Definitely not a Music Utopia. – FourChords Guitar Songbook Review

What a great idea, horribly squandered. I think a talented developer could really make this “chordal karaoke” into something amazing. Musopia has put wasted energy into developing 4 different apps that all do the same thing, FourChords Guitar Songbook, Justin Guitar Beginning Lessons, Kala Ukulele and Songbook, and Ukulele Karaoke. They could have created just one app called FourChords and let us choose between guitar and ukulele in the settings, instead there are 2 separate guitar apps and 2 ukulele apps that are redundant. I’ve been checking in with these Musopia apps for years and they haven’t change anything meaningful. Look at the version history, it's mostly "stability improvements". How about an option for left handed players, or a better song browser. Having to search through hundreds of songs alphabetically seems very beta. How about a chord progression song search, that's what the whole "four chords" premise is based on to begin with, being able to play tons of songs from the same progression! If I learn a song that is C,F,G let me then search for all the songs that contain these chords- building on what we know is how we learn music. In the end it just feels like some kind of promotional tool for JustinGuitar.com(talk about overkill on the how to strum a chord videos). I'm asking that someone please take this wonderful premise, and develop it into streamlined app.
Review by Kari H. on FourChords Guitar Songbook.