Guitar Pro Alternatives

MuseScore

MuseScore is a free music notation and composition software available for Linux, Windows and Mac. .

Features:

• Music Composer
• WYSIWYG Support
• Support for Android Things
• Midi
• Supports for MIDI
• Music Composer
• Music XML Support
• Portable
• Export to PDF
• WYSIWYG Support

TuxGuitar

With TuxGuitar, you will be able to compose music using the following features Tablature editor Score Viewer Multitrack display Autoscroll while...

Features:

• Skinnable
• Midi
• Supports for MIDI
• Multitrack editing
• Portable

Rosegarden

Rosegarden is a well-rounded audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment. Rosegarden is an easy-to-learn...

Features:

• Customizable
• DAW
• Music Composer
• Record midi & audio in real-time

Sibelius

Sibelius is a scorewriter program, created by Sibelius Software (now part of Avid Technology) for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and historically RISC OS.

Features:

• Visual timeline
• Ideas Hub
• Ribbon Interface
• Visual bookmarks
• WYSIWYG Support
• Engraving options
• Music Composer
• Music XML Support

Impro-Visor

Impro-Visor (short for “Improvisation Advisor”) is a music notation program designed to help jazz musicians compose and hear solos similar to ones that might be...

Denemo

GNU Denemo is a music notation editor that lets you rapidly enter notation for typesetting via the LilyPond music engraver. You can compose, transcribe, arrange, listen...

Features:

• Midi
• Music Composer

Finale

Finale is proprietary scorewriting software developed by MakeMusic, Inc. It displays music primarily in music notation and allows for multiple tracks and very specific...

Features:

• WYSIWYG Support
• Music Composer
• Music XML Support

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...

Features:

• Browser based
• Tabs

Yousician

Fast and fun way to learn, play and master the Piano, Guitar, Bass, Ukulele, or Singing / Vocals.

Features:

• Interactive chord detection
• Lessons
• Education
• Play along tabs

Band-in-a-Box

Intelligent auto-accompaniment to help music composers create truly professional backing tracks.

Features:

• Accompaniment
• Generative acompaniment
• Music Composer

Flat

Flat lets you write sheet music with your friends in real time with a nice music notation editor. Create and edit your music score documents directly with your web...

Features:

• Collaborative writing
• Music Composer
• Real time collaboration

Aria Maestosa

Aria Maestosa is an open-source (GPL) midi tracker/editor. It lets you compose, edit and play midi files with a few clicks in a user-friendly interface offering...

Features:

• Midi
• Music Composer

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...

Features:

• Midi
• Music Composer
• Tabs

music21

Music21 is a Python-based toolkit for computer-aided musicology. Applications of this toolkit include computational musicology, music informations, musical example...

NtEd

NtEd is a GTK+ score editor. It intends to be really WYSIWYG: what you see on the screen is exactly what you get on printer output. It supports up to 4 voices per staff...

Features:

• Music Composer
• WYSIWYG Support

EasyABC

EasyABC allows you to edit and play abc files. It supports conversion from MusicXML and MIDI to ABC. The latter uses a custom implementation (midi2abc is not used) in...

NoteWorthy Composer

NoteWorthy Composer is a graphical score editor intended for the creation of sheet music, but it can also import and export MIDI and Karaoke files and can export...

Features:

• Midi
• Music Composer

Tonelib JAM

The Tonelib JAM is a software for creating, editing, printing and listening to tablature and sheet music for guitar and other fretted instruments. You can use Tonelib...

Features:

• Audio Recording
• Backing track
• Guitar FX
• Music Composer

iShred

iShred sends the highest quality guitar sounds through a bank of crazily configurable stomp box effects, rendering the result into screaming, distorted, wailing...