Cadence: Guitar Theory

In-app purchases
4.6
71 reviews
1K+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Learn guitar theory through interactive lessons, challenges, and ear training that actually stick.
Cadence helps you understand the fretboard, hear the music, and play with more creativity and confidence through visuals, sound, and smart repetition.

- Interactive Lessons
Structured 5 to 10 screen lessons combine visual fretboard diagrams and audio playback to make complex theory intuitive. Learn chords, scales, intervals, and progressions step by step without dry textbooks.

- Intuitive Recaps
Each lesson ends with a single-page flashcard recap that condenses all key concepts for quick, visual review. Perfect for short practice sessions or refreshing theory on the go.

- Playful Challenges
Turn theory into a game. Practice with theory, visual, and audio challenges that increase in difficulty as you improve. Earn trophies, build streaks, and train your brain and fingers to think musically.

- Ear Training
Sharpen your musical intuition through sound-backed lessons and dedicated audio challenges that teach you to recognize intervals, chords, scales, and progressions by ear.

- Progress Tracking
Stay motivated with daily activity reports, streaks, and global completion tracking. See your growth clearly and stay focused on your goals.

- Complete Guitar Library
Explore a vast collection of more than 2000 chords, scales, arpeggios, and progressions. Includes CAGED, 3NPS, and octave patterns with optional voicing suggestions to help you master the fretboard.
Updated on
Oct 25, 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Personal info, Financial info, and App info and performance
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, Financial info and 2 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.6
68 reviews
Zenith
November 16, 2025
Great app. Well presented and very pleasing to go through. But the premium for lifetime is a bit too expensive. Edit: The developer does have a point, because irl the teachers are way more expensive yet, they don't teach as much as given in the app. So it is still a great investment if you are serious about learning guitar.
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Antoine PIZON
November 15, 2025
Thanks a lot for the review! I tried to price the premium lifetime to be roughly the cost of a 1h guitar lesson with a real life teacher but obviously this heavily depends on where you live. The price also includes future updates of the app as I still have quite a few ideas. I hope you will understand or at least find value in the free version!
Francine Togono
November 19, 2025
Ill forever yearn for the money to pay the premium subscription. this feels like my gateway to finally pushing through my music theory troubles by having something i can study and apply and test without holding my guitar (due to a busy schedule). It feels like its all i could ask for for a guitar music theory app! ill surely come back to this app when ive got the money
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Antoine PIZON
November 19, 2025
Thanks a lot for the review! I hope the free library can still provide value in the meantime, you'll find all the chords and scales from the lessons, although not guided and without challenges to practice. Also have a look at the free trial if you haven't already ;) Good luck on your guitar journey!
S P
November 2, 2025
great content, great presentation, great training method. I could only wish for some spaced repetition based review, but that would be a cherry on top. the reasonable lifetime price is a nice touch too.
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Antoine PIZON
November 2, 2025
Thanks a lot for the review and feedback! I have a "gauntlet" feature in mind that I might implement in the future. It would be some kind of longer challenge in between levels with random questions from all the levels before. Hopefully that would cover your need for "spaced repetition", feel free to reach out if you have any specific ideas :)

What’s new

Left-handed diagrams
Better dark theme contrast
Increased drone audio volume for folk, jazz, and electric clean guitars
Fixed translation issues on some challenges
Cleaner audio transitions and going to background