A sunnier way to sit with your ukulele.
Learn songs. Catch melodies. Strum along to whatever you're humming. Ukulele Buddha is a practice companion that stays out of your way.
four strings. no rules. just the songs.
Free, forever. No account, ever.
Gabe.
Learn a song. Hum an idea. Sit down and play.
Built around how you actually play.
Nothing tracks you. Nothing nags you. Everything stays on your device.
Your library, on vinyl.
Pull songs from anywhere, or scan a chord sheet with your camera. Tell it the chords you know and it lists songs you can already play. Transpose any song and add a capo — chord shapes update instantly. Auto-scroll through tabs, loop a tricky passage at half speed without shifting the pitch, tap to simplify chords, line up setlists for jam night, or export the sheet as a PDF. A song's chord diagrams stay docked at the bottom while you scroll its page — tap one to blow it up, or tuck the bar away. Every song opens a one-tap search for a ukulele tutorial made for learners, alongside one for the original recording. The library remembers everything you've sat with — quietly, in order of how recently it mattered.
Catch the melody before it floats off.
Hum it. Strum it. Write it down — Ukulele Buddha detects the chords automatically. Sketch tab ideas in the riff scratchpad. Tag it. Find it later.
A backing band, on tap.
Set a key. Pick a feel — island strum to blues shuffle. Drums, bass and keys lock in behind you. Loop it, change it, record yourself over the top.
Sharp ear. Soft display.
GCEA standard, low-G, D tuning, baritone and custom.
Progressions, routines, drills.
Forty-one progressions sorted into nine packs — pop, rock, blues, folk, dreamy and more — with a full band behind them, most with a strum to match. Stack your own from the chords in your key, and pick the groove the band plays it in. Build a session too — string together a warm-up, a song, and a few drills, then run it with a calm timer. Finished sessions land in a simple log. No streaks, no pressure. Loop strumming patterns that count you in and speed up gently, learn fingerpicking rolls, find notes across the fretboard, drill chord changes against the clock, train your ear on progressions, and fall back on diagrams, scale boxes, and a metronome whenever you need a reference.
Made for the in-between moments.
The porch half-hour. The beach-bag ten minutes. The morning before anyone else is up.
On your wrist, when your hands are full.
Metronome, tuner, and chord diagrams on Apple Watch — the tools you reach for most, one glance away.
A metronome on your wrist.
Tap + or − to set the tempo. Feel every beat in haptics — no need to look down.
Tune up without your phone.
An open-string tuner, right on your wrist. Check your tuning mid-song without reaching for anything.
Chord diagrams at a glance.
The shape you need, right there. Tap Strum to hear it — without touching your ukulele.
Nothing leaves your phone.
No accounts. No syncing to "the cloud." No data sold or shared. Your songs, your ideas, your takes — all yours, on your device.
- No accounts, ever. Open the app and you're already in.
- No telemetry by default. We don't know how often you play, or what you play. Anonymous analytics run only if you opt in.
- No internet required. Works on the porch, at the beach, off-grid.
- One quiet check. The app asks the App Store whether a newer version is out — the app's ID and your store region, nothing else.
- Your takes stay on your device. Export to share — never automatic.
Free, with a tip jar.
Every feature, unlocked from day one. No subscription. No paywall. No ads tracking you between sessions.
Pick the room you're playing in.
The app ships with four themes. Try them right here — your selection follows you down the page.
I built Ukulele Buddha for the version of me who grabs the uke off the wall at 11pm, strums for forty minutes, and forgets what he was working on by Tuesday. It's a place to put the practice. Quietly. Without anyone counting.