Fretscape is built for guitarists at any level — beginners through advanced players, plus teachers. The same tool serves all four, just with different filters and features turned on. If you're new here, What is Fretscape? is the shorter answer; the rest of this article unpacks who gets what out of it.

If you're a beginner

You'll spend most of your time finding shapes that fit your hands. Set a difficulty level, hide barre chords, cap the number of fingers, and Fretscape only shows you voicings you can actually play. When a chord change still feels awkward, the Progression Builder will often point at a different fingering that shares a finger with the next chord — which is usually the real fix, not more practice.

If you're an intermediate player

You probably already know two or three ways to play most chords. Fretscape's job at this point is to widen that vocabulary and smooth out the changes you already know. Enter a song's progression, run it through the optimiser, and you'll see voicings ranked by how well they flow with what comes before and after.

The difficulty rating on every fingering tells you why a shape is easier — anchor fingers, fret span, barre or no barre — so you can build intuition instead of just memorising shapes.

If you're an advanced player

You get the full control surface. Inversions, slash chords, alternate tunings, the reverse chord lookup, and 20+ filters covering which strings to use, which fingers to allow, bass note, contiguous vs non-contiguous shapes, and more. Linked variations let you compare different paths through the same progression.

Fretscape isn't trying to teach you theory you already know. It's an analytical second opinion — it's checked every voicing combination, so you don't have to.

If you teach guitar

Fretscape is a useful visual aid for the question "why is this fingering easier?" Pull up two options side by side, point at the anchor fingers, show the transition score, and the answer stops being "trust me" and starts being something the student can see.

What it's not

Fretscape is a chord and progression tool. It isn't a tab editor, a method course, or a backing-track player. If you want chord shapes and the smoothest way to move between them, that's the whole product. Try it free, or see what features are included with Free vs Pro.