Fretride

What Fretride is

Fretride is a guitar practice and songwriting app for iOS and macOS, combining a fretboard visualizer, tab editor, playback engine, pattern library, lessons, and practice games. The fretboard displays notes by key and scale degree, lets you hear notes, and shows chord shapes across the neck. Its touch-focused editor supports full songs and techniques such as hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, bends, palm mutes, and triplets. Tabs can be played back, and notation modes include tab and standard notation. With an audio interface, the app reads back and scores timing and selected playing details, including notes, palm mutes, slides, and bends. That analysis runs on-device; microphone audio is not recorded, stored, or transmitted. The free tier includes the core tools, lessons, and games, requires no account, and allows up to three saved songs. Fretride also includes hand-recorded guitar samples and separate tracks for drums, piano, bass, violin, cello, flute, saxophone, and trumpet. Pro adds unlimited saved songs, cloud sync for signed-in users, custom arpeggio and strum patterns, additional guitar tones, and MIDI instrument sound banks. Monthly and yearly billing are available through Apple; the regional price is shown in the app before purchase.