TabToolkit
$3.99
2.0.9for iPhone, iPad and more
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About TabToolkit
The best looking & sounding tab app! If you play guitar, bass, drums, or keyboards, TabToolkit is the best way to learn and jam along with your favorite songs!
TabToolkit gives you 3 ways to get great music: buy instantly in the Tab Store, upload from your PC, or search online.
◼ Apple Design Award winner
◼ Universal: Buy once, use on iPad, iPhone, iPod touch
◼ Optimized for iPhone 5, awesome on iPad mini & iPad Retina
◼ Better learning: Thanks to speed control, A/B looping, full-score music notation with all instruments, and real-time instrument guides, TabToolkit makes learning a snap. You can easily select the part you want to learn, slow it down, and loop it with full control of each track's audio. On guitar, bass, drum and keyboard tracks, handy instrument guides show where to put your fingers, or in the case of drums, which drums to hit. There's no better way to accelerate your learning or have a fun jam-along session!
◼ More music: TabToolkit now includes the Tab Store, with hundreds of affordable, officially licensed, accurately transcribed songs, and more being added all the time. TabToolkit also gives you easy access to your own guitar tab collection, supporting text, PDF, and multitrack rich tab formats. You now have 3 ways to get great music: buy from the Tab Store, upload from your PC, or search online.
◼ Richer music: With TabToolkit, you can get full scores for your favorite songs, with complete notation for each guitar, bass, drum, and keyboard track, as well as vocal tracks with lyrics. TabToolkit includes multitrack audio synthesis, based on high-fidelity audio samples of over 190 different instruments; playback quality is outstanding. TabToolkit's music notation is unmatched for visual quality and smoothness of animation, and includes gorgeous full-resolution rendering on all Retina displays.
◼ Compatibility: TabToolkit supports several multitrack music notation formats, including Guitar Pro, Power Tab, and our own Tab Store format. TabToolkit also supports text tabs and PDF-based sheet music; note however that text and PDF tabs do not support advanced capabilities such as multi-track notation and audio playback. TabToolkit works on all iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch models, and delivers highest audio synthesis quality on newer models.
TabToolkit gives you 3 ways to get great music: buy instantly in the Tab Store, upload from your PC, or search online.
◼ Apple Design Award winner
◼ Universal: Buy once, use on iPad, iPhone, iPod touch
◼ Optimized for iPhone 5, awesome on iPad mini & iPad Retina
◼ Better learning: Thanks to speed control, A/B looping, full-score music notation with all instruments, and real-time instrument guides, TabToolkit makes learning a snap. You can easily select the part you want to learn, slow it down, and loop it with full control of each track's audio. On guitar, bass, drum and keyboard tracks, handy instrument guides show where to put your fingers, or in the case of drums, which drums to hit. There's no better way to accelerate your learning or have a fun jam-along session!
◼ More music: TabToolkit now includes the Tab Store, with hundreds of affordable, officially licensed, accurately transcribed songs, and more being added all the time. TabToolkit also gives you easy access to your own guitar tab collection, supporting text, PDF, and multitrack rich tab formats. You now have 3 ways to get great music: buy from the Tab Store, upload from your PC, or search online.
◼ Richer music: With TabToolkit, you can get full scores for your favorite songs, with complete notation for each guitar, bass, drum, and keyboard track, as well as vocal tracks with lyrics. TabToolkit includes multitrack audio synthesis, based on high-fidelity audio samples of over 190 different instruments; playback quality is outstanding. TabToolkit's music notation is unmatched for visual quality and smoothness of animation, and includes gorgeous full-resolution rendering on all Retina displays.
◼ Compatibility: TabToolkit supports several multitrack music notation formats, including Guitar Pro, Power Tab, and our own Tab Store format. TabToolkit also supports text tabs and PDF-based sheet music; note however that text and PDF tabs do not support advanced capabilities such as multi-track notation and audio playback. TabToolkit works on all iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch models, and delivers highest audio synthesis quality on newer models.
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What's New in the Latest Version 2.0.9
Last updated on Aug 18, 2016
Old Versions
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
• Minor bug fixes
• Minor bug fixes
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Version History
2.0.9
Aug 18, 2016
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
• Minor bug fixes
• Minor bug fixes
2.0.8
Jun 28, 2016
The issue with purchasing in-apps has been fixed.
2.0.7
Jan 27, 2014
Bug fixes and performance enhancements
2.0.6
Aug 27, 2013
Lots of bug fixes and compatibility work
2.0.5.1
Feb 28, 2013
★ You can now download a zip file of all your tabs on the "Upload From Your Computer" web page
★ Added HTML5 multi-file uploading capabilities for browsers that don't have Flash installed
★ Several bug fixes including:
- Better cymbal audio synthesis
- Device will not lock when viewing a tab
- Piano tracks can always be combined
- Problem resolved where some customer's Tab Store purchases were not completing
★ Added HTML5 multi-file uploading capabilities for browsers that don't have Flash installed
★ Several bug fixes including:
- Better cymbal audio synthesis
- Device will not lock when viewing a tab
- Piano tracks can always be combined
- Problem resolved where some customer's Tab Store purchases were not completing
2.0.5
Feb 23, 2013
★ You can now download a zip file of all your tabs on the "Upload From Your Computer" web page
★ Added HTML5 multi-file uploading capabilities for browsers that don't have Flash installed
★ Several bug fixes including:
- Better cymbal audio synthesis
- Device will not lock when viewing a tab
- Piano tracks can always be combined
★ Added HTML5 multi-file uploading capabilities for browsers that don't have Flash installed
★ Several bug fixes including:
- Better cymbal audio synthesis
- Device will not lock when viewing a tab
- Piano tracks can always be combined
2.0.4
Dec 17, 2012
★ Optimized for iPhone 5
- More frets on guitar fretboard
- More measures of music / tab notation
- More frets on guitar fretboard
- More measures of music / tab notation
2.0.3
Jul 27, 2012
Several improvements and bug fixes, including one that affected the ability to purchase Tab Store songs for a small minority of users.
TAB STORE
★ Tab Store is now open, featuring hundreds of popular songs in a wide range of genres, with more songs added weekly.
★ Tab Store songs are affordable, officially licensed, and accurately transcribed.
★ All songs are "full-score" with complete notation for each guitar, bass, drum, and keyboard track, as well as vocal tracks with lyrics.
★ Browse songs by artist, genre or instrument.
★ Search by artist name, song title, album title, or genre.
★ Request a song if your favorite song isn't currently in Tab Store.
NEW FEATURES
★ Gorgeous, full-resolution rendering on the new iPad Retina display.
★ A/B looping, perfect for learning and jam-along.
★ Guitar tracks include rhythm notation.
★ Combine and simultaneously display right and left hand fingering on the keyboard display.
★ Drum tracks include a drum kit visualizations that shows drum hits as they happen.
★ Volume mixer to easily change the volume of multiple instrument tracks.
★ Vastly improved instrument audio (iPhone 4 / 4S, iPad 2 / 3rd generation), based on high-fidelity audio samples for over 190 different instruments.
★ Innovative vocal engine based on actual male and female voice samples for use on vocal tracks.
★ New metronome sounds for a total of 27 pairs of samples ranging from old favorites to new analog and digital clicks, percussion instruments, drum kit sounds and more.
★ Dozens of other music notation and playback improvements.
TAB STORE
★ Tab Store is now open, featuring hundreds of popular songs in a wide range of genres, with more songs added weekly.
★ Tab Store songs are affordable, officially licensed, and accurately transcribed.
★ All songs are "full-score" with complete notation for each guitar, bass, drum, and keyboard track, as well as vocal tracks with lyrics.
★ Browse songs by artist, genre or instrument.
★ Search by artist name, song title, album title, or genre.
★ Request a song if your favorite song isn't currently in Tab Store.
NEW FEATURES
★ Gorgeous, full-resolution rendering on the new iPad Retina display.
★ A/B looping, perfect for learning and jam-along.
★ Guitar tracks include rhythm notation.
★ Combine and simultaneously display right and left hand fingering on the keyboard display.
★ Drum tracks include a drum kit visualizations that shows drum hits as they happen.
★ Volume mixer to easily change the volume of multiple instrument tracks.
★ Vastly improved instrument audio (iPhone 4 / 4S, iPad 2 / 3rd generation), based on high-fidelity audio samples for over 190 different instruments.
★ Innovative vocal engine based on actual male and female voice samples for use on vocal tracks.
★ New metronome sounds for a total of 27 pairs of samples ranging from old favorites to new analog and digital clicks, percussion instruments, drum kit sounds and more.
★ Dozens of other music notation and playback improvements.
2.0.2
Jun 19, 2012
TAB STORE
★ Tab Store is now open, featuring hundreds of popular songs in a wide range of genres, with more songs added weekly.
★ Tab Store songs are affordable, officially licensed, and accurately transcribed.
★ All songs are "full-score" with complete notation for each guitar, bass, drum, and keyboard track, as well as vocal tracks with lyrics.
★ Browse songs by artist, genre or instrument.
★ Search by artist name, song title, album title, or genre.
★ Request a song if your favorite song isn't currently in Tab Store.
NEW FEATURES
★ Gorgeous, full-resolution rendering on the new iPad Retina display.
★ A/B looping, perfect for learning and jam-along.
★ Guitar tracks include rhythm notation.
★ Combine and simultaneously display right and left hand fingering on the keyboard display.
★ Drum tracks include a drum kit visualizations that shows drum hits as they happen.
★ Volume mixer to easily change the volume of multiple instrument tracks.
★ Vastly improved instrument audio (iPhone 4 / 4S, iPad 2 / 3rd generation), based on high-fidelity audio samples for over 190 different instruments.
★ Innovative vocal engine based on actual male and female voice samples for use on vocal tracks.
★ New metronome sounds for a total of 27 pairs of samples ranging from old favorites to new analog and digital clicks, percussion instruments, drum kit sounds and more.
★ Dozens of other music notation and playback improvements.
★ Tab Store is now open, featuring hundreds of popular songs in a wide range of genres, with more songs added weekly.
★ Tab Store songs are affordable, officially licensed, and accurately transcribed.
★ All songs are "full-score" with complete notation for each guitar, bass, drum, and keyboard track, as well as vocal tracks with lyrics.
★ Browse songs by artist, genre or instrument.
★ Search by artist name, song title, album title, or genre.
★ Request a song if your favorite song isn't currently in Tab Store.
NEW FEATURES
★ Gorgeous, full-resolution rendering on the new iPad Retina display.
★ A/B looping, perfect for learning and jam-along.
★ Guitar tracks include rhythm notation.
★ Combine and simultaneously display right and left hand fingering on the keyboard display.
★ Drum tracks include a drum kit visualizations that shows drum hits as they happen.
★ Volume mixer to easily change the volume of multiple instrument tracks.
★ Vastly improved instrument audio (iPhone 4 / 4S, iPad 2 / 3rd generation), based on high-fidelity audio samples for over 190 different instruments.
★ Innovative vocal engine based on actual male and female voice samples for use on vocal tracks.
★ New metronome sounds for a total of 27 pairs of samples ranging from old favorites to new analog and digital clicks, percussion instruments, drum kit sounds and more.
★ Dozens of other music notation and playback improvements.
1.2.5
Sep 26, 2011
Several small enhancements and bug fixes for iOS 5.
1.2.4
Apr 21, 2011
Several small enhancements and bug fixes including improved downloading of tabs from the Internet.
1.2.3
Mar 11, 2011
Several small enhancements and bug fixes including improved downloading of tabs from the Internet.
1.2.2
Nov 16, 2010
Version 1.2.2:
- Addresses possible issues for users with iOS 3
- Fixes a time signature issue in GP6
New in version 1.2:
- Guitar Pro 6 support has arrived. You can now import and read your GPX files.
- New high-resolution images for the Retina display of iPhone 4 and fourth-generation iPod touch.
- Fast app switching: you can leave TabToolkit and come right back to where you were.
- More sample content has been added.
- Various support and performance improvements.
- Addresses possible issues for users with iOS 3
- Fixes a time signature issue in GP6
New in version 1.2:
- Guitar Pro 6 support has arrived. You can now import and read your GPX files.
- New high-resolution images for the Retina display of iPhone 4 and fourth-generation iPod touch.
- Fast app switching: you can leave TabToolkit and come right back to where you were.
- More sample content has been added.
- Various support and performance improvements.
1.2.1
Oct 21, 2010
Version 1.2.1 fixes a few issues found in 1.2
New in version 1.2:
- Guitar Pro 6 support has arrived. You can now import and read your GPX files.
- New high-resolution images for the Retina display of iPhone 4 and fourth-generation iPod touch.
- Fast app switching: you can leave TabToolkit and come right back to where you were.
- More sample content has been added.
- Various support and performance improvements.
New in version 1.2:
- Guitar Pro 6 support has arrived. You can now import and read your GPX files.
- New high-resolution images for the Retina display of iPhone 4 and fourth-generation iPod touch.
- Fast app switching: you can leave TabToolkit and come right back to where you were.
- More sample content has been added.
- Various support and performance improvements.
1.2
Oct 12, 2010
- Guitar Pro 6 support has arrived. You can now import and read your GPX files.
- New high-resolution images for the Retina display of iPhone 4 and fourth-generation iPod touch.
- Fast app switching: you can leave TabToolkit and come right back to where you were.
- More sample content has been added.
- Various support and performance improvements.
- New high-resolution images for the Retina display of iPhone 4 and fourth-generation iPod touch.
- Fast app switching: you can leave TabToolkit and come right back to where you were.
- More sample content has been added.
- Various support and performance improvements.
1.1.2
May 20, 2010
Added French language support
1.1.1
Apr 1, 2010
Support for the iPad
1.1.0.1
Mar 22, 2010
Miscellaneous fixes and improvements.
1.1
Feb 15, 2010
- Multi-track playback! You can now listen to all instruments simultaneously in Guitar Pro and Power Tab files.
- Midi instrument remapping. You can now re-assign the midi instrument for any track.
- Individual track volume and mute controls. Open up the instrument list from within a tab to control the audio for each track.
- Audio quality overhaul. We've made improvements to the quality of audio playback.
- Continuous playback. Playable files will now continue to play while viewing the instruments list or options screens.
- Search titles and instrument names.
- Orientation locking. In the Display Options screen, you can now lock the screen's orientation so that it will not auto-rotate.
- The home screen will now disregard words like "The" in determining order.
- The home screen now does a better job of grouping by artist name in cases where capitalized words are inconsistent.
- Various performance optimizations.
- Midi instrument remapping. You can now re-assign the midi instrument for any track.
- Individual track volume and mute controls. Open up the instrument list from within a tab to control the audio for each track.
- Audio quality overhaul. We've made improvements to the quality of audio playback.
- Continuous playback. Playable files will now continue to play while viewing the instruments list or options screens.
- Search titles and instrument names.
- Orientation locking. In the Display Options screen, you can now lock the screen's orientation so that it will not auto-rotate.
- The home screen will now disregard words like "The" in determining order.
- The home screen now does a better job of grouping by artist name in cases where capitalized words are inconsistent.
- Various performance optimizations.
1.0.4
Dec 15, 2009
- Google search now functions correctly outside of the US
- Instruments with more than 6 strings now produce correct audio
- Bend and slide audio improvements
- Feedback form now functions properly for all languages
- Numerous minor bug fixes
- Chinese localization
- Instruments with more than 6 strings now produce correct audio
- Bend and slide audio improvements
- Feedback form now functions properly for all languages
- Numerous minor bug fixes
- Chinese localization
1.0.3
Dec 8, 2009
- Minor bug fixes and tab layout optimizations
New in the previous version:
- Bends and slides can now be heard as well as seen
- Playback countdown option. If enabled, a one measure countdown will be played before playback starts.
- A 3rd tabs list mode for the tabs home screen. This mode just lists artists, allowing you to drill down and view tabs for each artist individually.
- Tab list views now have an index marker on the side if you have enough tabs to warrant it
- Embedded browser now respects parental controls settings in preferences app
- Increased PDF size limitation
- A few holiday tabs are now included with the default tabs set
New in the previous version:
- Bends and slides can now be heard as well as seen
- Playback countdown option. If enabled, a one measure countdown will be played before playback starts.
- A 3rd tabs list mode for the tabs home screen. This mode just lists artists, allowing you to drill down and view tabs for each artist individually.
- Tab list views now have an index marker on the side if you have enough tabs to warrant it
- Embedded browser now respects parental controls settings in preferences app
- Increased PDF size limitation
- A few holiday tabs are now included with the default tabs set
1.0.2
Nov 25, 2009
- Bends and slides can now be heard as well as seen
- Playback countdown option. If enabled, a one measure countdown will be played before playback starts.
- A 3rd tabs list mode for the tabs home screen. This mode just lists artists, allowing you to drill down and view tabs for each artist individually.
- Tab list views now have an index marker on the side if you have enough tabs to warrant it
- Embedded browser now respects parental controls settings in preferences app
- Increased PDF size limitation
- A few holiday tabs are now included with the default tabs set
- Playback countdown option. If enabled, a one measure countdown will be played before playback starts.
- A 3rd tabs list mode for the tabs home screen. This mode just lists artists, allowing you to drill down and view tabs for each artist individually.
- Tab list views now have an index marker on the side if you have enough tabs to warrant it
- Embedded browser now respects parental controls settings in preferences app
- Increased PDF size limitation
- A few holiday tabs are now included with the default tabs set
1.0.1
Oct 20, 2009
- Tab download and upload improvements
- Minor bug fixes
- Minor bug fixes
1.0
Sep 17, 2009
TabToolkit FAQ
Click here to learn how to download TabToolkit in restricted country or region.
Check the following list to see the minimum requirements of TabToolkit.
iPhone
Requires iOS 6.0 or later.
iPad
Requires iPadOS 6.0 or later.
iPod touch
Requires iOS 6.0 or later.
TabToolkit supports English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
TabToolkit contains in-app purchases. Please check the pricing plan as below:
Full-score Multitrack Song
$0.99
