harmony of the whole song or its sections • Understand each chord of a song and its function (borrowed, a secondary dominant, or the b2 that makes a minor key Phrygian) • Understand what to play over, especially for borrowed notes LIBRARY • Ready-made progressions, arpeggios and strum patterns • Capture your own patterns and reuse them from any root FREE AND PRO Free: all lessons, tab editor, drills generator, games, playable neck, metronome, tuner and three saved songs. Pro only adds unlimited songs and cloud sync, custom captured patterns, overdriven and distorted guitar, realistic sound packs, and no Pro reminders. FRETRIDE Pro is a monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription, charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. It renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends, and is managed in your Apple ID settings. Privacy Policy: https://fretride.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://fretride.com/terms Contact: [email protected]
What’s new
Version 1.2.1 · Updated October 9, 2026
A small but important update: - Song harmony analysis: more precise, better detection of scale changes. - Song harmony analysis: reworded some descriptions. - Song harmony analysis: a few UI improvements. - Tab editor: added recommendations for changing the scale of song sections, with short descriptions of how the sound changes with the new scale. - Tab editor: in practice mode, it is now much more convenient to change the start and end bars. - Metronome: tempo could only be changed in steps of 5. Now you can enter it manually.
App privacy
The developer, Yauhen Kuchynski, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Contact Info: Email Address, Name
Used for: App Functionality
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