Rotate your phone to landscape. The progression builder is one of two screens that reshape themselves when you turn the phone sideways — in landscape you get a wider chord row and a proper editing panel instead of the cramped portrait layout.

The quick fix

Turn your phone on its side. Make sure your phone's Auto-rotate is on (swipe down from the top of your screen and look for it) — if it's locked to portrait, Fretscape can't rotate either.

Once you're in landscape:

• The chord row gets a wider strip with more chords visible at once.
• The editing controls move to the side instead of crowding the bottom of the screen.
• Drag-to-reorder feels less fiddly because there's more room between chords.

When the phone still feels too small

The progression builder needs a lot of screen — you're working with a row of chords, a panel of editing controls, and the voicing detail at the same time. On a small phone, even landscape can feel tight.

If you're doing serious progression work — long progressions, lots of reordering, comparing variations — a tablet or laptop gives you a lot more room. Open fretscape.com in any modern browser on a bigger device, sign in with the same account, and your saved progressions are there.

For a quick session — auditioning a four-chord loop, optimising what you've already got — a phone in landscape is fine.

Other features that prefer landscape

The progression builder isn't the only screen that benefits from rotation. Reverse Chord Lookup also reshapes itself in landscape, which is useful when you're tapping fingerings onto the fretboard and want to see the list of matches at the same time. See Can I use Fretscape in portrait or landscape? for the full picture.