Chordious

If you play the ukulele, guitar or other chord instruments, the cost of chord charts and scale diagrams can add up rather quickly. Thankfully, there are ways you can find chords and scales for various fretted string instruments without paying anything.

Chordious is an open-source application that comes with a large database of chords and scales for a number of instruments, such as the guitar, ukulele, banjo, mandolin and mandola. You can create collections, export diagrams and even customize them.

If you just want to find a chord or scale for your instrument, go ahead and open the search tools. You can select the instrument and customize a wide range of filters in order to find exactly what you need. It is also possible to change the default filter configuration.

Once you have found the right chords or scales, you need to save them to a collection. Any number of these can be created, and you can specify where each item should be saved.

After saving something to a collection, you can access it at any time from your library. The application allows you to export diagrams to several popular formats, namely SVG, PNG, GIF and JPG.

If you aren’t happy with a particular diagram, you can modify pretty much everything about it, such as its dimensions, layout, background, spacings and borders.

A few instruments are available in the database by default, but the one you are interested in might be missing. Worry not, however, because you can add any other instrument to the database and customize its tunings.

To sum up, Chordious is an excellent application for music enthusiasts who want to find and create fretboard diagrams for stringed instruments. It is very easy to use, and it sports a minimalistic, intuitive UI.