Guitar Pro 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Guitar Pro

4.6

(237)

Pricing

Starting at $69.95 one time

About Guitar Pro

Guitar Pro is used by professional music schools and private teachers to teach their students how to read sheet music and tablature, while being able to recognize even the smallest nuances of every chord progression, solo or melody.

Guitar Pro enables you to quickly find any piece of music in your library amongst all its pieces with the help of a powerful searching engine. The software contains a huge library of sounds that are specific to your instrument.

Guitar Pro is a music notation program for Windows. It allows professionals to write and arrange music freely, by hand or with a MIDI keyboard. It includes features such as a built-in TAB player for guitarists and bass players, tools to assist in composition, support for many file formats (including Sibelius 5), automatic detection of chords from the chord symbols entered into text fields.

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Guitar Pro Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $69.95 one time

Free Trial

Free Version

Guitar Pro 7.6

$69.95

flat rate, one time

Plan includes:

5 Computers Allowed
A Free Guitar Method
Mac OS X 10.10 or Later
Technical Support
Windows 7 Sp1 / 8 / 10 / 11

Guitar Pro Features

Popular features found in Music School
Attendance Management
Class Management
Online Registration
Repertoire Management
Scheduling
Student Management
More features of Guitar Pro
Practice Log

Guitar Pro User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

65%

32%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.3

Value for money

4.3

Customer support

4.2

Functionality

4.5

Raul Antonio Z.

Verified reviewer

Entertainment

Self-Employed

Used daily for free trial

Review source

Reviewed June 2023

Exploring new melodies and learning to play and create my own compositions

One of the features that I appreciate the most is the realistic sound reproduction. Being able to hear how each note, chord, and riff sounds on different instruments has helped me improve my playing and techniques.

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Pros:

One of the things that has fascinated me the most is the versatility and ease that it offers to edit and create tablatures and scores, but what has really impressed me is the possibility of reproducing the compositions that I have created, since in this application I can faithfully reproduce the sound of each instrument, allowing me to hear how each chord, each arpeggio and each solo sounds.

Cons:

Sometimes when I try to edit an existing chord or add a new one I find it a bit cumbersome and not as intuitive as other features within the software. It would be great to have a more intuitive and friendly interface for chord editing, simplifying the process and increasing efficiency.

Renne C.

Verified reviewer

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2018

Great product to write music in easy way

This software give me the chance to write music too fast, even when i had not too knowledge of music. It allows you to write like string pressing way, giving a good way to save all your ideas in a faster way. The option that have some tabs open is a good plus because it give you the chance to see more information whitout leaving the same screen.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

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Pros:

This product is really good to write your songs fast. It allows a large number of variants of instruments that gives you versatility at the writing time. The new versions (6 and 7) are a little bit more complicated to locate all the panels, but once you got the way, the process is more simple than before. A light weight product that helps you to write music with a correct syntax, fast and efficent. The option to add sound banks is a great add-on to create music with a characteristic real sound.

Cons:

The user interface is not too easy to understand at first time, it took some minutes to know where are all the sets and how to use it. Adding to it, the RSE (sound bancks) some time are too heavy and the software turns slower.

Marty R.

Verified reviewer

Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2019

Easy to use and easy to enjoy!

Previously 3

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

I use Guitar pro to make tabs. It's easy to use with a lot of options to make it fun. Keep up the great work!

Cons:

Easy to use and fun. My only Con is, It takes time to learn.

Jose Daniel O.

Verified reviewer

Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing

Self-Employed

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed February 2020

Necessary Software if you want to learn how to play guitar, but also If you have a band

The experience is great! it is easier to practice when having a reference tune to follow, and also to edit your tabs is great since it lets you have your own versions of the songs. I have improved my skills and song repertory since using this tool

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

As a guitar player I love the fact that I can practice the songs I want to learn and the software provides a lot of tools that help with that, the ones I love the most to use is the tempo, in which if I need to go slower it will go and play on a slower tempo and highlighting the notes, in that way I am aware of what I am playing good or bad. Also the fact that I can edit the tab for a better playing for example, a D note you can play it on the 4th string or on the 5th string so if by some reason the sequence of notes that you are playing, ask to be more comfortable to play it on the 5th string you just go ahead and edit the tab to your convenience to have a better playing. Also it is not only for guitar, the songs comes with a package that if you have a band you can split on the different instruments, Drums, Bass, etc and practice by separate using the tracks feature which I really love since it lets you start by your self, but the helps you to get use to the rest of instruments that regularly is a challenge

Cons:

Besides being and Engineer I am a musician so it is easy for me to use it, but when I recommend it to someone that is learning or starting it turns to a complex tools to use, so it should have a little of a a more friendly interface for new musicians learning. Also the midi sounds are not a high quality and sometimes if you are really picky you will here a delay on drumms,

Jonathan R.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2019

Guitar players everywhere need this!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

High-quality guitar music that is easy to access. This program comes with a lot of extras too. It includes a metronome, chord map, tuner, and the ability to easily edit sheet music. I would highly recommend to any guitar player of any skill level. There are a lot of additional instructional and useful tools that can help you continue to improve your guitar playing skills.

Cons:

It costs money. There are similar free apps that you can use however they have nowhere near the quality or quantity of tools that Guitar Pro has.

Reasons for switching to Guitar Pro

Better tools and higher-quality music available

Adrian S.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

501-1000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2018

Excellent program for music composition, not limited to guitars

Guitar Pro allows me to translate my song ideas into a tangible form which I can share with others. I've used it in every musical collaboration I've ever participated in and can't imagine its absence or trying to use some other program.

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Pros:

The tools contained within Guitar Pro are instrumental in creating musical compositions. My favorite feature is the "Scale Finder," which essentially identifies a scale in your random jumble of notes and steers you towards a better composition. I've been using Guitar Pro for over a decade and I've found that I keep coming back even after trying other music composition programs from time to time. The ease of use is unparalleled in the industry- somebody with zero musical knowledge can pick it up and start writing songs.

Cons:

Some of the older versions were a bit buggy, though that seems to have been fixed. I genuinely have no complaints, however, for the modern version.

Angel Luis G.

Verified reviewer

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2018

good program for the development of the guitar as a performer

My private guitar lessons have improved a lot since I incorporated this program into the lessons. With guitar pro I can see the progress of my students individually. Performing and repeating the fingering exercises. I also work on musical reading with the instrument. Guitar pro has allowed me to raise the technical and musical level of my students.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

- It requires few computer resources. - Cleaner and more understandable interface - Lighter and runs faster. - Good guitar sounds - You can play the guitar with the tabs. - It has speed tools and looper. - You can connect the guitar directly to the computer.

Cons:

I have nothing negative to say about guitar pro. It is an excellent program for the study of the electric guitar.

Edison N.

Verified reviewer

Music

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2021

The best tool to learn to play the guitar

I have had good experience, I have learned to play the guitar using this tool.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The guitar is not an easy instrument to learn, but with Guitar Pro you can achieve it in a short time, it is very complete, it has helped me a lot, you can repeat looping patterns if you wish, you can search for thousands of scores on the net and play songs of your favorite artists.

Cons:

I think the price should go down so that more people can buy them, I have no complaints about the application, it works quite well for me.

Victor R.

Verified reviewer

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2018

This software helped me become a better musician and have a better understanding of sheet music.

It has allowed me to become a better musician, helping me understand music notation and serving as a platform to write down all my musical ideas. I have used it for many years now and I can't imagine using a different software for the same tasks.

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Value for money

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Pros:

It allows you to write melodies in sheet music even when you don't know how to read this music notation. It has a simple interface that facilitates its use to both beginner and professional musicians. It's compatible with Musical Instrument Digital Interface protocols. It has a vast library of instrument sounds.

Cons:

The writing of percussion instruments like drums become really tedious and annoying. Therefore, the software should have a different interface to facilitate this process. Importing files inside the software translates in many cases into disorganized scores that require manual fixation by the user

Ken R.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

11-50 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2019

Almost too powerful

I'm often disappointed with tabs that my students find online, or that are available online. To write it out by hand every time I need to teach something to a student is tedious, at best, and sometimes inconsistent if it's been a while since the last time I wrote the same thing out for another student. Having an electronic file that I can edit if I find a transcription error, and the ability to play it back to confirm/correct rhythm timings has been extremely valuable. The feature that lets you automatically transpose something for different alternate tunings has been great as well.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

The versatility of this software is great, and it has been invaluable to my guitar teaching.

Cons:

The reason I say this software is almost too powerful is that, with all of the features that it supports, doing certain things can often become a very complicated to work around some of the constraints. Over all, though, it's great and highly recommended.

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