Open Source Guitar Pro Alternatives for Mac

There are many alternatives to Guitar Pro for Mac if you are looking for a replacement. The best open source Mac alternative is TuxGuitar. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Guitar Pro and ten of them are open source and available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Mac alternatives to Guitar Pro are MuseScore Studio, Impro-Visor, Aria Maestosa and Denemo.

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  1. TuxGuitar icon
     124 likes

    A Multitrack tablature editor and player.

    59 TuxGuitar alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • Flathub
     
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    TuxGuitar vs Guitar Pro Comments
    Top Positive Comment
    Guest
    4

    TuxGuitar is to Guitar Pro as WordPad is to Word. It's not quite the same, but it's got all of the essential features, is open source, and is free.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    kraideinformatica
    Positive
    0

    It's free and easy to use. The Best alternative to Guitar Pro.

    Guest
    Positive
    0

    It is a fantastic light-weight tab maker. The interface can be one-handed once you get familiar. But I think it's no longer supported or updated (as of 2019). Boo!

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    3 of 7 comments
    • TuxGuitar is Free and Open SourceGuitar Pro is Paid and Proprietary
  2. MuseScore Studio icon
     248 likes

    Compose, arrange, and share music using free, open-source software for Windows, Mac, and Linux with integrated playback, fast note entry, MIDI, MusicXML, PDF support, multilingual UI, and direct connection to an online sheet music community for sharing scores.

    72 MuseScore Studio alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • BSD
    • iPad
    • PortableApps.com
    • Haiku
     
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    MuseScore Studio vs Guitar Pro Comments
    Top Positive Comment
    burnx50
    0

    MuseScore's constant improvements in guitar tab editing make it an increasingly attractive option for anyone who seeks an alternative for Guitar Pro

    Top Negative Comment
    Guest
    -2

    MuseScore is not specific for the guitar or other fretted instruments.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
    Positive
    0

    It is free software. And it does its job perfectly.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    3 of 5 comments
    • MuseScore Studio is Free and Open SourceGuitar Pro is Paid and Proprietary
  3. Impro-Visor icon
     25 likes

    Impro-Visor is a music notation program designed to help jazz musicians compose and hear solos similar to ones that might be improvised.

    63 Impro-Visor alternatives

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. Aria Maestosa icon
     11 likes

    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 keyboard, guitar, drum and controller views.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Denemo icon
     22 likes

    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 to the music and much more.

    52 Denemo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
     
  6. EasyABC icon
     6 likes

    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 order to produce very readable ABC output. Direct midi input is supported for people with a midi keyboard.

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    • Mac
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  7. music21 icon
     8 likes

    Music21 is a Python-based toolkit for computer-aided musicology. Applications of this toolkit include computational musicology, music informations, musical example extraction and generation, music notation editing and scripting, and a wide variety of approaches to composition, bo.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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  8. ChordPro icon
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    ChordPro generates professional-looking, printer-ready sheet music from a text file that contains lyric and chord information. This input file containing the music uses a simple text format for the notation of lyrics and chords which allows them to be properly interpreted by...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. DGuitar icon
     5 likes

    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 1.4 or later installed.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  10. Canorus is a free cross-platform music score editor. It supports an unlimited number and length of staffs, polyphony, a MIDI playback of notes, chord markings, lyrics, import/export filters to formats like MIDI, MusicXML, ABC Music, MusiXTeX and LilyPond.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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