You Shouldn't Have to Play Someone Else's Way
Chord diagrams assume your hands are average. Four strong fingers, full range of motion, comfortable reach across four frets. If that's you, great.
But for a lot of guitarists, it's not.
Maybe you've lost a finger or have limited movement in one. Maybe arthritis means wide stretches are off the table. Maybe you have broad fingers and everything feels cramped. Maybe you're eight years old with small hands and short fingers. Maybe you're learning guitar as an adult and wondering why everything seems designed for teenagers. Maybe you're recovering from an injury and need to work around it.
Every other chord tool shows you the same voicings regardless. If you can't play them, that's your problem.
Fretscape thinks that's the tool's problem, not yours.
Real Guitarists, Real Hands
A guitarist missing a finger
Exclude your ring finger in Fretscape. Every voicing, every fingering, every progression - recalculated without it. You're not seeing shapes you can't play and mentally filtering them out. They're just gone. What's left is everything you can play.
A guitarist with arthritis
Set your maximum fret span to 2. Fretscape only shows voicings where your fingers stay close together. Combine it with hiding barre chords and you've got a library of comfortable shapes that won't aggravate your joints.
A 7-year-old just starting out
Set difficulty to beginner, limit the fret span, hide barre chords, stick to open position. They see simple shapes they can actually reach. As their hands grow, open things up gradually.
A parent learning alongside their kid
Set your own difficulty to intermediate. Your kid's to beginner. Search the same chord and you each get voicings suited to your hands. Same chord, same song, different shapes - and you can both play along.
A guitarist recovering from an injury
Temporarily exclude the fingers you can't use. As you heal, add them back one at a time. Fretscape adapts with you - you don't have to start over or guess which shapes are safe to try.
A guitarist with broad fingers
Chords feel cramped. Your fingers bump into each other. Muted strings everywhere. Limit the fret span, stick to voicings with more space between the fretted notes, and suddenly everything opens up. You're not fighting your hands any more.
A guitarist who just doesn't like using their pinky
That's fine too. Exclude it. Plenty of great guitar has been played with three fretting fingers. Fretscape won't judge - it'll just show you what works.
How It Works
There's no special 'accessible mode.' These are the same settings every Fretscape user has - exclude fingers, limit fret span, hide barres, set difficulty, adjust the fret range. Every combination works together.
The way you set up Fretscape might not give you the textbook voicings - but it will give you voicings that work for your hands.
It's Not an Afterthought
We didn't add these options to tick a box. They're fundamental to how Fretscape works. The entire system - every voicing, every fingering, every difficulty rating, every progression - recalculates based on your settings. It's not filtering a fixed list. It's rebuilding the library around you.
That's why a guitarist with three fingers and a 2-fret span limit still gets hundreds of playable voicings. Not workarounds. Not compromises. Real voicings, rated for difficulty, with fingering options that account for exactly what your hand can do.
You don't need a separate 'adaptive guitar' app. You just need a chord tool that was built this way from the start.
See what works for your hands.
Set your preferences. Search any chord. Every voicing you see is one you can play.