Guitar Fretboard Note Trainer

Guitar Fretboard Note Trainer

Justin Guitar · 4.5 ★ · $1.99

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Description

The Guitar Note Trainer is an app to help you learn the notes on the guitar neck - one of the most essential skills for progressing guitarists!

It has four training modes, Name The Note where you have to name the note shown on the neck, Find A Note where you have to find a given note on the neck in all 6 positions, Memory Quiz 1 where you have to name a note having been given it's position, and Memory Quiz 2 where you must name all the notes across a given fret (a tough one!!).

There are some "Easy" options for those just starting out to limit your range of answers.

You also have an audio option to hear the notes as you select them!

If you really need to cheat you can swipe your finger diagonally across the fretboard and all the notes will show for a second :)

I'm sure you'll find this app very helpful, all you need to add is practice time!

Best wishes, Justin

Developer

What's New

Version 2.17 · Jun 12, 2020

We've added a reference fretboard section to the app to show you all the notes on the fretboard for revision. We've also added options to allow you to choose which strings and which notes (whole notes only or all notes) are tested in the training modes. We've also updated the screen layouts so that they fit better on X style screens. Please keep telling us what you think about the app and how we can improve it.

Ratings & Reviews

App Store

4.5

155 ratings

N/A downloads

Google Play

4.6

137 ratings

10,000+ downloads

5★
75%
4★
13%
3★
10%
2★
0%
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0%

Recent Reviews

Ty Lee

Google Play

Needs an option for locking the "view orientation" since the app keeps annoyingly rotating & flipping the screen for me even though my phone's "auto-rotate" is turned off. Otherwise, this app would be great!

Apr 20, 2026

IntermediateTID

App Store

Does exactly what you want!

In an era of subscriptions and over complicating what should be simple tools to justify monthly costs - Justin continues to keep it real. A simple tool - exactly as you need it to be able to practice when you’re away from your guitar. I implore anyone looking for a tool of this nature to spend the $2 and have this tool for life. And while they’re add it consider donating a few bucks to Justin who does great work

Mar 5, 2026

Mal Blodget

Google Play

simple and designed to do what you want.

Jan 30, 2026

Antonio Riccelli

Google Play

Extremely helpful, as anything from Justin tends to be :)

Nov 16, 2025

Scott Rich

Google Play

the app makes it easy to learn notes on the fretboard without a guitar in hand.

Jul 30, 2025

Colin H

Google Play

brilliant! great when you don't have a guitar handy

Jul 22, 2025

Bovinusdeus

App Store

Great, but needs one tweak

This app is helping me visualize notes on the front board very well. But, there’s one thing that really bothers me, and I saw this mentioned in some other reviews as well. When the note plays, it’s not the note that’s being shown all the time. This really needs to be fixed, since it starts to cause you to associate the played note with that fretboard position. This is a pretty big problem in my opinion.

Mar 14, 2025

Flex704

App Store

Very Helpful

This app is very helpful and convenient.

Feb 10, 2025

Mason87104

App Store

Doesn’t play corresponding note!?

The app works fine in that it asks you to name the note highlighted on the fret board. However when you touch the correct note name a random pitch is played. When you touch “C” why not play a “C” tone? For example the played note may go down when the named note is up. Or the audio note may stay the same even as the displayed note jumps around the fret board. Misses the chance for some ear training at the same time!

Sep 2, 2024

Landonissped

App Store

It’s a great app but could be a little bit better with one more feature

I just got it yesterday and have spent about an hour and a half on it. Unfortunately I didn’t progress that fast. I feel that having an additional setting for what portion of fretboard your being quizzed on would help me and other users. Thanks Justin for putting this great app out on the App Store.

Apr 12, 2024

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