SONGLENS

Hear it.See it.Play it.

Play any song out loud and Songlens turns it into notes on your instrument: chords on the fretboard, notes on the keys, and hits on the drum lanes. Then slow it down, loop the hard bar and play along.

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In development · Coming to iPhone

A song in Songlens: a guitar fretboard with finger dots, strum arrows, speed control, loop buttons and the chord chart — “Porch song”, captured from the mic at 92 BPM.

For the songs nobody tabbed

Stop hunting for tabs.
Play the song, get the chords.

Built for obscure artists, live versions and your friend’s original song. If you can hear it, you can learn it.

Play it out loud

Open Spotify or Apple Music, play from a speaker, or play it yourself. You can also bring an MP3, M4A or WAV you own.

Songlens listens

The microphone hears the song and shows a live chord readout. When you stop, the whole take is transcribed on your phone.

See it, then play it

Finger dots, barre bars and strum arrows, with the tempo slowed down and the tricky bar on a loop.

The Listen screen: a glowing LISTEN button with Spotify, Apple Music and file options — One button. Then it listens.

Your instrument

One song,
whatever you play.

Switch instruments at any time, even partway through a song.

GuitarFretboard dots, barres, strum patterns, capo suggestions

PianoFalling notes with timing, plus chord voicings on the keys

DrumsA three-lane highway with tap-along scoring pads

BassThe detected bassline on a four-string neck

The Guitar Path: lessons on the fretboard, first chords, barre chords and strumming — The Guitar Path.

Practice that sticks

It listens back,
so you actually improve.

Short lesson paths take you from your first two chords to barre chords and strumming. The tempo trainer listens while you play and only speeds up after a clean pass. You can transpose, simplify, fix a chord by hand, and keep a daily streak going.

Plainly stated

Your audio never leaves your phone.

Songlens listens and analyses entirely on your device. There’s no account, no server and no uploads, and it never records to the cloud. Streaming services don’t share their audio with any app, so Songlens simply listens to the song as it plays out loud.

The free version is genuinely useful: three saved songs, microphone listening, lessons and every practice tool, plus the first 90 seconds of any file. An optional Songlens Pro upgrade removes the limits and adds full-length file analysis and MIDI export. Prices and any trial are shown in the app before you buy.

Songlens is in development and isn’t available yet. The download link will appear here at launch. Screens are from a development build and may change.