Charango: Tuner, Chords, Learn

Tune the charango, play it and learn it, all in one app. The tuner shows you the headstock and marks the peg to turn, four courses take you from holding it to real huayno and cueca, ten practice drills train your ear, hands and timing, 168 chords show you how each one sits on the charango's five courses, and a songbook of 37 songs puts them to work. Then it hands you the instrument. In Simulation the charango is on your screen: strum across the strings, or touch one to pluck it. • Tuner: the headstock on screen with the peg to turn marked, a live needle that never flashes "in tune" early, and nine tunings: temple natural, temple diablo, the transposed temples, and the ronroco and walaycho sizes • Songbook: 37 songs, huaynos, carnavalitos, pasillos, zambas and more, with the chords for every bar and a play-along • Learn: four charango courses (46 lessons), from your first strum to repertoire-level idiom • Practice: ten drills: ear training, melodic dictation, fretboard, intervals, chord changes, timing, rhythm, scales, sight reading and a strum trainer with Andean rhythms (huayno, saya, cachimbo, rin chilote, the repique and the chasquido) • Chords: 168 chords (12 roots, 14 types), up to three fingerings each, and Fingering: every grip finger by finger, with a drill to form the shapes • Simulation: a charango you can play, pluck a string, strum all ten or palm-mute the chasquido • Tools: metronome, drone, scales, chord and scale, circle of fifths, capo and transpose, practice recorder, overtones and String Health • 12 colour palettes, light and dark themes, left-handed mode Free: the tuner with every tuning, the needle and bar meters, Simulation, major, minor, 7th and minor 7th chords, the first three songs, four starter scales, the fundamentals course, the first level of every drill, and the metronome, drone, recorder and capo. No ads, no account, no subscription. Charango Pro is one optional in-app purchase, paid once: the strobe meter, every other chord type, the rest of the songbook with chord mode to strum along, the other courses, every drill level, every scale, chord and scale, the circle of fifths, overtones, String Health and practice insights. Never a subscription, and the tuner is never gated. It all works offline, and Charango collects no data: see the Data safety section below.

What's new: • Tuner: each string keeps a tick once it is in tune, a selected string moves on to the next untuned one by itself, and the app tells you when all are in tune. • Chords: fingerings checked against published charango chord charts. • Learn: lessons show the chord diagrams they teach, also in chromatic mode. • Settings: privacy policy, website and build number in About. • Fixes: a crash in Chords → By shape, and freezes while the app listens.