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smartChord V13.9

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🎬 TikTok

  • smartChord is now on TikTok with the latest news and tips

🎬 New: ‘smartChord Tips’, our short video series

✔ Themes & Colors

  • New theme ‘Navy’, ‘Navy Dark’
  • New color scheme to match the theme ‘Navy’
  • New color variant ‘Navy’ in the Songbook

✔ Home screen

  • The tools get the color of their group, so related tools are easy to spot. A color you chose for a tool always wins, choosing the group color resets it. Switch it off in the home screen settings (‘Colors by tool group’)

✔ PDF / Set list

  • PDFs can now be zoomed out (pinch) below the screen width until a whole page is visible

✔ Translate

  • Besides Google Translate, other translator apps like DeepL can now be used. If several are installed, you can choose which one to use

✔ Toolbar

  • All entries of the navigation menu (e.g. other tools of the same group, Library, Logbook) can now be put into the toolbar

🐞 Internet song search

  • Songs from cifraclub.com contained HTML code next to some chords. Now the song text is clean again

🐞 Categories

  • When assigning categories to items without any category, the values of the category filter were suggested. Now the last assignment is suggested

🐞 Chord diagrams

  • Open strings were marked in diagrams not starting at the nut, even with ‘Mark open strings’ switched off. Now the setting is respected again

🐞 Playground

  • After changing a chord, sometimes the notes of the previous chord were played, and strings could stay silent although a note was shown.

🐞 Fretboard

  • With gesture navigation, taps on the open strings and on the last fret did not sound when the fretboard filled the whole screen width (e.g. in ‘Scales’). They sound again, and the back gesture no longer starts on a fretboard that only plays tones

🐞 Hints and tips

  • In some themes (e.g. ‘Black’, ‘Petrol’) the text buttons like ‘Close’ were hardly readable. Their color is now adjusted to stay readable on the background

✔ Many other minor improvements and fixes

Special thanks to Claudio Dossetti, Dr. V. Nagaraj, Himanshu Garg, Laurent Nachtergaele, Pauly Cigno, Robert S. Sutherland and Thomas Wenselowski for their contributions to this version