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Best Guitar Tab Apps for iPhone (2026)

11 apps ranked S through F · · Ranked by AppTierList, computed, never sold · JSON

GuitarTuna: Tune & Play Guitar is the top-ranked of 11 guitar tab apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.8/5 from 148,551 ratings.

  1. 1
    GuitarTuna: Tune & Play GuitarS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 148,551 ratings · score 96
  2. 2
    Songsterr Tabs & ChordsS
    Free download · ★ 4.7 · 48,054 ratings · score 95
  3. 3
    Ultimate Guitar: Chords & TabsS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 480,263 ratings · score 95
  4. 4
    Chordify: Songs, Chords, TunerS
    Free download · ★ 4.7 · 33,841 ratings · score 95
  5. 5
    GuitarTab - Tabs & chords ProS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 8,371 ratings · score 93

What belongs in this list

Look up guitar chords and tabs for songs and play along with them.

Not here: a guitar tuner alone; a chord chart or chord dictionary alone; lessons without tabs for songs alone; a general chatbot asked for tabs alone; a virtual guitar to play alone

How we pick

For this list we ask the App Store the same searches a person would, in several countries, and keep every app it returns. A model reads each app's listing and rejects the ones that only mention the use case. Every app that stays is scored out of 100 from four parts, each 0 to 100 and averaged with no weights: its App Store rating, how many people rated it, where the App Store itself ranks it for this list's searches, and how recently its current version shipped. An app showing Apple's Editors' Choice badge gets a fifth part of 100, which can only lift its score. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier. Read the full method →

S
GuitarTunaSongsterrUltimateChordifyGuitarTabStrum
A
MoisesSpark
B
None at B yet
C
Cifra ClubSongbookProSongBook
D
None at D yet
F
None at F yet

Compare every app

  1. 1
    GuitarTuna: Tune & Play GuitarS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 148,551 ratings · score 96 · best in class
  2. 2
    Songsterr Tabs & ChordsS
    Free download · ★ 4.7 · 48,054 ratings · score 95 · best in class
  3. 3
    Ultimate Guitar: Chords & TabsS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 480,263 ratings · score 95 · best in class
  4. 4
    Chordify: Songs, Chords, TunerS
    Free download · ★ 4.7 · 33,841 ratings · score 95 · best in class
  5. 5
    GuitarTab - Tabs & chords ProS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 8,371 ratings · score 93 · best in class
  6. 6
    Strum - Play GuitarS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 20,082 ratings · score 93 · best in class
  7. 7
    Moises: The Musician's AppA
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 28,111 ratings · score 86 · excellent
  8. 8
    Spark: Chords, Backing TracksA
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 25,054 ratings · score 86 · excellent
  9. 9
    Cifra ClubC
    Free download · ★ 4.8 · 2,708 ratings · score 68 · situational · provisional
  10. 10
    SongbookPro - Digital SongbookC
    Free download · ★ 4.7 · 2,730 ratings · score 67 · situational · provisional
  11. 11
    SongBook ChordproC
    $19.99 · ★ 4.7 · 2,409 ratings · score 67 · situational · provisional

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Questions people ask

What is the best guitar tab app for iPhone?
GuitarTuna: Tune & Play Guitar, S tier, ranked #1 of 11, rated 4.8 by 148,551 people.
Which guitar tab apps are free?
10 of 11 are free to download: GuitarTuna: Tune & Play Guitar (S), Songsterr Tabs & Chords (S), Ultimate Guitar: Chords & Tabs (S), Chordify: Songs, Chords, Tuner (S) and more. 6 of them sell in-app purchases.
Which guitar tab app has the best App Store rating?
Cifra Club at 4.8 from 2,708 ratings.
How many guitar tab apps reach S or A tier?
8 of 11. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier.

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