Changelog
What's new in Chords by Staventabs
Chords for Mac v2.11 Mac App Store macOS
October 22, 2025
- Improved compatibility with macOS Tahoe 26
- Added chord diagrams for keyboard instruments: Acoustic Grand Piano, Electric Grand Piano, Harpsichord, Organ, String Ensemble, and Synth Strings (available in Premium)
- Updated app icon with support for Dark, Clear, and Tinted appearances
- Multiple bug fixes and stability improvements
Chords v2.11 App Store iOS iPadOS watchOS
October 22, 2025
- Improved compatibility with iPadOS 26 and iOS 26
- Added chord diagrams for keyboard instruments: Acoustic Grand Piano, Electric Grand Piano, Harpsichord, Organ, String Ensemble, and Synth Strings (available in Premium)
- Updated app icon with support for Dark, Clear, and Tinted appearances
- Multiple bug fixes and stability improvements
Chords for Apple TV v2.11 Apple TV tvOS
October 21, 2025
- Improved compatibility with tvOS 26
- Added chord diagrams for keyboard instruments: Acoustic Grand Piano, Electric Grand Piano, Harpsichord, Organ, String Ensemble, and Synth Strings (available in Premium)
- Multiple bug fixes and stability improvements
Chords for Mac v2.1 Mac App Store macOS
February 04, 2025
- In the Shortcuts app, you can now use a comprehensive suite of highly customizable actions, such as âShow Chord Diagramâ, âHow to Play Chordâ, or âGet Type of Chordâ, for building your own custom shortcuts for working with chords
- Bug fixes and stability improvements
Chords v2.1 App Store iOS iPadOS watchOS
February 04, 2025
- New App Shortcuts for searching chord diagrams are available in the Shortcuts app or with Siri, for example, by saying âHey Siri, show a chord diagram using the Chords app.â
- In the Shortcuts app, you can now use a comprehensive suite of highly customizable actions, such as âShow Chord Diagramâ, âHow to Play Chordâ, or âGet Type of Chordâ, for building your own custom shortcuts for working with chords
- Bug fixes and stability improvements
Chords for Mac v2.9 Mac App Store macOS
December 12, 2024
- Support for ukulele chords
- Bug fixes and stability improvements
Chords for Apple TV v2.9 Apple TV tvOS
December 12, 2024
- Support for ukulele chords
- Bug fixes and stability improvements
Chords v2.9 App Store iOS iPadOS watchOS
December 12, 2024
- Support for ukulele chords
- Bug fixes and stability improvements
Chords for Mac v2.8 Mac App Store macOS
November 06, 2024
- Support for alternative guitar tunings
- Bug fixes and stability improvements
Chords for Apple TV v2.8 Apple TV tvOS
November 06, 2024
- Support for alternative guitar tunings
- Bug fixes and stability improvements
Chords v2.8 App Store iOS iPadOS watchOS
November 06, 2024
- Support for alternative guitar tunings
- Bug fixes and stability improvements
Chords for Mac v2.7 Mac App Store macOS
September 30, 2024
- Capo support
- Improved compatibility with macOS Sequoia 15.0
- Default diagrams of basic chords have become more convenient
- Bug fixes and stability improvements
Chords for Apple TV v2.7 Apple TV tvOS
September 30, 2024
- Capo support
- Improved compatibility with tvOS 18
- Default diagrams of basic chords have become more convenient
- Bug fixes and stability improvements
Chords v2.7 App Store iOS iPadOS watchOS
September 28, 2024
- Capo support
- Improved compatibility with iOS 18, iPadOS 18, watchOS 11
- Default diagrams of basic chords have become more convenient
- Bug fixes and stability improvements
Chords for Mac v2.6 Mac App Store macOS
September 17, 2024
- Added ability to switch between classical and acoustic guitars
- Added support for seven-string guitars
- Bug fixes and stability improvements
Chords for Apple TV v2.6 Apple TV tvOS
September 17, 2024
- Added ability to switch between classical and acoustic guitars
- Added support for seven-string guitars
- Bug fixes and stability improvements
Chords v2.6 App Store iOS iPadOS watchOS
September 17, 2024
- Added ability to switch between classical and acoustic guitars
- Added support for seven-string guitars
- Bug fixes and stability improvements
Chords for Mac v2.5 Mac App Store macOS
September 04, 2024
- Chord search by symbol
- Current chord now persists between app launches
- Bug fixes and stability improvements
Chords for Apple TV v2.5 Apple TV tvOS
September 04, 2024
- Chord search by symbol
- Current chord now persists between app launches
- Bug fixes and stability improvements
Chords v2.5 App Store iOS iPadOS watchOS
September 04, 2024
- Chord search by symbol
- Current chord now persists between app launches
- Bug fixes and stability improvements
Chords for Mac v2.4 Mac App Store macOS
July 25, 2024
- Chord playback
- Bug fixes and stability improvements
Chords for Apple TV v2.4 Apple TV tvOS
July 25, 2024
- Chord playback
- Bug fixes and stability improvements
Chords v2.4 App Store iOS iPadOS watchOS
July 25, 2024
- Chord playback
- Bug fixes and stability improvements
Chords for Mac v2.3 Mac App Store macOS
July 02, 2024
- Added a chord symbol editor that allows to change the symbol's format, assign a style to each component, and choose alternative options for the elements, e.g. M/ma/maj/Î
- Compatibility with visionOS
- Bug fixes and stability improvements
Chords for Apple TV v2.3 Apple TV tvOS
July 02, 2024
- Added a chord symbol editor that allows to change the symbol's format, assign a style to each component, and choose alternative options for the elements, e.g. M/ma/maj/Î
- Compatibility with visionOS
- Bug fixes and stability improvements
Chords v2.3 App Store iOS iPadOS watchOS
July 02, 2024
- Added a chord symbol editor that allows to change the symbol's format, assign a style to each component, and choose alternative options for the elements, e.g. M/ma/maj/Î
- Compatibility with visionOS
- Bug fixes and stability improvements
Chords for Mac v2.2 Mac App Store macOS
June 23, 2024
- Support for watchOS
- Bug fixes and stability improvements
Chords for Apple TV v2.2 Apple TV tvOS
June 23, 2024
- Support for watchOS
- Bug fixes and stability improvements
Chords v2.2 App Store iOS iPadOS watchOS
June 23, 2024
- Support for watchOS
- Bug fixes and stability improvements
Chords for Mac v2.1 Mac App Store macOS
June 19, 2024
- Support for tvOS
- Bug fixes and stability improvements
Chords for Apple TV v2.1 Apple TV tvOS
June 19, 2024
- Support for tvOS
- Bug fixes and stability improvements
Chords v2.1 App Store iOS iPadOS
June 19, 2024
- Support for tvOS
- Bug fixes and stability improvements
Chords for Mac v2.0 Mac App Store macOS
May 16, 2024
- User interface completely rewritten in SwiftUI
- Multiple design and UX improvements
- Added Bookmarks storage for saving favorite chords and accessing them across all your devices via iCloud
- Native app for macOS
- Multiple windows support for macOS and iPadOS
- List of root notes by default shows only common notes now, but you can still expand it to see all enharmonic equivalents
- Now you can choose which notes to show in the Bass chooser, only inversions, only added notes or all options together
- Optimized time of constructing all variants of diagrams for the chord
- Minimum supported operating system versions are raised to iOS 17.0 and macOS 14.0
- Ad banners completely removed
- One-time in-app purchase unlocking premium features now supports Family Sharing
- Upgrade to Premium allows you to save more than two chord bookmarks
- App icon enhanced a bit
- Name of app slightly updated, it is now officially Chords by Staventabs
Chords v2.0 App Store iOS iPadOS
May 16, 2024
- User interface completely rewritten in SwiftUI
- Multiple design and UX improvements
- Added Bookmarks storage for saving favorite chords and accessing them across all your devices via iCloud
- Native app for macOS
- Multiple windows support for macOS and iPadOS
- List of root notes by default shows only common notes now, but you can still expand it to see all enharmonic equivalents
- Now you can choose which notes to show in the Bass chooser, only inversions, only added notes or all options together
- Optimized time of constructing all variants of diagrams for the chord
- Minimum supported operating system versions are raised to iOS 17.0 and macOS 14.0
- Ad banners completely removed
- One-time in-app purchase unlocking premium features now supports Family Sharing
- Upgrade to Premium allows you to save more than two chord bookmarks
- App icon enhanced a bit
- Name of app slightly updated, it is now officially Chords by Staventabs
Chords v1.3 App Store iOS iPadOS
April 28, 2021
- Support for iOS 14
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
Chords v1.2 App Store iOS iPadOS
October 03, 2019
- New Light Appearance and support for dark mode in iOS 13 and iPadOS 13
- Bug fixes
Chords v1.1 App Store iOS iPad (iOS)
July 10, 2019
- Support for iPad
- Removing ads via in-app purchase
- Improved support for VoiceOver
- Audible instructions on how to play the selected chord
Chords v1.0 App Store iOS
June 27, 2019
App features:
- Intuitive Chord editor with basic parameters of your chord
- Dynamical generation of Alternative diagrams list with different fingers placements
- Wide range of searchable Chord types with more than 50 items grouped by forms (Triad, Added tone, Power, or Seventh) and colored by qualities (Major, Minor, Augmented, Dominant)
- Root note chooser with information about contained notes
- Selectable list with Bass notes and Inversions allowed for the current chord