TEFview vs Tabs & Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TEFview
This app lets you view, print, and play musical tablatures and various music file formats on your iOS device. It supports MIDI playback with speed control, metronome, and file management features for easy organization and sharing.
- View tablatures and standard notation
- MIDI playback with speed control
- Assign volume and MIDI instrument per track
- Metronome and countdown timer
- File manager with WIFI sharing
- PDF export for printing and sharing
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TEFview for iOS is an app that allows you to view, print and play tablatures created in TablEdit Tablature Editor on your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. TEFview allows you as well to view and listen to ASCII tabs, ABC tunes, MIDI, PowerTab, GuitarPro and musicXML files. Specifications: - Supported file formats: TablEdit, ASCII, ABC, MIDI, Music XML, PowerTab, GuitarPro - Tablature and/or Standard notation display, - MIDI Playback with full speed control, - Ability to assign the volume and the MIDI instrument for any track in real time, - Metronome and count down, - Embedded Help, - Emails file as attachment, - File manager. - WIFI file sharing, Files app support - Subdirectory management - Playlist - extract the compressed tef files from a zip file - pdf export: the pdf can be emailed, printed to a compatible AirPrint printer or opened in a third app,
Tabs & Notes
This app displays and plays song tablature and notes, supporting gp3, gp4, gp5, and gpx files. It offers full General MIDI sound playback, making it ideal for guitar practice anywhere. Features include easy song downloads, track switching, flexible playback speed, and editable metadata.
- Plays gp3, gp4, gp5, gpx files
- Full General MIDI sound playback
- Flexible playback speed
- Free instrument to track mapping
- Editable song metadata
- Easy song download
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Tabs & Notes displays and plays your song tablature and notes. Compatible with gp3, gp4, gp5 and gpx files. Playback with full general midi sound. Great for guitar practice everywhere you want. Features: - Easy download of new songs - Fast switching between tracks of a song - Free instrument to track mapping - Flexible playback speed - Free positioning of song cursor - Editable song meta data
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: TEFview at 91% against Tabs & Notes's 40%. TEFview also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). Tabs & Notes's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, update cadence, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Tabs & Notes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. TEFview asks for nothing beyond the download.
Tabs & Notes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TEFview has 303 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 91% of TEFview's written reviews are positive against 40% of Tabs & Notes's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TEFview | Tabs & Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (303 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 91.1% of reviews — better | 40.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 303 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.1 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TablEdit | Oliver Buecker |
Customer experience
TEFview
Tabs & Notes
Bugs and requests
TEFview
Reported bugs
2 issues- Doesn't work with files in iCloud Drive
- Crashes when opening MIDI files
Requested features
3 requests- Left-handed fretboard view
- Chord name display
- Ability to delete downloaded files
Tabs & Notes
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
TEFview
No in-app purchases
Tabs & Notes
- Tabs & Notes Full Version$0.99
