Afinar
Press kit
Everything you’d need to write about Afinar. If something’s missing, ask: [email protected]
In one line
Afinar is a Mac app that turns whatever you practise from into a play-along that follows the real recording, and records you playing it.
In a paragraph
Afinar is a practice room for macOS. It opens the music you already use, tab sites, PDFs, chart files, lesson platforms, YouTube, and puts a real backing track under it. The score then turns its own pages in time with that recording, bar for bar, including repeats. Your instrument plugs into an audio interface and runs through real amp captures while you play, and every session is recorded and filed under the song you played it from. Everything stays on your machine: no account, no telemetry, nothing uploaded.
Fact sheet
| Name | Afinar |
| What it is | Practice, play-along and recording app for musicians |
| Platform | macOS 14.4 or newer, Apple silicon and Intel |
| iPad | On the way |
| Price | $24.99 one-time; Afinar Pro $14.99/year, optional |
| Trial | 14 days, every feature, no card and no account |
| Distribution | Direct download, notarized by Apple, not on the App Store |
| Founder | Albizu Garcia |
| Website | afinar.app |
| Press contact | [email protected] |
What makes it different
The thing no comparable tool does: it records your instrument through a real amp rig, mixed with the backing, in time, filed under the song. Score readers organise and annotate. Tab sites have catalogues. Notation software writes music. Several tools can follow a recording. None of them hand you a recording of you playing.
Its second distinctive capability is following an ordinary PDF. Afinar reads bar structure from the printed page and matches it to the recording, without converting the PDF into notation, so sheet music people already own turns its own pages.
About the founder
Afinar is built by Albizu Garcia.
He studied cello from childhood at the Escuela Libre de Música in San Juan and the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico, worked at a music store as a teenager, and spent about a decade in the audio industry representing brands including TC Electronic and Crest Audio. He later founded four companies. The most recent before Afinar, Gain, a marketing content approval platform, has been operating for over twelve years.
He took up the bass as an adult, and built Afinar out of the frustration of practising with four disconnected tools open and never once recording himself because the setup took longer than the practice.
Naming TC Electronic and Crest Audio is biographical. Neither endorses, sponsors or is affiliated with Afinar.
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