Ultimate Guitar alternative

A Ultimate Guitar alternative

Your songbook and your songs, paid once.

Ultimate Guitar is where you look up a song's tabs. If you mostly keep your own chord sheets and want a tuner, metronome and practice tools without a yearly Pro plan, More Than Modes has a songbook built in and you pay once.

More Than Modes vs Ultimate Guitar

Feature	More Than Modes	Ultimate Guitar
Huge catalog of tabs and chords	✗	✓
Your own chord sheets (songbook)	✓	–
Transpose	✓	Pro
Chromatic tuner	✓	Pro
Metronome	✓	Pro
Chords of your song, bar by bar	✓	–
Split a song into stems (vocals, drums, bass, guitar)	✓	–
Scales & modes on the fretboard	✓	–
Ear training	✓	–
Pay once, no subscription needed	✓	✗
Price	Free download with a free Pro trial. Pro: pay once (US $15.99), it's yours for good — no subscription needed	Free tabs and chords catalog. Pro subscription from around $9.99/month or $29.99/year; Pro+ around $39.99/year (US App Store, 2026)

✓ yes · ✗ no · – not listed in its store description. Ultimate Guitar details checked in October 2026; prices are US and change by country.

What More Than Modes adds on the same page

Songbook: paste your lyrics and chords, every chord over its syllable, and hear it with rock, funk, reggae or ska strums.
Transpose it and export it to PDF.
Add an MP3 and get its chords bar by bar, with stems to play along.

And that's one of ten tools — all offline, no ads:

Your songs, with chordschords bar by bar, slow down, change key, loop, stem splitter

The fretboardevery scale, mode and chord on guitar, ukulele and bass

Fretboard trainera game against the clock; the mic really listens

Schoolshort theory lessons with games, explained by Morty and Lana

Harmonya circle of fifths you can touch and hear, plus the chord multiverse

Drum & metronomerock, funk, house and trap beats; 6/8, 9/8, 12/8, accents

Ear trainingchords, intervals, scales and modes

Songbookyour lyrics and chords, played with real strums, export to PDF

Albums to play oversoul, jazz, funk and metal records made for practice

Chromatic tunerguitar, bass, ukulele, violin, cello, mandolin, Drop D

When Ultimate Guitar is the better choice

Ultimate Guitar has the biggest catalog of tabs and chords for almost any song, free, plus interactive tabs and backing tracks in Pro. More Than Modes has no song catalog.

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FAQ

Is there an Ultimate Guitar alternative without a subscription?

More Than Modes has a songbook for your own chord sheets, a song chord detector, a tuner and a metronome. Pro is a one-time purchase, no subscription needed.

Does More Than Modes have tabs for every song?

No. It has no song catalog: you write your own chord sheets or add an MP3 and the app finds its chords.

Can I play my chord sheet out loud?

Yes. The songbook plays it on a real piano with rock, funk, reggae or ska strums.

Other alternatives: Moises · Chordify · Chord AI · iReal Pro · Yousician · GuitarTuna · Anytune

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