The Guitar Pro tab player that opens your file and plays it
You downloaded a tab and your phone had nothing to open it with. Tabline opens it, draws it as real notation and tablature, and plays it back with a full General MIDI sound bank.
- .gp
- .gpx
- .gp5
- .gp4
- .gp3
- MusicXML
- .mxl
What it does
Opens what a tab editor saved
Guitar Pro 3 through Guitar Pro 8, plus MusicXML and compressed .mxl — which makes it
a MusicXML player and a MusicXML viewer in the same app. Open straight from Downloads, WhatsApp,
Drive or Files with Open with → Tabline.
Reads like music, not like a text file
Standard notation above tablature, or tab on its own. A still page: the music stays put and the bar you are playing lights up. Multi-track scores let you pick the part you are playing.
Plays every bar
Real instrument sounds rather than beeps, a cursor that moves with the music, count-in and a metronome. Playback is free — it is the whole point of a tab player.
Practice tools, one-time unlock
Tabline Pro adds the fretboard, the speed trainer, A–B looping and a per-track mixer. It is a one-time purchase, not a subscription.
Offline, and nothing leaves the phone
Tabline has no upload path in it at all: the app contains no HTTP client, so a score you open cannot be sent anywhere. No account, no sign-in, no ads. It works on a train. What the app does send is analytics and crash reports, and purchases go through Google Play — that page names all of it.
What it is not
- Not a tab catalog. Tabline opens files you already have. It has no library to search and nothing to subscribe to.
- Not an editor. It reads and plays; it does not write or export tabs.
- Not a chord-sheet app. Chords-and-lyrics sheets are a different thing from a Guitar Pro file, and Tabline does not open them.
- One known gap: a MusicXML part that declares several instruments in one part can play back at the wrong pitch. It draws correctly. Files from Guitar Pro and Songsterr exports are not affected — they write one instrument per part.
Open the file you already have
Free to download; the practice tools are a one-time unlock inside.
