Guitar Pro App Reviews

Guitar Pro Lite. This is a great stripped/on-the-go version of Guitar Pro. Really handy for jotting down ideas-though it would be helpful to be able write using more than one track and to have the option to change time signatures or edit preexisting files. It will *read* all pre existing GP files but you can NOT edit them. To view multiple tracks on the pre made files, go into settings to view each one. You can download tabs from your browser and open directly in the app too which is helpful. I’ll rate 5 stars when/if more features are added to the note pad. Otherwise well worth the purchase

Utterly useless. What a waste of an app.. This app, as opposed to the PC app, is a nightmare to use. Just go ahead and try to put an idea down quickly, two hours later you’ll still be trying to get the second bar put in correctly. It is incomplete. You’ll go on a wild goose chase trying to find the vibrato at the top of a bend. You make a mistake on that bar chord and want to change that 5th to a 6th? Forget it! You havre to delete the whole thing. Put in an extra beat and want to remove it? Sorry, bub, you’re going to have to keep that extra rest after you try to delete those notes. My question to Arobas is this: Why doesn’t this app have the same functionality that the PC app does? iPad is a super powerful tool that just BEGS for full functionality in an app like this. So much potential…wasted. This app is so difficult and so annoying to use that it makes you wonder why they even put it out at all! You’ll be so frustrated after using this app that even looking at the icon will make you want to throw your iPad through the wall.

It works. It works for me on my iPhone, I like it, for sure. But considering I paid for this app, I wish under the settings there would be an option to change the entire guitar key flat or sharp for either self-tabulated or purchased pro tab files. Sometimes I only want to play songs with string tuning of Eb on my standard-tuned guitar or I decide to try playing back my tabs in a different key. And don’t tell me to learn my modes!! It’s not asking for much, pweeease

I really want this to work. I compose and arrange music using Guitar Pro on my desktop for my Ensemble. Excellent piece of software. I purchased numerous copies of this iPad version of Guitar Pro so my players could practice our pieces. The ability to loop sections, change tempo, and mute various parts make this an attractive practice solution. Mostly it works but the drum track is a disaster. The drums don’t play the same sounds as the desktop version. In fact many drum “notes” are silent on the iPad version. There also doesn’t seem to be any method of contacting the vendor for support.

Somewhat disappointed.... I knew when I purchased that this is only a player and not editor. Still, I have to rate this low. Highlights: Audio quality is decent Loops whole score Plays selective tracks/instruments Lowlights: Very little of the nice formatting (section breaks, fonts, proportions) from the Mac/Win version is kept. The chord labels are tiny and difficult to read when in 4-bars-per-line mode. Looping of selected groups of measures is not possible. This is a bummer when I want to practice certain portions of a piece. No direct integration with the Files App. The only way to load your gDrive or DropBox files is to use "Open In". It would be nice to be able to create folders to organize your scores. Overall, I'd say it's not really worth the price (I paid $6). My only consolation is the possibility that the developer might improve it. Fingers crossed...

COULD BE SO MUCH MORE! Where is an autoscroll??. Seems like its a wasted potential this app. Instead of giving features you charge for a basic reader of GP8 files. When you can buy much better songbook type app/software and basically export the song into it. Even the fact that you can’t organize the files/songs as you want, makes this pretty lacking to say the least. —Group songs into sets or personalized groupings? Not possible —Update a song on the fly? Not possible —Add backing tracks or change the type of instrument used for the track? Also not possible. —Turn off instruments and just play metronome? Not possible —AUTOSCROLL?? Wow this is the strangest missing feature. The fact their software also doesn’t work with anyone’s pedal is really a bad decision! —Change the tab to a song or even revise an existing song you wrote or made up? Nope not possible, something that is a basic feature of GP8. For the price of this app, unfortunately it is seriously lacking in features that are available on pretty much every other app here.

Great tool for practice!. This could best be described as Guitar Pro light because it has some of the features of the full desktop version, but not editing, composing, etc. It is a great GP file reader that is incredibly useful for practice and rehearsal. I don’t write original music or do a lot of transcribing, so this version is perfect for me. I use this app every time I am learning a new song to help with timing, accuracy, etc.

Fantastic app. I bought this about a year ago and use it almost daily. It is a great tool for learning that I have yet to find. It is intuitive, simple to use and has all the features I could want. There are millions of songs available on the net for free and most of the paid sites offer their files in GP format. It is also ridiculously underpriced. Keep up the great work guys!

Seems pretty buggy. I downloaded the app yesterday and put a couple of hours into fiddling with it. Although I love the idea of the app, it has proven to be frustrating. First, I signed into the associated music service (which itself was a buggy experience from my iPad). Once I finally got it all working, I spent a good hour going through the song list and adding to my favorites. Once I had a good fifty songs, or so, I was pretty happy and looking forward to learning some new tabs. My iPad went to sleep, as it does after a period of time. When I woke it up, all of my favorites were gone. Zap. No record of that hour I spent. What a PAIN! This evening I opened the app on my iPhone and somehow navigated to an offer for all of the top Guns’nRoses riffs. ‘That will be fun’, I thought. I clicked on the first tune and I was instantly transported to a completely separate page with everything in French! I kid you not. I still can’t find my way back to the GNR tabulature offer. Only one day in, and I am already frustrated. A good idea for an app that needs some intuitive help and maybe a bit more time on the oven.

3.5 would be a little closer than 4 stars, but…. It’s pretty good for $7. I have used the full mac version which has a LOT more features, so it leaves one just a bit cold to fall back to this bare-bones version. You can create a new score, but as far as I can tell, there’s no way to edit an existing one. While GP leaves a lot to be desired, that’s really only in comparison to itself. It’s better than any other iPad tab player that I’ve seen to date, and there are NO IN APP PURCHASES or sleazy subscription schemes. LET’S KEEP IT THAT WAY! Also, did I mention that it’s only $7?

Horrible UI but useful tool. The UI needs work. The bottom bar cannot be hidden and wastes too much space. On the iPhone version the tab can only be displayed on one horizontal line so given the limited screen space it is virtually unusable. Automatically flow the display into multiple lines shouldn’t be this hard, right? As it is now, it is an indispensable tool for me cause I need to handle those Guitar Pro files... but it is also one of the most frustrating apps that I’d like to avoid using as much as possible. Please! This app has the potential to become truly great, so please improve it ASAP!

It doesn’t connect to my fretlight guitar.. I bought this app. To learn how to play songs. I search on the internet to find out why it doesn’t connect to my fretlight it has the bottom I pres to connect and nothing happens for me to writing this is because I being trying for the past 2 days to make it work and nothing happens I try to email you and ask me for user Id ? I bought it here in App Stores what user name ? Sorry for the respond late. When you bought the app obviously you use your password to buy the app. And you downloaded you open the app ? And works right? If you respond is yes and that case you are ok. Now you say that you press the the guitar bottom and nothing happens? Now this could be a simple problem 1. Check the guitar if the battery is charge if blink it means it is 2 when you open the guitar pro. Go on the right corner where you see a little sign square for chords where you want to learn any scale or go where it says lessons when you are on either one ones you have open and you are ready to learn. You gonna see a Bluetooth sign is like dar gray color click that one. Is going to blink until you press the bottom on your guitar. And when both are connected that Bluetooth on the cellphone will turn on blue which means is connected but make sure your guitar blinks first before you connect because if the battery is dead it will not respond to your Bluetooth I hope this help you. 2

Wasted potential to be the best practice companion to guitar pro. I’m learning piano and guitar together with my daughter and guitar pro (desktop) has been an irreplaceable tool. I tab out pieces for her to practice and it’s super useful to have play along to get the rhythm right or sync with a teacher duet track. Guitar Pro beats MuseScore hands down on ease of use. I have an iPad Pro and we use this app to practice. It’s just so much nicer to put a tablet in front on the piano instead of a laptop, even more so when I have a strat strapped over my shoulder. Unlike other reviewers, I wish the app was more feature complete in the reader/practice use case. Some missing features that were felt: - multi track view, so we can play piano duets. It’s useful for guitar too to see what the other guitars are playing. - been able to select an exact tempo. I have a song at 100, 80 is comfortable while 90 is too fast. But I can’t select an 85 because the slider is at 0.1 increments. - nicer sounds? Doesn’t sound as good as the desktop version - bigger playback controls. This is already a read only app, make it nicer to use for this use case :) - pencil annotations, nice to have, but awesome for the teaching use case I’ve tried other apps like staffpad where it was promising, but writing on desktop GP was still faster than using the Apple Pencil. Why not make this a top notch GP reader to monetize the trove of pre-existing tabs?

Missing Essential Tools and Poor Support. Guitar Pro is a classic tool. On The computer, it rocks. I don’t care that the sounds are cheesy. I don’t use it for that. What I care about is that it needs to show both TAB and standard notation. Also, the user should be able to input the score in tab, or standard notation. Both of these features, do not seem to be available when you are using the app on the iPad or the iPhone. The mobile device help section states that both these features are available, but I couldn’t figure out how to use standard notation, so I contacted Arobus music and they have confirmed that these features are not available, even though their site displays that they are available for the iPad. I’m not very good with standard notation, but some of the books that I am learning from only have standard notation, so, to learn how to play it, I need to input the score in standard notation and then have it kick out tab for me. When they fix this, I will change my review to give them five stars. This really is my only complaint, but it’s a really big one.

A Decent Companion for Guitar Pro 7, with just a couple issues.. First of all, it runs fine. It could be a little better, but it works. For being 10% or the cost of the PC version, it’s worth the buy. But, I would not use this if you are intending to write or change music on it. It is great for reading tabs, not exactly making them. Yet, my biggest issue is it’s soundbank, which is not even comparable to the PC version. If there is a way to download a better soundbank, or even the PC soundbank, I would pay extra just to get that, because this is really lacking. Again, this is decent for reading tabs, but there are better alternatives out there.

It works but it's not great. It can play files written in the desktop version of Guitar Pro, but you can't write files in the app. I would be okay with the app being only a dedicated guitar pro file player for on the go if it was actually a good one, but it isn't. It can't even play some files correctly. One of my files has a pick sweep in it that sounds very incorrect when played in this app. Even when it plays the files correctly, the sounds used for the instruments are of a significantly lower quality than in the desktop version. It gets the job done, but it definitely should be better.

Please Refund - Disappointed loyal customer. I have used guitar pro since 2012. I really felt blind-sighted when I bought this app. When I saw that Guitar Pro had an app, my first thought was “my boring desk job was about to get a lot better!” My first thought was not: “I could regret not reading the fine print”. I trusted in the brand that I supported for years, so I bought it without hesitation, but when I go to use it I found that this app is almost completely useless to a composer. If you primarily use GP to compose, don’t buy this, unless you hate polyphony. Because you can only write with one track per file. I’ll admit that it was an impulse buy and I should have read it the description more closely and not let the beginning of the description sell me. I just expected more from Guitar Pro on this. TL/DR Don’t buy for composing or editing– it’s a trap!! Only supports one track per piece.

Suggestions. This app has so much potential and has seen few major updates over the years. At this point, it should have all major features and capabilities as Guitar Pro 8.5 for PC. Sadly, it’s not even usable in mobile form to write or transcribe a simple track. Others have been requesting fully featured software like the PC version for years now. I would love to see the ability to import fully editable tablature, chord charts, and lyrics from apps like Ultimate Guitar (especially people who have paid UG Pro accounts ). It would also help to be able to connect a Jamstik 7 and Jamstik Studio MIDI guitar to transcribe music directly into the app by simple playing notes, chords, and expressions like bends, hammer-ons, harmonics, etc. via wired or wireless connection to one’s iPhone — this would not only make transcription and song writing faster and easier, but can also serve to help improve skills and accuracy by seeing exactly what one is playing on a screen as tabs. Likewise, imagine being able to use third party software like GarageBand for the same purpose — and to even be able to use effects to help create the song’s vibe/tone. I can go on and on here. I’ve heard the desktop software is incredible. Let’s bring this mobile app into 2023. Many people don’t even own a laptop anymore and most guitarists want to have the lightest possible rigs and tools for writing and performing music — please make this app a powerhouse!d,

Solid app to create and open up GP/GPX files. I’ve been using the app daily to create tabs. I love it. It has almost all music composition and guitar techniques (triplet feel, harmonics, bends with fraction ratios). You can export your creations into a PDF, GO or GPX file. I just wish for a grace note function. I have one issue with the app. My progress is not saved sometimes. I’ve worked in a project multiple times and when I return none of my work was saved 😭😔

Decent but missing Files integration. If you live in the Guitar Pro universe, you can use its browser and open all your files. However, if you’re a normal musician, you have PDFs, audio files, video files, PNGs sent from someone without a clue, and more. Because of this, using something like the native Files app is a better solution to manage your music. However, Arobas does not let the Files app set .gp* files to always open with Guitar Pro, so you tap a file to open it, then you have to share it with the app. Clicking “view info” on a file gives you no options to set, say, an older .gp3 file, to Guitar Pro as a default app. Because they’re likely trying to push their own format with their own mid file browser, they ignore this, making this a more difficult app to use for musicians on the go - or those that just like to practice with an iPad instead of a computer. Please update this. It is, otherwise, a wonderful app for on-the-go and for practice, but this annoyance makes me want to print every Guitar Pro file to a PDF and use that instead.

Great app, a few minor things could be improved. Overall, the app does everything I need it to and I have no real complaints, definitely deserves 5 stars. A couple things that I think would be a better experience and make things easier though: 1. The default tab when you open the app. It goes to the locations tab. I don’t ever use the songbook, so it’d be cool to be able to set it to always go to “On my Phone” by default or have a setting where you can choose your default tab so that it opens to the place you want to be. 2. With the speed slider - some of the songs I write or learn are complex enough that being able to fine tune the speed to exact percentages would be awesome, because when I’m struggling with a song I like to do really small increments to work my way up, like 1-2% at a time. Overall I use the app regularly and it’s super useful!

More like Guitar rank Amateur. While I use Guitar Pro all the time I really with this app was an editor rather than just a reader. I would have paid triple for an editor. The only thing you can do with this software is change voices of instruments, track amplitude, and tempo. Musicians on the go don’t want to just practice away from the computer. There are times where we collaborate with others and even just being able to write out new parts a collaboration has done, or even just jotting down some quick ideas would have been helpful. Even if they would take away the instrument voices. Do we really need more than one instrument voice per instrument on a phone app where you cannot write music in it? That was a stupid decision by Arobos. Add in the editor module and take out half those instrument voices. Users can go home and fill out the piece they are working on their computers with all the bells and whistles the desktop version has. Seriously I’ll pay upwards of $30-35 more than I already have to be able to edit in this app. Yeah I know I can edit a partial track. If the app doesn’t decide to crash when saving it and only saves first few bars if you’re lucky. If you guys at Arobos back off the player angle and bring on full editing capabilities, you would corner the guitar tab app market. Especially if a one time purchase. It would crush that garbage wallet stealer pro guitar by ultimate guitar scam.

Disappointed. I really like guitar pro on PC. But this is awful. I’ve used it for maybe half an hour and already found significant frustration with the bugginess and lack of intuition. First problem was after playback, if you go to edit, sometimes the cursor will keep snapping back to the end. Thought maybe hitting the pause button would fix it, but it requires a restart. Second one is that you can’t edit the tempo or any other details of a track once you create it. That’s terrible. And lastly, it straight up deleted the first note on me of a file, and when I went to go add it back it, instead of it auto correcting the measure, I now had all sorts of messed up disconnected 16th notes on the bar. Now I’m running it on an IPHONE se 2nd gen, I’m willing to bet the experience on other devices may be less buggy, but I’m honestly real upset I bought this.

Poor file handling. As a tab viewer, this app needs to interact with other computers and storage locations such as iCloud. On this front app gets an F. The app needs to copy files into local storage on the iPad. A better way is to integrate directly with the iOS Files app and read the tabs directly from Files. It also never remembers the last location from which you loaded a tab, meaning it’s multiple clicks every time you want to load a new tab from iCloud. When you use the NotePad function to create a tab, the only way to get it back to your computer for further editing is to email it to yourself!!

Great tool, poor design and features removed. This is a great tool. I still use it. However, the iOS app really needs a completely new redesign. It is not easy to navigate. Also, they removed a feature I used all the time (in-browser search for guitar pro tabs) and replaced it with mySongBook search which doesn’t have nearly enough tabs yet. In addition to this, when trying to tap on a song to load from mySongBook, it doesn’t load (no error message, no nothing. Just doesn’t do anything). Trying to reach support didn’t work either. I went to their website where there was no way to contact the dev team or anyone. They really need to make some changes. But, I hope they do soon and I will come back here and update my review.

Useless. It used to be that the guitar pro community was about people making and sharing tabs, but now guitar pro has gone full Roblox everything is a subscription. You can’t edit music with this app, so it’s only a reader. However, you can only now get guitar tabs (overwhelmingly made for free by other users) by going through one or more paywalls. Considering that most of the tabs are incorrect (which was fine when they were free), that’s ridiculous. Given the extremely minor functionality of this app, it should be free, too.

Lackluster Compared to Desktop Application. I use guitar pro 8 on my computer almost every day when practicing. I've used the mobile app maybe 5 times. I wouldn't recommend the mobile app unless you absolutely need to write tabs in a life or death situation. Even if you don't own a computer, I'd recommend other options first. The midi audio quality is alright. It's almost like 8 bit sounds, which is kinda cool, but terrible compared to the desktop application. I'm not expecting modern sounding midi guitar from the mobile app, so it's not really my biggest complaint though. It's more that the articulations such as palm muting, slides, and bends can be bad. Writing tabs on the app is abysmal. I've done it once to remember something, but it was almost not worth it. You cannot add an audio file to the tabs like you can on desktop. So if you have jam tracks that you'd like to sync up to the tabs, you won't be doing that on mobile. Adding this feature would sort of negate my complaint about the audio. If I could sync an audio file to the tabs, I would just mute the tabs and only play the audio.

Wish there was more. Don’t really care about lack of tones. Wish there was a way to make multiple tracks. Drums would be a nice feature too. It’s good for keeping track of some base ideas if you have the patience. Tabbing is kind of difficult on the app. Some note options aren’t there that make hard to tab what I want to. It’s not bad for what it is but it isn’t great. It would also be nice to be able to send compositions from the notepad to friends from my phone(this is the biggest issue for me).

Please add more UI features for better song organization, viewing, display, search, etc.. Absolute worst tab player I have ever used. Tab player itself is fine but almost impossible to easily locate any of your songs. Needs to have Songs by Name, Songs by Artist, Browse Artists, Favorites. The functionality it does have is not in Alphabetical order and only shows a fixed number of items so you can’t see the whole list. Search function OFTEN doesn’t find the text searched for and then you search for a different word in the song title and it will find it. Overall everything except the actual music player is horrific in this app. Supposedly Guitar Pro is working on updating this app. Please put development resources into all the other things besides the player to make this app at all usually. Should support using iCloud so you can have app on multiple devices and have any changes made sync to all devices via iCloud. Should be able to make (multiple) Playlists of desired songs. Would be nice to have a “Songs by Artist” display, Recently Added display, Recently Opened display. The entire method to view or search for songs is the worst I have ever seen. Older apps (Tab Toolkit) have easier ways to quickly find and display songs even though their widgets have not been updated. Guitar Pro lacks so many things to make it the premier Tablature player. Please do some development on this product as it is unusable if you have more than a few songs in it. Unfortunately I still use Tab Toolkit as a first choice because Guitar Pro while newer is currently a terrible app.

Great companion to Guitar Pro. This is a really helpful app. I’m a drummer and song writer and this app makes it easier to write a song and then practice the drum parts at various speeds to learn them. One complaint I have though - the app lets you write out music “notes” which looks really useful for capturing riffs etc. Why is there no drum capability here though? It would be great to be able to quickly jot down a drum beat in the phone when I’m at my drum kit. Otherwise this is a great app!

Great app to view files created in the full version.. This app is limited in its ability to create files. You should just consider it to be a viewer. I teach guitar and create the content for my students to view. For this purpose, this app is indispensable to me. However, it is only as good as the file it is viewing. Best to use it to view quality content as you would find on bis man jams.

Efficient as a mobile version. This app is great! People don't realize that this is only supposed to be a MOBILE version of guitar pro, so of course what you can do is limited! Also, it's very possible to adjust the tempo, you just don't have to be an idiot. Very happy that I can export my mobile files into scores and then email them to myself as well. Just wish they were a little quicker to send.

Needs work. Incredibly useful tool for learning difficult songs. But the interface is clunky as hell. Make a persistent play/pause button. I’m hitting it constantly and I have to tap the screen to bring it up. Why? Also the playback isn’t in sync with the marker as it moves across the staff. It’s off by like 1/4 note and really hurts the utility of that function. You can change the size of the staff, but that function isn’t very useful either since it does nothing to fit more notes on the screen. It just makes the staff tiny with a lot more white space. Still, it’s super useful to have all my tabs available all the time so I’d still recommend the app overall.

Terrible app, zero functionality, please refund. Only got one star because zero wasn’t an option. Downloaded to my phone and iPad, but it’s impossible to import guitar pro files or other files from your Dropbox. It will import files from something called “mysongbook” which isn’t an app (and who still uses a desktop or laptop?) and also doesn’t import from Dropbox (it’s almost funny the complete lack of utility of these two apps except I had to pay for it). Paid for the app but when I tried to request support for imports it asked for a license key which I didn’t receive at any point in the process. Also didn’t receive a response from customer service. Update: This app still doesn’t open files from my Jumpshare or Dropbox, making it useless. FIX IT.

does not include some promised features. the score settings in this app (iphone for me) doesn’t have the display size options, chords/diagrams, nor the fretboard/keyboard as advertised. there’s also no measure repeat feature. i cannot say this is worth $7—which is the equivalent to me making pizzas at work for 45 minutes. would i make pizzas at work for 45 minutes for this app? not really. anyways, it does the minimal for jotting ideas AFK, but it’s not well-equipped enough to allow me to lay in bed and compose on my phone instead of at my desk. i’m sad to see that the latest update was two years ago ( ͡° ʖ̯ ͡°)

Very useful but has problems. I’ve been using this app for around 3 years and it’s my main place to keep track of my riffs. The editing works well in this app but sometimes gets buggy if used for a while. The searching feature is bugged where if you search something once it will still search for that even if you clear what you searched. Also, I have hundreds of riffs and I’m starting to loose track of them, it would be nice if there was more ways to sort them- potentially by date created, bpm, time signature, instruments, etc. Maybe even adding folders for your riffs.

Frustrating connection to mysongbook. Great app for learning when mysongbook works, but loses connection and can’t access tabs even though viewing mysongbook account via the app is possible. Frequently shows error that mysongbook account not connected even when logged in. Marked down for this bug, otherwise 5 star app. Even though I’ve bought score on mysongbook on my mac GP Pro8, the iPad app asks me to buy it again. Won’t sync the score. iPad MSB account shows I’ve bought the song and asks me to buy it again. Why?

Use it all the time. It’s great.. No bugs for me. Great interface. I use GTP files for songs downloaded from Sheets Happening, which work great. UPDATE: After months of use, my only complaint is that I frequently tap the big gray bar across the top and suddenly find myself in a different place in the song when I was just trying to pause/play. I would say this is partly user error for missing the play button, but I would greatly appreciate some improvement here because I do this all the time and it’s really frustrating.

I couldn’t really use it.. I recently got a full desktop license for guitar pro and a paid subscription to songsterr to download my songs and take them on the go in guitar pro when I can’t be connected to the internet. But all of my files that work on desktop don’t work here. It seems like the app is trying to file the tabs not by filename (I always put ‘,The’ for artist names)but by the artist/songname metadata that you can add to it, the same stuff that appears at the top of the tab page. So I’d have to add that and save them all and then transfer them to my icloud again. But I don’t have time to add all of that, I transfered a lot of tabs to my icloud and even saved them to my local storage because the app doesn’t really read them from your cloud, which is fine because while I’d do that for a test, the best way is to have them locally saved to use offline. I’d say the desktop app works fine but this one, I can’t say because none of my tabs work, including some cool new ones that I made myself by modifying existing ones. The app probably does what it’s supposed to do when it works… but I wouldn’t know! When I go the artist section, I can see my custom tabs I’ve added as ]]>!CDATA[Nirvana ,for example… and then it says “file corrupted!” Also both versions need a dark mode for the actual tab sheets. Sometimes I’m okay with blinding myself at 2am but my pets are sleeping next to me, etc. Other similar platforms have long implemented this, and it is long overdue.

Good enough for practicing. It’s good enough for practicing to my songs me and my band mates write on gp5 on the pc then I import them to my phone for headphone practice. It’s also great for my cover band when people request songs I can download a gp file anywhere to learn the during our break. It’s however not best for composing and doesn’t sound as good as real instruments but that’s not why I bought it. It’s great for practicing and learning songs, highly recommended if you’re a serious musician.

Ehh. The truth is that I was very critical of this app…the reason? I thought that scores couldn't be created. I think that should be more intuitive; I don't consider myself someone bad or slow for digital things... on the contrary, but incredibly late in discovering that option... I'm still stunned. Anyway, good app, I would like a couple of more functions, but I'm sure that over time they will be implemented.

Good updates but needs finer tempo control. You can only speed up or slow down the tempo by 10%. There is a big difference in BPM incremented by 10%. If you have a song that’s 180 BPM, and you slow down by 10%, you’re down to 162 BPM. There is currently no way to adjust between those tempos. That’s a huge jump when you’re trying to learn a difficult section. Also if you are practicing a section and have several tracks muted, if you minimize the app then open it later, all the muted tracks have been changed to solo tracks and you have to go back and re-mute them. Please fix these issues.

Hidden Monthly Fee!? For what?. Purchased this app thinking it would really help with my guitar and it wasn’t a bad app but juts now it charged me $14 as a monthly reoccurring fee. What a joke, Yet another greedy app wanting monthly charges LOL you do NOT HELP THE GUITAR COMPANY AT ALL. It’s upsetting when apps like this that could help start stealing from you. $300 a year? LOL that’s how much you think this is worth? Ableton live and pro tools industry standard programs that have a ONE TIME FEE. Bad business and engineers who could careless about us Guitar artists. Seriously. Don’t buy this app getting my refund right now. Buy an app that doesn’t look for monthly charges because they exist and are better than this junk

Not for a composer. If you happen to be that one guy who just goes hard in the paint on guitar pro in their spare time, don’t care about learning the guitar & enjoy creating personal masterpieces with little attempt for applause from others & you do it because you love to or even if you use it just for fun cause of how awesome the pc software is you will be very disappointed with this. You can only write one track! Very limited options, or i should say it’s purely unrealistic MIDI sounds and not as good as the RSE, obviously. No eq. No fx. No changing the track to a different instrument at whatever bar you please. Oh! And my LEAST FAVORITE IS NOO DRUMMS. What! I feel like many people complain about the drums with the pc but as a drummer myself and through years of using it i am very comfortable with how they set it up. The drums from gp5 prob being my fav. I can’t even touch a drum here. Total impulse buy figured i could trust these guys since I’ve been a long time user & ACTUAL BUYER of their products. Thought wrong. Ah well a novice might be convinced this is good enough but not for the people out there like me.

Good app for viewing tabs. Good for viewing tabs with nice options. The new version supports GP v7 files which is much needed. Only 3 stars because it is not possible to view “multitrack” on the iPad. With the iPad Pro and such, there is plenty of screen size to support this, at least 2 or 3 tracks at a time. This is a much needed feature for a lot of tabs out there tab “guitar 1” and “guitar 2” and so on. “guitar 1” will have rests while “guitar 2” plays. Or “guitar 1” solos while “guitar 2” has rhythm. So, being able to see both guitar tracks at once is much easier than flipping between tracks.

Pretty good, honestly. I’ve read a lot of bad reviews so I want to say something nice about this app. I can write a lot of stuff with the options in this app. At first I didn’t know there was a hidden menu for dotted notes. That made me really mad until I discovered this menu. Since I use a lot of dotted notes in my stuff this is greatly handy to me. Is the sound quality the best? No but you can at least show yourself and your friends your music with some idea of what it’s supposed to sound like. Also i don’t need multiple tracks if I can import into gp8 which I can and I do. Would I like to see more editing features? Sure. But for the small amount of money I paid for this app I am pleasantly satisfied. Also it’s great for the my song book subscription and learning new songs on an actual guitar too!

Would recommend. While it is not perfect the convenience being able to access my song files out weighs the disadvantages. Not to mention the fact that the app is only like eight bucks compared to the seventy for the pc version. That being said the seventy bucks for the pc version is well worth it since it is a much smoother and improved experience.

This is an essential tool for beginners.. I love this program on all platforms; I wouldn’t be the musician I am without it because I’ve learned to use it to really push the boundaries on my writing styles. I’m sure most metal musicians can relate to what I’m saying here! This is something great for a beginner to get locked in on with learning and, as well, composing their own material.

Awesome Guitar Practice App, but Not Much Like the PC Version. 1/9/22 update: While this is a good and stable app, it pales in comparison to the Windows version. Sound quality is mediocre when a tab is slowed below 50%. There is no editing capability (you don't have that ability on purchased tabs in either version,however). Still, it's very worth it if you have a tablet. *** Great app that lets you playback Guitarpro tab files. There are thousands of them on the internet or you can buy them from Arobas, the makers of GuitarPro. This app is not a substitute for the full PC/MAC version which allows editing of files and more realistic sound. However, as a portable practice app, it is perfect. Has slow-down and loop features, guitar tab, standard note display and multiple tracks that can be muted or solo'd individually. Extremely stable. I practice my guitar with it using an Ipad/Amplitube/Irig setup. Has a virtual guitar fretboard/keyboard which will display the notes as it's playing. A must have.

Needs better edit and notepad functionality. As a practice tool, this app is well worth the money. However, I think the app name being the same as the monstrously powerful and useful tool for the desktop is grounds for false advertising. I bought this expecting to be able to edit my work on the go, and make changes to songs that people send me (often people have asked for suggestions or if I would be willing to collaborate) and you can make no edits to files unless they are created on the current device via the notepad. Even the ability to copy from a file and paste to the notepad would be a GIGANTIC improvement. I feel I’ve wasted my money on this app as it does very little of what I want out of guitar pro, and having bought every desktop version since 5 and seeing no further development of the mobile version, I am severely disappointed. I gave the app 3 stars because what it does is offer a nice practice tool for songs that do not exist on Ultimate Guitar. HOWEVER, if the song does exist on Ultimate Guitar, that practice platform far exceeds this one.

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Good app, but has some restrictions. Mainly PC based functionality. Exporting tabs seems hit and miss. I wanted to export to ForScore but some tabs don’t have the menu option to do this. MySongbook player also has no IOS option to view tabs.

Can’t upload tabs from my files - USELESS. Can’t upload guitar pro tabs from my files - USELESS

Ok, but ….. This app would be so much more useful to me if I could manually scroll through a tab using my airturn device. Any plans to include midi based navigation? It would also be really handy if you could display multiple instruments at the same time.

2 stars till it gets updated for iPhone 6/6+. It's a shame that for the price, the developers have not updated the app for the larger screen. I use it as a .gpx viewer and it works well for that purpose but the interface definitely needs some updating. It doesn't make full use of the larger screen sizes of the iPhone 6 and 6+. A bug/quirk I found annoying is there is nothing you can do in landscape mode besides play and pause. To access metronome, playback speed, settings or even going back to the main page, you have to switch it back to portrait mode. Overall, rather dated even though it was updated three months ago.

Great app. Not sure what the last review was saying about crashes. The app is awesome. The new update is 10/10 The songbook library is great and at a very reasonable subscription price. $3 US or $4.30 australian per month - what a bargain the variety is awesome and what a. fantastic selection of songs. Ignore the negative reviews, as the app is worth every cent. Used it for seven years and never had a problem. Give it a go, won’t regret it.

Poor version. Although I'm a huge fan of Guitarpro, and have been using it to write music since 2004, I'm not impressed by this version. The main reason being, you can only write in one track. I like being able to write drums, bass, and even vocal melodies, as well as guitar tracks, which I can do on the computer version, but with the huge lack of music tablature writing apps, I thought Arobas would be keen to jump into the market. There's a lot of people out there, who would love to be able to write on the go with tablature rather than a sequencer like GarageBand has, because tab is a lot easier, and you can tune the way you want, and use proper time signatures, everything. Arobas, take this market before someone else does.

I want to like the app but it’s unusable. The app crashes every single time I open it and I cannot actually use it , love the guitar pro 8 on my laptop and wanted to have it handy on my phone but no dice :(

4/5. I use this app constantly, though I don't use the writing tools, just opening files and playing them back. I'll embrace future updates which iron out remaining bugs. More options and tools never hurt either.

A world of difference..... A world of difference in the progress I have made in my lessons and ability over the months. I have a few good apps that are great training and learning tools and this one is in the top few. It has helped me with my finger dexterity and my hand coordination. It has great diversity in what it can do. A real must have app for all levels. Not only is it a great teaching aid but also it has a lot of great songs to be learned.

Literally Unusable. I use Guitar pro as a teaching assistant, a way to quickly write out music that looks professional and neat for my students to take home and learn. When I switched from a MacBook to my iPad for I knew that it would have a learning curve but i had hoped for at least similarfunctionality and workflow. I was sorely disappointed. It is unusable, and extremely frustrating as I used to use this for my job.

Review guitar pro. Great app, even though there is no point having this app if you can even create your tab with it. Its "cool" to be able to transfer it from the computer, but we want to edit / create them ! Please do something about it and you would have something new that other apps don't have !

Future upgrades???. The 3 main things I would like to see in the future: 1. Ability to write songs!!! 2. Export songs as mp3 and email to friends or band members (cos not everyone has an iPhone unfortunately). 3. Ability to run app in the background so I can write lyrics to the music on a different app, or even better, have a built in notepad for lyrics!

Great companion app!. This is an amazing app! Perfect for my situation where I bought Guitar Hero 7.5 and I transfer everything to the app. It’s not great for writing but it’s great for reading on the go. Let’s say you wrote a tab on the computer and you need to perform the song tomorrow night. You don’t know the song and are screwed. The thing is, you aren’t. Put this app on a phone or tablet and you’re set. Take it with you and read off a stand, you even have lyrics and a metronome. Just a great app.

Need to be able to create in this app. This app is OK to load up some music to read on the go, but it is a LONG way from being useful to actually write without having access to the desktop app. I’d really like to see the function to easily and quickly create solos while the ideas come to mind on the move. With this i spend more time swearing at the so called notepad feature as it is just too basic and so slow to compose. As such I am unable to rate the app over 2 stars. Desktop version gets 5 stars from me.

Great learning tool. I teach guitar to kids between the ages of 9 and 16 and having guitar pro on my ipod touch has been so useful because I can just have my ipod in my pocket rather than lugging around my laptop. Whenever learning or teaching a song I can simply download the guitar pro file at home and use it for my teaching. It really helps the younger kids to have the tabs with the music so they can hear what they are learning.

Stop nagging me for reviews!!. Very disappointed in being hassled so often. You get 1 star.

Awesome for reviewing and sharing tabs but wheres the on-the-go composing.. Does its job wonderfully as a tool to share and replay tabs imported from the computer but as a composer lacks the ability to act like its computer counterpart in creating and composing pieces of music and riffs. A feature to look forward to.

Guitar Pro... great desktop software terrible app.. It was a sunny Wednesday in Australia as I clicked buy on this app. I had just decided I’d stream line my work more efficiently for next year will having 60 students a week it was going to great to carry less books ect. Well at least a book can’t crash when you open it. A page may fall out but you can fix that. So take point for the book and fix this dogs breakfast of an app Talk about terrible development for an app. Every time I open a file it crashes, try to import a file it crashes. Look at your IOS device it crashes, thinking about what to have for dinner the app crashes. Waiting for your dog to do its business when you are out for a walk.... The app crashes. Last time I watched anything crash this hard it was when we had the GFC. Fix the app please, develop a new one or issue a refund. Merry Crashmas

Very Handy.. Have both desktop & mobile versions. Indispensable teaching & learning aid. Have gotten desktop version sounding realistic. I use mobile version 2 test what happens to my desktop scores & help my students through issues. Am creating a very handy library of realistic & thorough song & exercise files. Gtr study in the 21st century ... awesome!!!

Upgrade lost my tabs!. Paid for the upgrade from GP7. The licence page says I have a GP8 licence but I have no access to any music. Worse still,I can’t access any of the tabs I’ve already paid for when I had GP7. This app has gone backwards.

Not entirely functional for writing.. A good app for reading guitar pro tabs and learning songs with your iOS device but that’s not all guitar pro is for so I don’t understand why there are so many limitations when it comes to input and exporting tabs. Considering the price, surely having an export to PDF file (it only has export to GP OR GPX)for your notepad ideas would be ideal to be able to share quick ideas with people who don’t want or need to edit it further. Also, the ability to put in chord diagrams is surely a no brainer.

Good but far from great. I just wish it had a couple more features to writing my own tab. Options for custom notation for whammy effects or pick scraping, as well as charging time signature and tempo mid song would be amazing Very good for the basics

Scam. The app is a scam. You buy the app then you have to buy each song. Don’t bother.

So bad. To start off, I'm going to just say that I was very disappointed with this. Not only is it a lazily built, unhelpful interface, apparently you also have to buy the songs too! So in total, if you wanted a decent collection, it could end up costing you $40-$50 which is completely unacceptable. What arobas music has done here, is scam more and more money out of people. They have destroyed any reputation they have built up with GP6. Overall I am very unhappy with this app. It was a complete waste of my time to download it, and of my money.

Really handy!. Can download heaps of free tabs of popular songs from bands like GNR, Muse etc. Notepad notation function could be a little easier to work with on iPod; maybe it could be improved with a keyboard or fretboard? Can't create multi-track pieces (but can download multi-tracked tabs) which becomes a hassle when I'm trying to write for multiple instruments. Also, tabs with regular music notation (e.g. two-handed piano) are available for download, view and replay, but not it's not possible to notate via the same app? What's up with that? Overall, a great app for on the go, but for proper composition, you'd be better off on a computer. Professional look and feel, and good organisation of different functions, plus diverse soundbank (if not a diverse range of uses for it).

Must have for guitar players. This app is a great iOS version of the Guitar Pro software. No longer am I looking up tabs in iphone safari and struggling to pinch and zoom to read them, or having to lug my laptop with Guitar Pro on it to my music room. Guitar Pro is great that it plays the tabs back so you can learn the rhythm, know straight away if it’s a correct tab, and play along like with it like a backup band. Also great that you can save guitar pro files in the app using the apps in-built browser, so you don't always have to connect it to iTunes to transfer songs first; you can do it on the go. A must have for all those who learn tabs without a computer handy!!

Not able to import exported files. In order to have a file saved you have to export it, otherwise it stays within the app. But if you want to import it later, you can’t edit the saved file. Ridiculous! Make sure you finish the file, or forget about editing it if you have to reinstall GP on a new phone, as I found out!

Better than nothing. It’s not unusable, but for importing large amounts of tabs, most end up automatically sorted into large groups. The only option for file sorting is to tediously edit every single file individually to fit everything into whatever album or artist you wish. Terrible for packs of exercises that haven’t been meticulously given an artist, album, composer, year, etc. Your only options with this app are importing and editing file information—you can do nothing else to streamline your experience.

Dual staff. Happy with it besides the fact that I can’t view my lyrics and guitar tabs at the Same time like on my guitar pro 7.5 on windows. If you update it to view in a dual staff that would be much appreciated I would pay for that update and adjust the score sizes to suit.

Wayne. I use this app regularly, and my guitar teacher emails lessons and songs for me to practice using these files. I can write and tab songs on the PC version, and send them to the iPad for practice and carrying around easily. Being Abe to slow down playback is very useful, and the iPad version works faultlessly for this purpose. Highly recommended.

Great App. This app is wonderful. It's almost everything you need to learn/play anything... I'm learning a violin song on guitar, that's the extent of its awesomeness.. Only thing is, it's need to sound less digital and more like thing instrument it's playing, but that would make take too much space then hmmmmm...

Tabs on the go. Don't buy this app to write or compose on the go as you can only write one track at a time as opposed to PC version where you can compose for a full band in one session. You can however import all your own tabs from the computer and have them with you on the go which is the main reason I got this. Great for learning and reviewing songs. You're able to see tablature as well as notation and also chord structures are displayed at bottom of the screen. Placement of playback buttons is not great because I always accidentally hit the chord button instead of play. I would give 5 stars if you gave the option to write more tracks on the go!

Most useful app. I have used this almost non stop since downloading it. It is a very handy way to carry a lot of music at once. Was very useful on holiday with my travel guitar. It would be nice to have the editing functionality too, but I understand it would probably be too fiddly to be really useful. I guess I'll have to pick up the pc version for editing. I suspect that will be a good pick too.

Deceptive and misleading advertising. Be aware - not only do you have to buy the app upfront, when you go to find some music to use with it you have to buy a subscription as well. A detail scarcely noted anywhere before you buy the App. To use your own library of tabs and general sheet music, the app is pretty redundant to its contemporary peers, and don’t even bother if you have a modern DAW. What small differential advantage the app may had had with its catalogue arrangements, like everything in and of music today ~ commoditised to a value of almost irrelevant.

Double hit.. I paid for this app and tried to play some of the songs and now it wants me to pay more to access the songs. Sneaky. It won’t let me load guitar pro files sent by my teacher.

Great app for putting down Intro and Solo tabs.. This is a perfect app for putting down tabs onto your iPad. Not too complicated, but does everything you want. I have created tabs for dozens of intros, solos, fills and I export the PDF to OnSong so that both the lyric/chord sheet and tabs are filed together. Sure beats trying to write tabs using |- -3 - - 2 - -1 - -| Highly recommended!

So close, but missing one key feature. This would be my favourite music learning app if only it had a speed trainer like the desktop app! It’s the main feature I use and would like it to be portable.

5 stars. Very nice handy app! Recommend it highly.

Needs work. This app has potential but lacks in so many areas. When writing you can only write for 1 track, and no persuasion. When I wish to listen to a file someone has sent me (via email or whatever) there's a nice little button saying "open in guitar pro" but it always freezes, even when going through the program an searching the net. Waste of money

You won’t find what you are looking for!. This app has like 10 artists and that’s it, you won’t find the tabs you won’t, you won’t find pretty much anything in it!! Don’t waste your money it’s a huge mistake and the app is very misleading!!

Most bug ridden app I’ve ever used!!. Constantly crashes trying to load tabs from my computer. Have wasted hours on this! Absolute rubbish, don’t waste your time!

Definitely worthwhile. Pretty good. At first the left to right scrolling felt a bit giddy but soon it was not an issue. Having my tabs on the go has certainly increased my access and improved my play.

Update Schmuckdate. The new update has made the app unusable. When in the notepad fiddling with different ideas. If you dare so much as to press play than you are in for a treat. Because once you pause it that is the only best you are capable of editing until you press play again and pause on another beat. Really such a shame because the only negative to this app before the update is that you couldn’t write multiple scores together.

Best tab software for ios. A brilliant little app that has helped me learn countless songs over the years. Only wish you could write parts for multiple instruments on the same track but never the less still a great app.

Good Potential. This app is reasonably pricey at $10, but is quite useful for a new learner of popular guitar. However the full access to Songbook is at an additional cost, which shouldn’t be. Functionality fine, but seems to be a bit thin on teaching content.

Finally, guitar pro 7 support!. So glad to see the mobile app finally being kept up with the windows version

GuitarPro. Awesome app for writing and viewing music. However, would like the ability to edit imported (and then saved) pieces from programs such as dropbox. Would also like to be able to create custom tunings. Other than that, a 5 star program for sure! Great portable songwriting program.

Drummers beware!. I have had the desktop version of guitar pro for years to write drum notation on. I purchased the app under the impression you could write drums just as easily- this doesn’t seem to be possible at all on the app. I’ve wasted $10 on an app I can’t use and there’s no option for a refund. Steer clear of this app if you’re a drummer.

Disappointing. Nothing like the older versions I have used. You would think it would be better... wanted to be able to compose the tabs of all the different instruments together, but you can only do it individually. No drums. Very hard to use and navigate. No real instructions or user guide. Useless app. I feel ripped off. I want a refund. Had the app for maybe 2 hours and it was a waste of money. Definitely not what I wanted.

Guitar Pros & Cons. Used the the PC version for years so I couldn't resist the mobile version. Awesome app and is always getting better. Screen is a little small and composing is difficult but awesome ref app when out.

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The last update made it terrible. The ux is difficult, the options buttons got a lot smaller. Changing or muting tracks is harder. Also, it’s almost impossible to find the downloaded songs in an iPad. There used to be a list, but now only search is available.

Love it. If you know how to play and read tabs this works wonders

Poor experience, good features, thanks for Fretlight. Lots of weirdness. Why are controls so tiny small and positioned on the top? Who needs all that useless white space. Search / filter is pain, options are super limited. Adding a star for keeping the Fretlight functionality that is only stable with this app as opposed to mac or pc.

Do they even care?. This $10 app is STILL not compatible with their $70 desktop app released 10 months ago. Do they even care about this?

4 Da pro. Super 😎

How to search artists. How do I get to search artists? Do o have to connect to a computer? Getting very frustrated.

Odd choices. Three things: Doesn’t automatically create bars once you’ve met the note limit. Doesn’t allow for physical keyboard control. Then, very strangely, doesn’t allow you to delete rests.

Fix it. Make it working like before. I used to love it but now I can’t use it like before, I don’t know why. I am ready to pay a little money to be able to use it.

Import. Cannot import guitar pro files . Crash each time

Good, but NotePad is unintuitive.. I love the NotePad feature, but it is very clunky. I would love to see keyboard and mouse be taken advantage of for an experience similar to that of the desktop app. Furthermore, there is no way to add slide-ins, staccatos, grace notes, dynamics, or detailed bends in NotePad, all of which I use very frequently on the desktop app. Please add these.

Notation needs improvement. Needs to be a fully functional app. Like the desktop app. Also, If a tune is multiple parts, the stems directions become inverted.

Bought the app. Regret it. app. 99% of songs are unusable. I know I’m wasting my time writing this, but.... GIVE THE MONEY YOU TOOK BACK, CROOKS.

Bad. For downloading the application, they ask for $ 9.99 and inside to view the tabs, you need to add a subscription, too, for money.

Multi-track. Needs to be able to write multi-track tabs!

Needs a side scroll option.. This app would have everything I need if only it had different scrolling options. Most of my students like following the side scroll. It wouldn’t be hard to add it in I’m sure. Just a suggestion.

Great app but... I have been using this for a long time and i really love it, however, i want to use it on my pc as well but I need to buy another version for the pc. So im sticking with this

Best Tab Reader. This app is the best score reader. The best thing is that you can organize your songs by artists, albums and well… by songs !

No drums. Needs the ability to program drums. Thats what i bought it for..

No finger numbers in chord diagrams. If you write a chord diagram in guitar pro then open it on this app....the finger numbers don't show up on the diagram when you hit the chords button. Are you kidding me? Takes forever to reach the company they don't test their products or care to improve them much (they're French go figure....lazy buggers) Don't bother .....

Drums editor. Would be awesome if we could tab a drum track

Guitar Pro. I was expecting to be able to create my own tab. This is not a tab editor that facilitates the creation of your own tab.

Want my money back. I just downloaded and try to use it, but I don’t know why it doesn’t play any song!!!!! I want my money back!!! This is a waste of time and money if I could I would put you -5 stars

Great app, but missing drum in the notepad. Great app no doubt! Just dream of being able to tab drums in the note tab!

Please change this! It'll make GP perfect. Please let me export from the tab back to note pad!! And even multi track in notepad too!! I know you guys can do it

GARBAGE. This app is not useful whatsoever. I want my money back. PERIOD

Awesome. Better then the ug app

Does the job. Love the simplicity of notepad to knock off a quick tab while playing. Could benefit from more in the way of user instructions. It was a little frustrating to find all the useful features.

Works for me. I mainly use this app for practicing guitar. I play the songs through my amp and can play along to get the timing right. Easy features like being able to repeat a section and slowdown the playback are great learning tools.

Great for my lessons!. Get it.

Good but room for improvement. Works well but would really love to see bluetooth/midi capabilities integrated in future updates for a hands free option for controlling playback and speed with a bluetooth footswitch.

Stop buying the iOS version. the desktop (OS version) and really like it, but the iOS version feels like a joke or even a scam. There’s almost nothing there!

MySongBook. I use credits to buy tabs and he doesn’t appear in the list

Keeps crashing. Fix it!

Useless. Can’t play ANY of the songs you like without paying triple what the app costs, if your going to put all the music behind a paywall then at least make the app free want a refund.

Thanks for trying. Great ap but it feels like a novelty version of GP6 it’s missing a few features the pc version had.

Great Portable Solution. I think if this product is viewed within the context of what I believe it was meant for - it does a great job! I use this as a practice tool and for that purpose I couldn’t be happier.

Corrupted files. Every Time I try to add a tab from ultimate guitar it says corrupted file cannot open… bs… I’ve been using this app for years and now all of a sudden I can’t add any tabs to it !!!!!

Improve Support. Customer support must be improved through communication. You must show at least that you read customer’s messages. Interface should be more user friendly. 🎸Songs must be cheaper and more accessible. The rest is ok.

Doesn’t work. Says it is easy to find tabs, just no!!! Asked for a refund

Awful. Used to be a good app. Now it is useless.

Pas au point.. Ne prend pas en charge les fichiers audio des partitions que j’ai écrite. Impossible de supprimer les partitions qui sont incluse avec l’application que je ne veut pas. Même en mode basse (puisque je suis bassiste) je reste avec le manche de guitare, que je ne veut pas voir. Bref l’application n’est vraiment pas au point. Faut faire un effort les mec.

Garbage App. It will not allow any files to be read. Everything comes up as a corrupt file, even ones that previously worked. This app is absolutely useless and a waste of money. I would like my money back.

Improvements. Yeah honestly I completely agree with the latest review comment. This app would be truly cutting edge with multi track, automatically measure bars and etc.

Works for me. I just want to use it to learn guitar music. It works fine for this, loops, slow down, speed up. I am new to apple system but figured out how to load .gp files from the cloud. Having said that they do need a help file for that process because it is not obvious for everyone. I am hoping they will upgrade it to accept GP files with embedded sound from version 8.

Tyfrgo. Don't waste your money on this app. When searching for tabs, all it does is redirect you to other sites that want you to buy and install their app. Lousiest app I bought.

Great for teachers in lessons. Great app for teachers to add depth to their lessons. Having said that, would be great if we can just download tabs from internet rather than file exchange from pc. The app lacks a lot of functions the software version has. Having said that, I knew this when I bought it. I do all my tabbing st home etc, then I export all files in one sitting to my iPad, and I teach effortlessly using it. Good job but can be better. Cheers.

Useful App. Very useful app, but could you please consider adding a regular iOS share menu to tab files? I would like to be able to Airdrop tab files between my devices (iCloud integration might be even better).

What a joke. I want my money back. Useless.

The apps not working right. The idea behind this app is fantastic, but I just purchased it, and for whatever reason I’m having a very difficult time searching for songs, tried looking up even flow and it kept coming up as nothing found, after it A dozen tries it finally showed up, now I’m trying to look up twist my arm but the tragically hip, I looked up both the song and the artistAnd still nothing, if you guys can fix that then I’ll start using this app again

PC version makes this one seem awful. Wish they would fix / update this version

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good app just needs some improvements and added features. i use this app everyday for my song writing. its a great app for musicians to write down their ideas fast. however i will say that i wish there were some added features… i will list them below. - slider for the tempo is a little weird cause its not exact. just wish it would count regularly. for example if i write a song at 150 bpm, the slider only lets me choose between 148 and 152. - i wish there was an option to change time signatures for certain measures. - i wish there was an option the change the tempo for certain measures/parts. - the tones are ok but not the best. i wish they will update/fix them. overall, its a great app for musicians. like i said i use it everyday and it’s very useful.

Horrible program. Glitchy, super love how they changed the subscription to the tab program with a note that your old subscription hasn’t been cancelled* (*you’ll just spend a bunch of time dicking around trying to get your tabs to load to the point where you give in and pay more for the new subscription) I low key hate my instructor for insisting I use this crappy app.

Small Feature Request for mixWithOthers. Can you please enable AVAudioSessionCategoryOptionMixWithOthers, so that user can play the tab while watching other video source? This makes huge sense on iPads with the stage manager feature. Thanks

The iPad version is a good practice tool. I like this product but one problem for me is that the fingerings placed in GP 8 do not transfer to the iPad file. If this is an error please let me know as having the fingering information is really helpful. Perhaps there is a way to do this but I haven’t discovered how. Thank you

Needs better upload options. The app does its job as a counterpart to the desktop app, but it’s mind blowing that there is no way to open files that are already on my phone. iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive support is a must, especially since iOS provides an easy way to access those files.

Needs a LOT of Work. In Notepad, the application seems limited to only tab; there doesn’t seem to be a way to edit on a staff instead. There is no way to hide the keyboard, which makes it difficult to review scores during editing. Exporting to the desktop seems impossible. I expect to be able to at least export to Dropbox, OneDrive, etc., if I cannot sync to my desktop app via iCloud. Sitting in a music lesson, or in a session or at a café, this app *could* be useful for capturing music, but it requires a TON of work to useful or anything more than a distraction.

Not functional for beginners. No matter witch direction u turn your device or what size u set score to, the cursor always moves lower into the diagram so that eventually u can’s possibly see what’s coming up in the bar on the following line. For the cursor to work properly it should stay near the top so that the completed lines are always moving up and away; or at least 2 inches up from the bottom of the screen until u get to the last line.

Gutiar pro. I’m a student and my guitar teacher sends me my guitar lessons on this app but he payed 70 bucks just for me and not his students so I kinda think the teacher version should be cheaper but you can have whatever and this has help me a lot

Great learning tool.. Sorry, sort of busy practicing now on Guitar Pro. I am a 63 year old beginner and this is what my instructor is using as a teaching method. This App is very useful. Well, i’m wasting time. Gotta go. Great app.

Not bad, room for improvement. Would love to be able to edit tabs easily on the app! Some slides and effects don’t translate very well to mobile BUT for being able to have this as a practice tool on the fly, it serves its purpose!

Parentheses on “missed downstrokes”. I’m a guitar instructor and I’m doing online lessons. I’m having all my students purchase the app. The one issue I have so far is that the parentheses on “missed downstrokes” does not get exported to the app when I send them the gpx file from my computer.

Latest app update (28 Oct 2015). Love this app for what it does. It makes complex parts easy to learn for me, but I’m leery of updating it again. The last two times I’ve updated it, I’ve lost all of the files that I had saved in the app. Really makes me not want to hit the update button....

Just a Player. The app works, and allows me to play stuff I create on the full desktop app, but I really wish I could just use my iPad. I also don’’t like that I can save something to iCloud on my Mac, and still find an old version with this app. It doesn’t check the cloud each time or something, but caches the old version. Annoying.

It’s pretty awesome to have Guitar Pro on iPhone. The desktop app is a must have for guitarists, and I love having this iOS version for when I’m not next to my computer, and need to access my GP files. It’s not as polished and quite limited, but it does it’s job and does it well.

Great app. Updated review: I like this app—it has a ton of great features and works well. I like that the app supports alternative methods for importing files: The ‘Add from a computer’ function is slick. And the Google Drive app has a ‘copy to Guitar Pro’ option which works well too. I use the desktop version of this app a lot also.

Best guitar/music tool ever. My #1 choice for studying guitar and music, I’ve been using it for over 10 yrs, wonderful app. Only suggestion I have is to please make an option to enlarge the guitar fretboard window and implement a full screen toggle, that would be awesome.

Had no problems at all. I’m satisfied with the app it’s been great to work with for my band however I am trying to see what my license is so I can upgrade when I throw it on my computer? Any help?

Disappointed, please refund. Just like others have said on here, I have used Guitar Pro in the past for composing music and once I found they had this app I immediately downloaded it thinking this would be great for what I’m used to in a more mobile fashion- immediately saddened to realize I could not even add more than one track. My favorite part of GP is layering tracks and playing with multiple instruments and sounds, which is impossible on this app. I unfortunately do not recommend spending your money on this.

Great APP for teachers and students!. I use this in my lessons every day and it’s great. The ability to slow things down for is fantastic, especially for students. I feel as though the app could have a few more features to make it THE tab app, but it’s amazing now so no complaints! Do yourself a favor and buy this NOW

Frustrating connection to mysongbook. Great app for learning when mysongbook works, but loses connection and can’t access tabs even though viewing mysongbook account via the app is possible. Frequently shows error that mysongbook account not connected even when logged in. Marked down for this bug, otherwise 5 star app.

Great app!. Guitar Pro is really easy to use. I've composed about a hundred Compositions using Guitar Pro without a single problem. Some of my favorite features are the unlimited time signatures it allows for composing, and the audio playback always coincides with the notation perfectly.

iPad version of GP is soooo amateur. I love Guitar pro and all its functionality, well that is the desktop version but this mobile version is soooo amateur, soo limited and really needs a facelift! I really hope a new revolutionary update come soon because would bet Great to have at least a fraction of the functionality that the desktop version has

When is the editor update coming to GP?. I am an old user of GP app and still love it, but I am already looking for an alternative app that would let me edit arrangements on my iPad. Most musicians nowadays do their creative work in the move, so it is very convenient to have an arrangement tool at hand. I hope GP engineers consider this suggestion. Thank you.

Biggest scam of all guitar scoring. Nothing works as advertised you can’t easily get through any part of the program. If I though I could succeed I would sue this company. All songs have keyboard and only few have a guitar at bottom. This is supposed to be a guitar program not a stinking keyboard program. Do not buy this there’s a reason it’s dirt cheap you get what you pay for no refunds.

I can't work on my songs. I got the app hoping I'd be able to edit and work on current projects I downloaded to the app, but it won't allow you. It's the only issue I really have, but it is the main reason I got the app. It's perfect if you're just trying to learn a song that you downloaded to the app.

Collaboration feature request. Would love do see a file collaboration feature so that the file is always updated and you don’t have to send revisions back and forth!

Can’t export MIDI. The only reason I bought this was to export MIDI from tabs I wrote into Garage Band or Logic for iPad so I could record easier on the go but this does not do that at all. The sound banks are also a lot worse than the PC/Mac version, so if you own that you’re better off just exporting the PDF to your iPad. This app really needs an overhaul with what the M1 and M2 iPads can do there is no reason for it to not be a straight port of the desktop version.

No BPM Control. It’s a usefull mobile app but lower your expectations about the interface. It’s good for practicing only, you can’t write/edit. Basically, I’m editing the files on my pc if I’m planning to send to my mobile. +mobile, easy to use everyhwere +good for practicing if you don’t mind the BPM control. (you can increase/decrese the speed between 0.2x and 2.0x values... seriously?) And I wonder if anyone who doesn’t care the BPM, what they going to do with this app? It’s not for fun as the same as pc version. This could be the best practicing app... lower your expectations if you are planning to get this. -No writing -No BPM control -UI Worst-idea-ever award goes to: speed slider (I was here for 3 stars actually)

Wish there was more to it!. While I absolutely love this app, and it helps me write ideas down and write parts out for my band mates, I wish there were more tools/options for writing. I understand it’s a mobile app at a fraction of the price of the full computer program, there are simple things I wish would be added, such as; -multiple parts (maybe just do a limited amount? Limit to 2-4 parts in the mobile version?) -Tempo/time signature changes mid song These are the two big ones for me personally. And if there is a way to do this, I’d love to know, and I will gladly update the review! But I’ve looked so hard through the app and can’t find any way to do these things.

Could be cool, but not!. Pay to download the App, awesome! Gonna be great, get into the app look for your song. You don’t have credits, subscribe should give you access. Okay let’s do that! Nope! Can view it but that’s it still need credits to own it! Boo! Guess I’m in the far.. but had I known would of just told yah to pound pavement and took my now 6.99 plus 5.00 plus 8.00 more dollars else where.

Awesome. This is a great practice tool for on the couch, on vacation, or otherwise away from my desktop. I do wish it had a few more little features like speed trainer, it’s a great companion to the full desktop version and I use it every day.

Don't know what you've got until its gone. The good old days of simply downloading guitar pro tabs from ultimate guitar have faded into memory. Now it seems everyone is chomping at the bit to sell you their inferior ripoff. This is the real McCoy

Limps Along. Guitar Pro is the best software I’ve come across for guitar tabs. Problem is, there are nowhere near enough tabs. So had I Not bought this years ago and downloaded Many songs, I WOULD NOT buy this program. It’s like having the keys to a huge library building, and upon entering, one saws EMPTY shelves. The catalogue is so thin- it’s a Real Shame to have a nice program that limps along on what is offered. A Porsche with no gasoline.

Can’t open guitar pro files with audio track. My guitar instructor sends guitar pro files from gp8 with his audio recordings as an audio track. The guitar pro app can’t play those, which really detracts from the value of this app! This is a key feature - I don’t see why it’s missing.

Requires subscription, low quality tabs. I thought being a paid app you’d have access to at least some useful features but no. To access even a single tab of music you need a subscription. Well I paid for a subscription and the tabs are low quality. Not impressed at all, there are better quality products out there.

Bugs/lack of options make it unusable. My main gripe is that for whatever reason when lyrics are added, they are on top of the staff in the app, even though they are at the bottom of the staff on the desktop version. That makes that section entirely unusable. lots of cool features, but the issues outweigh the usefulness.

Understanding with its limitations, frustrated with ties sounding too long.. I bought the app knowing that I could only view one track at a time and that there was a limited soundbank. While the soundbank is a little annoying for some instruments, I can deal with it. What is extremely annoying, is that when there’s a tie in the melody line, it plays that note for an extra 1-2 bars and sounds terrible. A larger soundbank would be awesome. Fixing the issue with ties is a must!!

Been a user for years. I’ve had a subscription to the main desktop version for 10+ years. The app version is good for downloading a tab and putting my iPad on a music stand. Of course you aren’t going to get the same functions as the $60 desktop program, but it does what I need. Good for spur on the moment stuff.

No Way to Write Music for Drums. On the desktop version, you’re able to write and edit drum tracks. You’re unable to do this on mobile, and it’s not stated anywhere (at least not clearly) that this feature is missing. Ended up wasting $7 on this, and there’s no way to refund it. Unhappy with this lack of feature and clarity.

Needs multi track editing to be perfect. I love this app. Have it on my computer and phone. I love sending myself projects to work on. I love that on my computer I can make multi track songs and send them to myself. The one thing this app NEEDS for a perfect rating is the ability to create and edit multi tracks on the mobile version.

Almost Useless now. I can no longer import files from a browser into the app. This wouldn’t be a big deal, but now when I download a guitar pro file and try to import it from my files into the app, the app crashes every time. The app is now unusable for me except for when I’m on the go and thought of a riff that I can put in to remember or to access files I’ve had prior to this issue. Not worth the price at this point. Please fix as this app has lots of potential being wasted!

Landscape tempo control!!!!!!!!!!!. I have been wanting this for years for the iPhone. I HATE using the screen vertically, but I do t want to flip my phone, adjust tempo, flip it again. It’s a hassle to have to fumble with a phone when I’m trying to increase my speed(or decrease) fluidly. You are doing so well other wise! Maybe a little verticals slider for increasing/decreasing tempo on the side. Oh, make it switchable in the setting for lefties or righties. Don’t be bias. I’ll change my review if you slap that on the next update. Luv yuns🤘🏼 Hey! And also, for making note:WE WANT TO CHANGE TIME SIGNATURES HALF WAY THROUGH SONGS. ENABLE THAT FEATURE FOR MOBILE PLEASE.

Hate the recent changes. I used to love the app, but the recent changes have put it 500 steps in the wrong direction. Why are all my songs not in alphabetical order?! Why aren’t artist songs divided by album anymore? Why do I have to hit “On my iPhone” when I’m on an IPad? Why is “My song notebook” displayed separately at all?! Why do I have to manually hit maximize on every song I open?! Do they think I want to view my song in a small window? What happened?! Did anyone test this before they put it out!?

No Editing capabilities. Buggy. This app has the potential to be the best composition tool on an iPad (esp. with Apple Pencil). However, the developers decided to not allow any editing of guitar pro files whatsoever. Absolute fail for composers. The UI is buggy and unintuitive. No iCloud integration. They removed the built in browser too. I’ve been a long time guitar pro user on Mac. This app however, is just a disappointment. Just good enough for the occasional practicing.

Doesn’t support their own file format. I bought this app while trying to learn a song. I downloaded several versions of gp4 and gp5 files. The app was unable to load any of them. The loading widget just spun indefinitely on each attempt. Downloaded a free 3rd party app and it worked just fine. This app isn’t production ready even as a free app.

1.9.2. Update won’t let me edit. When I try to go to a certain spot in one of my compositions it won’t allow me to edit the note. When I try to select it by tapping on it the curser goes to where ever I stopped on play back. I have to go back out and not play it to edit. That and almost every time I go back into the composition the app crashes. This app is pretty much useless to me now.

It solos what I had muted! How stupid is that???. Ridiculous issues with this... everytime I open any song it solos the tracks I had previously muted... basically playing only what I don’t want it to hear... this is a ridiculous problem and I’ve been using guitar pro on a laptop for 15 years and sooooo disappointed with this useless app that no one seems to wanna help fix

Was a very useful tool. This app was perfect until the recent update stopped you from accessing files from the internet. My band literally sends our guitar pro files back and forth via email but now I can't access these files on the go. I'm very upset. Please fix this right away as I'm always on the go and don't have time to run home to my computer every time I need to double check my bandmates file update.

“You better update your app”. Still terrible for writing music. Still stuck with one track and can’t write multitracks. The tempo slider still jumps around, what if I want to play or write something at 115bpm, nope, bpm’s are only in multiples of 4. These I feel are minor things that would have been from the beginning from a $5 or $6 app when I bought it years ago. Now there’s an update, but still the same issues? Get it together guys.

Needs work. I have guitar pro 8 for windows and Mac, this software works fantastic. The iOS version is not consistent in speed and also does not accurately represents the tabs. I’ve had notes to be in the display to be garbage especially around showing harmonics or other notes tightly together. I also have notes that it’s hard to tell if the notes are in vertical alignment or not.