✛ A sight-reading gym for guitarists · EST. 2026
Reading music shouldn't feel like a wall.
You already play. But the dots on the page still freeze you — so you fall back to tab and the wall stays up. This turns reading into a five-minute daily habit: a fresh line every day, instant note-by-note feedback, and proof you're actually getting better.
macOS · Windows · ~5 MB · early prototype · we'll only email about this. Why email?
Tab got you this far. The page is where you stall.
Sight-reading is the skill every guitarist is told to build and almost nobody practices — because the usual options are a paper method book with no feedback, or an app that wasn't built for the fretboard. So you guess, you lose your place, and you quietly give up.
Paper can't tell you the note was a half-step flat or a beat late. You repeat mistakes without knowing.
You memorise the same ten exercises. Reading becomes recall — the opposite of sight-reading.
Without numbers, you can't tell a good week from a bad one. Progress feels invisible, so motivation dies.
Practice it until it isn't hard.
Three moves, five minutes, every day. The app generates the music, listens to your guitar, and keeps score.
Read a fresh line
A new etude every time — in the key and fretboard position you're working on. Never memorised, always read.
Play it. Get scored.
A count-in, a metronome, and pitch detection that catches every note — right, wrong, late, or missed — in real time as you play.
See the results add up
Pitch and timing accuracy, your weak notes, your streak. The wall turns into a graph that goes up.
See the results.
Every take is saved, so the question stops being "do I feel better at this?" and becomes "is the line going up?" Here's what that looks like.
Download the prototype
Try it on your own guitar.
The prototype is free and runs on your machine. Drop your email and we'll send a download link — that's how we know which guitarists to build the full thing for. Prefer no email? The builds are on GitHub Releases.
The short version.
Is it free?
Yes — the prototype is free to download and use. We're validating whether guitarists want this before building the full native app.
Why ask for my email?
It's the whole point of the test: it tells us how many players actually want this, and lets us send you the next build. We won't sell it or spam you.
Do I need special gear?
Just your guitar and your computer's mic (an audio interface is better). Headphones recommended so the metronome doesn't bleed into detection.
How early is "early"?
Very. It's a working prototype to prove the idea — rough edges included. Your feedback shapes what the real version becomes.