United StatesKeep all of your songs and ideas together in one place! Add chord charts, FlexFrets, audio recordings, lyrics, and more. You can even import songs from photos with SongSight AI! Perfect for songwriters and guitarists of any skill or music theory level. ORGANIZE SONGS Customize your songwriting workflow with Labels and Tags, making it easy to filter and sort your songs by Writing Phase, Category, Rating, Album, Mood, Instrument, and more. Move songs from an Idea, to Recorded, to Released. Separate your personal songs from cover songs. Create set lists or organize by artist. It's up to you! CHORDS & FLEXFRETS Choose standard Chords or FlexFrets for notation. A simple but powerful notation tool, FlexFrets are similar to chord diagrams except they are horizontal and can expand to show the entire fretboard! As you tap on the virtual fretboard to add notes, watch your FlexFret adjust in size so you can capture any pattern (extended scales, arpeggios, or riffs). Pro Users can add a capo and create custom tunings with a full 128 note range for each string. AUDIO & LYRICS Record a quick audio track to capture rhythm and feel so you don't have to spend time with detailed notation. Add guitar setup notes, gear/pedal details, or full page lyrics. With audio, text, and notation you have everything you need to capture (and recreate) your idea, whether that’s a new song or part of a multi-track DAW project. SONGSIGHT AI Guitar Notebook uses powerful OpenAI Vision to extract chord diagrams, lyrics, and chord names from your handwritten notebooks or your favorite song sheets, so you can keep all your songs together in one place! PRACTICE & REVIEW The great thing about having a Guitar Notebook is that you can easily flip between pages for practice anytime. SongSync works with your iCloud account, so it’s private, secure, and available on all your devices. You can even work offline, and your songs will be synced the next time you connect to the internet. BEAUTIFUL PAGE STYLES • Paper: Crisp white and a simple fretboard • Maple: Neutral off-white with maple fretboard • Rosewood: Graphite with rosewood fretboard • Blue Steel: Twilight blue with metal fretboard • Dark Studio: Ultra-dim and easy on the eyes during late night sessions • Sunburst: Classic orange sunburst with hardwood fretboard The FREE version of Guitar Notebook gets you started with: • Up to 5 Songs • 1 Page per Song • Up to 8 Chords/FlexFrets per Page • Import songs from photos with SongSight AI • Up to 3 minutes per recording • All Page Styles with Auto Light/Dark Modes • Professional audio monitoring • Custom labels and tags to organize songs • Tap/strum fretboard with sound • SongSync between devices Get Guitar Notebook PRO with a Lifetime Upgrade or Yearly Subscription and get all current and future Pro features! • Unlimited Songs • 32 Pages per Song (great for backup copies, drafts, or multi-track documentation) • 64 Chords/FlexFrets per Page • SongSight up to 500 photos • Guitar Capo • Custom Tuning with 128 note range • Up to 30 minutes per recording • Universal Purchase - Works on iPhone, iPad, and Mac • Family Sharing support Questions? Contact us at [email protected] Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.sonametro.com/privacy
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While, searching for an App to replace the dying Guitar Tool Kit, to assist with songwriting, I came across Guitar Notebook. Am I ever glad for that. The developer is top-notch, updating frequently and unbelievably wonderful to work with and reply. There are features in this App, like including recordings and even AI recognition from your notes or printed page that go beyond anything I expected. Being someone who sketches out song ideas with text and chord grids, (I’m not a huge tab guy), this app works great for my workflow. Many Thanks!
United StatesSuch a time saver
Keeping the stacks of paper with my lyrics and chord sketches clean and organized has been a nightmare. Where are they all? Is this page a continuation of that one? One slip of the pen or pencil and everything becomes sloppy after an erasure. Two slips and it can become an unrecognizable mess. Guitar Notebook changes all that. Everything is digital, right there, completely ready. Want to change a lyric or a chord? Easy. Want to hear the strummed chord or individual notes ? Done. Want to import song sheets from other sources? Yes, please. I do, however, have three suggestions: Turn the fretboard vertical, so it naturally matches the string configuration of the chord boxes. Add a way to designate the names of chords after you include them in the song. And add a rhyming generator. Roll out these changes, and Guitar Notebook becomes the indispensable app for songwriters. Period.
United StatesGreat app. Too pricey.
This is a really cool app. The free version is not usable other than as a test. That’s fine, some apps give you enough to get long term, limited, use, but this one doesn’t. But the $20 price tags for the full version feels too expensive to me when I can just use separate apps to do the same things. If I knew for certain I’d be able to use this app and not lose my stuff forever, I’d consider it. But it’s hard to invest that much into a single app that may be left for dead with any iOS update. How many years will they continue keeping the app functional? I’ll just keep using Voice Memos and a different tab app.
United StatesCapture that idea before it vanishes
The Guitar Notebook is a great app for quickly capturing song ideas so you can refine them later. I’m not much of a music theory person, so the ability to tap a fretboard to notate the chord I’ve stumbled into is super useful. The simplicity and focus means this app is less fiddly and fumbly than the dozens of other songwriting apps I’ve tried. Seems like the developers have a vision for carefully curate features in the future. Looking forward to seeing where they take it!
United StatesKeeps getting better
I'm a Logic Pro user and was looking for a way to jot down the guitar chords and voicings I use in my songs, which usually have multiple guitar tracks, so that I can remember what I played. I use the notebook pages as tracks, so that each page corresponds to a DAW track. Perfect! With the audio recording and the fretboard notation I can easily recreate my tracks when I want to practice or edit them. It's really become my personal song catalog.
United StatesHas both iOS and Macos versions sync
Well worth a try. Very clean concept. Like a Fender Deluxe and one or two floor pedals. The app does not get in the way of the creative process as it is with so many other fussy apps out there.
United StatesThe song that got away
There are some full-featured and complex score editors for making sheet music, but if you just want to capture your song idea quickly, this app is perfect. I come up with song ideas all the time, but I don’t want to take the time to make sheet music out of it. I just need to capture the chords and my voice. Then later I can keep working on it in my DAW, when I have the time. Highly recommend this for any guitarists that write songs. Even if it saves one song you would have lost, that could be THE song!
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Song list now shows the current selected filters. App no longer requires iCloud Drive to be turned on. (Songs are still saved in your iCloud account as before).
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