We listen to the actual audio and hand you beginner-friendly chords, diagrams and a play-along. Built for people who picked up a guitar last month.
How it works
Paste a YouTube link
Copy the link to any guitar cover or tutorial and drop it in. Works best on clips under a minute.
We listen to the audio
The actual recording runs through chord recognition, then gets checked and named. Usually about twenty seconds.
Play along
A time-aligned chord sheet with diagrams, lyrics and the capo shapes you actually finger. Save it and practise.
Features
01 · Paste a link
Drop in a YouTube link to any cover or tutorial. No searching a chord site, no scrolling the comments hoping someone posted them.
Drop any YouTube guitar video and we'll work out what they're playing.
Works best on tutorials and covers under a minute.
02 · Real audio analysis
The actual recording runs through chord recognition, so you get what was really played, not a guess from the video title. Lyrics are transcribed from the same audio.
Listening
matching every bar to a shape
03 · Beginner-simplified
Most covers are played with a capo. We find the fret that turns barre chords into open shapes and show you those, with a diagram for each.
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Play these open shapes with a capo on fret 4. It sounds exactly like the recording.
Shapes you finger
04 · Play along in time
Chords are time-aligned to the recording and sit above the word they change on, so you can strum along from the first listen.
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Verse 1
Lyrics transcribed from the audio
05 · Your songbook
Save any song you crack. It syncs to your account, so your songbook follows you to a new phone.
6 songs in your back pocket
Golden Hour
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C G Am Em
Paper Hearts
Junior Bloom
G D Em C
Runaway
Static Palms
Am F C G
Faded Polaroids
Sable & Vale
D A Bm G
Neon Nights
Midnight Arcade
Em C G D
06 · Community rooms
Ten rooms, from First Chords to Chord Clinic and Cover Corner. Browse one, search inside it, or file your post under up to three so the right people see it.
Brand new? Start here. No question is too small.
Rockie
2m ago
Three weeks in and the G to C change is finally clean. Any tips for getting to D faster?
Maya
18m ago
Is this Em7 or plain Em? Mine sounds darker than the cover.
07 · Fix a chord
Tap “looks wrong?” and pick the right chord. Your fix sticks for you, and makes the next person’s result better.
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Chord timeline
At 0:07, we heard Em
Your fix sticks for you, and makes the next person's result better.
Pricing
Start free. Upgrade when it earns its place. Keep scrolling.
A link anyone has already analysed is free to open and never counts.
A link anyone has already analysed is free to open and never counts.
A link anyone has already analysed is free to open and never counts.
Purchases happen in the app. Compare every plan
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YouTube links for now. TikTok and Instagram are coming.