Guitar Songwriting made easy.
Write singable and playable songs anywhere and play your own songs, instead of learning someone else's version of someone else's song.
Free on iPhone. iOS 26 or later.
Bard's pitch axis, spanning your vocal range from bottom to top. Its rungs are the key's notes, numbered as degrees and colored, with the notes of the chord that is playing lit — the same numbers the neck shows.
Behind the transport bar: the whole song as a chord sheet — key, tempo, shapes and strumming pattern up top, then every section's chords with the words under them.
Know what you’re doing.
The same phrase twice, drawn by Bard: from twelve notes over any chords, and from seven in a key. In a key every note and every chord is something you can see and choose. That is what Bard writes in, and how songs usually go is the rest of what it knows.
You do the writing. Bard does the admin.
You
Bard
YouStart from a hummed line, a chord, a lyric, or a sketch.
BardFinds key & chords for a melody, or helps you write melodies in the key derived from the chords you choose.
YouWrite on the go, play when you're home.
BardLets you build sections and rich progressions, and helps you explore singable melodies on a train with some headphones.
YouBuild progressions that work with shapes that work.
BardOffers picking patterns, helps you pick chords, and picks shapes that fit together, so you can build a playable harmony section in minutes.
YouEmbellish your playing.
BardShows how each chord shape sits in the key, so you can see which notes you've got available for quick & colorful embellishments.
YouRiff over progressions in a loop until you've found the melody that just works.
BardKeeps the last take while looping so that you can explore until you've struck gold.
YouMake the track work for your voice.
BardShows you where the melody sits in your vocal range and transposes the song, adjusting capo and shapes.
YouFinish it, and take it anywhere.
BardKeeps the whole song in shape — sections, chords, lyrics and every take filed together on your phone — and shares it as a chart or as audio, whenever it's ready.