Fretonomy - Learn Fretboard

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4.3
2.36K reviews
100K+
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Content rating
PEGI 3
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About this app

Fretonomy is the ultimate educational game to learn the notes and chords on the fretboard of the guitar and other guitar instruments.

Practice notes, chords, scales, intervals, staff reading, and the circle of fifths in 21 different games. Or even generate chord progressions to help with song writing!

There are 8 instruments available to practice on:

Guitar
7-String Guitar
8-String Guitar
Bass
5-String Bass
6-String Bass
Mandolin
Ukulele
Banjo

Choose your instrument and pick one of the many games available to you to practice the fretboard until you have mastered every fret and every chord pattern.

Customize your experience by selecting which section of the fretboard you want to practice on. Practice the first frets, a section in the middle, or the entire fretboard.

Many games are available. Choose how you want to train. Learn by simply matching random notes with the fret on the fretboard, or try something different with the Color Matching game!

Learn and master all kinds of chord patterns on the guitar with the Name Chord game. Choose which chords you want to practice on any section of the fretboard, and go at your own pace. You will learn to identify any chord pattern very quickly!

Learn how to quickly read notes on a staff in the Staff game. Choose whatever section of the staff you want to practice on, choose the staff type, and start training!

Or master the fretboard and staff at the same time in the Staff and Fretboard game. Select a fret on the fretboard that matches a note on the staff!

Explore scales on the fretboard of your instrument with the Scale Explorer game. Choose a root note, pick one of the 63 different scales available, and start memorizing your scale. Change the color of the notes on the fretboard to identify intervals easier.

View your progress as statistics are logged for each instrument, tuning, and fret. A heat-map is used to show your progress. Share your progress with your friends!

More games and features to come!

FEATURES

- 9 different instruments available to master!
- Explore any of the 63 musical scales with any root note while customizing the scale how you want!
- Train any section of the fretboard. Choose any range of frets that you want.
- Learn and master many kinds of chords on any section of the guitar with any tuning! From simple major and minor triads, to more complicated patterns like diminished sevenths!
- Use the Staff game to learn the position of notes on the musical staff. Learn to read music!
- Follow your progress by viewing your fretboard heat-map. Each fret has its own statistics.
- Common tunings included for every instrument, or add your own.
- Compete with your friends on Game Center or share your fretboard heat-map with them.
- Left-handed mode is available as well.
- Solfege, Number, German, Japanese, and Indian note notations are supported.

This version of the application comes with free access to train the first few frets of each instrument. Each instrument can be fully unlocked via in-app-purchases.
Updated on
7 May 2025

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Ratings and reviews

4.2
2.22K reviews
Peter Murphy
24 February 2025
Excellent tool to for daily practice. It has really come a long way from the first version. Lots of variety of lessons and activities that help you learn the fretboard! *Update* This app just keeps getting better. The most recent updates have changed this from being a helpful tool to a becoming a necessity for anyone learning guitar and music theory for guitar. I dont but apps often, but this one is well worth the money, can't praise it enough!
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Strong Apps LLC
13 May 2025
Hello Peter, thank you for your support and for the raving review. It means a lot to hear you are finding the app really useful! Thank you so much for your support. If you have any feedback or feature requests please let me know at contact@strongapplications.com. Cheers, and again, thank you.
Brandyn Kazali
3 January 2022
This is exactly what I was looking for. I've just gone and bought the guitar section of the app, the price is less than a coffee so why not. I would, however, like to leave a little critical feedback. When tapping on the correct solution, the note sounds and then changes. This distracts me from the next note by setting my mind on the last one. A solution would be to add an option to play the note in question instead of the previous. Otherwise, this is a great tool. 4.5/5.
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Strong Apps LLC
27 February 2022
Hello Brandyn, that is actually a very good idea that I had no thought of and I could see where that could be confusing. I will look into adding this feature in the near future maybe under the game settings. Thank you for taking the time to give me this feedback. I hope the app is continuing to prove useful otherwise.
Michael Comerford
11 November 2021
A simple app with a nice clean layout, which is exactly what I wanted. It would be nice to have a kind of game mode to see how many I get in a certain time though. It would also be nice if I could make the buttons a bit bigger, as I tend to have inputs blocked on the edge my screen to avoid accidental inputs. Overall though, I would highly recommend it!
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What's new

- Some minor bug fixes