iReal Pro: Backing Tracks

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4.7
16.9K reviews
100K+
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Content rating
PEGI 3
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About this app

Practice makes perfect. iReal Pro offers an easy-to-use tool to help musicians of all levels master their art. It simulates a real-sounding band that can accompany you as you practice. The app also lets you create and collect chord charts of your favorite songs for reference.

One of Time Magazine's 50 Best Inventions of 2010.

“Now every aspiring musician has a backup band in their pocket.“ – Tim Westergren, Pandora Founder

Used by thousands of music students, teachers and some of the world’s top music schools such as Berklee College of Music and Musicians Institute.

• It's a Book:
Create, edit, print, share and collect chord charts of your favorite songs for reference while practicing or performing.

• It's a Band:
Practice with a realistic sounding piano (or guitar), bass and drum accompaniments for any downloaded or user-created chord chart.

FEATURES:

Have a virtual band accompany you as you practice
• Choose from the included 51 different accompaniment styles (Swing, Ballad, Gypsy Jazz, Bluegrass, Country, Rock, Funk, Reggae, Bossa Nova, Latin,...) and even more styles are available as in-app purchases
• Personalize each style with a variety of sounds including piano, Fender Rhodes, acoustic and electric guitars, acoustic and electric basses, drums, vibraphone, organ, and more
• Record yourself playing or singing along with the accompaniment

Play, edit, and download any songs you want
• 1000s of songs can be downloaded from the forums in a few simple steps
• Edit existing songs or create your own with the Editor
• The Player will play any song that you edit or create
• Create multiple editable playlists

Improve your skills with the included chord diagrams
• Display guitar, ukulele tabs and piano fingerings for any of your chord charts
• Look up piano, guitar and ukulele fingerings for any chord
• Display scale recommendations for each chord of a song to help with improvisations

Practice in the way, and at the level, that you choose
• Includes 50 exercises for practicing common chord progressions
• Transpose any chart to any key or to number notation
• Loop a selection of measures of a chart for focused practicing
• Advanced practice settings (automatic tempo increase, automatic key transposition)
• Global Eb, Bb, F and G transposition for horn players

Share, print, and export – so your music follows you wherever you need it!
• Share individual charts or whole playlists with other iReal Pro users via email and the forums
• Export charts as PDF and MusicXML
• Export audio as WAV, AAC and MIDI

Always backup your songs!
Updated on
Apr 26, 2025

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Ratings and reviews

4.7
13.5K reviews
Paul Keeping
October 15, 2023
Don't normally pay premium for music apps, but am really glad to have made the investment. Great for jazz, but also for pop and rock. You can search online via forums, but once you've imported to your device you don't need to be online to view your chord charts. I'm still exploring the potential for sharing between devices - if you want to use it on multiple platforms (eg Android and PC) it's worth reading up about the best avenue to buy and install before you buy.
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Technimo
October 26, 2023
Thank you so much for your great, detailed review Paul!
A Google user
April 12, 2020
This app is generally very useful and is an industry standard for a reason--however, it's 2020 and people are still paying £14 for it so update the song styles, UI and chord recognition, PLEASE. There's very limited scope for funk/rock feels in particular and these can be important to some kinds of repertoire. More Latin/Cuban styles and some actual playback support for odd and compound meters would be a big help instead of the bodged-together stuff like "I'm gonna play 4/4 but with an extra beat." The app is oddly selective about chord extensions--it allows for some weird combinations of colours, but then I can't do a halfdim with a flat 9. Copy and paste is very, very cumbersome and there must surely be a way to improve the workflow. Text entry for chords is still annoying. Why do we HAVE to go through symbols to find a ^ or -, or look for the ø character or clunk about typing "-7b5," when even something as terrible as Sibeilus lets me type "Dm," "Dmaj9," "Dhalfdim?" It's a mild nuisance that I've thankfully learnt to cope with, but as the most fluent way of entering chords, this should be the sort of thing that you update when your users "buy it for life" at a relatively high cost for an app.
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Emma Atkinson
April 11, 2023
Really good for practicing piano with an accompaniment that sounds pretty good. I love using it. Makes practise much more engaging. I have one improvement suggestion after a few days of fairly intensive use. I often mis-count repeats and lose my place, especially where there are lyrics clay with the music notation symbols. It would be a great help if the app highlighted the next bar/measure too but in a different colour or a lighter shade of grey.
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What’s new

Minor bug fixes