Guitar Notepad - Tab Editor 4+
Fantastic Guitar tab editor
Codefad
Designed for iPad
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- £1.99
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Description
Guitar Notepad helps you easily and quickly jot down song ideas in guitar tab, save them to the cloud and email them to band mates.
I created this app as I found that when playing around with ideas on my own, or after a jam session, I was still using paper to jot down ideas. I have tried some of the other tab writing apps out there but none of them used the touch screen like a guitar fret board which really speeds things up. I'm keen to make this app as useful as possible so please feel free to contact me if you want any new features added.
Create and Edit Tab:
- Edit song details like title, artist, transcribed by and tempo
- Add time signatures, lyrics and performance notes
- Add chords, strum patterns and lyrics above your tabbed notes (no other apps I've seen support this!)
- Add any number of strings and custom tunings including 4,5,6 and 7 string guitars/bass guitars
- Use touch screen to quickly add notes with a single tap
- Choose from common chord patterns to save time
- Add techniques likes slides, hammer ons, pull offs muted notes, harmonics, tremolo, vibrato, ghosts/ties, tapping and more
- Backspace as well as delete button for faster editing
- Cut, copy and paste sections of tab, even between different songs
- Undo button - the last 10 actions are recorded and can be undone
- Continuous chord mode - saves having to perform an extra tap to start adding chords
- Option to view notes on the fret board
- Supports repeated bar notation
- Tab Playback (no note modulation for now)
- Can change guitar neck to left handed view
- Supports note lengths from whole notes to 1/64, dotted notes and triplets
- Add a capo
View, Export and Share:
- Export to PDF or text
- Transpose songs up and down
- Organize songs by artists or use tags to create albums and setlists
- Use autoscroll to view tabs and play along
- Layout optimised for both tablets and phones
- Zoom in and out depending on your screen size
- Print from device
- Save songs to file in your cloud storage like Dropbox, or export via email.
- Ability to perform a full backup and restore - useful if you are switching devices
- Import songs shared from other people's Guitar Notepad apps
- View and search through your songs by title, artist name or last modified time
What’s New
Version 3.6.4
ios 15 fixes for some users
Ratings and Reviews
Basic but clever
Takes a little while to find where everything is and, once put aside for a while, needs to be relearned but seems pretty well thought through and executed. Reliable so far, good work.
Can't seem to be able to award stars but 4/5 for now.
Great idea - bit fiddly
Great concept and easy to use, but it’s a little fiddly and takes time to use. If you practice it takes shorter time but it’s still handy.
Nice little app, does what it says on the tin.
The app is great for quickly jotting down ideas on the go, but some improvements could be made:
- I could not find an easy way to include shorter notes into a bar. For example, if the bar is split into half-notes, but I wanted two of those notes to be quarter notes. I achieved a similar result using the '-' button and doubling the number of Notes/Bar but this was time consuming, so support for different note lengths would be appreciated.
- More time signature options could be added, while there is a fairly decent selection, variable number of time signatures would be much better (x/4, x/8, x/16).
- The ability to change the tab by typing in a different number as well as using the current input method.
- MIDI support would be great to listen back to the tab you've just written to check it's correct.
Besides these things, the app is very useful and is unique as being the only app I could find on iOS fulfilling this purpose well.
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Information
- Provider
- Philip Withey
- Size
- 10.5 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 11.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Codefad
- Price
- £1.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.