Best Guitar Learning Apps: Which One Fits How You Learn
Quick answer
If you want an app that listens to you play and scores you, choose Yousician (7-day trial). If you want video lessons on your phone, Guitar Tricks, Fender Play, TrueFire, JamPlay and Pickup Music all have apps. If you are not ready to pay, start with JustinGuitar's free course and add its paid Lessons & Songs play-along app later. Our main tip: subscribe on the website rather than in the app store where you can, because store purchases follow Apple's or Google's refund rules.
| Top picks | Monthly | Trial | Refund | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yousician | to verify — Yousician states prices vary by country/currency and are displayed before purchase | 7-day free Premium+ trial | Full refund within 14 days | Official site ↗ |
| Guitar Tricks | $29.95/month | 14-day free trial | 60-day money-back guarantee | Official site ↗ |
| Fender Play | $19.99/month | 7-day free trial on monthly plan; 14-day free trial on annual plan | No refunds for partial subscription periods — monthly and annual terms state refunds cannot be claimed for a partial period; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing cycle | Official site ↗ |
Prices and terms as published by each platform (sources below); buttons go to each official site, not an affiliate link.
How to choose a guitar app in 4 steps
- Pick the teaching style. Microphone feedback with game-like scoring (Yousician, GuitarTuna Unlimited), video lessons (the lesson platforms), or a play-along companion to a free course (JustinGuitar).
- Check the price before the trial. Yousician and GuitarTuna show prices by country at signup. The lesson platforms publish USD prices, listed on our free-trials page.
- Decide where to subscribe. Guitar Tricks says it cannot refund iPhone app purchases, because Apple handles that billing. It can refund Android purchases within 60 days. Buying on the website keeps you inside each platform's own refund terms.
- Put a cancel reminder in your calendar on day one. Every trial here converts to a paid plan. Our cancel guides cover Yousician, Fender Play and Guitar Tricks.
The apps, by what they do best
Yousician: feedback while you play
Listens through the microphone and gives game-style feedback. It covers guitar, bass, ukulele, piano and singing, with 10,000+ lessons and songs. The 7-day Premium+ trial needs a payment method, and the price is shown at signup.
Fender Play: short beginner videos
Has iPhone and Android apps, according to its cancel help page. $19.99/mo or $149.99/yr (last confirmed Oct 17). Trial is 7 days monthly or 14 days annual. No partial-period refunds.
Guitar Tricks: big library, long guarantee
Has iOS and Android apps. 11,000+ lessons, $29.95/mo, 14-day trial and a 60-day money-back guarantee when you subscribe on the web.
JustinGuitar Lessons & Songs: play-along companion
JustinGuitar calls it a karaoke-style play-along app that goes with its free Beginner Course, with hundreds of songs, a tuner, a chord change tracker and a strum assistant. The price varies by location.
GuitarTuna: tuner first, lessons on top
The standard tuner is free. Paid tiers (Tools, Play, Unlimited) add 100+ tunings, 20,000+ songs with chords and tabs, and in Unlimited, courses. There is a 7-day free trial. GuitarTuna showed us prices only in euros, so no USD price is verified.
TrueFire & JamPlay: depth for later
Both have Apple and Google apps for their libraries. They are better suited to players past the basics. See best lessons for intermediate players.
What these apps can't do
None of them physically corrects your hand position the way a teacher in the room can. If you have pain or a habit you can't fix on your own, read online lessons vs an in-person teacher. To tune before each session, see the best tuner app.
FAQ
Is there a completely free guitar learning app?
Fender Tune and GuitarTuna's basic tuner are free, but they are tuners. For free lessons, JustinGuitar's Beginner Course is free on its website, and its app is paid.
Should I subscribe in the app or on the website?
Where you can, use the website. App-store purchases follow Apple's or Google's refund process, and Guitar Tricks, for example, says it cannot refund iOS purchases.
Sources checked
- Yousician (checked 2026-10-17): yousician.com/guitar - yousician.com/family - support.yousician.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005189525-Premium
- Guitar Tricks (checked 2026-10-20): www.guitartricks.com/pricing - support.guitartricks.com/hc/en-us/articles/216287417-How-muc - support.guitartricks.com/hc/en-us/articles/10303323626647-Ho
- Fender Play (checked 2026-10-17): www.fender.com/products/fender-play-subscription - play-support.fender.com/hc/en-us/articles/44538271886235-Fre - www.fender.com/play/pages/annual-plan-special-offer
- TrueFire (checked 2026-10-20): truefire.com/pricing - truefire.com/all-access - truefire.com/learn/all-access-free-trial
- JamPlay (checked 2026-10-20): jamplay.com/pricing - jamplay.com/guitar-and-bass-membership - jamplay.com/guitar-lessons
- Pickup Music (checked 2026-10-20): pickupmusic.com/pricing - pickupmusic.com/ - www.pickupmusic.com/gift
Fender Play pricing was last confirmed Oct 17, 2026 (its pricing page could not be re-read on Oct 20). Prices are US-dollar list prices. Some platforms (Yousician, for example) price by country, so you may see a different price outside the US. JamPlay is now sold as JamPlay + TrueFire All Access. Confirm current terms at checkout. Common questions about trials, refunds and billing are answered in our online guitar lesson FAQ.
How this page was made
An editorial comparison built from each platform's own published prices, trials and refund terms - 6 sources checked (listed above), last verified Oct 2026. Not based on hands-on testing. How we rate.
Update log: Oct 2026 - prices, trials and refund terms re-checked against official pages (date per source above). Fender Play pricing was last confirmed Oct 17, 2026.