Tabtify vs audio2guitar for Guitar Tabs

Pick audio2guitar if you want to try before paying - its 3 full free songs with no card is the most generous free tier in the category - or if you mainly want chords and lyrics alongside the tab.

Pick Tabtify if you will edit what the AI produces, need MIDI or social video links as sources, play bass, 7-string, or ukulele, or convert enough material that you want no meter of any kind.

audio2guitar Pro costs $6.99/month or $49.99/year at the time of writing, making it the cheapest annual plan among the tools that rank for these searches - about $10 a year less than Tabtify.

Tabtify is $59/year (about $4.9/month effective), $12 month-to-month, or $129 once for lifetime access. Both products advertise unmetered conversion on paid plans; Tabtify additionally caps nothing monthly and allows tracks up to 15 minutes.

If the deciding factor is the lowest possible annual price, audio2guitar wins by a small margin. The rest of the comparison is about what each subscription buys.

audio2guitar converts uploaded audio files - MP3, WAV, FLAC, M4A, OGG, AAC - and YouTube links, aimed squarely at standard 6-string guitar, with chords and lyrics extracted alongside the tab.

Tabtify takes audio uploads (MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC, AAC, AIFF, OGG), MIDI files, live recordings, and public links from YouTube, YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Instagram, and Pinterest. Instrument setup before conversion covers acoustic, electric, and classical guitar, 7-string, bass in 4-, 5-, and 6-string configurations, and ukulele, each with tuning and capo settings.

This is where the two tools diverge most. audio2guitar delivers a finished result - tab, chords, lyrics - designed to be read and played as-is.

Tabtify opens every draft in a Guitar Pro-style editor with playback, looping, and media sync against the original source, so wrong notes get fixed rather than tolerated. Export covers GP5 and Guitar Pro, MIDI, and alphaTex on every plan, with PDF and MusicXML on Pro. Files you already have - GP3 through GPX, MusicXML, MXL - open in the same editor for free.

Choose audio2guitar over Tabtify when you want to test on full songs without paying anything, when the lowest annual price is the deciding factor, or when chords and lyrics matter more to you than note-level editing. Its genre guides for AI-generated music (Suno, Udio) are also the deepest in the category - though if that is your use case, Tabtify converts Suno songs to editable tabs as well.