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Online guitar tab editor

Create guitar tabs online

Q: How do I create guitar tabs online for free?

Sign up for a Flat account, start a new score, choose a fretted instrument and write your tab directly on the fretboard. There’s nothing to install, and everything works in your browser.

Q: Is Flat an online Guitar Pro alternative?

Yes. Flat is a browser-based tab editor that covers the tools guitarists expect, from bends, slides and harmonics to custom tunings and multitrack editing, and it can open existing Guitar Pro files so you can edit and play them online.

Q: Can I open Guitar Pro files in the browser?

Yes. You can import .gp, .gpx and .gp5 files into Flat and keep editing and playing them online, on any device.

Q: Can I make bass and ukulele tabs too?

Absolutely. Flat supports guitar, bass and ukulele tabs, each with the right tuning and realistic playback.

Q: Do my tabs sync with standard notation?

Yes. Every tab is automatically kept in sync with standard music notation, so you and anyone you share with can read it either way.

Q: Can I play back, export and print my tabs?

Yes. Hear your tab with high-quality instrument sounds, then export it as PDF, MusicXML or MIDI, print it, or share a link.

Write guitar, bass and ukulele tabs right in your browser. No download required. A tab editor and Guitar Pro alternative with all the tools you need: bends, slides, hammer-ons, harmonics and realistic playback. Every tab stays in sync with standard notation automatically.

Start a tab for free See the tools

Free to start

Works in your browser

Guitar, bass & ukulele

Opens Guitar Pro files

How to make a guitar tab online

Start a new tab

Pick guitar, bass or ukulele and choose your tuning, with nothing to install.

Write with real tab tools

Add notes on the fretboard with bends, slides, hammer-ons and more. Your tab syncs with standard notation as you go.

Play back, export & share

Hear it with realistic instrument sounds, then export, print or share a link.

No download. No manual notation. Just create.

Everything you need to write tabs

Flat natively supports the full tab vocabulary: bends, slides, hammer-ons and pull-offs, harmonics, palm mutes, custom tunings and multi-track scores.

Bends Slides Hammer-ons Pull-offs Harmonics Palm mutes Custom tunings Multi-track

Tab with expression marks

A guitar tab showing bends, let-ring and slides

Signature feature

Tabs and standard notation, always in sync

Write on the tab and Flat updates the standard notation instantly, and vice versa. Perfect for learning, teaching and sharing with any musician.

Standard notation on top, tab below, kept in sync

An online Guitar Pro alternative

Open and edit your existing Guitar Pro files (.gp, .gpx, .gp5) directly in your browser, with no software to install. Create, edit and play tabs from any device, and pick up right where you left off.

Open Guitar Pro files

Import .gp, .gpx and .gp5 files and continue editing online.

Nothing to install

Everything runs in the browser, on any computer or tablet.

Access anywhere

Your tabs are saved to your account and synced across devices.

Coming from a PDF instead? Import PDF sheet music

Listen to realistic fretted instruments

Preview how your tabs will sound with high-quality guitar, bass and ukulele samples.

Guitar

Bass

Ukulele

Who it's for

Guitarists & bassists Writing and sharing their own tabs

Music students Learning songs and reading tab with notation

Teachers Preparing tab exercises for their students

Create guitar tabs online

How to make a guitar tab online

Start a new tab

Write with real tab tools

Play back, export & share

Everything you need to write tabs

Tabs and standard notation, always in sync

An online Guitar Pro alternative

Listen to realistic fretted instruments

Who it's for

FAQs

How do I create guitar tabs online for free?

Is Flat an online Guitar Pro alternative?

Can I open Guitar Pro files in the browser?

Can I make bass and ukulele tabs too?

Do my tabs sync with standard notation?

Can I play back, export and print my tabs?

Start writing your guitar tab