Start with a blank sheet to compose your own tune. Write the lyrics and then add drag and drop chords for guitar, ukulele, baritone ukulele, 3 string cigar box guitars, Strum instrument for disabled players or the Piano, Keyboard.

New: extended support for Piano and Jostiband notation. Ukulele chords matching the Aquila string colors, and guitar chords matching the DR Neon string colors, making it even easier to see where to place your fingers to strum the chords.

Or pick one of the thousands of free songs from Jim’s Songbook. Filter on songs with 3 or less chords, and on the type of chords. The ‘Easy button’ will automatically change the key of the song to use simpler chords to play the melody.

Tunes are stored in the standard ChordPro format.

View the tune in the app using the auto-scroll feature or export a JPG image to share and view on any device.

Oscar’s Tune Catcher

Drag and Drop chords into the standard sheet music template. Set the time signature, add lyrics and then create a JPG image with just one click.

Change between chords for the guitar, ukulele, baritone ukulele, 3 string cigar box guitars and Strum Instrument.

Making and sharing music has never been easier.

Oscar’s Tune Maker

This app is developed specially for blind and visually impaired musicians.
There are no buttons to find and click.

Access thousands of free songs in Jim’s Songbook as available on OZBCOZ.COM using just your voice.

The lyrics and chords to play are read out loud.

Oscar’s & Jim’s Songbook

This app is developed specially for blind and visually impaired musicians.

Use your voice to ask how to play a chord on a guitar, ukulele, or baritone ukulele. Oscar’s Chords will tell you where to place your fingers to strum the chords.

The app can speak English and Dutch. It also shows the chord as an image on the neck of the instrument or in high contrast numbers.

Special thanks to Dedicon in the Netherlands for their great advice. Dedicon makes text and images accessible for people who are visually impaired. www.dedicon.nl

Oscar’s Chords

Generate images of chords for the Arcana Strum instrument by just entering the numbers of the keys to press. Both the 5 key and 3 key modes are supported.

Save the image as JPG or PNG file or copy it to the Windows clipboard.

Oscar’s Strum Builder

Oscar’s Chord builder lets you easily generate chord images for 6 string instruments (guitar), 5 string instruments, 4 string instruments (ukulele) or 3 and 2 string instruments like cigarbox guitars.
Simply enter the fret numbers for each string, enter an x to mute the string.

Save the image as JPG or PNG file or copy it to the Windows clipboard.

Oscar’s Chord Builder

This app is developed specially for blind and visually impaired musicians.
There are no buttons to find and click. On the keyboard only easy to locate keys (spacebar, arrow keys) are used in addition to voice commands.

Start playback of your music using just your voice. You can tell the app at what point in the song to start playback.

Oscar’s Player

The app is optimized for use by blind or visually impaired learners.
The app can be operated by using only the spacebar and arrow keys.

Improve and test your knowledge of the Italian language using Oscar’s Flashcards.

Choose between nouns, verbs, 1000 of the most common words or create your own set of cards by creating a simple text file.

If you have installed the Italian text-to-speech option in Windows, the app will say the words to listen to the correct pronunciation.

Oscar’s Flashcards IT

Learn the most common nouns of the Dutch language with Mireille’s Flashcards.

You can switch between English to Dutch and Dutch to English.

Mireille’s Flashcards NL

Oscar Talks provides Augmentative & Alternative ways to Communicate [AAC] to those with special needs.

The user taps on tiles on the screen for the PC to say those words. The app comes with a set of tiles but the user can create their own vocabulary using plan text files. Custom images can be added to replace the standard drawings.

Using free Windows voices Oscar can speak many different languages.

As the user adds words to say, Oscar will provide suggestions for phrases previously used or common in the English language.

Oscar Talks