Search for a scale, tap the notes you know, or play a song to discover every matching scale. All 1,870 guitar scales in your pocket.
Magic Listen is available on iPhone and iPad (iOS 27 or later).
A few notes in.
A whole solo out.
Scales
Keep the music playing nearby.
Filters
Scales must contain every selected note.
Optional. Shows any of the types you select.
Tap a note or chord to hear itClear
01 · Magic Listen
Hold your phone up to a speaker or play a riff. Magic Listen hears the notes, works out the key and shows you the scales that fit, so you know what to play over it.
Magic Listen is available on iPhone and iPad (iOS 27 or later).
02 · Find it
Two, three, five, whatever you’ve got. Scale Finder checks all 1,870 scales and keeps only the ones that contain every note you tapped.
03 · Hear it
The round play button runs the scale up the octave on a clean electric guitar. Tap any note to hear exactly that pitch, so you can check it against the song in your head.
04 · See it
Explore all 24 frets. Tap chords to see their notes on the neck, together or one at a time.
05 · Play over it
Every chord built from the scale, with its Roman numeral and a shape you can play. Tap one to hear it strummed and to light its notes up on the neck.
The app has 1,870 scales: all 110 scale types in every key, from the major scale and the pentatonics to the modes, bebop, Hirajoshi and Hungarian minor. These are the ones players look up most, each with its notes, chords and a fretboard diagram.
Pricing, plainly
Download Scale Finder free and start with a free trial of the whole app. If it earns its place in your practice, it carries on as one yearly subscription. The App Store shows the price for your country before you confirm anything.
Not for you? Cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends in Settings › your name › Subscriptions and you pay nothing.
It’s a scale finder app for guitarists on iPhone, iPad and Android. Tap in the notes you know, or on iPhone and iPad play a song and let Magic Listen hear it, and it narrows 1,870 scales down to the ones that fit. For each scale it shows the notes, the chords that go with it, and where to play it on the fretboard.
Yes, with Magic Listen. Tap the filter button, then Magic Listen, and play a song from a speaker or a riff on your guitar. It listens until it is sure, picks out the notes, works out the key and opens the scale to play over it. If the notes fit something more unusual, it shows every scale that contains them instead. It runs on iPhone and iPad with iOS 27 or later, and the audio never leaves your device.
Open the filter, tap the notes you can hear or play, and the list narrows to scales that contain every one of them. The more notes you add, the shorter the list. You can also filter by root and by scale type, such as major, minor or pentatonic.
1,870: every scale type in the library (from major, minor and the pentatonics to the modes, harmonic and melodic minor, bebop, Hirajoshi, Byzantine and more) in every key.
Its notes with their intervals (1, ♭3, 5…), the whole neck from the open strings to the 24th fret in note names or degrees, and the chords built from it, each with a Roman numeral and a shape you can play.
Yes. Every scale has a round play button, and you can tap any note, any dot on the fretboard or any chord to hear it on a clean electric guitar. It mixes with whatever music you have playing, so you can try a scale against the song.
The app is free to download and starts with a free trial. After the trial it is a yearly subscription; the App Store shows the exact price for your country before you confirm. Cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends in Settings › your name › Subscriptions and you pay nothing.
No. Everything is shown as note names and dots on a fretboard, the same way guitarists already think.
Next time you want to solo over a song, you’ll know exactly where to start.
