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Ultimate Guitar Tabs - Your Path to Becoming A Successfull Cover Artist
Tested version: 1.3.1
Latest version: 1.9.0
Requires Android: from 2.0
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Summary
With tabs and chords for over 300,000 songs, ultimate-guitar.com is a favorite among musicians, especially guitar players. Now there’s a mobile version for your Android smartphone. This app gives you all the tools needed to join the thousands (millions?) of other cover artists on YouTube.
Find out what Ultimate Guitar Tabs can do in our test.
Features & Use
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Ultimate Guitar Tabs starts up directly with the app’s key feature: searching for tabs and chords. The search function works just as smoothly as the app’s “big brother” including search predictions. Search results can be listed alphabetically or by popularity. You can also limit your search to specific bands. Finally, you have the option of viewing the 100 most popular tabs or pick a random tab.
In the Tab Pcks section, all the UG tabs are divided into different categories e.g. rock, metal, pop or easy – this is a great way to find new tabs that fit your musical tastes and skills.
In addition to tabs and other main features, UG Tabs also offer a bit more:
- By saving your tabs as favorites you won’t need an internet connection because all your favorite songs can be stored directly on your SD card. Definitely a plus for those of us without unlimited data plans. If you have an Ultimate Guitar Community community, you can even synchronize your favorites online
- Like on the internet page, you can transpose your chords up or down in terms of pitch to match your guitar’s tuning. Very useful for people that know the basics about guitar tuning and pitch.
- Another very useful feature is integrated song playback. If you have a version of the song saved on your smartphone (with the appropriate ID-tags), you can play it directly from the app. Unfortunately, you can’t listen to a particular section of the second because pause and play are the only buttons available.
- Tabs and lyrics can also be sent from the app via email, but they are virtually impossible to read once you receive them. The problem is that the tabs and lyrics are inserted directly into the body of the email. When you open up the email, your email app or provider automatically edits the text so that everything is completely jumbled. To solve this issue, the developers should allow you to send lyrics and tabs as .txt attachments instead.
Bottom Line:
UG Tabs is an extremely useful app for dedicated guitar players or rock star wannabies. Despite some minor improvements that could be made to the app, UG Tabs does exactly what it’s designed to do.
Screen & Controls
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Ultimate Guitar Tabs is easy and intuitive to use. When viewing tabs, you can easily adjust the text size with pinch-to-zoom. Even the text font can be changed by selecting from six different fonts included with the app. The famous auto-scroll feature from the website is also included and automatically adjusts to your screen position.
Speed & Stability
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Ultimate Guitar Tabs is, for the most part, pretty stable and reliable as long as you have an SD card. The app did crash when I tried opening tabs without any SD card. Since everyone should make a habit of always having an SD card, this is hardly qualifies as a problem.
Price/Performance Ratio
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Ultimate Guitar Tabs can be purchased from the Android Market for $2.99. The price is justified for an app that does a great job of complementing the popular website.
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A Google User, Jun 14, 2013
Fave Easily the best app on my phone. So many cool features. First app I've ever paid for and it's worth way more than what they charge. Just a super app.
A Google User, Jun 14, 2013
All musicians should own this! Worth the 2 bucks. Beats looking at tabs on the Browser! Thank you UG!
A Google User, Jun 14, 2013
Awesome app but! I retract the previous comment because it fixed upon reinstalling. I would like to see a comment submission section in app. Hopefully fix the full screen thing at least for tablet users.
A Google User, Jun 14, 2013
chris1978moleman excellent app. been using the standard version on pc for years. mobile app long overdue
A Google User, Jun 14, 2013
Excellent but.. I'm not sure if i'm the only one with this problem but my favourites will not sync what so ever, so that's where the last stars missing - Galaxy S4
A Google User, Jun 14, 2013
Love this app! Can be a little glitchy at times but over all really great!
A Google User, Jun 14, 2013
Aww yeah Love this app! I use it all the time on multiple devices and is smooth and always handy!
A Google User, Jun 14, 2013
Pretty good This app is everything I need it to be: an easy UI, fast search for any song I type in, and I can favorite any tab to save for online or offline viewing. So far no problems. Completely worth the small change spent for it. :-)
A Google User, Jun 13, 2013
Ultimate Guitar Tab App Awesome app, would have given 5 stars but sometimes when the tab packs are updated it fails when downloading them. Leaves an error message with no text in it on the screen, then will suddenly start working.
A Google User, Jun 13, 2013
Perfect Absolutely fantastic. Even though the features are payed, 100% worth it. Invaluable for a begineer like me.