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App to reverse search guitar chords?

FizzyLizzy27FizzyLizzy27
in General App Discussion

I swear I have an app that lets me reverse search guitar chords, but I can’t remember what it is.

So, for example, it would show a fret board and I could enter the fingering for a C chord, and it would reverse search for a C. I thought tonality had the feature, but if it does I can’t seem to figure it out.

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  • espiegel123espiegel123

    Tonality

  • abfabf

    I'm not exactly sure what you mean but there is an app called ChordBank and I think it does what you're discussing:
    https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chordbank-learn-guitar-chords/id397602509

  • wormfoodwormfood

    Fabulous?
    https://apps.apple.com/app/id1559087405

  • cem_olcaycem_olcay
    edited May 24

    I hacked an app that pulling the chords of a song from ultimate-guitar and create the chord pad surface for it. I never released it of course because I'm afraid of the copyright issues etc :smile:

  • mistercharliemistercharlie
    edited May 24

    Chord! Definitely does it. Great app all around.

    You tap the fretboard diagram to add notes, and it shows you possible chords with those notes.

    https://apps.apple.com/app/chord/id606691230

  • charalewcharalew
    edited May 24

    @FizzyLizzy27 said:
    I swear I have an app that lets me reverse search guitar chords, but I can’t remember what it is.

    So, for example, it would show a fret board and I could enter the fingering for a C chord, and it would reverse search for a C. I thought tonality had the feature, but if it does I can’t seem to figure it out.

    As @espiegel123 says, Tonality does indeed do this. It's one of its core use cases.

    Open the app, tap the guitar icon, then tap the mini fretboard to open up bigger version. Tap on the strings on the desired fret and you'll dynamically see compatible chords displayed on the left of the screen.

    Couldn't be much simpler IMHO. Tonality is a fantastic app 🙂

  • royorroyor

    What Chord?
    https://apps.apple.com/app/what-chord/id1251111343

  • wimwim
    edited May 24

    Hey @FizzyLizzy27 - my guess is you were looking in the Chard Detection Tonality plugin. That's where I naturally looked for it at first. It's not there, it's in the Chord Pads plugin, in the edit mode.

  • FizzyLizzy27FizzyLizzy27

    @charalew said:

    @FizzyLizzy27 said:
    I swear I have an app that lets me reverse search guitar chords, but I can’t remember what it is.

    So, for example, it would show a fret board and I could enter the fingering for a C chord, and it would reverse search for a C. I thought tonality had the feature, but if it does I can’t seem to figure it out.

    As @espiegel123 says, Tonality does indeed do this. It's one of its core use cases.

    Open the app, tap the guitar icon, then tap the mini fretboard to open up bigger version. Tap on the strings on the desired fret and you'll dynamically see compatible chords displayed on the left of the screen.

    Couldn't be much simpler IMHO. Tonality is a fantastic app 🙂

    Ok, Tonality was what I was thinking of. I forgot that tapping the mini fretboard let you search.

    Thanks everyone!

  • FizzyLizzy27FizzyLizzy27

    @cem_olcay said:
    I hacked an app that pulling the chords of a song from ultimate-guitar and create the chord pad surface for it. I never released it of course because I'm afraid of the copyright issues etc :smile:

    That’s a really good idea. Ultimate Guitar lets you export chords of a song as a text/PDF file. If your app could create chord pads from general text/PDF files that would be useful, UG or otherwise

  • GabrielHauberGabrielHauber

    I'm late to the party, but I'm the developer of Reverse Chord Finder Pro — it does exactly this for guitar, bass, ukulele, banjo, mandolin, and piano. Happy to answer any questions!

  • GavinskiGavinski

    @cem_olcay said:
    I hacked an app that pulling the chords of a song from ultimate-guitar and create the chord pad surface for it. I never released it of course because I'm afraid of the copyright issues etc :smile:

    Ah haha, pity, yes that would be popular 😂😂

  • AileromAilerom
    edited June 1

    @royor said:
    What Chord?
    https://apps.apple.com/app/what-chord/id1251111343

    https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chord/id606691230

    edit:

  • pedropedro
    edited June 1

    I made a python script for this a few years ago. It’s limited to diatonic scales (major, natural, harmonic and melodic minors), but it supports 3 and 4 notes chords, with provision for omit1 and omit5 (with chords with extensions), so it may show several possible chords for the same notes

    I will share the script if anyone wants to give a look.
    I also did a pythonista app using the algo and a simple fretboard ui. But it’s an old project that I might need to revisit, yet suited my needs at the time and was a great learning experience

  • KrupaKrupa

    @Ailerom said:

    @royor said:
    What Chord?
    https://apps.apple.com/app/what-chord/id1251111343

    https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chord/id606691230

    edit:

    This one looks good, the songwriting one as well

  • AileromAilerom

    @Krupa Its good yes. Someone already mentioned it though. Facepalm

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