Fretboard For Linux

If you've just started playing guitar, then you're going to need all the help you can get.

Of course, there are some very online courses that can help you in various ways, but if the most annoying question you're asking yourself over and over is "What chord am I playing right now?," then clearly you need a good guitar chord finder tool.

Fretboard is one such application, a guitar chord finder that allows you to find guitar chords by either typing their name or by plotting them on an interactive guitar neck (which takes up most of the apps GUI).

In short, it's an app that allows you to look up guitar chords by name or by shape.

Fretboard is nothing more than a no-frills guitar chord finder tool for Linux. According to its developer, the feature set is intentionally restricted, mostly to make the app as appealing for beginners as possible.

Speaking of simple apps, the only "feature" you will find in the app's menu is the option to clear the interactive guitar display/neck.

The app can be effortlessly installed directly from Flathub, but there's also a universal binary on the app's GitHub releases page. As expected, you can also build the app from source.

Another neat aspect of Fretboard is that it's a GTK app that follows the GNOME Code of Conduct, which means it looks and feels modern, despite its general simplicity.

Freatboard is by no means the one-stop-shop for all guitar learning problems, but it does work rather well when it comes to helping beginners find guitar chords. It's also free, open-source, and very easy to use.