ChordWise manual

Everything ChordWise can do, screen by screen. Pick a chapter, or start at the beginning if you have just installed the app.

The screenshots show the Android app on a phone held sideways. The iPhone and iPad app has the same features; a few screens look slightly different.

Getting started

How the ChordWise screen is laid out, what every button in the top bar does, and the one habit that unlocks most options: press and hold.

Play anything and ChordWise names it immediately: the chord, its notes, its inversion and other names for the same notes.

Play on the screen, connect a digital piano over USB or Bluetooth, or let ChordWise listen to an acoustic piano.

Music theory step by step, from scales and keys to seventh chords, and you play every step yourself.

Make exactly the drill you need: chords, scales, scale degrees or single notes, at your tempo, with or without help on the keys.

Don't want to set up drills yourself? Coach builds a practice path for you and decides what comes next.

Pick a key and a style, play a chord, and ChordWise suggests where to go next. Great for jamming and writing songs.

Record the chords you play, save the session, and play it back later as an exercise.

Bring in a lead sheet from a photo, a file or the clipboard, check the chords, and play along chord by chord.

Hear a chord and name its type. Start with major and minor, then add more types as your ear improves.

Look up any chord: see which keys to press, hear it, and see how it is built.

See how much you practise, what you already master and what needs work, and set goals.

Keep time while you practise.

Adjust text sizes, the keyboard, notation and the top bar, and set practice reminders.

ChordWise is free to download and practise with every day. Maestro is an optional subscription that removes the limits.

Free on Android and iOS.