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I ‘umm’ed and ‘ahh’ed over purchasing this app for over a month. The available documentation describes it as an:

Essential guitar utility, including an amazingly flexible tuner and library of over 1600 chord variations, all on your iPhone.

Well the screen shots look pretty good and the functionality for the price seems good value. So last week I plumped for it.

It’s super. In particular the guitar tuner is amazingly accurate and flexible. It can decern the tone of the string being played and in real time display the corrections you need to make, down to less than 10Deg turn on the machine head on my Ibanez. It can also account for several unusual tunings, and will set its tone recognition to account for most background noise. And if you want to do it the old fashioned way, there is a set of virtual strings you can pluck which play though the loud speaker to tune-by-ear.

Another function contained in the toolkit is a metronome. You can slide the metronome to a bespoke frequency, and set the time tiganture to 2/4,3/4 or 4/4. You can have it just flash the tick, and/or tick using the in-built speaker.

Finally the chord libary, which is extensive. It gives several options for each chord and variants, each is displayed graphically in a TAB-like format. It is really easy to locate chords and to select their variations, simply using the touch scroll interface.

I am really very pleased with my purchase. For me to have bought hardware to fulfil the functions of this app, I’d be looking at close to £50, if not more. This simple app, available from the iTunes App store, is a fantastic addition to a growing list of quality apps for the iPhone.