Guitar App Learn Guitar with Honest Note-by-Note Grading

Soloist Guitar grades every note you play on-device — no ads, no account, and audio never leaves your iPhone.

The guitar app that hears every note honestly.

Your playing never leaves your device: listening, transcription, and grading run on-device. No account, no ads, no trackers.

Most guitar apps reward you for strumming near the beat. Soloist listens through your device's mic and tells you the truth — which notes rang clean, which buzzed, and exactly what to loop next.

Honest per-note grading

“Heard 14 of 16 notes” — real results from your mic, never inflated.

Play any song you can hum

Capture a riff from audio or your own playing; Soloist turns it into chords and tabs, on-device.

Tabs, chords, and a curriculum that goes somewhere

From first open string to barre chords, with loop drills built from your actual rough spots.

How honest grading works

Listen.
Play your take and Soloist Guitar captures it through the microphone, processing everything on your device. Audio is never uploaded — our backend has no audio endpoints at all.
Measure.
The engine locates each note you played — its pitch, its timing, its onset — and compares it against the score, note by note.
Report.
You see which notes rang true, which didn't, and what to loop next — drills built from your actual rough spots. An unclear take is left ungraded, never turned into a confident mistake.

Real screens. Real practice.

Inside Soloist Guitar, screen by screen.

A real Soloist Guitar song page for Ode to Joy with chord shapes, strumming pattern, and play-along — A song taught whole — shapes, strumming, tab

The Soloist Guitar Stage playing a riff in tab at 110 BPM — The Stage — tab scrolls, the mic listens

A Soloist Guitar take review reading Heard 32 of 33 notes, with timing and pitch scores and bars to work on — The honest count, then drills for the rough bars

Songs & free notation

144 public-domain and original works with full, readable notation — read them free here, then let Soloist Guitar grade your take note by note.

Questions

Is Soloist Guitar free?

Yes — learn and play for free; Soloist Pro (US$9.99/mo or US$59.99/yr; eligible new annual subscribers may see a 7-day trial) unlocks the full catalog and unlimited drills.

Does it work for acoustic and electric?

Both. Clean electric and acoustic guitars grade best; play in a quiet room within ~30cm of your device.

More Strings

← All 17 instruments

Free on the App Store

Get note-by-note feedback — free on iPhone.

Soloist Guitar is free to download and genuinely playable without paying — here is exactly what stays free, and what Soloist Pro adds.

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