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Apps for macOS and iOS, built in Portland, OR.

Save. Learn. Play. Practice Book lets musicians like you build an awesome collection of your favorite tabs and chords. For guitar, ukulele, bass, or anything you play!

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Great for Playing

Your music is the focus. Features like chord highlighting, autoscroll, and fullscreen make practicing easy. And you don't need to register an account or have internet access, your library is always available.

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Easy Import

Find songs online. Import from other apps. Add tabs with iTunes File Sharing, or write your own. Practice Book includes a built-in web browser that makes finding new songs easy. The current version supports plain text tabs, with more file formats coming soon.

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Reliable iCloud Sync

Mac, iPhone, iPad. Your library is always synced with all your devices, no matter where you are. Add songs at home from your Mac and review them later at a lesson on your iPhone, or play them on your iPad in your studio. Any changes you make are always kept in sync.

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It's for Your Songs

Your songs are important. Practice Book is like a well-worn song notebook or three ring binder, available on all your devices. It's a dependable place to collect the songs you love. And your library is automatically backed up, so you never need to worry.

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More Features

  • Apps for iPhone, iPad and Mac
  • No Internet connection required
  • Chord highlighting
  • Adjustable autoscroll
  • Fullscreen mode
  • Great typography
  • Light and Dark mode themes
  • Know when you played a song last
  • Search, sort and group songs
  • Easily find and add songs online
  • Favorite the songs you play most
  • Reliable iCloud sync
  • Automatic weekly backups
  • Import existing tabs with iTunes File Sharing *
  • Import from Dropbox and other apps *
  • 3D Touch and Haptic Feedback *
  • Landscape and portrait orientations *
  • Library export **
  • Frequent updates and new features

* Available on iOS
** Available on macOS

“Practice Book solves a basic problem for all sorts of guitarists: quickly accessing your favorite tabs.” —The Guitar Journal
“Thanks for the app. It’s really useful and is helping me to organize a song book for myself.” —R. George
“Great app for organizing my chord charts and music. Thanks!” —M.

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