Fretwork: Chords and Scales
STEPHEN CARROLL HAGER Music iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Fretwork: Chords and Scales is a free Music app for iPhone and iPad by STEPHEN CARROLL HAGER. Rated 5.0/5 from 2 ratings. Requires iOS 16.4.
- Rating
- 5.0
- 2 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 53 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Aug 13
- 2026 · v1.1.1
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About Fretwork: Chords and Scales
Fretwork is a guitar reference that derives everything from music theory — so it isn't limited to the tunings and instruments someone thought to put in a table. Most chord and scale apps ship a fixed database of shapes: standard tuning, a handful of others, six strings, and that's the edge of the map. Fretwork has no database. Every chord shape, scale position, and voicing is worked out on the spot from the notes themselves. Change the tuning, add or drop a string, hand it an instrument it's never seen — and it just keeps working. What's inside: • Chords — every chord type from triads to altered 13ths, with real playable voicings ranked by how they actually sit under your hand. • Scales — major, minor, the modes, harmonic and melodic minor, jazz, altered, symmetric, and world scales, across the whole neck, with the chords and progressions inside each. • CAGED — the five shapes laid out along one neck, color-coded and connected, so you can finally see how they link end to end. • Circle of Fifths — every key, its diatonic chords, and how they pull toward home. • Tab reading — a short, interactive lesson, with every example playable. • Tuner — listens through your microphone and tunes to any tuning, including custom ones. All processing happens on your device. • Metronome — adjustable tempo, beats, subdivisions, eight click sounds, tap tempo, and volume. Any tuning. Any string count. Nothing looked up. No accounts. No ads. No tracking. Nothing you do ever leaves your device.
What’s new
Version 1.1.1 · Updated August 13, 2026
Version 1.1.1 - Chord progressions for every scale: see and hear the most-used progressions for whatever scale you pick, both in open position and up the neck, with the shapes guitarists actually play. - Tuner: more accurate on the low strings and much steadier. - Metronome: fixed no-sound issue. - Fixes and polish throughout.
App privacy
The developer, STEPHEN CARROLL HAGER, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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