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Need to transpose a song for a singer? Done. Want to practice with a full rhythm section behind you? Hit play.\n\nNamed one of TIME Magazine's 50 Best Inventions and trusted by thousands of students, teachers, and pros at schools like Berklee College of Music — iReal Pro has been helping musicians get better since 2008.\n\nBAND\n• 50 accompaniment styles — Swing, Bossa Nova, Blues, Funk, Rock, Bluegrass, Reggae, Latin, Gypsy Jazz, Country, and more\n• Customize each style with acoustic or electric piano, Fender Rhodes, guitars, upright or electric bass, drums, vibraphone, organ\n• 40 additional styles — blues, salsa, Brazilian — available as in-app purchases\n\nBOOK\n• Download thousands of free chord charts shared by the iReal Pro community\n• Create your own charts in minutes with the built-in editor\n• Organize charts into playlists for gigs, sets, or lessons\n\nPRACTICE\n• Adjust tempo, loop difficult sections, transpose to any key\n• Automatic tempo increase and key cycling for focused practice\n• Global Eb, Bb, F, and G transposition for horn players\n\nREFERENCE\n• Guitar, ukulele, and piano fingerings for any chord\n• Tap any chord in your chart to see how it's played\n• Scale suggestions for improvisation\n\nSHARE\n• Share charts and playlists with other iReal Pro users\n• Export charts as PDF or MusicXML\n• Export backing tracks as audio or MIDI files\n• Sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac with iCloud\n\nFOR TEACHERS\n• Create playlists of exercises or tunes for students\n• Use in the classroom, over live stream, or while screen-sharing lessons\n\nWe're a small team of musicians who built this app because we needed it ourselves. We hope you enjoy using it as much as we do.","facts":{"developer_id":298206809,"developer_url":"https://irealpro.com","first_released":"2008-12-02T23:51:38Z","support_url":"https://irealpro.com/support/","privacy_url":"https://irealpro.com/privacypolicy/","website_url":"https://irealpro.com/","app_version":"2026.9","release_notes":"- Record a video of yourself playing or singing along with the backing track, with the chord chart following along: tap the microphone button next to Share to start\n- Add support for iPhone Duo\n- Moving staff text in the editor responds faster, and the arrow buttons dim at the first and last position\n- Playback and audio export run on the latest version of the FluidSynth sound engine (2.6.1)\n- Fixed Real Drums playing through a Break in the first bar of a song\n- Fixed Find (⌘F) on the iPad Library screen\n- Fixed the arrow keys changing song instead of moving the cursor while you type a search on iPad\n- Fixed behavior of search on iPad\n- Fixed how selection is shown and handles on iPad in split view\n- Further improvements to Transposition\n- Updated AirTurn to 4.10.1","rating_current_version":4.86277,"rating_count_current_version":11149,"star_counts":[104,43,129,727,10146],"genres":["Music","Education"],"languages":["EN","FR","DE","IT","JA","KO","PT","RU","ZH","ES"],"content_advisories":null,"device_families":["iphone","ipad"],"chart":{"name":"top-paid Music","position":7}},"freshness":{"apple_read_at":"2026-10-20T08:15:11.616Z","catalog_read_at":"2026-10-18T18:25:12.100Z","reviews_checked_at":"2026-10-20T08:15:11.616Z","summary_written_at":"2026-10-11T00:31:53.916Z","placed_at":"2026-10-10T01:03:03.015Z","scored_at":"2026-10-20T17:58:13.408Z"},"editorial":{"one_liner":"Music app with a backing band that plays along, plus a chord chart library with practice, transposition and reference…","what_is":"IReal Pro provides accompaniment styles with customizable instruments such as piano, guitar, bass, drums and organ. 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