Fretscape: Guitar Chords

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About this app

Most chord apps show you shapes. Fretscape shows you which fingering makes the next chord change easier.

Instead of treating each chord on its own, Fretscape looks at the whole progression and finds a fingering path that feels more natural in your hand. It weighs the things guitarists actually feel when they change chords: anchor fingers, distance traveled, slides versus lifts, barre trade-offs, and more.

KEY FEATURES

• Progression builder — enter your chords and find a smoother path through the whole sequence
• Multiple fingerings per voicing, each rated by difficulty (Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced) with explanations of why
• Voicing variations — same chord, different shape, easier path to the next one
• Built for every hand — set your level, limit fret span, choose which fingers to use. Beginners get simpler shapes. Advanced players see the full picture. Adapts for small hands, injury, arthritis, or missing fingers
• Reverse chord lookup — tap frets on the fretboard to get the chord name and other likely interpretations
• Key & mode detection — for modal, blues, jazz, borrowed-chord, and power-chord progressions
• Over 2.5 million playable chord voicings across 16 tunings — 14,000+ chords from basic triads to complex jazz
• Chord charts with interactive fretboard — view notes, intervals, or fingering, with left-handed support
• Narrow things down by difficulty, barre, fret range, finger count, string set, inversions, bass note, and more
• 16 preset tunings + unlimited custom tunings with full capo support
• Hear every voicing — preview how every voicing or progression sounds without picking up your guitar
• Save favorites, collections, progressions, and searches
• Available in 35 languages with localized chord notation — solfege (Do, Ré, Mi), German (H/B), and more

Whether you want to learn guitar chords, write songs, or find the perfect voicing for your next gig — Fretscape is built for how you actually play.

WHO IS FRETSCAPE FOR?

From first chord changes to obscure tunings, Fretscape meets you where you play.

Picked up a guitar two days ago? Fretscape finds you the easiest fingerings and shows you exactly where your fingers go on the fretboard. Intermediate player whose chord changes still feel clunky? The progression builder shows you a smoother path you didn't know existed. Advanced guitarist exploring inversions in an obscure open tuning you invented? Fretscape finds voicings for any tuning — standard, preset, or completely custom.

Teaching your kid guitar and need voicings that fit small hands? Limit fret span and finger count. Gigging songwriter who needs to hear how a substitute chord sounds before committing? Audition every voicing with strum and arpeggio playback. Teacher who wants to show students why one fingering is easier — not just that it is? Difficulty ratings and movement analysis do the explaining for you.

And if you've ever been told your hands are too small, your fingers too stiff, or that you just need to "stretch more" — Fretscape was built for you. Exclude fingers, limit span, hide barre chords. Every hand is different. Your chord app should know that.

FREE VS PRO

Try everything that matters — free. Chord search, voicings and fingerings, the progression builder with playback, key detection, reverse chord lookup, and core ways to narrow things down — all in standard tuning.

Unlock Pro with a one-time purchase. No subscription. No recurring fees. Buy once. Use it forever. 30-day money-back guarantee. Get unlimited voicings and fingerings, the full progression builder with voicing variations, all advanced options, 16 tunings, custom tunings, capo support, unlimited favorites and collections, and saved presets.

Built by a guitarist-developer from Yorkshire who got tired of every app showing his 9-year-old daughter the same fingerings as a grown adult.

What’s new

• Reverse chord lookup now prefers names whose root or slash bass matches the lowest note. Clearer slash names are shown in normal mode; alternate unslashed spellings move to theory mode.
• Chords played with a capo now show the underlying movable or open shape where relevant.
• Knowledge base articles and categories can now be opened directly from more places.
• Fixed a fret-range slider bug in reverse lookup and filters.