Smart Chords APK Version History

Smart Chords v10.0 APK (Latest Version APK)

► Updated: March 29, 2023

► What's New in Version 10.0:

⭐⭐⭐ New 'Song Writer' ⭐⭐⭐

The new Song Writer makes it uniquely easy to write and arrange songs. The Song Writer helps you to find the chords that sound good together and write lyrics with the right words

✔ Subscriptions are available again! Either annually or quarterly

✔ Circle of Fifths and scale-circle: Option to show the key's accidentals or just the selected chord's accidentals

✔ New themes: Waikawa Dark + Waikawa Light

Smart Chords v9.9.1 APK (Old Version APK)

► Updated: March 13, 2023

► What's New in Version 9.9.1:

✔ Themes: Colors of toggle buttons have been changed for more contrast

🐞 Songbook: Analyze song with the Song Analyzer

🐞 Circle of Fifths and Scale-Circle: Signs weren't complete for some scales

✔ Other improvements and fixes

Smart Chords v9.9 APK (Old Version APK)

► Updated: February 20, 2023

► What's New in Version 9.9:

✔ Circle of Fifths and scale-circle:
▫ New piano setting to mark the keys belonging to the scale with its note name
▫ Option to allow/disallow the rotation of the circle to switch the key
▫ Option to keep the display active even without touching it
▫ Improved sound

✔ A lot of other improvements and fixes

Smart Chords v9.8 APK (Old Version APK)

► Updated: January 31, 2023

► What's New in Version 9.8:

✔ Custom color scheme:
▫ You can create your own color scheme
▫ Define the color for each degree or note. The color of the text can also be adjusted
▫ Whether the color is bound to the degree or the note is determined by the general appearance setting 'Color scheme binding'

✔ 10 new color schemes

✔ Scale-circle: Option to limit the scales to the church modes

🐞 Problems in lookup audio files on Android 13

✔ Other improvements and fixes

Smart Chords v9.7.1 APK (Old Version APK)

► Updated: January 23, 2023

► What's New in Version 9.7.1:

✔ Android 13 compatibility

✔ Set-List-Link: Permission for 'Location' was needed for WifiDirect, but isn't needed in Android 13 anymore

✔ Lyrics pad: Ability to search for 'Meaning like'

✔ Other improvements and fixes

Smart Chords v8.22.2 APK (Old Version APK)

► Updated: August 16, 2022

► What's New in Version 8.22.2:

✔ Scale Name and Key Identifier with context menus to:
▫ investigate a scale in the scale screen
▫ show the diatonic chords for the scale
▫ show the scale in the Fretboard Explorer
▫ add a scale to the scale favorites
▫ add a scale to the scale blacklist

✔ Circle of fifths: show the fingerings for the chords on a dedicated screen

🐞 Workaround for incompatibilities on devices with Android 4.x

✔ A lot of other improvements and fixes

Smart Chords v8.2 APK (Old Version APK)

► Updated: June 9, 2022

► What's New in Version 8.2:

⭐ New tool: Key Identifier
▫ Determines the key for a song or a chord progression
▫ Determines the key also for an arbitrary set of chords or notes

🐞 Sharing: The share link didn't open smartChord on some devices

🐞 Scale name: Fixed sound

✔ Other improvements and fixes

Smart Chords v8.19.1 APK (Old Version APK)

► Updated: May 23, 2022

► What's New in Version 8.19.1:

⭐ Redesign of the 'Chords' screen - the chord reference:
▫ Clearer user interface
▫ Chord dictionary integrated so that more than 1200 chord types are available
▫ Enter the root and bass by the 'note circle'
▫ New spinner to filter the chord types:
◾ Dictionary
◾ Expert
◾ Advanced
◾ Beginner
◾ Custom
◾ Favorites
◾ Augmented
◾ Diminished
◾ Suspended
◾ 13th
◾ 11th
◾ 9th
◾ 7th
◾ 6th
✔ Many improvements and fixes

Smart Chords v8.18 APK (Old Version APK)

► Updated: April 26, 2022

► What's New in Version 8.18:

⭐ Fretboard trainer:
▫ Three new quiz types to learn scales:
◾ Identify scales
◾ Locate all notes of a scale
◾ Locate all fretboard positions of a scale
▫ Get the chords and scales optionally represented in musical notation and learn them along the way
▫ Learn the fretboard string by string. New option to limit quizzes to a subset of strings
✔ Other improvements and fixes

Smart Chords v8.17 APK (Old Version APK)

► Updated: April 11, 2022

► What's New in Version 8.17:

⭐ Modes for each scale
⭐ 'Note-circle' to visualize the distribution of a scale
⭐ Swipe gesture on the musical notation changes the scale
⭐ New 'Note-circle' view to select the root notes e.g. for the scales
⭐ Dialog to define the tools on the home-screen in one step
⭐ Songbook: Support for changes on chords-and-tabs.net
⭐ Many improvements and fixes

Smart Chords v8.16.1 APK (Old Version APK)

► Updated: March 24, 2022

► What's New in Version 8.16.1:

⭐ Practice: Combine any exercise with existing exercises
⭐ Songbook: New supported website: https://acordesweb.com
✅ Chord simplification improved
✅ Songbook: Detects all chords from the chord dictionary
✅ Songbook YouTube search: Additional button to extend search text by 'acoustic', 'cover', 'lesson', ...
✅ 'Show arpeggio' added to menus in chord screens and on long-press on a chord diagram
🐞 Circle of fifths and scale-circle: Empty chord gallery and a lot of error toasts when using solfége

Smart Chords v8.16 APK (Old Version APK)

► Updated: March 21, 2022

► What's New in Version 8.16:

⭐ Practice: Combine any exercise with existing exercises
✅ Chord simplification improved
✅ Songbook: Detects all chords from the chord dictionary
✅ Songbook YouTube search: Additional button to extend search text by 'acoustic', 'cover', 'lesson', ...
✅ 'Show arpeggio' added to menus in chord screens and on long-press on a chord diagram

Smart Chords v8.15.1 APK (Old Version APK)

► Updated: February 28, 2022

► What's New in Version 8.15.1:

⭐ Circle of fifths
▫ Get triads, 7th or 9th chords
▫ Show the chord charts, scale on the fretboard, sheet music for the chords
⭐ 'Scale-circle'. New innovative mode of the Circle of fifths
▫ It can be used with each scale which does have all 7 degrees
▫ There are more than 300 scales beneath the modes of the major scale like Dorian, Lydian or Mixolydian
✔ A lot of other improvements and fixes

Smart Chords v8.14 APK (Old Version APK)

► Updated: January 31, 2022

► What's New in Version 8.14:

⭐ Simplify chords
⭐ Songbook: Optimized transpose functionality
✔ Chord chart galleries are resizable
✔ 'Black bright' and 'Black dark' theme
✔ Dialogs are movable by dragging the title bar
✔ Transposer with color scheme support
✔ Charango tunings: Charango Hatun (six course and seven course)
✔ New color scheme
✔ Other improvements and fixes

Smart Chords v8.13.2 APK (Old Version APK)

► Updated: January 17, 2022

► What's New in Version 8.13.2:

⭐ Fingering explorer to find the best fingerings for your needs
✅ Songbook:
▫ Fingering explorer is used to replacing a fingering
▫ New directives to embed links to images and PDF files
✅ Technical release with graphical improvements like better support for large fonts
✅ Android 12 compatibility
✅ 5 new color schemes
✔ Other improvements and fixes