Changelog
What's new in Rifflog
Undo, redo and shortcuts
- Undo and redo for your step edits.
- Keyboard shortcuts let you move, delete, copy, paste and duplicate steps without leaving the keyboard.
- Selecting a range works the way you'd expect: drag either edge to grow or shrink it.
- Shared tabs now open full width for the people you share them with.
- A fresh look for the Rifflog logo and a new brand green.
- Chord of the Day now works through one key each week.
New navigation and a Tools drawer
- A new, simpler navigation bar that changes with the page you're on, with My Tabs and New Tab always at the top.
- Tools drawer in the editor, on desktop, tablet and phone, so the tuner and chord tools sit right next to your tab.
- Tablet and phone layouts built for fingers: a docked editor in portrait and audio controls on one row.
- You can resize the editor side panel to suit your screen.
A cleaner step editor
- A cleaner step editor on desktop and mobile.
Chord pages and look-ahead scrolling
- Chord Shapes now gives every chord its own page, with the notes named.
- During playback, the tab scrolls ahead so the next line is ready before you get there.
- The tuner has a stop button and pauses when you switch away.
Accessibility
- Accessibility: every control shows clearly when it has focus, and you can move around the tab grid and edit it with a keyboard or screen reader.
- Nudge a step's timing with the keyboard.
- The tuner recognises bass and drop tunings and holds a steadier reading.
Chord Shapes and Chord of the Day
- Chord Shapes: look up every way to play a chord.
- Chord of the Day is here.
- Drag part tabs to reorder your parts.
- My Tabs remembers how you last sorted it.
- Audio uploads can now be up to 15 MB, and you'll see clearly when an upload is running or has failed.
- Chord names read the way players say them.
PDF printing and a magnifier for long takes
- Print any part as a black-and-white PDF.
- A magnifier for long recordings lets you scrub precisely through long takes.
- New notation: natural harmonics and staccato.
- Your phone's lock screen shows what's playing.
Safer duplicating
- Duplicating a tab saves your latest edits first, and you'll be told if a save fails.
Bends and sections
- Bends with amounts, plus pre-bends, releases and holds.
- Sections let you split a part into labelled, collapsible sections such as Verse or Chorus.
- New label symbols: sharp, flat, vibrato and harmonic.
- A richer demo tab with several parts.
- Audio you upload is guaranteed to play on iPhone and iPad.
Fretboard video and smoother playback
- Fretboard-style video export with a lit-up five-fret window, a vertical option and a left-handed mirror.
- Smoother playback: the highlight lands right on the beat, and long tabs no longer slow the page down.
- Recording from your mic sounds more natural.
- Tab pages load without flicker.
Video overlay export
- Export your tab as a video overlay to drop on top of your playing videos: as a flat MP4, a PNG sequence, or a transparent .mov for Premiere and CapCut.
- Shared tabs show who made them.
- You get a warning before leaving a tab with unsaved changes.
Sign in with Google or Apple
- Sign in with Google or Apple.
- A welcome email for new accounts.
- The fretboard shows your capo.
Install it, use it offline
- Install Rifflog as an app, and keep editing when you're offline.
- Move around the tab with the keyboard, and drag to change fret numbers.
- A focused editor on mobile.
- Fixes for audio scrubbing on iPhone.
Recording, a tuner and free tools
- Copy, paste, duplicate and select a range of steps, and drag steps to reorder them.
- Record audio in your browser, with a live waveform.
- A built-in guitar tuner.
- Fine-tune sync timing after you record it.
- Chord detection in the editor, plus new free tools: Chord Finder, Key Explorer and Key Finder.
- A fretboard picker lets you choose notes visually.
- Tuning presets.
- The current step scrolls into view during playback.
Rifflog launches
- Rifflog launched at rifflog.com, open to all from 31 May.
- Upload audio, sync your tab to it, and share it publicly, with specific people, or keep it private.
- Slides, bends and hammer-ons / pull-offs.
- A waveform you can click to seek.
- Tap-to-sync on touch screens.
- A demo tab and a guided tour.
- Works on phones.
- Short, shareable tab links.
- Account settings, password reset and a feedback button.