If you’re a guitar player like me and like to have your guitar with you at all times you will probably like PocketGuitar. Obviously no virtual guitar can take the place of the real thing, but PocketGuitar makes a fun go at it and does a great job. There are several guitars available in the app store and we have tried them all, but PocketGuitar is one of the most satisfying.

With six built-in instruments including: Acoustic-Electric Guitar, Electric Guitar, Classical Guitar, Muted Guitar, Electric Bass, and Ukulele) you have a wide variety of tones to play with. You can also apply chorus, delay and distortion effects to each of the guitars and can chain up to 2 effects at a time. Shaking the iPhone while you are playing creates a wammy bar vibrato effect. And Jimi Hendrix couldn’ve traded in his reversed right-handed Strat because you can switch the app into left handed mode.

Playing notes is a breeze on PocketGuitar and pulling off simple riffs is easy enough. Playing blues riffs sound pretty cool now since string bending option was introduced in the last update. Basic chords shapes are easy to play as well, but I find it very difficult to finger bar chords.

Some other features include:

- Hammer-on notes
- Alternative tuning
- Accelerometer effect
- Change playable fretboard position with scroll button
- Access to support website from within app

$0.99?!… are you kidding me?

::App Store Page:: $0.99
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