JamBuddy - Tools for Musicians

JamBuddy

About this app

🎸 JamBuddy: Your Ultimate Music Practice Companion

Hear any chord and see it instantly. JamBuddy uses neural network pitch detection to identify chords in real time—all on your device with no internet required.

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🎵 REAL-TIME CHORD DETECTION
• Instant chord recognition via CREPE neural network
• See chord root, quality (major, minor, 7th, dim, aug, sus), and bass note
• Interactive Circle of Fifths with live highlighting
• Automatic key detection that learns as you play
• Smart next-chord predictions based on music theory

🎼 SHEET MUSIC & TRANSCRIPTION
• Live melody capture to ABC notation in real time
• Render professional sheet music
• Tablature for guitar, ukulele, fiddle, baritone ukulele
• Transpose any tune to any key with one tap
• Playback with multiple instrument voices
• Print publication-quality PDFs

🎯 PRACTICE TOOLS
• Precision chromatic tuner for all instruments
• Visual metronome with customizable time signatures (20-300 BPM)
• Slow down audio 5%-250% without changing pitch
• Loop sections for focused practice
• Record takes and save them per song

📚 MASSIVE TUNE LIBRARY
• Thousands of tunes included
• Irish Session Top 100, Roaring Jelly Old-Time, Nigel Gatherer
• Mandolin Café Bluegrass, OpenHymnal
• Import ABC files, PDFs, images, and audio
• Search and filter by key, genre, rhythm, collection

👁️ SEVEN VISUALIZATION MODES
• Circle of Fifths — harmonic relationships in real time
• Current Chord — stage-ready display
• Fretboard — detected notes light up as you play
• Next Chord — predictions for likely progressions
• Histogram — note distribution analysis
• Spectrogram — live frequency display
• Timeline — chord changes over time

🛠️ FIVE ESSENTIAL TOOLS
• Chromatic Tuner — cents sharp/flat display
• Visual Metronome — beat visualization
• Fretboard Reference — chord fingering positions
• Chord Browser — shapes for any chord
• Live Transcription — capture melodies as notation

🎨 FULLY CUSTOMIZABLE
• Light, dark, and custom themes
• Material You dynamic colors
• Customizable interval colors
• Multiple layout options
• Focus mode for stage use

⌚ WEAR OS COMPANION
• Circle of Fifths with chord detection
• Chromatic tuner
• Chord chart browser

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✨ WHY MUSICIANS CHOOSE JAMBUDDY

✓ 100% OFFLINE — On-device processing, music stays private
✓ NO ADS — Distraction-free forever
✓ NO SUBSCRIPTIONS — One purchase unlocks everything
✓ LOW LATENCY — Optimized for live performance
✓ MULTI-INSTRUMENT — Guitar, bass, ukulele, mandolin, fiddle

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👥 PERFECT FOR:
• Beginners learning chords visually
• Students practicing with slowdowns and loops
• Teachers creating handouts
• Gigging musicians transposing on the fly
• Session players learning from built-in collections
• Songwriters exploring progressions
• Transcribers capturing melodies

Download JamBuddy — the ultimate practice partner.

What’s new

Improved the use of vertical space on phone screens
Side panel navigation of the tunes list
Quicker API search flow to quickly add new tunes when they are called