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Power Tab Editor

Power Tab Editor is a music notation program, available on Windows and Linux.

Completely free
Windows and Linux
Open source
No account

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Technical details

Pricing: Completely freeconfirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager), Flathub
License: GPL-3.0+ — Open source (copyleft)confirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager), Flathub
Open source: Yes
Commercial use: Yesconfirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager), Flathub
Account required: Noconfirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager)
Credit card required: Noconfirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager), Flathub
Watermark: not documented
Ads: not documented
Platforms: Windows and LinuxEstablished by Linux: Flathub · Windows: Winget
Publisher: Power Tab Developers
Latest version: 2.0.22 (29 June 2025)
Latest activity: 25 July 2026
Source code: github.com/powertab/powertabeditor

At a glance

Power Tab Editor is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (GPL-3.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

Open source code
No account needed
Commercial use allowed

About

Power Tab Editor is an easy to use cross-platform guitar tablature editor and viewer. It is an open source, community-driven successor to the original Power Tab Editor 1.7. A variety of file formats are supported, including .pt2, .ptb, .gp3, .gp4, .gp5, .gpx, and .gp

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) — 8 November 2026
Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) — 8 November 2026
Last technical check: 8 November 2026
Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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