Description: Essential guitar utilities, including an amazingly accurate tuner and a library of over 500,000 chords, all on your iPhone or iPod touch. One of the highest rated applications in the App Store.

Developer – Agile Partners

GuitarToolKit – £5.99 ($9.99) – iTunes

Many useful attributes are compiled into this one handy little app. If you play the guitar then you will find this app beneficial at some point if not all the time. The chromatic tuner uses the microphone in the iPhone to deliver quality tuning. The downside to this is that if there is any background noise in the room then the tuner starts to get very confused. It would be more ideal if you could plug your guitar into the tuner but this is obviously limited due to the iPhone hardware, which is reasonable.

The comprehensive chord finder and extensive range of scales are laid upon an interactive fretboard that can be strummed or tapped to hear how they sound. It comes with a metronome with 13 different sounds and visual flash options. With support for many instruments; support for left handed people and custom tuning it becomes convenient to many musicians.

This app is beneficial to those who wish to learn more about the guitar and various other instruments. I personally find it very useful for learning scales on the guitar and also for tuning my guitar. The designers who made this app clearly spent a lot of time understanding what musicians would want out of it; this includes a lot of options so that you could personalise it for what you need it to do.

Pros

  • Copious and convenient qualities
  • Reasonable price
  • Personalise for your convenience
  • Elegant finish

Cons

  • Difficult to tune with any background noise

Verdict

As far as technology goes this app definitely pushes the boundaries of what the iPhone has to offer. This app is useful and will come in handy for anyone who plays the guitar.