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title: Install Chord Notepad on Linux | Snap Store
description: Get the latest version of Chord Notepad for Linux - Write chords and
  lyrics, and hear them played
url: https://snapcraft.io/chord-notepad
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# Chord Notepad

[Tiberiu Alexandru Chibici (chibicitiberiu)](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/chibicitiberiu "View all snaps from Tiberiu Alexandru Chibici (chibicitiberiu)")

* [Tiberiu Alexandru Chibici (chibicitiberiu)](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/chibicitiberiu "View all snaps from Tiberiu Alexandru Chibici (chibicitiberiu)")
* [Education](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=education)
* [Music and Audio](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=music-and-audio)

latest/stable 0.4.1

Install latest/stable of Chord Notepad

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**Install using the command line**

```
sudo snap install chord-notepad
```

Don't have snapd? [Get set up for snaps](https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd).

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### Package name

* chord-notepad

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### License

* AGPL-3.0-or-later

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### Last updated

* 27 October 2026 - latest/stable

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### Websites

* [github.com/chibicitiberiu/chord-notepad](https://github.com/chibicitiberiu/chord-notepad "https://github.com/chibicitiberiu/chord-notepad")

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### Donations

* [ko-fi.com](https://ko-fi.com/tiberiualexandruchibici "https://ko-fi.com/tiberiualexandruchibici")

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### Source code

* [github.com/chibicitiberiu/chord-notepad](https://github.com/chibicitiberiu/chord-notepad "https://github.com/chibicitiberiu/chord-notepad")

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### Report a bug

* [github.com/chibicitiberiu/chord-notepad/issues](https://github.com/chibicitiberiu/chord-notepad/issues "https://github.com/chibicitiberiu/chord-notepad/issues")

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##### Report a Snap Store violation

* [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/chord-notepad#report-snap-modal)

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* [Description](https://snapcraft.io/chord-notepad#tab-description)
* [Security](https://snapcraft.io/chord-notepad#tab-security)

#### Write chords and lyrics, and hear them played

Chord Notepad is a text editor for chord sheets. It detects chord symbols in plain text, highlights them, and plays them back through a MIDI synthesizer.

Songs are plain text files, with chords on one line and lyrics on the line below. Lines that contain only chords are recognized as chord lines; other lines are left as text.

**Chord notation**

* American: C, Am, Bb7, Cmaj7, C/G
* European: Do, Rem, Fa#, Sol7
* Roman numerals, relative to the song's key: I, ii, V7, vi/I, ♭III
* Duration in beats: `C*2`, `Am*4.5`

**Directives**

ChordPro-style directives set the tempo, time signature and key, and mark and repeat sections: `{bpm: 120}`, `{time: 3/4}`, `{key: G}`, `{label: chorus}`, `{loop: chorus 2}`.

**Playback**

* Click a chord to play it, or play the whole song. The current chord is highlighted.
* FluidSynth with the GeneralUser GS soundfont (General MIDI, 128 instruments).
* Piano voicing chooses each chord's notes to minimize movement from the previous chord.
* Guitar voicing uses fingerings within a four-fret span. Tunings: standard, Drop D, DADGAD, Open G, and ukulele.
* Ensemble voicing for SATB, TTBB and SSA choir, and string quartet.
* Speed multiplier and metronome.

**Chord sheet**

A panel below the editor shows the voiced chords as a piano roll, a staff, chord diagrams or tablature, and follows the playback position.

**Tools**

* Transpose
* Capo suggestion
* Conversion between American and European notation
* Chord identification from a set of notes
* MIDI file export

Release write-up and technical details: <https://tibich.com/blog/chord-notepad-release/>

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## Install Chord Notepad on your Linux distribution

Choose your Linux distribution to get detailed installation instructions. If yours is not shown, get more details on the [installing snapd documentation](https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd).

[### Arch Linux](https://snapcraft.io/install/chord-notepad/arch)

[### CentOS](https://snapcraft.io/install/chord-notepad/centos)

[### Debian](https://snapcraft.io/install/chord-notepad/debian)

[### elementary OS](https://snapcraft.io/install/chord-notepad/elementary)

[### Fedora](https://snapcraft.io/install/chord-notepad/fedora)

[### KDE Neon](https://snapcraft.io/install/chord-notepad/kde-neon)

[### Kubuntu](https://snapcraft.io/install/chord-notepad/kubuntu)

[### Manjaro](https://snapcraft.io/install/chord-notepad/manjaro)

[### Pop!\_OS](https://snapcraft.io/install/chord-notepad/pop)

[### openSUSE](https://snapcraft.io/install/chord-notepad/opensuse)

[### Red Hat Enterprise Linux](https://snapcraft.io/install/chord-notepad/rhel)

[### Ubuntu](https://snapcraft.io/install/chord-notepad/ubuntu)