GuitarTapp – tabs & chords on your mobile
GuitarTapp is an application for mobile phones, created for guitar players on the road. With GuitarTapp you can easily search tab sites (like Ultimate-Guitar.com) for bands and songs, select song versions, and view tabs with a fixed width font. GuitarTapp is currently available for download in:
- The Nokia Ovi store (GuitarTapp download), a free trial is also available here
- The Android Market (GuitarTapp download)
The current version for Android phones is 2.0 and has the following features:
- Easily search for bands and songs on internet’s largest tab-sites: chords / tabs / power tabs / bass tabs / drum tabs
- View song versions and their 5-star rating
- Autoscroll: play along from the screen by setting the speed slider to the length of the song
- On-board chord dictionary: view chords diagrams and fingering alternatives for hundreds of chords
- IntelliWrap: intelligently breaks up the tabs to screen-sized pieces: no horizontal scrolling needed!
- Transpose: easily change song key by transposing chords up or down
- Rate tabs and share on Facebook and Twitter
- Favorites: save tabs locally
- Chords colorizing
- Adjustable font-size for tabs
The current version for Nokia phones is 1.3 and has the following features:
- Easily search for bands and songs on internet’s largest tab-sites: chords / tabs / power tabs / bass tabs / drum tabs
- View song versions and their 5-star rating
- Autoscroll: play along from the screen
- Favorites: save tabs locally
- Chords colorizing
- Transpose: change song key
- IntelliWrap: no more horizontal scrolling!
- Adjustable font-size
In case you are wondering why you would install an app to search for tabs, while you can use your mobile browser?
This is why:
- Minimal bandwidth used: GuitarTapp uses a webservice to get search results and tabs; this reduces network traffic with about 90% compared to visiting a tab-site manually
- Fast: because of low network traffic
- Cheap on data costs: again, because of the low network traffic!
- Tabs are displayed terribly when using your phone’s browser:
- The lack of a fixed-width font on mobile phones causes tabs to become painfully hard to read, GuitarTapp makes sure tabs are displayed correctly.
- Mobile browsers are not capable of intelligently wrapping tabs and chord-guided-lyrics to prevent horizontal scrolling. - History and Favorites: Easy to recall a previously openened tab. If you’ve added one to your favorites, you can even open it again without having to download it again because it is stored offline!
You can read more about GuitarTapp on the GuitarTapp Help page
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By Robert, August 29, 2011 @ 09:33
application is sensational – the only thing I miss is Polish songs – can you add it? (eg spiewnik.wywrota.pl)
greet
Robert
By Webmaster, September 28, 2011 @ 10:36
Hi Robert, we are continuously expanding our tabs index, we’ll take a look at the site you suggested. Thanks.
By Andrei, September 30, 2013 @ 15:48
It would be awesome if you added Romanian songs as well. tabulaturi.ro provides the largest collection of Romanian tabs.