Guitar Gravitas: Total ed.

This app is ridiculously good. I use it every day during my practice sessions. I highly recommend it. I docked a star though. I bought the premium version, it’s dirt cheap, after using the free version for a while. The app crashes upon opening a lot. I couldn’t use it at all yesterday. Today, it’s up. It’s been behaving like this for me for a few weeks now. I’m hoping the dev sees this and can cure the crash debacle.

The chord and scale encyclopedias appear to be robust, however the UI could benefit from some flexibility. When viewing scales, I'd like the option of resizing the skeumorphic fretboard into some of the space above where I don't need so many lines of scales in written form. A sliding window seems doable. Also, I'd like to be able to open multiple scale diagrams--say, Aeolian and Pentatonic, simultaneously. Other items would be more useful were they not buried in the settings--which guitar tuning to use, for example.

There are two versions of this app on the Mac app store, one is free (and wasn't able to load content, including the store) and this $7.99 Total ed edition. Anyway, $7.99 is a bargain. This is the most comprehensive guitar reference I've ever seen on the Mac - and I've been doing computers and music for a long time! My only wish is that it displayed keys in the circle of fifths or fourths along the top, and more clearly displayed which key is selected. Overall though, it's really great.