Alternatives to TuxGuitar
An open-source multitrack tablature editor and player for desktop and Android. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
TuxGuitar
An open-source multitrack tablature editor and player for desktop and Android.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as TuxGuitar.
Guitar Pro
A tablature and score editor for guitar, bass and other instruments, with audio playback.
Guitar Pro is paid, closed-source software with a more polished tablature and notation editor and iOS apps, but no Linux version.
MuseScore Studio
Free sheet music notation software that plays back what you write and prints it properly.
MuseScore Studio is a free, open-source notation editor centred on standard sheet music, with MusicXML and MIDI exchange, but it has no Android version.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Transcribe!
A specialised player that helps musicians work out music from recordings by ear.
Rosegarden
A Linux MIDI sequencer and music notation editor with basic digital audio support.
Yousician
An interactive music tutor for guitar, piano, bass, ukulele and singing that listens as you play.
Audiveris
Convert scanned sheet music into editable notation data.
Neothesia
View MIDI music as falling notes above a virtual piano.
