smartChord allows individualized tone names and symbols. You can define your personal preferences in the general settings. These settings affect all of the smartChord features.

The chord diagrams shows the notes according the settings. But you can change the setting "Diagram info" to 'Theory' so the notes are displayed according the musical theory.

The songbook shows the chord names according your 'Name settings' in ‘Tone names’ and ‘Symbol’ settings. The intention is go see always the same chord names independent to the source of your song texts. So you'll always get a C#, even if the original chord of the song is written as Db. But there is a songbook option to force the songbook to show the original chords. But keep in mind, that with this option activated, the transposing is deactivated!

We chose SO instead of the more common SOL because there is limited space to display note names on small displays. But SO is also a valid naming/abbreviation.

There is no known bug. In most cases the user forgot to mute the strings which are not part of the chord.

smartChord allows individualized tone names and symbols. You can define your personal preferences in the general settings. These settings affect all of the smartChord features.

The chord diagrams shows the notes according the settings. But you can change the setting "Diagram info" to 'Theory' so the notes are displayed according the musical theory.

The songbook shows the chord names according your 'Name settings' in ‘Tone names’ and ‘Symbol’ settings. The intention is go see always the same chord names independent to the source of your song texts. So you'll always get a C#, even if the original chord of the song is written as Db. But there is a songbook option to force the songbook to show the original chords. But keep in mind, that with this option activated, the transposing is deactivated!

We chose SO instead of the more common SOL because there is limited space to display note names on small displays. But SO is also a valid naming/abbreviation.

You can create your own chords. There is a menu item 'Add custom chord' in the 'Chords' screen. Alternatively, you could write us a mail and request a new chord type. We are happy to add missing chord types to smartChord if desired. Please send a link where the missing chord is described to info@smartChord.de.

Please go to the Chords screen and change the filter to Professional (funnel button beneath the table header 'Type'). This will reveal all chord types defined in smartChord.

If you still miss a chord, create your own 'custom chord' in the Chords screen or send a link where the missing chord is described to info@smartChord.de. We'll add it within one week.

smartChord knows a lot of chord types. Sometimes the overview gets lost. To attain an overview you may use the 'filter' functionality to reduce the chord types to the most common or your favorite ones.

By assessing your individual skill-level (basic, intermediate, expert) a corresponding set of settings will be made. E.g. showing all chords and fingerings (expert) or just simple and most common ones (basic).

Please be aware, switching the skill level has an impact on the chord settings, because with a change of the skill level you also change the depending settings, e.g. number and difficulty of displayed chords and fingerings.

We decided to build the chord diagrams in the horizontal, as the guitar neck is also in the horizontal. We think it is easier to understand. In smartChord there are a lot of small chord diagrams and fretboard views. And we think it would look strange if the fretboard is shown in the vertical. That's not a natural view. So we show both in the horizontal.