Ultimate Guitar: Chords & Tabs
Description
Access the world's largest catalogue of guitar, bass & ukulele chords, tabs, and lyrics. Challenge yourself to learn your favourite songs and more! You have choices galore: • Search for songs by genre, rating, your ability, tuning level • Explore UG Tab collections. Use the finder for your faves, fall in love with something new, feel the nostalgic vibes. Search by themes like House or Acoustic, or check out the latest album releases. Find collections based on your interests such as Star Wars or funky Bollywood beats. • Focus on guitar techniques, find songs personal to you in collections from professional guitarists • Anytime you feel inspired to share a song, create and upload your shot on the spot. It’s that easy! Share the best parts of your performance with your like minded community of fellow musicians. • Reach your true musical potential – learn to play with UG Courses here. Access over 2500 lessons for any skill level and instrument type from guitar, drums to piano and more. Learn different styles and techniques with guidance from professional musicians. Progress at your own speed and on any device, anytime, anywhere. • Play 29K+ popular songs in their original sound with Tonebridge Guitar Effects And it doesn’t end there Check out all these features: • Explore guitar, bass & ukulele chords, tabs, and lyrics for songs in every genre • Watch videos of songs to refresh your memory or use as backing tracks • Compile your favourite tabs in playlists from our tab collections • Create ‘Personal’ tabs to edit chords, lyrics or change tabs to suit your needs • Option to Switch to left-handed mode • Set a font style and size to match the tab • Offline access to favourite tabs - available at all times • Enjoy dark mode for a gig With a Pro account: • Use interactive tabs to play songs note by note, at your own pace • Select the chord variation that best suits you from the world's biggest library of chords • Use ‘Simplify’ to make difficult songs easier • Jam with high quality tabs - over 29,000 that include backing tracks and synchronised lyrics • Hit the right tempo with metronome • Transpose songs to get just the right tone for you • Take advantage of autoscroll during your practice sessions • Achieve the right sound with the built-in guitar tuner • Share, print, and export your fave songs Problems or feedback? We are always eager to improve your Tabs experience and strive for excellence in doing so. Let us help you in person by contacting our development team at support.ios@ultimate-guitar.com, and we will endeavour to meet your needs. Please do not post bug reports or feature requests as an App Store review. Subscription information: • The "UG Pro + UG Courses + UG Sing" subscription gives you unlimited access to the app's premium content and features • The subscription price is $9.99/monthly, $59.99/yearly* • Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase • Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period • Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period at the cost of the chosen package • Subscriptions may be managed, and auto-renewal may be turned off via ‘Account Settings’ on your device after purchase • There is no way to cancel your current subscription during its active period • Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. * Prices are equal to the value determined by ‘Apple's App Store Matrix’ as the equivalent of the subscription price in $USD. You can read our privacy policy at https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/about/privacy.htm You can read our terms of service at https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/about/tos.htm
What's New
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Details
- Developer
- Ultimate Guitar
- Main Category
- Music
- Version
- 7.3.19
- Version Release
- 2026-07-17
- Initial Release
- 2010-03-16
- Size
- 219 MB
- Age Rating
- 12+
- Price
- Free
- Languages
- EN
- Bundle ID
- com.ultimateguitar.tabs100
- Version Rating
- ★ 4.74 (466,034)
- First Seen
- 2026-05-28
Metadata updated 2026-07-19
Rank History
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Competitive Benchmark — Music Top 10
What it takes to beat this app — comparison with the category's top apps. The orange row is the current app.
| # | App | Price | Rating | Ratings | Langs | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spotify: Music and Podcasts | Free | ★ 4.78 | 41,010,263 | 61 | 2026-07-07 |
| 2 | YouTube Music | Free | ★ 4.77 | 1,514,439 | 72 | 2026-07-14 |
| 3 | Suno - AI Songs, Music, Lyrics | Free | ★ 4.89 | 303,935 | 10 | 2026-07-17 |
| 4 | Shazam: Find Music & Concerts | Free | ★ 4.90 | 8,747,314 | 19 | 2026-07-02 |
| 5 | TouchTunes: Jukebox Music | Free | ★ 4.86 | 1,100,024 | 1 | 2026-07-16 |
| 6 | SoundCloud: The Music You Love | Free | ★ 4.84 | 1,925,087 | 10 | 2026-07-14 |
| 7 | Amazon Music: Songs & Podcasts | Free | ★ 4.72 | 3,296,294 | 15 | 2026-07-13 |
| 8 | BandLab – Music Maker & Beats | Free | ★ 4.75 | 493,146 | 8 | 2026-07-17 |
| 9 | Bose | Free | ★ 4.85 | 175,419 | 24 | 2026-07-07 |
| 10 | Audiomack - Play Music Offline | Free | ★ 4.79 | 1,985,558 | 43 | 2026-07-13 |
| 35 | Ultimate Guitar: Chords & Tabs | Free | ★ 4.74 | 466,034 | 1 | 2026-07-17 |
User Reviews
Every time I open the app, despite having already bought the pro version I get u shippable nag screens to buy more stuff. I hate it.
You MUST pay to use this app. This stuff used to be free! Users could just upload some tabs and there ya go, BUT NO now it just gets crammed into this stupid app that doesn’t work and wants your money. Kick rocks!
Continually adding features in the greatest database of music… you simply can’t ask for more. I recently learned too through the make your own note to a tab feature, you could essentially create your own Setlist directly through ultimate Guitar for live performance
They push you off the website to the app to do basic transpose, and then one you’re in the app they try to upsell you every time you open the app. I might be inclined to send them some money if their sales technique wasn’t so darn annoying.
I just started playing the guitar when my dad recommended this app for me. It was a perfect place for me to discover different ways to play and find new songs. My only complaint is that 80% of the features I wanted were locked behind a subscription
I really do love this app and community, but for as popular as it is you’d think they’d fix the bugs on it. Notifications, posting shots, even saving tabs sometimes don’t work and sometimes they do. My one wish to developers would be please please PLEASE get notifications and posting shots working again!!
Actually so frustrating you can’t opt out
Once you’re in, this app is fine. But nearly every-time I open it, it makes me go through screens as if you’ve never been there, even though I am logged in. And ads for its other products. As a paying member, I shouldn’t have to go through this to get to my app. Most likely canceling subscription and moving in after this year strictly based on this app.
THEY HAVE MY FAVORITE UNRELEASED SONG EVERRR IM SO HAPPY (also it helps me practice soo thats also a big plus haha)
The only time I ever use this app is when I don’t know a song that gets called at a jam or gig and every time I’ve done that I’ve had to cycle through a bunch of unskippable questions and prompts trying to get me to spend money. Bogus.
The app quality and variety in songs and tabs are a great resource, but the app will constantly push you to pay for the premium version and it’s quite annoying. If it were a simple one-and-done prompt that’s one thing, but it tries to get you to purchase a subscription nearly every time I open it.
I absolutely love Ultimate Guitar! It has literally every single song, and if it doesn't have one, you can super easily make a tab for it!!! It's amazing for guitar, piano, and ukulele players! IT EVEN TEACHES YOU CHORD SHAPES!!! Ten out of ten: would definitely recommend to any musician at any level!
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