Instrument
Open strings
Hold to strum · drag to turn
Drag the guitar itself to look at it from any angle. Hold the strum pad to play it, and open the full neck whenever you want exact string-and-fret control.
Press and hold the strum pad, or the guitar itself, and strumming mode engages — it keeps playing the Feel you picked after you let go, so you can change chords or record while it runs. Tap once to stop. Tap a single string to pluck just that one, tap the space around the strings for one full strum, and swipe across them to rake.
Press and hold anywhere on the instrument and it strums, the same as the pad. Tap a single string to pluck it. Drag instead and it orbits, so inspecting still works.
Drag to orbit, pinch or use the wheel to zoom. Double-click, or press Reset in the top bar, for the front view.
Tap a cell on the playable neck to hold that fret, or pick a chord from the library. Open releases the whole neck, Nut scrolls back to the first position.
1–6 pluck high to low, Space strums down, Shift Space strums up, Esc closes panels.
The rhythm your holds play. Down is one stroke per beat, Folk syncopates across the bar, Shuffle swings it, Waltz counts in three. Changing it plays you a bar so you can hear the difference before you commit.
Sounds the chord one string at a time — roughly a hundred milliseconds apart — instead of the near-simultaneous sweep of a strum. Same notes, spread out like a harp.
Search or filter the songbook under Songs. Every melody and accompaniment is recalculated when you change arrangement, tempo, transpose, tuning, or capo.
Press Record, play, then press it again. Turn Loop on and use Play to repeat what you captured.
Guitar Centered is a free browser-based 3D guitar studio. A rotatable acoustic guitar is rendered live with WebGL, every note is synthesised from a physical string model rather than played back from samples, and a full playable neck sits under it. No signup, no install, nothing to download.
Yes, completely free. No account, no watermarks, no feature gates, no trial. Anything you build stays in your own browser.
Pick a chord from the library, then hold the strum pad or the guitar itself and it strums in the rhythm you chose. Tap a single string to pluck it, swipe across the strings to rake them, and tap cells on the playable neck for exact string-and-fret control. Keys 1 through 6 pluck individual strings and the spacebar strums.
Yes. Touch is the primary input, not an afterthought. The layout switches to a full-width guitar with a bottom navigation bar, and the neck opens as its own sheet when you need it. Turn your phone sideways for a wider fretboard.
Yes. Settings has Drop D, DADGAD, Open G, Open D and half-step-down presets plus a custom tuner where you set all six open strings by name and octave. The capo moves up to the twelfth fret and every pitch, chord name and scale on the neck is recalculated from it.
A strum pattern is the order and direction of your strokes across a bar. Down plays one stroke per beat and suits hymns and slow ballads. Folk syncopates across four beats and covers most acoustic pop. Shuffle swings the eighths for blues. Waltz counts in three. Changing the Feel plays you a bar so you can hear it before you commit.
Two ways. The Record button in the transport captures your performance as a loop you can play back. The Capture tab in Settings records the guitar view on its own, with no panels or cursor, as a video with the audio you are playing, or grabs a single still.
No. Everything runs locally in your browser. Audio is synthesised on your device, your settings and saved progressions live in your own browser storage, and nothing you play is uploaded anywhere. The only data collected is anonymous page analytics.
All three are free and browser-based. Apronus plays recorded samples and leans on custom chord buttons; Recursive Arts renders a 3D guitar with a chord-mode keyboard map. Guitar Centered synthesises every note from a physical string model, so brightness, sustain, body resonance, string gauge and pick material actually change the tone, and it adds an 80-piece songbook, scale overlays and video capture on top.
It teaches the map, not the hands. Chord shapes, note positions, scale patterns, how a progression moves and what a strum pattern sounds like all transfer directly to a real instrument. Fretting pressure, picking accuracy and calluses do not. Pair it with Golden Ear for pitch training and Metro Gnome for timing.
Any current browser with WebGL and Web Audio: Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari all qualify, on desktop and mobile. Audio starts on your first tap because browsers require a gesture before they will make sound. Video capture needs a browser that supports MediaRecorder, which rules out older Safari builds.