My first bit of feedback is that the icons in the right column should be higher contrast. For me, they are difficult to see.

Also, I see the icons are eye, mortar board, and ear. What’s the fourth icon?

I’m solidly in the beginner camp (even though I’ve been trying to learn guitar for 35 years now), so maybe this isn’t for me. I’m going to kick the tires this weekend.

Free with limited lessons. $3 a month for more, or $30 for lifetime.

It makes folks like me who have subscription-itus smile.

Thank you.

Congratulations on the launch after a year of work, and I wish you all the best with it!

Just out of curiosity, how much time did it take you to get app store approval from Apple and Google in 2025?

I’ve always wanted an app that focuses more on learning songs by ear, finding the root not and chords/melodies, vs just isolated interval recognition. I’d love to improve at this while on the train which an app would be great for.

I’ve tried: Functional Ear, Earpeggio, and Perfect Ear. Functional ear is my favorite but I find it isn’t translating into my jam sessions.

The built-in tutorial on the Learn screen is a really nice touch, and the Library is genuinely useful (I’ll definitely be using it for scales and arpeggios).

Also, the Go Premium page is clean and the pricing feels refreshingly fair. Awesome stuff!

Two quick questions too:

– What did you use to build it? The UI/UX feels super slick, it’s fast and smooth on Android.

– What were your biggest hurdles during the build? Not just technically, but overall. For example, was it tricky learning enough music theory to validate the content, or was getting it live on the app stores as a solo dev the harder part?

Ended up buying a ton of Ear Training books and using those little web apps.

This would have been so much better.

I just started using it,

I will say, I feel we can skip the chords annotations and stuff if the ICP is intermediate guitarist.

Or do a quick survey at the start and see what fundamentals they know.

For intermediate guitar, I think the main gaps are:

- Ear training (unless they were taught early) - triads + inversions - Music theory beyond basic pentatonic shapes - Synchronization at higher speeds (this was my biggest one by far) - Chords beyond basic ones and M/m 7th.

I feel you could add little quiz or survery to see if they are already familiar with some of these.

just my 2 cents

Overall, love this. Very happy someone took the time to do it.

When I went back to see if I could reproduce this outside of the Audio Challenge recap, the audio was broken. All sounds were choppy and delayed. Restarting the app the first time didn’t fix it, but switching back to the classical guitar and restarting did. I can’t seem to reproduce it now (other than the manual pop/crack).

Any chance you could please add a filthy lefty setting? That is, mirror the chord diagrams. It would be so nice.

I think the pitch needs some work. If you're an intermediate guitarist, then memorizing chords and practicing absolute pitch won't make you better at playing guitar. Theory does not equal practice. Gamification apps like Duolingo can trick people into thinking they're making progress on a hard skill when they're really doing something tangential and easier.

Harmony guitarists don't construct their chord progressions using music theory. It's done iteratively with a guitar, maybe with a band, by playing the actual chords and seeing how it sounds.

Anyway, one small nitpick on the website: When on German language the word "FUNKTIONSHIGHLIGHTS" overflows on mobile. I would replace it with "WICHTIGSTE FUNKTIONEN" as that is two words.

Good luck, the website and App look nice!

It's actually seems pretty fair, a decent guitar is going to run you a good sum of money, and if this can actually take me from knowing nothing to being competent, you can have my money.

…have you yourself actually tried it? Where was your technique and where is it now?