The Best 52 Guitar Pro Alternatives

  • GVOX Encore

    Encore is the standard in professional music notation. Its powerful transcribing and editing capabilities help musicians of all levels get their ideas into print.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows

  • ABCJ

    ABCJ is a pure-Java editor, player and librarian for music files stored using Chris Walshaw's ABC notation. Features :-. • ABCJ maintains a library of ABC files.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

  • Harmony Assistant

    Harmony Assistant is an unbeatable software for computer-assisted music composition and editing.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Melody Assistant

    Melody Assistant is dedicated to music writing, printing and rendering. Easy to use, Melody Assistant offers a user-friendly interface and powerful capabilities.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • 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.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows

  • staventabs

    iOS and macOS notation and tablature editor with MIDI and MusicXML files support and chromatic scales analyze of the score.

    Freemium Mac OS X iPhone iPad

  • DGuitar

    DGuitar is a Guitar Pro (GP4, GP3, GTP) viewer/player that works on Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD, Solaris, and any other operating system that has Java Runtime Environment...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

  • MC Musiceditor

    MC Musiceditor is free/open source (GPLv2) music notation software (Windows). It has been developed with only one purpose: to make life of musicians easier when making...

    Free Open Source Windows

  • ABCexplorer

    ABC, a text based music score manager-editor for free. You can copy, transpose or play these songs, import midi-music files, export to midi, to pdf, to web page or to...

    Free Windows

  • 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...

    Commercial iPhone iPad

  • Jazz++

    Jazz++ is a MIDI sequencer/composer. Create your own music.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • Tabit

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

    Commercial Windows

  • MuseScore Sheet Music Player

    The MuseScore Player opens and plays scores made with the free MuseScore notation software. The app dynamically fits the sheet music to the screen of your device. You...

    Commercial Android Android Tablet

  • MagicScore

    MagicScore is an easy and powerful music notation and composition software. MagicScore is the smart choice for musicians, composers, arrangers, teachers, students...

    Commercial Windows

  • 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...

    Freemium Android

  • ABCEditor

    ABCEditor is a Windows program from Elizabeth Scarlett (hosted at Alf Warnock's site) which allows you to create, edit, play and organise abc files. It can...

    Free Windows

  • alphaTab

    alphaTab is a cross platform music notation and guitar tablature rendering library. You can use alphaTab within your own website or application to load music sheets from...

    Free Open Source Web

  • Pickup Guitar Club

    Forget boring, traditional lessons, this site teaches you the same skills through fun and rewarding songs like Sweet Home Alabama and Wagon Wheel or from artists like Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Blink-182, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

    Commercial Web