Ultimate Guitar, or UG for short, is the world's largest community site for guitarists, started in 1998. In this App, apart from more than 16,000 popular songs with Tonebridge Guitar Effects, the chord sheets and tablature of guitar, ukulele and bass for 1,100,000+ songs can also be found, and people can practice guitar techniques, take online lessons, search for their favourite songs and discuss various topics in the forums.
On iOS AppStore, Ultimate Guitar: Chords & Tab‘s rating is 4.8 out of 5.0, with user reviews of more than 337,000. On Google Play, its rating is 4.4 out of 5.0, with 464,725 user reviews.
Ultimate Guitar: Chords & Tabs is launched all over the world, attracting a huge number of users to install and enjoy it. And we can see that its ratings on the two App stores are fairly high compared with most of the other Apps, which also means that it provides users with perfect user experience.
The App is dedicated to bringing users a better experience and updating and optimizing at a fairly high pace.
This App provides a large music library of tabs, chords, and lyrics for different instruments including bass, guitar and ukulele.
Moreover, users can search for any songs they like based on different types, difficulty, rating and tuning, thus they can also choose the most suitable learning materials to improve their performance skills.
Last but not least, the App emphasizes guitar techniques and provides lots of convenient instruments for users to learn and practice. Users can also discuss various topics in their forums and share their performing recordings with other music lovers.
Pros
- The music library of this app contains a comprehensive range of music, and can meet almost all users’ needs of searching for chords, tabs and lyrics of a variety of songs.
- This app is great for both beginners and experts, and is one of the best choices other than personal guitar tutors.
- This app offers some variations of chords to help users when they meet some problems in traditional fingerings.
- Users can advance their performance skills effectively through various convenient practices and lessons in the app.
- Users can post their own tabs, music scores, recordings to help others like the beginners. Users can also quickly learn songs by reading the chords or tabs uploaded by others, who have already made great efforts in these materials before.
- Subscription price is reasonable with an extended guitar toolkit.
Cons
- The navigation system of the app needs to be improved, sometimes users should keep hitting the back button in order to search for something.
- Sometimes, the app takes a long time to load the tabs and chart, or even never works, which makes the users feel annoying.
- There is too much advertisement in the app, and it fills social media apps with guitar tabs on the side.