Top 15 Guitar Pro Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Guitar Pro is first and foremost a program designed to edit tablatures for guitar, bass, and other fretted instruments from 4 to 8 strings.

Its great ease of use and the success of its specific file format have made it a program used by guitarists worldwide.

It now includes editing support for many other instruments like the piano or the drums, a realistic audio engine, and interactive tools to support every musician's practice.

1. Power Tab Editor

Power Tab Editor Power Tab Editor is a free tablature authoring tool created by Brad Larsen for Windows. It is used to create guitar, bass and ukulele tablature scores, among many others. The current version uses the *.ptb file format.The Power Tab Editor is able to import MIDI tracks, and can export to......

2. Guitar Tab Player

Guitar Tab Player Guitar Tab Player is a simple and very fast tablature reader and player with HD quality. It allows you to watch and play your tabs and music notation, simply and quickly. It supports ANY guitar pro files (including Guitar Pro 6). Just type what you want to play and go......

3. Reflow

Reflow Reflow is a music notation app that runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac. It is a 100% Native app that supports iCloud sync and latest Mac OS X features such as Versions, Autosave and Fullscreen.You can create your own tablatures and sheet music, or read existing Guitar Pro and PowerTab......

4. TablEdit

TablEdit TablEdit is a program for creating, editing, printing and listening to tablature and sheet music (standard notation) for guitar and other fretted, stringed instruments, including mandolin and bass.Additionally, TablEdit, while designed for guitarists, by guitarists, is not limited to guitar like other Tablature programs. Through ongoing consultation with experts on......

5. Tabular

Tabular Tabular is a brand new tablature editor that lets you read and write music for guitar, bass, drums and much more. It's the best way to learn new songs, write your own songs and run through practice exercises for nearly any kind of stringed instrument or drum kit.Practice tools allow......

6. TEFpad

TEFpad TEFpad LE is a editor of TablEdit files (.tef format) designed for the iPad.Just like TEFview for iOS, our free file viewer, TEFpad opens, displays and plays all .tef files and imports many types of music files (ASCII tablatures, ABC files, MusicXML, MIDI, Guitar Pro, PowerTab ...).In addition to this,......

7. Guitar Partner

Guitar Partner Guitar Partner (former TabDroid) is a tablature player for Android friendly mobile systems (Google phones). Two versions of Guitar Partner are available: Guitar Partner Lite and Guitar Partner Pro which has extra features.......

8. Songsterr

Songsterr Songsterr is an archive of guitar, bass and drum tabs. It is collaboratively built and maintained by your fellow music lovers. Anyone with Internet access can contribute new tabs and make changes to existing ones. Much like Wikipedia, contributions cannot damage Songsterr because the software allows easy reversal of mistakes......

9. Canary.fm

Canary.fm Canary.fm is a beautiful and simple guitar tab player that works in any web browser, iPhone, or iPad. It effortlessly keeps tabs synced across your devices, and has essential features like tempo control and track muting.......

10. Absolute Guitar

Absolute Guitar Absolute guitar simulator is a virtual guitar and a learn guide containing all the information you need to know to jump start learning a guitar. It contains theory lessons to understand the basic fundamentals and the chord diagram to learn from basic to complex chords.This application helps you to train......

11. Tiny Tab

Tiny Tab It's a music tool. It's extremely simple, and that's the main difference for similar apps.It searches the web for music tablatures and chords of any instrument (powered by Google Custom Search Engine) and display them cleanly together with Youtube results so you can optionally play along with audio. You can......

12. Tabit

Tabit TabIt is a full-featured program for creating, playing, and printing guitar, bass, or banjo tablature.......

13. TabToolkit

TabToolkit TabToolkit for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch is an incredibly powerful music notation viewer with multi-track audio playback. The app includes an audio synthesis engine that enables you to listen to and control the audio for all instrument tracks individually. TabToolkit makes learning how to play your favorite songs on......

14. KGuitar

KGuitar Kguitar is a guitar tablature editor for Linux, featuring: * Powerful and convenient tablature editing, including many effects and classical note score editing for classic instrument players; * Full and very customizable MIDI to tablature import and export; * Support of extra data formats, such as ASCII tablatures, MusicXML or......

15. guitarix

guitarix guitarix is a simple Linux Rock Guitar Amplifier for jack (Jack Audio Connektion Kit) with one input and two outputs. Designed to get nice thrash/metal/rock/blues guitar sounds. There are controls for bass, middle, treble, gain (in/out), compressor, preamp, tube's, drive, overdrive, oversample, anti-aliase, fuzz, balance, distortion, freeverb, impulse response, vibrato,......