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Read about new features, ideas, and success stories of guitar players around the world using ChordPic to create chord diagram images.
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Fret markers!
January 27th, 2025
It's been a long time since a new feature dropped for ChordPic but today is the day! You can now add fret markers to your chord diagrams. Just click on the "More Settings" toggle and you will find a new checkbox to add fret markers to your chord diagrams.
The fret markers look like this:
Notice the little dot in the center? That's a fret marker. If you add more frets, the dots will automatically appear on the frets further down the fretboard.
This feature was requested by a user. What would you like to see next? We're always looking for feedback, so don't hesitate to write us an email with your feature request!
You can now change the font size of the title
August 21st, 2023
It's now possible to change the font size of the chord's titles. Another feature that has been requested multiple times is now implemented and available for all users, Free and Pro.
ChordPic is now available in 8 languages
July 19th, 2023
ChordPic is now available for an even broader audience. From today, ChordPic is available in the following languages: English, Spanish Portuguese, Italian, Chinese, French, Russian, and German. Choose your language here.
These translations are provided by an amazing tool called Magic Translate. If you're a website owner or developer yourself, I highly recommend checking out Magic Translate athttps://magictranslate.io.
Sliders now show numerical values
November 16th, 2022
A small improvement that makes it easier to see the exact values of the sliders in the chord settings: Now the sliders show the numerical value of the setting they control.
Here's what this looks like in action:
This makes it much easier to rember your settings so you can create chord diagrams with the exact same settings on a different machine.
Position can now be hidden
October 29th, 2022
Another user request has been implemented: You can now hide the position of a chord. Just check the 'Hide position' checkmark.
What feature would you like to see? Write us an email with your feature request!
Font size of fingers can now be adjusted
October 19th, 2022
Yet another way to customize your chord diagrams! Under the "More Settings" toggle you will now find a slider to adjust the text size of the text inside fingers and barres.
This feature was requested by a user. What would you like to adjust? We're always looking for feedback, so don't hesitate to write us an email with your feature request.
OMG, what's happening with ChordPic?
October 16th, 2022
If you have used ChordPic before, you may have noticed that things have changed a litlle around here. First of all, ChordPic has an all new look! And second, there are a couple new links on top, and an all new dark mode 😱 🤯
The ChordPic that you know and love is still here and works almost exactly the same as before, but now there's a way to create an account and get a ChordPic Pro subscription. The ChordPic Pro subscription gives you access to:
- A completely ad free experience
- Chord diagrams without the "created with chordpic.com" watermark
- Chord diagrams in hand-drawn style
The ChordPic Pro subscription is not a way for us to get rich, but our hope is that at some point enough people have a Pro subscription so that we can spend more time on this tool and introduce new cool features.
The indroduction of a user login and an actual backend opens up a wide range of new possibliities for ChordPic and we would love to spend time to explore these possibilities.
We hope you like this re-build of ChordPic. If you have any feature suggestions, bug reports, or general feelings about the site, don't hesitate to write us an email.
You can now create horizontal chord diagrams 😮
January 15th, 2022
There is now a new setting hidden under the "More Settings" toggle that allows you to create horizontal chord diagrams.
The setting is called "Orientation" and you can chose between "Horizontal" and "Vertical". Give it a try and see which orientation suit your needs best!
Here's an example of a horizontal chord diagram:
Barre Chords on Firefox Fixed!
December 13th, 2020
If you ever wondered why you couldn't draw barre chords on Firefox: Wonder no longer! That was a very old bug that has finally been fixed.
New Shapes for Fingers!
December 12th, 2020
It's been quite a while since the last new feature was released for ChordPic. Which is why we're even more excited to release this one: You can now change the shapes of fingers 😮! You can choose your notes to be triangles, squares, circles, and pentagons. Give it a shot, it's super easy! Just click the "Edit Shapes" button and click on the notes, and you will circle through the different shapes.
ChordPic + Firefox = ❤️
October 3rd, 2020
ChordPic has been updated to work with Firefox! Before this update it wasn't possible to download the diagrams as PNGs on Firefox.
Another, unrelated update: Whn you download your diagram as SVG the SVG file name will now be the diagrams title. This was already the case for PNG images.
ChordPic featured by YouTuber Cesar All Guitar
July 27th, 2020
ChordPic has been featured in a video by the fantastic YouTuber Cesar All Guitar.Check out the video on YouTube and also check out Cesar's YouTube channel for more great guitar related content!
Changing Colors of Fingers and Barre Chords
June 20th, 2020
Another requested feature is now ready to use: Changing the color of individual fingers and barre chords! Just like adding text you can click on the "Edit Colors" button and then click on a finger or a barre chord to reveal a color picker where you can pick a color for the finger or barre chord that you selected. As easy as that! Here's an example:
Have you found a bug or do you have an idea how to make this feature even better? Don't hesitate towrite us an email!
Adding Text to Fingers and Barre Chords
June 6th, 2020
The probably most requested feature is now finally here: Each finger and barre chord can now be labelled! You can now add arbitrary text to each nut and each barre chord. Here's an example:
It's really easy too. Just click on the "Edit Text" button at the bottom of the chord editor and start labelling your fingers and barre chords.
As always, if you have any suggestion how to make this feature even better or if you experience any problems with this new feature please write us an email!
Improved Chord Logic
May 2nd, 2020
Multiple users of ChordPic have reported that it was not possible to create a chord diagram with a barre chart and a finger on the same fret. This is now fixed! You can now create chord diagrams like this:
Special thanks to everyone that reported this issue.
Have you found a bug or do you have a feature request? Don't hesitate towrite us an email. Together we will improve ChordPic to make it the best chord diagram creator out there!
How it all started
May 2nd, 2020
ChordPic was created after its predecessor, Chordpix, suddenly went offline and left guitar players around the world hanging. After Jonathan Eli, my friend and brilliant guitar player, told me about this I immediately started implementing a replacement. It has been a fun side project ever since, and I'm looking forward to continuing improving this tool for all guitar players.
Since the very early days of ChordPic, Jonathan Eli has been using the generated chord chart images for his unique educational YouTube channel. You should definitely check out Jonathan Eli's YouTube channel!