Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- Android Tablet
- Flathub




Go PlayAlong is described as 'Interactive tab player enabling you to play along with the original recordings, perfectly synced to your tabs. Stay motivated and focus on the songs that you love' and is a music production app in the audio & music category. There are six alternatives to Go PlayAlong for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Android, Android Tablet, Mac and iPad apps. The best Go PlayAlong alternative is TuxGuitar, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Go PlayAlong are Guitar Pro, Songsterr, Band-in-a-Box and Power Tab Editor.




Guitar Pro enables editing tablatures for guitar, bass, and more, with support for piano and drums. It features a realistic audio engine, interactive practice tools, and access to thousands of online tabs, facilitating music composition and transcription.




Songsterr is an archive of guitar, bass and drum tabs. It is collaboratively built and maintained by your fellow music lovers. Anyone with Internet access can contribute new tabs and make changes to existing ones.

Band-in-a-Box is an intelligent automatic accompaniment program. You can hear and play along to many song ideas and go from "nothing" to "something" in a very short period of time with Band-in-a-Box as your "on demand" backup band.


Power Tab Editor is a free tablature authoring tool created by Brad Larsen for Windows. It is used to create guitar, bass and ukulele tablature scores, among many others. The current version uses the *.ptb file format.

SmartMusic is a web-based suite of music education tools and home to the largest interactive and digital music libraries.

