NeckPilot Fretboard Studio

Learn guitar fretboard notes, scales, chords, pentatonic positions, and the CAGED system. Then practise the same view in time.

NeckPilot is a fretboard learning, practice, and jam companion for beginner and intermediate guitarists. Choose material from the built-in catalog and map it to your current instrument and tuning.

LEARN THE GUITAR FRETBOARD

See notes across the full neck or focus on one position. The Trainer has nine games for finding notes, building intervals and scales, and completing familiar shapes. Answer on screen, reveal the result, or play the note on your own instrument in microphone-assisted Play Mode.

CONNECT PENTATONIC, CAGED, AND 3NPS POSITIONS

Explore Common/CAGED, three-notes-per-string, and pentatonic positions in any available key. Move through five connected positions, compare them with the full scale, and see which chord tones already sit under your fingers.

FIND THE CHORDS IN A KEY

Open a major or minor key to see its harmonized chords. Theory explains intervals, scale degrees, chord construction, and related chords. Applied Guides add practice advice, reviewed fingering where available, tablature, staff notation, and accessible event views.

BUILD A FRETBOARD VIEW AND PRACTISE IT

Explorer Layers combines scales, chords, arpeggios, and patterns on one neck. Save the workspace and load its musical Layers into the Metronome or Drum Machine. Each Layer becomes a timed step, so the fretboard changes with the beat while you play. Pro Tempo Trainer can raise the tempo from your chosen Start BPM to Target BPM.

USE KEY FINDER WHILE YOU JAM

Key Finder listens to a chord passage and estimates three likely major or minor candidates. Open one in Explorer, find a familiar pentatonic or scale position, and inspect the available chords. Results are labelled Strong, Possible, or Uncertain because more than one key can fit the same music.

FREE INCLUDES

• Full-neck notes, scales, modes, triads, and baseline arpeggios
• Common/CAGED, 3NPS, pentatonic positions, and custom scale patterns
• Search, reverse lookup, harmonization, built-in progressions, and Favorites
• Nine Trainer games, Reveal Mode, and microphone-assisted Play Mode
• Tuner, Key Finder, Metronome, and Drum Machine
• Practice Notebook and Signal themes

ONE OPTIONAL PRO UNLOCK ADDS

• The expanded scale, 37-chord-quality, and 20-arpeggio catalog
• Custom scale and chord formulas
• Explorer Layers, note comparison, Mask, and timed Layer Practice
• Applied Scale, Chord, and Arpeggio Guides
• Interactive Learn views and Triads by string set
• Custom progressions, Progression Map, Tempo Trainer, and visual practice
• 72 searchable tunings across guitar, bass, ukulele, banjo, and extended-string instruments
• Custom 4-to-8-string guitar tunings that remap the neck and generate five scale or arpeggio positions
• Adjustable A4 concert pitch from 415.0 to 466.2 Hz, with 432, 440, and 442 Hz presets

NeckPilot Pro is one purchase with no subscription. The app has no NeckPilot account, advertising, app analytics, or tracking. The main learning and practice tools work offline. Previously verified Pro access and a complete built-in instrument catalog remain available without a connection.

Microphone audio is analysed live on your device. NeckPilot does not record, save, or upload it. The app contacts the App Store when it loads, purchases, restores, or verifies Pro. On supported systems, it may also check Apple's service for a reviewed declarative instrument-catalog update.

Metronome and Drum Machine playback can continue with the screen locked. Pro can be restored on supported devices using the same Apple Account. Practice data, Favorites, custom content, and settings stay local and do not sync between devices. Family Sharing is not included.