Tradcara

Tradcara

About this app

Tradcara is your personal tune book for Irish traditional music. Build your repertoire, track what's session ready and what's gone rusty on every instrument, get tunes up to speed by ear, and put together the sets you play at sessions. Local-first and private by design.

KNOW YOUR REPERTOIRE
• For each instrument, mark every tune as known, learning, rusty, or want-to-learn. You will always know what you can pull out at a session.
• Save your comfortable tempo and confidence, and whether you can lead or follow the tune.
• Keep the setting you actually play.

PRACTISE TUNES UP TO SPEED
• Hear any tune played back from its ABC and learn it by ear.
• Slow it right down, then bring it back up and loop the whole tune, or drill a section, a line, or a single bar until it's under your fingers.
• Add a metronome (simple or traditional feel) to lock in your timing.
• Log your practice as your repertoire grows.

BUILD SETS FOR SESSIONS
• Group tunes into the sets and set lists you play at sessions and classes.
• Share sets by file or QR code, and import sets other players hand you. Phone to phone sharing, no account needed.

A HUGE OFFLINE CATALOGUE TO DRAW FROM
• Search thousands of traditional tunes; reels, jigs, hornpipes and more. Completely offline.
• Filter by type and key, sort by popularity, and add tunes straight to your book.
• Add your own custom tunes and include them in the sets you build and share.
• Paste in your tune list from your notes to import it into your tune book.

YOURS, AND PRIVATE
• No ads, no tracking, no analytics and no account required.
• Everything stays on your device; back it all up and restore it.
• The only permission is the camera, for QR codes and tune-list reference photos.

For fiddle, flute, whistle, concertina, accordion, banjo, pipes and every other instrument in the tradition.

What’s new

Import your saved Tunes, Sets and Bookmarks directly from The Session, with quicker bulk actions, clearer progress and resumable review. New getting-started guidance helps you build your tune book and begin practising. This update also improves file imports, playback feedback, navigation and reliability throughout the app.