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24 alternatives to TabBank
A guitar tab editor that makes creating chords/tabs simple
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. TabBank launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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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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Tab Lab▲76Read and write music notation and tablature, together.
2015 · my.tablab.io · 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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KRFT 1.5.0▲110A modular instrument for music production
2017 · studioamplify.com · its alternatives →
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Generate guitar tablatures using a constraint solver - aumouvantsillage/TablaZinc
2020 · github.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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AI-generated tabs, chords, and lyrics. Edit, transpose, separate tracks, and remove vocals easily. Also includes interactive learning, which turns any music or song (YouTube, MP3) into chords. Play along with guitar, ukulele, or piano.
2024 · lamucal.com · its alternatives →
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Figure▲92A simple, fast, and beautiful music creation app
2014 · reasonstudios.com · its alternatives →
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Typedrummer▲14An instrument for creating drum beats with text
2015 · typedrummer.com · its alternatives →
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Tonefold▲74Describe a song, get every part as editable MIDI
8d ago · tonefold.vkfolio.com · its alternatives →
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Musikcube▲107A fully functional terminal-based music player
2017 · musikcube.com · its alternatives →
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Capo▲85A new way to analyze and learn to play music
2014 · supermegaultragroovy.com · its alternatives →
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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
2013 · groktar.com · its alternatives →
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