FretTool

What it does

FretTool is a free fretboard diagram editor for guitar and other string instruments. Sketch chords, scales and fingerings, form barres automatically, add labels, and export print-ready PDFs.

Sketch chords, scales and fingerings the way you think about them — click to drop a note, let barres form by themselves, scribble a label, then send it off as a PDF. Everything you need to map out a song — without fighting your software. Left-click to drop a dot. Hold a modifier and you get a square, a triangle, or a wee one for passing tones. Put dots on neighbouring strings at the same fret and a barre appears. Split, merge and recolour it however you like. Tag any dot with a two-character note — finger numbers, intervals, anything that helps you remember. Right-click an empty spot to mark a string as muted or open. No more guessing which strings stay quiet. Export crisp diagrams with…from rkaluzny.github.io

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