Fretboard Lab Alternatives

Fretboard Lab is described as 'An offline guitar chord voicing lab for finding playable shapes across tunings, positions, spans, open strings, Roman progressions, and exportable diagrams' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Fretboard Lab for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Android, iPhone, iPad and Linux apps. The best Fretboard Lab alternative is Fretboard, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Fretboard Lab are FretMap, Fretastic, Guitar Dashboard and Visual Guitar.

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  1. Fretboard icon
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    Fretboard lets you find guitar chords by typing their names or plotting them on an interactive guitar neck. When you have identified a chord, you can experiment with changing it, see more ways to play it, or bookmark it to save it for later.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Linux Mobile
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
     
  2. FretMap icon
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    Fretmap is a free web app helping you master your guitar scales, arpeggios or chords and shred with the best of 'em.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  3. Fretastic icon
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    Fretastic, an interactive fretboard that lets you look up scales and chord in CAGED, 3nps and other shapes. Play-along with handpicked jam tracks.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  4. Guitar Dashboard provides an interactive music theory dashboard for guitarists including a circle of fifths.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. Guitar scales, chords, arpeggios, fretboard and theory explained with visual color coded note charts showing octave ranges, root notes, intervals and more for guitar and bass with sound.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  6. FretGenius icon
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    FretGenius trains you to locate any note anywhere on the guitar neck in under 2 seconds. Whether you're stuck memorizing shapes or ready to unlock the whole fretboard, our structured Note Path system gets you there in just 2 minutes a day.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Android
    • Online
     
  7. Guitar Flow lets you create professional chord diagrams in seconds. No account required to try it out. Export high-resolution images for your lessons, songbooks, or social media.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  8. Get access to over 100,000 chords in any tuning, even personal, an interactive fretboard, a chord identifier, and more, with no ads or data collection.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • iPhone
     
  9. A collection of games and interactive courses to help guitarists in their learning journey. It helps guitarists learn and memorize hard concepts while still having fun.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. Oolimo icon
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    The interactive guitar chord compendium. Learn to understand guitar chords. Multi-functional chord diagrams, chord finder and analyzer (chord namer), chord types and chord progressions in pop/rock/jazz, quizzes on guitar chords.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Android Tablet
     
  11. Chordcat icon
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    Chordcat is a desktop app that helps you identify and name chords based on inputted notes.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Windows
    • Mac
     
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