Coming soon · iOS & iPadOS

A calmer way to sit with your bass.

Learn songs. Capture ideas. Jam over backing tracks. Bass Buddha is a practice companion that stays out of your way.

four strings. deep pocket. just the groove.

Coming soon toApp Store
Follow along on@bass.buddha

Free when it lands. No account, ever.

11:48
Friday Evening
Hey,
Gabe.
G
what's the pocket tonight?
Learn
Learn a song
Capture
Capture idea
Practice
Practice tools
Play
Just play
Recent songs
Come Together
The Beatles
Another One Bites the Dust
Queen
Higher Ground
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Home
Songs
Ideas
Jam
Tuner
Manifesto

Learn a song. Feel the pocket. Sit down and play.

just the groove and the time you spend in it.
What's inside

Built around how you actually play.

Nothing tracks you. Nothing nags you. Everything stays on your device.

Songs

Your library, in the pocket.

Pull up a song, see its bass chords, and record yourself working it out. Loop a tricky passage at half speed without losing pitch, transpose on the fly, or export the sheet as a PDF. You can also scan a printed chord sheet with your camera to add it straight to your library. The library remembers everything you've sat with — quietly, in order of how recently it mattered.

Ideas

Catch the riff before it slips away.

Hum it, play it, or jot it down before it slips away — a riff, a bassline, a chord shape, caught in seconds. Tag it. Find it later.

Jam

A backing band, on tap.

Set a key. Pick a feel. Drums, bass and keys lock in behind you. Loop it, change it, record yourself over the top.

Tuner

Sharp ear. Low end covered.

Standard E A D G, Drop D, Half-Step Down, D Standard, BEAD, and a custom tuner for anything else.

E A D G
Practice

Chords, scales, drills, metronome.

Bass chord diagrams, scale boxes, drills, progressions, a metronome, and a loop trainer to slow a tricky passage down and bring it back up to speed.

E MINOR
Hand-built, screen by screen

Made for the in-between moments.

The basement half-hour. The van before load-in. The morning before anyone else is up.

10:08
Tab 2 · Library
Songs
Come Together
The Beatles · 1969
Another One Bites the Dust
Queen · 1980
Higher Ground
Red Hot Chili Peppers · 1989
Uptown Funk
Bruno Mars · 2014
Superstition
Stevie Wonder · 1972
Home
Songs
Ideas
Jam
Tuner
8:14
Listening
Standard · 1st string
G
In tune
−50¢+50¢
E
A
D
G
nice and even
Home
Songs
Ideas
Jam
Tuner
11:50
Jam
Rec
Funk
Rock
Reggae
Blues
Sequence
Edit
1234
84
BPM
TAP
Jam Key
Change
C
D
E
F
G
A
D Minor Pentatonic
frets 5–8
maj
min
Home
Songs
Ideas
Jam
Tuner
Beyond the phone

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.

Apple Watch

A metronome on your wrist.

Tap + or − to set the tempo. Feel every beat in haptics — no need to look down.

Apple Watch

Tune up without your phone.

An open-string tuner, right on your wrist. Check your tuning mid-song without reaching for anything.

Apple Watch

Chord diagrams at a glance.

The shape you need, right there. Tap Strum to hear it — without touching your bass.

Home-screen widget

One tap to the tools you reach for.

Tuner, metronome, and jam — straight from your home screen, no digging through the app.

Local-first by design

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. Optional anonymous analytics are off unless you turn them on.
  • No internet required. Works in the basement, on tour, off-grid.
  • Your takes stay on your device. Export to share — never automatic.
YOUR DATASTAYS HERE
Pricing

Free, with a tip jar.

Every feature, unlocked from day one. No subscription. No paywall. No ads tracking you between sessions.

$0Every feature · forever
if the app helps your practice, you can chip in
$0.99
Thanks!
$4.99
Supporter
$9.99
Keep it flowing
no pressure. no paywall. just optional.
Prefer the web? There's a tip jar here too →
Four palettes

Pick the room you're playing in.

The app ships with four themes. Try them right here — your selection follows you down the page.

A note from the maker

I built Bass Buddha for the version of me who picks up the bass at 11pm, locks into a groove for forty minutes, and forgets what song started it by Tuesday. It's a place to put the practice. Quietly. Without anyone counting.

— see you in the pocket
Frequently asked

Questions, gently answered.

When will it ship?+
iOS and iPadOS first, sometime this fall. Follow @bass.buddha and you'll be among the first to know.
How much will it cost?+
Nothing — every feature is free, forever. See the Pricing section for details on the optional tip jar.
Which tunings does it support?+
Standard E A D G out of the box, plus Drop D, Half-Step Down (Eb Ab Db Gb), D Standard (D G C F), BEAD (low B), and fully custom. The chord library reshapes to match whatever you're tuned to.
What can I do with a song once I've added it?+
Transpose it on the fly — chord shapes update instantly. Loop a tricky passage at half speed without losing pitch, turn on auto-scroll, or export the sheet as a PDF. You can also scan a printed chord sheet with your camera to add it straight to your library.
Does it work without an internet connection?+
Yes — completely. Everything runs on-device. No cloud, no streaming, no account. The only thing the app uses your connection for is fetching lyrics & chords when you add a new song, and that's optional.
Does it work on iPad?+
Yes — Bass Buddha is a universal app. It runs on iPhone and iPad, with a layout that opens up on the bigger screen.
Why no streaks or goals?+
Because the moment practice becomes a game you can lose, you stop. Bass Buddha is built around showing up, not winning. The library remembers what you've sat with — that's all the tracking you need.
Is there an Apple Watch app or a widget?+
Both. A metronome, tuner, and chord diagrams live on Apple Watch. And a home-screen widget puts Tune, Metronome, and Jam one tap from your home screen. See the Beyond the phone section above.
Can I use it with other instruments?+
The tuner, jam tracks and metronome work with anything. The chord library and Practice drills are bass-first. If you play guitar or ukulele, meet our sibling apps — Guitar Buddha and Ukulele Buddha.