Ultimate Guitar chords is a bargain. (Secret: I would have paid 3 times as much)
I was in the mood to play some guitar the other day. But the thought of starting up the iBook, opening a browser, searching for a song and then having to choose between competing websites offering lyrics, chords and tabs was a bit off-putting.
“Why hasn’t someone brought out an iPhone app that does this?” I thought – and then went looking. A few minutes later, I was downloading the Ultimate Guitar app on the strength of the screen shots alone.
£1.79?? I would have paid a tenner for this app. For a guitarist, this app is simply the best use of the technology you can get: any song I want to play, whenever the mood strikes me.
Seriously, the value this app adds over and above the laptop/browser based experience is huge. I genuinely think that the developer has been guided here by the norms of app pricing rather than by the actual value this app delivers.
It is a tiny bit buggy (it’s crashed a couple of times) but it’s so fast to load – and has been such fun already – that it’s still worth every one of those 179 pennies.
I just got this app too, excellent fun being able to just instantly look up some tab and save it on your phone. Roll on iPhone OS 4 in June!
Marky!
I’m building up my ‘old farts singalong party’ favourite list as we speak. From Green Day to Elvis 
Nice to hear from ya! It’s a great app, innit?
As a beneficiary of your downloading this app, I felt I had to comment.
Sing-along-a-Deeks in Waterloo has directly increased my Gross Net Happiness quotient!
Ooops – spot deliberate error – cannot be Gross and Net at the same time – how do you measure Happiness? They do it in Bhutan….
It is a great up, and not expensive if you ask me.