Cesure vs GuitarTab
Cesure
cesure.app
GuitarTab
guitartabsandchords.comSide by side
| Figure | Cesure | GuitarTab |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | €3.33/mo | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 5 | 1 |
| Spec score · Guitar Tab Software | 9.5 (#1) | 8.4 (#5) |
| Practice tools | Cesure provides measure looping, a speed trainer, chromatic tuner, metronome, BPM detector, scale reference and piano. | The app includes a chromatic tuner, an adjustable BPM metronome and a chords dictionary. |
| Product | Cesure is a guitar tablature editor and musician toolkit that runs in a browser and has Android and iOS apps. | GuitarTab is a tab player with a catalog of Guitar Pro tabs, chords and sheet music for guitar, bass, ukulele and drums. |
| Support | Connector problems can be reported to [email protected] with the assistant used and the request made. | The contact page invites questions, requests, suggestions and bug reports by email at [email protected]. |
Plans
Cesure
- FreeFree
- Pro€4.99 a month
- Pro monthly€4.99 a month
- Pro€39.99 a year
- Pro yearly€39.99 a year
In their own words
Cesure
Cesure is a guitar tablature editor and musician toolkit available in a browser and on Android and iOS. The same score can be edited as tablature, standard notation, staff plus tab, or piano roll, using keyboard entry, score tapping, or a MIDI keyboard. It can transcribe MP3, WAV, or M4A recordings into editable tabs; the maker describes these as drafts and says clean single-instrument recordings work best. Chord detection is free, unlimited, and computed on the user’s device, including offline. Practice tools include measure looping, tempo training, a chromatic tuner, metronome, tap BPM, scale reference, and piano. Cesure imports Guitar Pro, MIDI, MusicXML, and AlphaTex, and exports PDF, MIDI, and MusicXML; Pro adds AlphaTex export. Editing can start without an account, but saving and syncing scores, transcription, and hosting a room require one. Free includes three saved scores and five monthly AI transcriptions. Pro costs €4.99 per month and includes unlimited transcription and a synced library.
GuitarTab
GuitarTab is a tab player and catalog for guitar, bass, ukulele, and drums, with more than one million tabs and chords. It plays Guitar Pro files in .gp3, .gp4, .gp5, .gpx, and .gp formats using a realistic sound engine. Users can import a SoundFont to change playback and bring in their own tab-file library. Tabs can be downloaded, printed, shared, and edited. Favorites and playlists sync across devices and can be used offline. Practice tools include a chromatic tuner, adjustable BPM metronome, and chords dictionary. The app also provides YouTube search for music videos and lessons; using that feature means agreeing to YouTube’s Terms of Service. GuitarTab is ad-supported and provided at no cost. Its privacy policy says the app currently does not collect personal information, while excluding third-party services from that statement and noting that an Advertising ID may be requested. The policy names AdMob and the YouTube API as third-party services used by the app. GuitarTab is available on Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows.