Guitar Notebook

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!

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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!

This applications is great for quickly saving my compositions. I also realized it can be leveraged for jotting down practice routines. I like how easy and intuitive it is to use and how well it pairs with my iPhone and iRig devices.

Fantastic app that is becoming a big part of my songwriting workflow. Well done!

I could have used this app extensively over the years. It is a dream come true. Thank you! It is easy to use and incredibly accurate! 5 stars all the way