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), if you would rather buy a few songs than subscribe, 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 $8.99/month or $59.99/year. A one-time $9.99 pack covers 10 songs without a subscription.

Tabtify is $59/year (about $4.9/month effective), $15 month-to-month, or $129 once for lifetime access. Both products advertise unmetered conversion on paid plans (audio2guitar under fair-use terms); Tabtify has no monthly cap and allows tracks up to 15 minutes.

On a yearly plan the two are within a dollar of each other. Month to month, audio2guitar is cheaper, and for a handful of songs its credit pack is the cheapest way in. The rest of the comparison is about what each subscription buys.

audio2guitar converts uploaded audio files (MP3, WAV, FLAC, M4A, OGG, AAC; the free tier takes MP3 only) 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, alphaTex, PDF, and MusicXML on every plan. 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 you would rather pay per song than subscribe, 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. If that is your use case, Tabtify converts Suno songs to editable tabs as well.