Timber & Tone
Practice that feels like playing.
Structured paths, real songs, and a practice room full of tools — all offline, no account required.
Timber & Tone doesn’t tell you the right way to learn guitar. It gives you the tools to build a practice that fits how you think, how you hear, and how you play — structured paths if you want a roadmap, or individual tools to dig into whatever you’re working on right now.
iPhone · iPad · Mac — one purchase, every screen
A structured path, if that’s what you’re looking for.
For players who want a roadmap, Timber & Tone’s Paths give you one. 25+ structured courses across four skill levels — Foundations, Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced — each step building on the last. Follow the steps, come back whenever you’re ready, and look back at how far you’ve come.
- 140+ lessons organized across four skill tiers
- Covers chords, rhythm, fingerpicking, theory, and technique
- Progress is tracked — pick up exactly where you left off
- Move between levels as your playing grows
The app follows the song — so you don’t have to.
Timber & Tone’s song player keeps everything in sync: lyrics scroll with the chords, on-screen chord diagrams update as the progression changes, and a visual playhead tracks where you are in real time. Change the key with one tap and the entire song — lyrics, chords, diagrams — adapts instantly. Import your own songs from ChordPro files, plain text tab, or Guitar Pro, and they plug right into the same playback engine.
- Synced lyric and chord display — everything scrolls together
- On-screen chord diagrams follow every change in real time
- Smart transposition — change key with one tap, everything follows
- Import from ChordPro, plain text tab, or Guitar Pro
- Songs from folk, blues, bluegrass, and traditional standards
A practice room where the app plays along with you.
Timber & Tone’s practice tools use real recorded guitar samples, not a metronome click. Play a strum pattern and hear how it should sound at any tempo, in any key. Explore 40+ patterns — folk, country, blues, funk, reggae, jazz, metal, and more — or dig into 20+ fingerpicking patterns with a visual playhead that follows each note as it plays.
- 40+ strum patterns with real guitar audio, tempo control, and accent highlighting
- 20+ fingerpicking patterns including Travis picking, Carter scratch, alternating bass, and classical arpeggios
- Visual playhead shows you exactly where in the pattern the music is
- Global key picker — every pattern adapts to the chord voicing you’re working on
- Mute the metronome and hear just the string audio while you practice
Every tool a guitarist reaches for.
Tuner, chord library, fretboard explorer, ear training, circle of fifths — everything built in, nothing behind an extra purchase. Whether you’re tuning up before a session or going deep on music theory, it’s all here whenever you need it.
Chord Library
200+ chords with fingering diagrams, playback, and voicing variations
Chromatic Tuner
Precise pitch detection, five display styles, always-on
Strum Pattern Library
40+ patterns across folk, blues, jazz, funk, reggae, and more
Fingerpicking Library
20+ patterns with an animated string grid and real audio
Circle of Fifths
Interactive key relationship explorer
Fretboard Explorer
Pentatonic scales across all 5 boxes, in any key
Interval Trainer
Ear training built into the app
Chord Transitions
Drill the changes between specific chords
Musical Glossary
Rhythm, harmony, melody, technique, theory, notation, and equipment — all in plain English
Custom Song Builder
Build your own songs with chords, strumming patterns, structure, and BPM. Import from other popular formats.
Most of it is free. Really.
Every lesson, every path, every practice tool — the full learning experience is free. Unlock more when you want to go deeper or make it your own.
Everything you need to learn guitar.
- All learning paths & lessons
- Full chord library with audio
- All strum & fingerpicking patterns
- Song library with playback
- All practice tools (tuner, Circle of Fifths, fretboard explorer, interval trainer, and more)
- Up to 5 custom songs — build or import your own
- Import from ChordPro, plain text tab, or Guitar Pro
- Some cosmetic options
One purchase unlocks everything on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
- Unlimited custom songs
- Mass import from files or tabs
- More metronome styles & sounds
- More tuner styles
- Themes & skins
- More customization options
No hidden fees. No content locked behind a subscription. The $1.99/month option is for players who want to try before committing — subscribe for a month, cancel anytime.
Start playing music.
No streaks. No gamification. No push notifications telling you to practice.
Just well-built tools and structured paths — the kind of app that gets out of your way and lets you play.
The core experience is free. Unlock more when you’re ready.
Coming Soon to the App StoreTimber & Tone — Practice with purpose.