Description

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

Download and installation

The official website for TuxGuitar is https://www.tuxguitar.app/.

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

Please download TuxGuitar only from the website or the GitHub link provided above.

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 CONTRIBUTING.md file.

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