TuxGuitar is an open source multitrack tablature editor and player written in Java.
TuxGuitar is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License.
Copyright (C) 2005-2022 Julián Casadesús 2023-2025 guiv42, helge17
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
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.
If you want to contribute to TuxGuitar, you will find a helpful description in the CONTRIBUTING.md file.