Oolimo Guitar Chords

Oliver Mochmann

About this app

By including 22 lessons on chord theory and the basic chord types the Oolimo app finally becomes the mobile chord bible for guitarists and songwriters.

This app will dramatically increase your understanding of chords and make you a better player and songwriter. Learn guitar chords, chord naming, chord construction, and chord progressions the way professional musicians think and play in today's popular music including complex jazz harmony.
Recommended not only to guitar learners and students. Also teachers will have a great tool at their fingertips when it comes to explaining things with the help of interactive visualisations.

Guitar Chord Finder:
No nonsense chords - the chord are based on a database with a manually entered collection of usable chords. Those chords are then transposed to your selected key by an algorithm that really knows the theory!
Explanations for every chord type with note names automatically adapt to the selected key/roots.
Transfer chords from the Chord Finder to the Chord Analyzer with one touch of a button.

Guitar Chord Analyzer:
Instantly get syntactically right chord names for every inversion by entering a chord shape into the virtual fretboard.
No "chord unknown" message due to the chord analyzer's intelligent algorithm.
Watch the notes of your chords on staves.
Quick storage helps to memorize and compare several chords.
Advanced features like switching the root to its enharmonic equivalent, double accidentals, slash chord notation.
The chord analyzer also supports open tunings. Choose from several open tunings or edit some of them to create your personal open tunings.

Chord Progressions
With the new unique and innovative matrix, it is easy to find, learn, understand, compare and modify the most common and important chord progressions. But you can also just take a progression from the list and learn it in several ways and keys.

Quizzes
Improve and strengthen your guitar chord knowledge wherever you are. The various types of tasks will illuminate many aspects of guitar chords like chord construction or derivation, harmonic context, intervals and complementary intervals, differences between chord types or just chord voicings, tensions, modifications, etc. Last but not least the quizzes and are fun to do!

Theory:
Understanding the fretboard, intervals and chord construction, voicings, slash chords, diatonic chords with extensions and modifications.
Lessons for each basic chordtype: major (basic, barre, modern), minor, minor 7th, dominant 7th (V7), maj7, diminished (dim/dim7) and half-diminished chords, altered chords, sus and add chords and 6th chords.

General features:
Interactive fretboard/chord diagram shows note names and intervals for each played tone.
Switch between detailed or abbreviated chord names.
Listen to the whole chord or single chord tones.
Switch between English and German language.
Switch between night and day mode for the best view at any time.
Left-hand mode.

Ratings and reviews

Awesome app for learning theory and writing chord progressions with efficient finger placement, but there are unfortunately no 7, 8, 9, or 10 string options. Other than that, it's worth it. if the developers are reading this, please at least add up to 8 string guitar support, please. I'd personally be willing to pay for that as this app is very helpful to me.

This app should be a tool for any musician. I'm studying chord theory and am a new music writer. This app is worth every penny. The only two additions I hope for in the future for this app is a more direct way of seeing the inversions of each type of chord and a feature where you're able to punch in a chord progression...for the writer side of things . Besides that this app seriously delivers invaluable immediate information on chords, its all there. There's a site you can try this out for free.

I love this app, its great for finding your way around the fretboard and all its hidden chords. I'd love if you could implement the changing of your tuning in the chord finder too, as it would really help to learn other tunings. For example playing around with drop d it can be a bit confusing working out the change in your bass note (2 semitones down) without a clear picture.

What’s new

Updated API level (compatibility with newer Android versions), some minor bugfixes.