Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Pastebin for guitar tab. HTML5, SVG, Parse.com...web 2.0...cyberspace
As you can tell, I haven't really been sure how to pitch this site. Maybe it's trying to do too much. It's still a work in progress, but I would love to get some feedback. Thanks HN! HOWTO: http://groktar.com/?m=kTD4PzaNwv Lagrima: http://groktar.com/?m=TLZgtrjM6n
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Pastebin for guitar tab. HTML5, SVG, Parse.com...web 2.0...cyberspace launched in 2013; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Originally started as a project to restore patterns from now defunct website 808.pixll.de just for myself, but eventually i decided to share it with others. I've seen this website mentioned a couple of times on HN:) Currently it only supports Roland TR-808, but there will be more.
2025 · drumpatterns.onether.com · its alternatives →
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A free, open source, music theory explorer for guitarists. Discover how scales and modes map to the fretboard and how chords work within scales.
2018 · guitardashboard.com · its alternatives →
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Hey guys I've been playing the guitar for many years but I felt like I had hit a wall and wasnt making progress. One of the things I realized was holding me back was unfamiliarity with the fretboard. I'd often find myself in situations like “Uhh…Where’s the C# here?” “Where’s the flat-3rd of this root on the 4th string?” “Sure would be nice to know the closest min7 triad shape to play over here..” I tried memorizing the fretboard the obvious way but it extreeemly boring for me. Being a developer, I decided to turn it into a game. I'd love for you guys to try it out and let me know what you…
2023 · fretboardfly.com · its alternatives →
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I created a simple CLI that turns a YouTube guitar-lesson video into a PDF of the guitar tab. There are services that transcribe music from Youtube videos into tabs, but they never work well enough for me. Instead I'm taking a simpler approach. It downloads the video, samples frames, uses Claude vision to locate the tab region, crops every frame to that region, de-duplicates the crops by the bar number printed on each line of the score, and stitches the distinct tab lines vertically into a PDF. I didn't test it on a lot of different Youtube videos yet, so problem will arise for sure.
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Play a free virtual guitar online with your keyboard or by touch. Slow songs down and see every chord, string and strum. Acoustic, classic, electric and bass.
11d ago · guitoro.com · its alternatives →
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Learn music better with our living sheet music.
2012 · soundslice.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I'm Gabe, the creator of Songcraft (https://songcraft.io/home). I recently dove headfirst into songwriting, and I quickly grew frustrated with my process. I found songwriting difficult enough without having to wrangle a mess of different tools, and there's no great solution to build chord sheets and tabs (unless you love pure text input). So, I built Songcraft - an online songwriting platform and tab builder. The drag-and-drop editor makes it easy to jump from chords to lyrics to melodies. I added a chord progression generator and chord recommendation engine to ensure…
2019 · its alternatives →
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www.tubalr.com - any feedback and suggestions are greatly appreciated. code: https://github.com/cjstewart88/Tubalr
2011 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · getinstinct.com · its alternatives →
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Free Online Guitar Tuner. Uses your microphone to tune your guitar or other instruments!</meta>
2014 · freetuner.co · its alternatives →
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TabBank▲5A guitar tab editor that makes creating chords/tabs simple
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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FlexChords▲69Turn any YouTube video into accurate, playable guitar chords
21d ago · flexchords.com · its alternatives →
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Hi folks, About seven months ago, via HN, I got nerdsniped into a silly guitar transcription problem and made a bunch of really senseless code but what came out of it was what I thought at the time could potentially be pretty useful - a guitar fretboard mapper and fingering scoring algorithm. So as of yesterday morning I've finally put those bits of code to "good" use, creating gtrsnipe to convert between MIDI files (.mid) and ASCII tab (as well as VexTab and ABC notation) and any combination/direction among the set of formats. gtrsnipe tries to intelligently find the best neck and…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The best recreation of "Guitar Hero" on mobile
2014 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Little side project from the past few months indexing ascii guitar tab sections into pseudo-language "words" (notes, chords) and "sentences" (riffs) that can be queried and indexed with ElasticSearch (Apache Lucene).
2013 · riffbank.com · its alternatives →
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This started out when I vibe-coded a guitar scale fingering generator. It came out pretty good, and I started adding stuff to it: chords, then how chords and scales interact. Then I added charts for other instruments I mess around with: piano, cello, alto recorder. There's a complexity toggle to go from basic harmony to extended/experimental stuff. It's honestly still mostly a toy, but I thought other people might be interested in playing with it. Source is on github, so it's easy enough to run locally and fork. https://github.com/aleshh/gtr-scales
May 2026 · projects.alesh.com · its alternatives →
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Put this together this afternoon. I've been after something to quickly jot down the odd piece of information that I can access later in the day when browsing the web. Hopefully you find it useful. Criticism/thoughts/ideas greatly appreciated. I should add, since all the hard work here lies in the work of others here — garlic.js is a great plugin for handling localstorage. Cheers Jason
2012 · a5.gg · its alternatives →
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notave▲4Write pro guitar & bass TAB in your browser. Or ask AI.
Jun 2026 · zelva.dev · its alternatives →
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