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Ultimate Guitar: Chords & Tabs Negative Reviews

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Ultimate Guitar: Chords & Tabs App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2023

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The worst. Money grabbingUsed to be a good app. Paid the 39.99 subscription five years ago. Unlimited access it said. Now they want it monthly. You can take your monthly subscription and shove it. This isn’t what the guitar community is about. You people are greedy. Under qualified. And taking advantage..Version: 6.14.14

SaddnessOoF im just came from safari searching up how to play OoF lasanga by pewdiepie on safari and i come to this app to play it on ukulele an i see an pop up that says that i NEED to get pro to PLAY OoF lasanga i probably shouldve known that because everyone knows that ppl love OoF lasanga so you think about charging ppl to play it for to get pro ;-; extra saddness by making ppl come from safari and downloading your app and coming to check on the song but you need pro to get it and they go and try to get pro BUt they need MOnEY to get it ;-; so ya peace out and sadness.Version: 5.2.1

Rendered useless by pop upsUltimate guitar, the website used to be a premium place to get accurate tabs and featured good adds that didn’t clutter the screen. Now the website pushes you onto the app which may actually be nice but since it constantly bombards you with pop ups to subscribe it’s useless. I can’t even have the opportunity to try the app to see if it’s worth subscribing too. I have no faith in paying for an app that the makers don’t have the confidence in letting you use it without starting a “free trial “ or grab your information. Ultimate guitar is now rendered useless by their aggressive add targeting. I will much easily find tabs elsewhere. It’s like this... sometimes you quickly need to fingertip a lick or song on the fly and ultimate guitar does not allow this due to aggressive pop ups. If they haven’t caught on to how a guitar players workflow is by now and simply cause frustration when you are working on the fly then I have no faith or trust that their app is any good. I will use one of the other free it less aggressive services. It’s shady. I rarely give poor reviews but the makers of this app would have something investing in if they would think like a guitarist and not waste our time. They may also be wasting our money..Version: 5.12.6

Why have you changed shots to auto play?!!!I love this app, I use it all the time. A phenomenal resource for guitar. I also really enjoy the Shots feature and regularly upload my own videos. However, what on earth has possessed you to change the Shots so that they now auto play one after the other?!! At least give us an option to go back to how it was before. I now have to flick through endless songs that I have no interest in to listen to get to listen to guitarists playing songs I like. This change has pretty much made me stop bothering watching other members shots as I simply haven’t got the time to scroll past 50 videos to get to one I might be interested in. It was so much better when you could scroll through and choose a song to watch rather that having to go through endless rubbish Olivia Rodrigo covers to get to something decent..Version: 6.5.18

One LARGE issueNormally I’d rate this app way higher; it’s got good tabs and there’s a really good community on here. The reason I’ve rated it poorly (and the only reason I’m writing this review in the first place) is there’s a large issue. The app allows you to rate tab. It’s one to five stars like you’d expect and this seems useful because then when you search a song you can look at the reviews to see if the tab is worth trying to play. Well it turns out if you rate a tab one or two stars the app asks why and then wants feedback. This is totally fine and I completely understand why. Here’s where the problem lies though. Once you type your feedback that has to be longer than ten words (so you can skip it) the submit button is inaccessible. On a mobile device the submit button is underneath where your keyboard pops up so that you can type the review. And there’s no way to tell it you’re done typing or make the keyboard go away. So pretty much the app won’t let you rate songs lower than three stars which is really frustrating because I rate tabs to try to help other people and if you can’t rate it poorly, there’s no point of a rating system..Version: 6.4.7

Needs to do better in terms of softwareBeen using this app for years, always reliable for accurate tabs but for how much I pay for it, the programming is awful. I tap a button, it doesn’t work. I press play, I get no sound despite high volume and turning off silent mode. Also autoscroll is basically unusable because it’s not timed with the songs (in my experience). Hoping you guys can start to crack down on that before adding new features most people don’t use like Courses or Vocals..Version: 6.14.35

Just the worst!Do you like ADS? How about OUR PRO VERSION BUY IT! Want to keep receiving SPAM EMAILS even though you UNSUBSCRIBED? Well lucky you, it’s all right here in this terrible app! In all seriousness, what happened to UG? Such a sell out, disgustingly anti-consumer platform now..Version: 6.14.27

PaywallThe paywall is too massive, I used to have a year long subscription but tanks to the financial difficulties I’ve had to suspend my subscription. This app becomes completely unusable without one, simple features like auto scroll, transpose are premium. really? They are simple features that aren’t worth to pay the listed prices for. The developers have spend too much effort trying to make this app something it isn’t, a social media app rather then a chord library and by doing so they ruined what could’ve been a go to place to learn new songs, there was soo much potential. This app didn’t have what other cash grab apps of its nature had, longevity. I’ve been playing guitar for a few years now, but I still find useful to just quickly search up the tabs of a song that I wanna play, but now it’s easier to use google :(.Version: 6.14.30

Great app with a few bugs.Great app. Well worth the subscription. Been playing just over a year and learnt enough to tackle songs other people have written. At first I struggled but now getting into it. Seems to cut out my mic on iPad. Worked until one of the last updates. Also improvement wise. Would prefer to be able to save a shot using the native camera app on my phone and then upload. Not possible as far as I can see in iOS, have to record using app. As a result I’ve not uploaded one yet. Other one negative, is the continuous pop ups to try and get me to subscribe to the learning to play guitar section. I’m already subscribed to something else, only want I’m currently paying for. Please stop with the really annoying pop ups. It’s so,Ely for this reason I can’t give it full marks..Version: 6.13.2

Don’t subscribeI downloaded the app thinking it may be free with a basic course and have optional extended services. The entire app is by subscription, you automatically opt in with a free 1 week trial that will auto renew at the end. I’m self taught through YouTube and google so I don’t really want this app or need it. I tried cancelling and it was next to impossible. They make it extremely difficult to find a way to cancel the free trial. I messaged the support but it’s kept giving me the same generic response. Followed the instructions and what’s funny is that they aren’t accurate. It tells you to go to settings, click “subscriptions”, and cancel from there but when you go to do that in settings, there isn’t an option/button to view subscriptions. In the end, I still couldn’t find it, deleted my account and moved on..Version: 6.14.38

AnnoyingI like the tabs and access. However I hate that I have to pay $15 to access it and then for it to open on tab tracker everytime..Version: 3.6.2

Tabs won’t loadI loved this app until recently. I can’t load any of my saved tabs or new ones. They just have a blank screen with the loading sign and never actually load. I’ve never had this problem before and the app is up to date. So not sure what’s going on but if the tabs aren’t loading then I can’t use the app. My internet connection is fine too so it isn’t that..Version: 6.13.9

Used to be incredible!Ultimate guitar used to be my go to for everything, whether it was using it for gig set lists, learning new songs, or finding exercises. But as of late the app has become increasingly more bug filled and isn’t usable for me in gig scenarios any longer, trying to flick through tracks in my set list screws the app up and will pull up a new title of a song with completely different lyrics and chords of another tune underneath. Hopefully developers look into this because I’d love to be able to keep using the app :).Version: 6.14.34

GlitchingLately a lot of glitches where I actually have to delete the app and re-upload it..Version: 6.14.36

DisappointedI really enjoy guitar tabs. It makes it very easy to learn tabs and learn new songs. Guitar Tabs has been a really helpful tool while learning how to play guitar. There is one flaw though, a few months ago, I did a free trial for I believe 30 days. When it was done I deleted my pro account, but weeks later I found it was still saying I had a pro account. I checked my credit card to see if it was still charging me, and yes it was. I went to account settings to delete it, but there was no way to delete the account. I looked up how and it seemed impossible to get off my pro account. Sadly, I decided the only way to get off pro was to delete my account. I was very sad to do this because I thoroughly enjoyed using this app, but there seemed no other way around it. When I went to delete my account I found there was also no way to delete my account. I looked up how, but as before, it seemed impossible. I couldn’t just delete my account, I would still be paying for the account. Today still, I don’t know what to do. I would suggest you don’t get this app because they literally make it impossible to get rid of it..Version: 4.8.3

I’ve loved this app so much but there are a few flawsThis app has been awesome for me, I love the community and the design of it, it’s super inspiring to me to create music and cover songs this way. I will never probably not use this app, but there are some bugs that have been going on for a long time. One of the bugs I notice is for me even after I’ve followed someone, it still has the follow option in my inbox when someone likes a video or even if I just go to their page, but I’m already following. Another bug is sometimes my videos just do not post or there’s an error uploading them, this has happened a lot for me although it has gotten better. The quality of the videos I post always seem to be bad and it’s not just me it’s a lot of people, the camera quality just does not translate well onto this app. Other than that I would love to request some cool things I think UGT could add to make things more interesting! I think a live feature could be added that way people could watch their favorite musicians on here play live and interact with them, this would also give them a chance to gain their following and meet other musicians more easily! I also would love to be able to post longer shots :) that’s all! Thanks for listening!.Version: 6.14.12

No free option on the appI’ve used the site for guitar tabs for years, always on my laptop - when I was away from home and tried to log in on my iPad, the tab was obscured by a message that the app was more convenient and easy to use. I actually tried to click the pop-up closed but it opened the page in the App Store instead (every other click on the site on a mobile device seems to just open the App Store link - fun), so I thought I might as well give it a chance. It turns out there is no free option, but you’re instead unable to progress past the intro screen without signing up for a “free trial” subscription which will days later turn into a paid one without further consent. No thanks. I would understand if all the tabs on the site and app were professional ones and they were investing a load of money into those, but all the tabs I use are user-generated! And the site is full of ads! Stop trying to leech more money off me, you creeps. I’ll give you money when it stops feeling like you’re trying to scam me out of it to access someone else’s unpaid labour..Version: 6.10.7

Just stopI just want to see guitar tabs..Version: 6.14.33

I would like a refundYesterday, I thought I was selecting a free trial for 1 week. Instead, I ended up with a years subscription without the ability to try the service out first - there was no option to ask me to confirm my purchase. I am so displeased that this has happened that I immediately canceled my subscription and even if this is the best tab software, I will not purchase anything more (or make recommendations) from this developer. I need a refund so I can make the choice about whether I wish to proceed with a subscription and have the opportunity to reset my opinion of this developer. The working functionality between the tab, tone and listen functionality (split between 2 apps) is flaky. Most often, when you press a button to move about using the 3 above functionalities, nothing happens. I understand that this may be because there is no data to link to (ie no tone for the song), but the software needs to provide some feedback to the user. No response makes it look like the software doesn’t work and frustrates the user into (eventually) not using the software. It took me about 1hr to get to this point..Version: 6.14.40

Gone to crapThis app used to be super good. I have used it for years, but it has slowly gone to crap. Now we can’t even hear sound. When I’m playing the pro version of a song there’s so many bugs in this app I don’t even know where to begin. Any frustrating since I paid for it, and it just keeps getting worse with their glitches and bugs fix you app. Or I can go somewhere else..Version: 6.14.20

Not what I thought I was paying for.I rarely ever write reviews on apps but this one made the acceptation. I’ve been using ultimate guitar on my laptop for years for free. I saw the app and it cost money but I thought it would be worth it to have it on my iPad, little did I know the charges didn’t stop there. Most of the content is only accessible if you pay for the monthly pro membership. If you don’t have the membership you can’t use the transpose function, every time you open a cord chart up you’ll have an advertisement pop up that you can’t close for at least thirty seconds and I’d say half of the content isn’t available unless you pay for the pro subscription. I’m really disappointed with their app and the fact that I payed for the app in the first place only to find out it’s set up like a free trial app that you have to pay that monthly subscription to have full use of it and to get rid of annoying advertisements. It’s probably all written out in the fine print what is available and I (like 99% of people) didn’t take the time to read the terms & conditions. I wouldn’t recommend this app to a friend, the website is still free but now covered in advertisements in the middle of the songs if you’re not a pro subscriber. Ultimate guitar used to be an amazing place for people to learn songs..Version: 5.5.4

Long time user, disappointedAfter 10+ years of loving this app— I feel cheated by the new updates. While the introduction of “shots” removes a barrier between the user and the ultimate guitar tabs community, it takes away an integral part of my, and probably many other users, musical flow: THE ABILTY TO CONTINUOUSLY RECORD AUDIO USING VOICE MEMOS WHILE USING THE APP TO READ CHORDS. This has been a part of my songwriting and singing practice for as long as I can remember! Please, developers, fix this bug! I want to love this app again :’(.Version: 6.14.14

BadThis app non stop bombards you with ads and begs you to pay for a subscription and limits what songs you can see the chords. this app is a headache.Version: 6.0.0

Terrible user experienceIf you’re going to force me to download the app every 2 seconds when I’m trying to use the browser, don’t then immediately shove a paid subscription plan in my face while giving me literally no features for free. I remember when ultimate guitar was about making music, now it’s just about making money. Pathetic..Version: 6.13.9

Worthless. Please just let me do transposition!I downloaded the app because I wanted to transpose the chords to Your Song and I was too lazy to do it off the top of my head. It forced me to download the app, then answer a load of inane questions to ‘personalise’ the app for me, and then when I was finally able to look at the chord chart on the app, and attempted to transpose it, the app refused to let me, saying that I needed to sign up for the premium version, which costs £40, just to get transpose the chords! It’s ridiculous, not just because it used to be free on the mobile version of the website, but because it still is on the PC version! How have we got to the point when something as simple as transposing the chords to a song can cost you dozens of pounds, when it’s free on other formats? Next time I’ll just transpose it myself. It’ll be better for my practical theory and I’ll have more money for rent which I’ll need considering the price of living these days..Version: 6.9.8

Money Grabber - AvoidOn opening the app it asks me a few questions then tries to get me to subscribe before i’ve even seen a thing. Also asks me what genre of music I prefer but for some reason Jazz is missing. Once into the app trying to find a simple chord section is pretty much impossible. Everything I click on asks me to subscribe even though i’ve not seen anything. I choose a song to see it’s chord tabs guess what. Pay up again. I browse the tabs genres for Jazz which consists of Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra. I don’t think the people who make this app know what Jazz is and understand that some of their potential paying customers might actually be interested in music other than the mainstream or pop music. I just want to learn major 7 minor 7 and dominant chord shapes but I feel like this app is trying to go down my pockets to see what money it can squeeze out of me before I realise it doesn’t give two hoots about what I’m looking for. I will wait for the developers excuse explaining nothing and trying to look like they care in the meantime will try another app. Avoid..Version: 6.2.7

Subscription without notificationOne day, after using this app for sometime, my account was suddenly a “pro” account. I got charged for a subscription but I never consented to it. The tabs are good quality, but not warning someone when they’re going to get charged for something that they didn’t agree to is pretty horrible..Version: 4.8.10

Stop turning UG into Instagram/YouTube!UG used to be a simple and very useful app that was an encyclopaedia of guitar tabs. It has now been turned into a social media metropolis where we are bombarded with invitations to share videos, make stories, do courses, etc, and this is just not how playing an instrument should be. Yes - we are in the modern age, but some personal endeavours should be left unbroadcast to the world. Young guitar players shouldn’t be faced with constant offers of UG Prime, online courses, and video sharing etc. Instead, they should find peace in their own self-motivation to learn the instrument for its own sake. UG can help that cause by simply providing the excellent platform for user-made tabs that it used to provide, and not capitalising off every opportunity to show adverts or sell subscriptions. This would make for a simple, streamlined app that allows people to quickly learn their favourite songs….and that is all we need!.Version: 6.8.3

UnfortunateI used to love ultimate guitar and I’m sure it’s still decent on a desktop. Unfortunately the mobile site pushes you into downloading the app if you want to look at any relatively popular tabs. I’m aware that some content is reserved for premium users, that’s fine. What I object to is the fact that the app can’t load the ads it forces you to look at which means you have to force quit the app 50% of the time. If you try and look at an artist’s page having gone their from one of their songs, it dumps you back to the original search. I would be fine using the app and maybe even purchasing premium if I was able to actually use it. Update It’s as if it’s got worse since writing the review - the algorithm has always been dodgy when it comes to apostrophes etc but now returns no results when I search anything and often displays a blank page. Pretty insulting that this is what years of community sourced knowledge is reduced to.Version: 6.14.37

Really sad it’s gotten hereThe app used to be flawless for my job - an alphabetical library of tabs I collected and could quickly switch between! As a live cover musician, this was crucial. Unfortunately it seems that giving you 65 notifications a day is more important to them than caring for one of the core functions of the app - the tab library is completely broken, and it’s literally started to become embarrassing on stage during gigs. It’s incredibly frustrating the way it glitches out and somehow takes forever to load my downloaded tabs even when I’m offline (???). I end up spending minutes between songs trying to get the library to function, or trying to select a song and getting no response. The alphabetical sorting selection doesn’t even work anymore so I have to either search the song directly or scroll down from the top of A (and that’s especially rough when I’m getting near 300 songs). Listen, the app is really a 5 star app when it’s working well. It’s everything I need, and I can even post covers to supplement my general audience. I’d be happy to remove this review and give 5 stars. But the way it is now brought me to write my first review on the App Store. I couldn’t even bring myself to give 1 star, because the app and even customer service has been great for years. But cmon y’all..Version: 6.14.5

Good until device switchI loved this app until I had to switch devices. I had hundreds of charts some of which had key changes. Non of these showed even when my accounts were linked. Also I had used this feature before it became paid for. I refuse to redownload all my charts and pay to change there keys when they already exist on a different device and I can’t just shift them over. Sad but will have to give the app 1 star because of this huge downside.Version: 6.1.15

Got a reply, still unconvinced. Don’t let them lie to you. READ ALLI’ve been playing guitar for almost 15 years, using ultimate guitar for all of that. But this app has deteriorated horribly in the last year or two. -Endless ads -Ads in the middle of tabs -Pay wall on wanting to see a different way of playing a chord! -pay wall on 80% of the most accurate (user created)content -Gimmicky tiktok style videos so suckers can feel like rockstars... while no one watches -worst of all the app isn’t even free although the exact same content is free on your laptop!!! I can’t blame a company for grabbing some ad cash or monetising content they’ve worked hard for. I can however tell you that a company monopolising a market of other apps and then hiking prices and hiding PUBLICLY created tabs behind paywalls is not cool. UG is a soulless machine destroying the jobs of guitar tutors and content creators. Find an alternative and keep music for the masses not the few! *they responded, still unconvinced. I created a chord transposition for a song by big bill broonzy - got nothing in the way of notifying me how my content would be used, whether it could be monetized, where the money would be going from my content. You’re a set of liars and if you’re going to make a reply, at least make sure you know your stuff..Version: 6.2.6

Used to love this appNow I find this app annoying. It used to be cool now it's too commercial. Better apps like Riffstation are back to the basics..Version: 3.5.0

What’s with the shots?!Basic features of this app don’t work correctly and there are numerous bugs, but instead of fixing those errors the developers have completely pushed aside that portion of the app to focus on the new shots section, making this app more of a social media app and distraction from its main function - finding and using guitar tabs. The home page, which used to show featured tabs and collections now is home to shots, with the featured tabs, collections, top 100 etc buried under another section. The search function could use a revamp - minor misspellings show no results, their system doesn’t allow for apostrophes so using those in song titles also yields no results. The quick scroll feature to navigate through your saved tabs when sorted by artist or song does not work, and frequently when scrolling through my saved tabs there is a bug where the page will jump around on its own. Occasionally clicking a tab won’t give any response until the tab suddenly opens a minute later. It is also difficult to create tabs on the mobile app. Stop putting so much into the shots section and spend a little time actually creating a finished product..Version: 6.14.1

HowHow to cancel?!!!! Ugggh!.Version: 6.14.35

Difficult and annoying app- Basic features such as transposition are locked behind a paywall. - The subscription feature is advertised to me nearly every single time I open the app. - The app takes ages to load and search, even opening it causes it to take nearly 20 seconds for it to load. - Opening songs from a Safari link doesn’t work most of the time. - Clicking on the “Open in Tabs” button on your website just opens the app store..Version: 6.14.34

ABSOLUTE GARBAGEAs an expert player looking for a good song book this seemed awesome. Nothing lines up to where chords should be played. Incorrect chords half of the time. Stupid ads after paying for the app in full. AVOID THIS SHODDY WORK AND JUST HIT UP ANY SEARCH ENGINE ONLINE FREE..Version: 6.14.15

Amazing but.....First off, let me make this clear, it is an AMAZING app for reading chords and/or tabs. Search up any song and it comes up. Once you make an account you can make clips of songs and it's a brilliant app for anyone. If you get the pro version, you can see alternate chords and official tabs and riffs for songs. HOWEVER, this is possibly the laggiest and glitchiest thing I have ever seen. If you record a shot in the actual app, it's 40% chance it actually processes it. Also, why the hell do perfectly normal videos go through modification testing for its content??? Every now and then the app will randomly shut and don't get me started on the battery drainage. 20% in 5 minutes are you serious?!? Overall though it's a great app for musicians.Version: 6.4.5

Not the bestApp just had pop up ads every minute and completely freezes over and over again..Version: 6.14.29

WARNING: Worst buy everI spent $50 on this and I could not even log in. It crashed repeatedly even when I tried to use it not logged in. It simply did not work. Multiple attempts to fix through tech support failed, to the point they just started ignoring my emails. Then they refused to provide a refund. These people are FRAUDSTERS and you should say NO to dealing with them..Version: 6.14.4

Recent update requires internetI have been using this app for some time, and I certainly remember when this app used to work offline when you went to a place with no internet, but it appears to need internet connection to be useful. I don’t know when this happened at all, but I didn’t pay for an app that needs to have internet 24/7..Version: 6.14.11

Good when it works used to be more reliableRecent versions are bloated with extra unnecessary add ons. Usually hangs on start when reopen app and have to force quit often. Load time extremely slow to load Home Screen. When you get through the frustration to the actual old tabs app screen it good like it always was in years gone by!! Feel all new features have made app bloated and buggy and just get in way of tabs!.Version: 6.14.42

Subscription problemsI’m subscribed to a year subscription but every time I open the app it prompts me to subscribe to pro I’ve tried reaching out to them to try and fix my issue but I got no response.Version: 6.14.33

No refunds for App usersThe app gives you 7 days free trial to try out the site. It has a wealth of lessons and courses which are made up of short videos and demonstrations by professional guitarists. There’s even a few singing lessons and ukulele videos. However, I was really more interested in the tabs. I found a different guitar app which I greatly preferred due to the layout and more usher friendly format. It had what I was really looking forward so I ended the trial and deleted my account and the app before the 7 days were up. They took the money anyway. Ok, these things can happen. All I need to do is ask for a refund and politely explain the situation. Here is what I found: “DEVELOPERS ARE UNABLE TO ISSUE A REFUND FOR APPLE iTUNES SUBSCRIPTIONS”. Well that’s just swell. It gets better though; there’s no way to contact them. No customer service or anything. None that I found at least. So I would not recommend this app at all if you’re looking for guitar tabs. There are better apps out there for that. If it’s short videos and lessons you want, ok this is probably what you want. That’s why I gave them 2 stars rather than 1. Ultimate Guitar was ultimately an Ultimate Waste of Money..Version: 6.14.3

AnnoyingConstantly asking for money to read tabs. Can barely get to any as a pop up will throw you out. Useless. Updated with an extra star for response to criticism, but I get ads or requests for some sort of payment every time I (used to) open the app. Tabs have been free on the internet since the ‘90s. To start charging for them now seems a bit wrong to me. Some unobtrusive occasional ads would be fine, but it’s excessive here and done in an annoying way where you open the tab and then get thrown out of it. It’s also not clear which are free and which you’re supposed to pay for so you have to keep trying before you get one that lets you read it. Just wall off the ‘pro’ tabs from people who don’t pay and you’d solve half the problems. It’s the clicking on them only to be told to f— off back out that’s most annoying..Version: 5.8.17

Absolutely disgraceful.Want to pay $3 for slightly better scrolling and still be bombarded by ads? Well here's your lucky chance! Apple should remove this app until the people at Ultimate Guitar start having the decency to treat their customers with some modicum of respect..Version: 3.5.0

Black screenWorked great for a week. Now all I get is a black screen.Version: 6.14.35

Gotta PAY UP if You Want to See Most TabsI have never before left a review for any app but this app inspired me. This app will annoy you to no end to pay for the monthly/ yearly subscription. If you don’t open the app in a week you’re forced to go though multiple pages that entice you to pay for the subscription before you can search. And 99% of the time the first few tab options require paying the subscription and the free tabs available are sometimes incorrect. It is without a doubt the worst app on my phone, which is a shame because their site was almost essential to learning guitar for me. Young guitar learners will be dissuaded from Guitar Tabs after using this app. I would much rather pay a one-time, upfront cost of $5 and still see 30 seconds ads in-app than pay the yearly subscription with no ads. The subscription choices are $6/month or $15/year, which is so obviously a scam because they’ll make you think “I’d be paying $72/year for monthly so I’ll save so much money buying the yearly subscription” but even $15/year is still not worth it. I’ve played guitar for 16 years and still play just about every day but I don’t use this app nearly enough to justify the cost. Their greediness will be their downfall..Version: 6.2.8

Completely bugged right now for some reasonBlack screen even after reinstall and restart.Version: 6.14.18

Good until glitchesThe first few times I used it it was amazing I had so much fun, but now whenever I want to go in a tab to play a song after 3-4 seconds it just glitches out so I can access any tabs anymore. Please fix because I still want to be able to use this awesome app.Version: 4.9.8

Subscription fees to use simple features have taken over the app‘. This is a review I wrote recently... ’Terrible, this use to be a great app/website that was mostly free. Now they’re trying to charge you to look at chord variations? When we can LITERALLY Google them. The greed. The ability to transpose songs use to be free, I didn’t mind so much when they started including that feature in their subscription but it’s getting beyond ridiculous. This is a mostly pay to use app now. Disappointed’’ - I’m writing another one because of the reply I received. The person who replied to me review went on to explain to me what IS free in the app. So In reply to them, YES I know what features are free.. i’m not an invalid. I’m explaining the features that AREN’T free and SHOULD be because it’s free information that we can all easily Google. Literally ignored every point I made and went on to say ‘’well we do this for free and we do that for free’’.. completely besides the point *facepalm* - GREEDY app - save your money people and just Google the information you need, decent websites out there for free that don’t charge you to look at chord variations or transpose a song 🤮🤮.Version: 6.5.11

Need much improvement.Many of the tabs I have used have been fairly decent. But many of them absolutely terrible. When you use the interactive tab, most of the music that goes along with the tabs aren’t matched with the tabs themselves. So the tabs being played on the interactive fretboard, aren’t going along with the music making it very difficult to play along or learn. There’s is also the brain and chromatic tuner problem. When using the brain tuner, I need to reset the app each time because it won’t make any sound for me to hear. With the chromatic tuner, I can play an E and it’s trying to tune a G. The tuner cannot pick up the string I’m trying to tune. Which isn’t a huge deal, it is a tuner on a phone. Lastly, I spent about $15 on this app with upgrades and I have nothing. Not sure what my money went towards, but the app keeps asking me to pay to get new features that I was under the impression I already had. When purchasing, it said I had all features, so still very confused. But what I have learned from this app has been good, lots of great tabs to choose from, just wish it functioned better, and wish I got my money’s worth..Version: 3.7.1

You’re better off googling tabs…Every time I open this app they ask me to pay for something that use to be free. You may as well just google it. It’s less frustrating..Version: 6.14.35

Refund incompleteI requested a refund and it was incomplete. I made a mistake by not cancelling the renewal and I explained them the situation and they still charged me. They gave me the difference of an annual subscription minus one-month subscription. I paid $74.99 and they gave me a refund of $50.00. I don’t understand how they did the math. In the instructions says to cancel the renewal from the account/subscription and when I went there I couldn’t find that option. It seems that they don’t care about their customers. They charged me for a service I don’t want and mistakenly didn’t cancel on time. I wonder if this type of business practices can be reported to the authorities..Version: 6.14.9

A few tweaks from perfectionA fantastic library of songs and accurate tabs but there’s a few options I wish the app had. I use UG through a connection to my TV and it would make things so much easier if the whole app could be locked in landscape mode as its impossible to navigate remotely In portrait. For the same reason I’d appreciate an option to be able to view multiple lines of music in landscape rather than one scrolling horizontal line. Tonebridge is amazing but still quite erratic and unreliable when changing sounds inside UG so wish this could be improved. If all these could be addressed I would immediately snap up a lifetime subscription. Still a 100% worthwhile service for any amateur guitarist..Version: 6.11.2

It kinda sucks now 🤷🏻‍♀️I’ve been using ultimate guitar’s website since I started learning guitar years ago. It used to be so helpful and chucked full of stuff that you could use even without the pro features. Now that I come back after a few months of not playing, I find out you need to use an app for most of the songs…annoying but whatever. But after downloading I find that the app somehow has less songs than the browser and tries to grab your money every 5 seconds—bull crap. I honestly hate this app and how downhill UG has gone. It’s almost too commercialized and going generic, not the way everyone knew and loved it to be once. Hope they restore it!.Version: 6.14.32

It’s alright but could be betterI got this app because I usually use the web browser, it’s ok but there are definitely some things I’m disappointed about The web browser allows so many functions that you would have to pay for in app, which is really annoying. I also had an experience where I did pay for pro and it never gave me it, and when I reached out to get a refund it just wouldn’t happen. In UG’s defence it wasn’t really their fault but it’s still annoying Anyway all that aside UG is really good, they have many amazing and well made tabs, a lot made by the community and it is easy to follow and learn from it. It is by far my most favourite app to get my music from, though I would recommend using the web browser instead of the app.Version: 6.12.1

So so greedy. Unusable app.This used to be one of the best apps, best sites, to get tabs. You are held captive by literally an interstitial ad in between every tab you look at unless you pay a recurring subscription fee. The fee isn’t terrible, but the flip side is too grave to even consider in my opinion. So say, you are just looking through a few tabs to find a decent one that isn’t “pro” (lol). Pick one, not good, back out, select another, interstitial ad, not good, back out, pick another, interstitial ad. This is what I have experienced at least. If I could give you people -5 stars I would. How holier than thou must you believe your content to be to think it is worth that kind of annoyance and total disrespect for the time and well-being of your potential customers? Tab sites with basically identical content are a dime a dozen. I would recommend anyone considering even downloading this app skip it. Don’t put a single penny in their pockets. It never ceases to amaze me how so many people today are so used to being abused by advertisements of this magnitude that they can seriously even consider supporting this kind of garbage. These kinds of scams will never die unless we say no without our wallets and time. Bankrupt them financially. It’s only fair, as they are already morally bankrupt..Version: 6.14.17

Fix your app!We keep on having to delete and reload the app! Because usually a black screen comes on and we can’t access anything once that happens! Please fix this problem!!.Version: 6.14.35

Was once a great app, not anymoreI’ve been using this app for years, and loved it. I paid for the app when it was a flat fee, and once they started adding more features I paid for those too. I used to use it all the time to learn new tabs. It used to be a 5 star app, that I recommended to anyone who plays the guitar or ukulele. With this new update, it’s useless. Constantly crashes, seems to have a mind of its own opening and closing tabs, speeding up and down when auto scrolling (going from .5 speed to 1.5 for example, on its own half way through a song) This is extremely frustrating when you’re trying to learn a new song, especially when you’ve paid for the service. I’ve sent two emails to the developers via the app, and never heard back, which is why I’m finally posting a review, since it appears they don’t care. I have the iPhone X, so it shouldn’t be an issue of compatibility. The update seemed great at first until I discovered all the problems. It seems like they were too focused on getting the update live, and ignored the fact it obviously wasn’t ready. I kept hoping they would fix it, but I tried using it again just a couple minutes ago before writing a review and it’s still has all these issues..Version: 4.0.4

Cash GrabI do not recommend investing your time and energy with this app, or company. I’ve used it for 10+ years, and I’m frustrated enough to finally leave a review. My reasons are: 1) It doesn’t matter if you’ve already purchased a pro subscription, you will constantly be bombarded with internal ads for their other services. (This is my biggest gripe… I paid to stop having ads, STOP FORCING ADS DOWN MY Fn THROAT!!) 2) The app is slow. You might open up a tab, start playing the tab in front of people, and then have a full page ad, for some UG service that blocks your view. All because the ad couldn’t load fast enough. I will never use this app during live performances again. 2.5) You can click on a tab… it doesn’t load, you click again, doesn’t load, you wait 10 seconds, nothing, click again, nothing, click again…. It opens the tab 5 times back to back. (Occurs on newer devices too).Version: 6.13.12

Used to be great. Now completely useless.I play music for a living. Being able to quickly pull up chord charts and lyrics is imperative to my job. Since the addition of user videos, this app has gotten progressively slower until now it’s so buggy I can’t use it anymore. I used to be able to scroll through the index to locate the next song I wanted. No longer works. Every time I attempt to pull up a tab from my song list, I have to click it several times to get it to load. Whenever I do finally manage to pull up a song, the autoscroll feature works half of the time and changes speeds randomly so that you have to edit the speed of every single tab. If I manage to get all of that working, to actually close out the tab I have to click the back button no less than five time before I get a response from the app. This is adding anywhere from 10 to 60 seconds extra of dead air time in between EVERY SINGLE SONG I PLAY. You used to be great UG. This is completely unacceptable for what is essentially an app that loads short text files from an offline database. I even bought a new iPad thinking that might be the problem. It was not..Version: 6.14.1

Money grubbing appWe get it. You need revenue. But the user experience on this app is terrible. This website has been the go-to for over a decade, but the more popular it gets the worse the experience has gotten. They are not a poor start up trying to make some $$, so their desperate ploys to get you to upgrade to pro are hard to swallow. The majority of the content here is user uploaded anyway, so you're essentially paying for a scrolling feature that wasn't been updated in years and a metronome & access to chord variations (which they tell you are accessible when you download the app, and then when you download they let you know it'll only be with pro). If you're invested in Tabs, pro is worth it because that feature is virtually unusable in the free version. Pop up ads at every turn, and cheesy early 2000's style too. Painful. Also opening links into the app almost never works for me, and is frustrating to say the least. If you search in the app, every time you open a link you have to watch an ad, so you google to avoid this or someone sends you a link and you want to open it? 8/10 you're going to have to search for it via the app.....Version: 6.4.9

STUPID APPActually the worst. ads literally every time you click something. i can’t even do autoscroll on the app without having a membership ?????? dude!!!! MONEY HUNGRY CREATORS.Version: 6.5.1

GlitchyThe app is constantly freezing. I wish they would just fix their website so that I can use it on my phone instead of the app..Version: 6.14.17

Doesn’t work anymoreDid the update. Now get black screen of death. Total drag..Version: 6.14.16

Every other update breaks the appI’ve been using this service for probably close to 15 years, and I’ve been a lifetime pro member for about 10 years now. This used to be my go-to app for guitar music because it was all stored in one easy place with lots of helpful features. I first started to dislike your service when you added a subscription tier above the original pro tier and didn’t provide any options for a lifetime upgrade; but I figured “whatever I’ve still got pro and the app works great” but now the app doesn’t even work right. The update before the last update caused a black screen when I opened the app, and then the last update fixed it. This current update has caused the exact same issue again and it’s very frustrating to not be able to use my tablet for tabs. Please work harder to verify that your updates won’t break the app; do you not have employees with devices they can test your app on? Every other update shouldn’t cause the app to break, and that it does shows either a lack of resources for development or a lack of care for your customers. I’ll update my review if the app stops breaking, but for now you deserve one star..Version: 6.11.13

Shady AppThey make essential functions premium so that you have to pay (ie, auto scroll isn't available unless you pay & ads will pop up in the middle of you looking at chords unless you pay). The thing that bothers me most, however, is the pop up that prompts you to sign up for premium & in order to get out of the pop up you have to scroll through multiple screens. It gives the impression that you HAVE to pay for the app in order to use it. I know so many seniors who use this app who would not know to scroll past and would think they HAVE to give their credit card info. This was clearly designed on purpose and is so disgusting..Version: 6.14.13

Lying to make a few bucks off of meI have been a devout user of Ultimate Guitar since probably 2008. I have always appreciated them as they always have always been a dependable source for me. Even when they finally created a smartphone app. I was all on board to pay for it. Recently, I decided to try out the pro side of things. I liked the features, but I have to admit, I hit a pretty rough spot financially, so I needed to cut back on a lot of small things. Like a monthly $7.99 charge. Well, after I couldn’t figure out how to cancel (users fault, I admit) I contacted UG and asked them to help cancel my subscription. They swore up and down that it was apples subscription and I needed to take it up with them. So I tried to figure it out to no avail. A month went by and I admittedly forgot because a lot went on. Another charge. So I contacted UG. Same response swearing up and down it isn’t them. So I contact apple and they point out that it is UG making the charges. I finally figure out how and where to manage my subscription and cancel it. I know I am at fault for being an idiot and not knowing how to cancel it myself. But why in the world would you guys not just help me out?? Screw you and I hope that extra cash you got from me makes all the difference in your lives..Version: 4.8.3

Great resource but riddled with bugs and always crashes!I have used UG for years, from the desktop version in their early years and the iOS app. It’s a great resource for many musicians at all levels, however, for a while this app constantly freezes, crashes or you’re just greeted with a black screen. The app is riddled with bugs and every time and app update is realeased you hope it will fix these bugs but alas, they don’t! Major downfall and something that needs to be rectified especially when people for paying for subscriptions. I would recommend this app to anyone but would also advise to check back here to see if these bugs have been fixed before downloading. The resources are very good….when you can access them! One star would be harsh but it’s only three stars from me simply because of the frustration of these issues. Fix it please..Version: 6.14.1

Money hungryIt’s impossible to navigate this app for more than 10 seconds without being asked to buy premium. Shameful..Version: 6.14.15

I hate yearly subscriptionsHi, I really like your app but I refuse to pay a yearly fee. I downloaded this app under the false presumption that I could buy it outright. Please change the add on details of in app purchases, to that you are more or less have to subscribe to a yearly fee. To use this app. I think trying to trick people into paying a yearly fee from your 7 day trial. That is very wrong. Shame on you! It’s a shame that your company isn’t happy with helping musicians with a one off affordable price. I would pay $20-$30 usd one off price. Cheers Brent Edited: could you please let me know if you change back to a one off fee. Or if you can arrange this for me? Surely you can offer the same app and advertise it having a one off fee. You will find by doing this you will sell more. I’m sure many are like me. Cheers again, Brent.Version: 5.8.0

Ads ruin itI have been a user of this app for a year or two now and it is perfect, the interface, the display, the ease of acces. But recently they have been putting new mini clip adverts which totally ruin the experience. You will be half way through trying to play along to a song, then it pauses every 30 seconds because these awful ads try to play in mini boxes. It totally ruins the app for me. If I’m at a party it just pauses the music I’m trying to play along to which totally kills it, if I’m on my own trying to learn a solo with tabs to prompt its near impossible, or if I’m just simply trying to play by myself the constant pausing put me in a rubbish mood. 10/10 for functionality but 2/10 for user experience. If they remedy this it would be a perfect platform but it’s next to unusable at the moment..Version: 6.5.11

SoundsI have no sounds from the app. all other apps have sound but some reason this one i can't hear the music..Version: 6.14.18

Good for tabs, getting a bit spammy with up sell offersThe information this app provides is very good. However as someone paying an in-app sub it’s pretty annoying to have to close that new course offer modal or whatever every time I open the app. I’m already paying you, if you wish this to continue, please stop over-spamming me with the upsell. Show it once, twice, or thrice, but every time is making me consider why I’m paying for this service. Current version has a few performance bugs on iPad, would be good to see more emphasis on fixing issues like this and just a smidgen less of trying to get me to purchase the new course which I clearly have no interest in and has at this point annoyed me & motivated me enough to leave a bad review.Version: 6.13.9

Used to be good. Made unusable recentlyLoved the app when I first got it and gave it 5 stars even been subscribed for years. Recently found the app doesn’t load have a new iPhone 14 so processing speed isn’t the problem. Game continually loads infinitely with no progress have to constantly delete and redownload just to look up 2 songs max before I have to restart the increasingly ridiculous process. Fix the game it has way too many bugs now. Was a way better app back when it was just made for looking up tabs.Version: 6.14.14


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