iReal Pro: Backing Tracks

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4.7
18.9K reviews
500K+
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Content rating
Everyone
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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 05, 2026

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
App info and performance and Device or other IDs
No data collected
Learn more about how developers declare collection
Data is encrypted in transit
Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.7
15K reviews
Ben Spigle
February 28, 2026
IReal Pro is probably the best app for getting backing tracks easily, but it still pretty much sucks. Very few choices for styles. Cannot put a chord on the eighth note. 12 stanza limit on length of songs (I mean really!?!). Searching for songs is a bit primitive. Backing tracks are very static and limited. Display is very basic, chords will overlap making them unreadable. If there was something better that was affordable it would be nice. Till then I'll keep using it.
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Jan Wallace
November 5, 2021
I LOVE this program! Not only can you find thousands of charts to jazz, blues and rock tunes (even share the charts over many different methods), but the practice/play along function is invaluable. Before I purchased this program (at such a reasonable rate!), I was constantly trying to find backing tracks for practicing both vocals and piano. But often, those free tracks were in the wrong key. And the paid tracks add up fast! With IRealPro, you can change the tempo (slower when you're learning), set it to loop as many times as you want, create your own charts, modify charts, change the key (a must for my low voice), and even try the song with different rhythms. I don't know what we did without it. I have bought copies for other band members too. Just DO it!
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Technimo
January 24, 2022
Thank you Jan! We hope your band likes it as well ;) Enjoy your practice!
A Google user
February 2, 2020
I love this app. I used it to enter chords from the Rikky Rooksby songwriting book and got addicted. So I can go through the exercises in the book without my computer. It's my fav chord progression making software. I wish I could audition chords before writing them. Also more playing styles and instruments please!!!! However it does what I needed it to do. Really really enjoying it, but it is slightly flawed.
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What’s new

• New: Comprehensive TalkBack screen reader support for chord charts, player controls, mixer, transposition, practice, chord diagrams, and song navigation
• Faster app startup
• Redesigned Store — Style Packs now accessible from Settings
• Improved support for multiple staff text annotations
• Improved reliability of audio and PDF exports
• Improved backup progress and data storage reliability
• Bug fixes and stability improvements