A set of tools to help you practice guitar — the essential work you have to put in to actually get better.
Captrice aims for sustained progress but a 30 minutes practice session is enough to see the difference in your playing.
Captrice provides tools for highly focused, deliberate practice, the kind that leverages neuroplasticity of the brain to build real guitar mastery.
Every feature is designed to make you work things out for yourself and understand what you're doing. The goal is musical fluency, not just replicating sounds from tablature.
Unlike most apps, Captrice doesn't sell content or lessons, and it isn't tied to any course or method. Bring material from online courses, your teacher, or even videos and reels. Anything can become an exercise.
The app is free to use, is ad-free as well as login-free. If you'd like to support, buy me a coffee or share it with others! 🙂
Captrice is under active development. Stay informed about new features and other updates by subscribing to the newsletter. Not more than one email per month.
Build solid rhythm and timing, while the metronome keeps track of your progress. Feature rich and easy to operate while playing the instrument. The keyboard shortcuts remove UI-driven interruptions and lets you focus on the clicks.
The alphaTab powered MIDI player is useful to learn a musical piece with the help of tablature/notation. Can be used as a backing track to play along with. You can also use it to transcribe your own music or exercises.
Mark a section of in a youtube video and play it in a loop. Adjust the playback rate to slow it down. Comes with keyboard shortcuts for ease of operation. Useful for learning a song or a piece by ear. Support for other media types is coming soon.
Jot down notes about your practice sessions in a journal that's tightly integerated with exercises and collections. Record strengths/weaknesses and stay focused.
Build your repository of exercises. Organize them into collections
Embed guitar tablature and music notation in exercises for quick reference
Get access to a library of exercises covering different techniques and routines for all levels
Export/Import functionality to share exercises with your friends, students and audience
All data is stored on your device. So your data is truly your data! Export any time. Delete any time.
To report bugs, give feedback or any thing help, just send an email to vineet@captrice.io.
Sync your data across devices while automatically backing it up
Captrice is a "passion project".
While there are plans to offer premium features at a price,
the "no-signup, local-only" version of this app is free and I intend to keep it that way.
If you'd like to support, buy me a coffee or help spread the word.
It means a lot to me! 🙂
I am Vineet Naik, a software engineer and hobbyist guitar player from Bangalore, India.
I picked up the guitar in 2001 and somehow the hobby has stuck. I played in amateur bands during college. These days I am pretty much a bedroom musician. I've also dabbled with (home) recording music. You can find some of it on my soundcloud.
Music is clearly more than a hobby to me and I am always on the lookout for new ways to practice and level up, which is what this project was born out of.
Thanks for stopping by!