Description

TuxGuitar is an open source multitrack tablature editor and player written in Java.

License

TuxGuitar is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License.

Copyright (C) 2005-2022 Julián Casadesús 2023-2025 guiv42, helge17

Third party products

TuxGuitar includes the following third party products:

• SWT version: SWT (Standard Widget Toolkit): https://www.eclipse.org/swt/
• JFX version: JavaFX (Java client application platform): https://openjfx.io/
• Gervill (Java Software Synthesizer)
• iText (Free Java-PDF library): https://itextpdf.com/
• Magic Sound Font v2.0 - Contributed by Dennis Deutschmann

Installation

You can find ready to use installation packages for Linux, Windows, macOS, FreeBSD and Android here: releases.

To build TuxGuitar from source code, refer to the INSTALL.md file.

Contribute

If you want to contribute to TuxGuitar, you will find a helpful description in the contribute.md file.