The house tools

Free online tools for guitarists: tuner, metronome, chord finder

Twelve tools, open all night, no sign-in needed.

Suede Muse keeps twelve free tools for the working guitarist, all running in the browser — no account, no install. A mic-based chromatic tuner, a full metronome with tap tempo, an interactive circle of fifths that doubles as a chord finder for any key, a chord transposer with capo suggestions, and eight more below.

Tune, keep time, find the chords

• The tuner — free chromatic tuner: mic-based, cents-accurate, with guitar string hints and adjustable reference pitch.
• The metronome — tap tempo, time signatures, subdivisions, accents, and a tempo ramp for building speed.
• The circle of fifths — the chord finder of the house: click any key to see its signature, scale notes, diatonic chords with roman numerals, relative and parallel keys, and common borrowed chords.
• The transposer — paste a chord chart, transpose it to any key, and get capo suggestions that turn hard keys into open shapes.

Practice tools

• The loop — A-B loop any section of your own audio file and slow it down without changing pitch. Your file never leaves the browser.
• The ear — interval recognition drills plus a functional mode that teaches scale degrees against a real tonal center.
• The drone — a sustained reference pitch for intonation and improv practice.
• The groove — a step-sequencer drum machine with swing, accents, and preset grooves to practice or write over.
• The logbook — track practice sessions with a timer, focus tags, weekly totals, and streaks. Stored privately in your browser.

Stage and paperwork

• The setlist — build setlists with keys, tempos, durations, and running times. Print a clean copy for the stage.
• The prompter — turn any lyric sheet into a full-screen auto-scrolling stage prompter with mirror mode.
• The splits — a songwriter split sheet calculator: balance shares to exactly 100 and print a signable sheet.

Where other tools beat these

If you want the chords to one specific song, Chordify genuinely does that better — it detects the chords from the recording itself — and Ultimate Guitar’s tab archive is deeper than anything here. The house tools are for the other jobs: tuning up, keeping time, learning what the chords in a key are doing, and getting a practice session to actually happen.

All twelve live under the toolkit, alongside the sign-in workbench (recorder, lyric journal, melody trace). The nightly ritual they orbit is the daily songwriting prompt.