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Add Guitar Pal to your home screen

Guitar Pal installs straight from the browser — no app store. It opens from its own icon, full screen, and the tools keep playing with no signal.

Add it

  1. Open Guitar Pal in Safari.

  2. Tap the Share button. On recent versions of iOS it sits in the ⋯ menu at the bottom; on an iPad it is at the top right.

  3. Scroll down and tap Add to Home Screen.

  4. Tap Add, and open Guitar Pal from its icon from now on.

Chrome and Edge on iOS 16.4 or later have Add to Home Screen in their Share menu too. If the app opens signed out, sign in once inside it: on an iPhone or iPad the home-screen app keeps its own storage, apart from Safari.

With no connection

Once Guitar Pal has been opened online on a device, it keeps what it needs to play there.

Still works

  • Strum, Tab and Fretboard open and play — even before you have visited them, since they are fetched in the background on your first visit.
  • Chords, and the chord pages you have opened.
  • The guitar and piano sounds.
  • Signed out, what you save lives on this device and stays editable.
  • Signed in, your library is there to read; it can be changed again once you are back online.

Needs a connection

  • The assistant.
  • Books.
  • Sharing a link, or opening one someone sent you.
  • Signing in.

Updates

There is nothing to update by hand: the app is the site. A new version arrives the next time it opens online.

Remove it

  • iPhone / iPad: press and hold the icon, then choose to remove it.
  • Android: press and hold the icon, then Uninstall.
  • Computer: in the app window's ⋮ menu, choose Uninstall Guitar Pal.

Removing the app leaves your account and your saved library as they are.

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