nowfound

Dev tools · September 14, 2018

Guitar Dashboard – Open source music theory explorer for guitarists

A free, open source, music theory explorer for guitarists. Discover how scales and modes map to the fretboard and how chords work within scales.

Guitar Dashboard – Open source music theory explorer for guitarists launched on September 14, 2018 with 590 votes, #7 of 2,635 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.

Visit guitardashboard.com ↗Alternativestop 1% of September 2018

In plain words

Guitar Dashboard is an open-source music theory tool designed for guitarists. It helps users explore and understand music theory concepts through an interactive interface. The software visualizes guitar fretboards and music theory relationships, making it easier for players to learn scales, chords, and progressions. Suitable for guitarists of all levels seeking to deepen their music theory knowledge, Guitar Dashboard offers a free, community-driven approach to learning.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

Does a similar job

all alternatives →
  • Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard10d ago · guitoro.com · ▲573

    Play a free virtual guitar online with your keyboard or by touch. Slow songs down and see every chord, string and strum. Acoustic, classic, electric and bass.

  • HT
    How to Tune a Guitar2018 · mathisonian.github.io · ▲338

    An interactive audio guide with guitars and a little music theory.

  • Interactive guitar scales diagrams2018 · grunfy.com · ▲277

    Guitar scale diagrams and charts, with color CAGED shapes for pentatonic, blues, major and minor scales.

  • Cadence – A guitar theory app2025 · cadenceguitar.com · ▲195

    Hello HN, I just released this music theory and ear training mobile app for guitar which I've been working on for a bit more than a year on the side. The idea was to make something for the eternally "intermediate" guitarist (myself included). There are a lot of beginner apps which rely on learning songs, toolkits which give you a bunch of stuff with no explanation but not many in-between apps to actually learn and practice more generic and somewhat advanced stuff. The app contains short lessons, recaps and most importantly challenges (visual, audio and pure theory) along with a very complete…

  • Kord – Python tool for displaying guitar chords/scales on your terminal2020 · github.com · ▲173

    python framework for creating music applications. Contribute to synestematic/kord development by creating an account on GitHub.

  • A Little Tool to Visualize Guitar Chords2022 · muted.io · ▲157

    Guitar chord diagrams for a whole lot of popular chords at different positions on the guitar fretboard. The chord diagrams show finger positions.

More dev tools this month

the category →
  • Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices▲498

    Contribute to oosexgang/hackios-xnu-kernel development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Dev tools · 1d ago · github.com

  • /dev/null▲493

    a social network for devs

    Dev tools · 4d ago · dev-null.sh

  • Whiteboard (YC W26) – an open-source IDE for thoughtful software design▲423

    open-source IDE for thoughtful software design. Contribute to devdotfast/whiteboard development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Dev tools · 29d ago · github.com

  • Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things▲411

    Contribute to reladraw/reladraw development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Dev tools · 27d ago · github.com

  • OpenBot▲362

    Grok Bot alternative: free, local, open-source, multiplayer

    Dev tools · 24d ago · openbot.run

  • Talanoa▲346

    Hi HN, I’m a fullstack developer, and honestly, I’ve lost count of how many side projects I’ve worked on over the years. But one idea kept coming back to me: a different kind of email client. It first came to me in 2014: “What if we could handle emails more like conversations?” Every year, I’d revisit this concept in my “Build Notes.” Ten years later, no one had built exactly what I had in mind — so I finally decided to do it myself. That’s how Talanoa was born. I wanted something focused on people, not timelines. I was tired of marking messages as unread just to remember to reply later, or…

    Dev tools · 22d ago · talanoa.email

Source: Show HN post ↗

Launched alongside, September 2018

the whole month →